Sakima ‘Mr Smooth’ Mullings will be returning to the boxing ring on Saturday, October 8. He will be in one of two main event matches of a fight night that takes place in St James at the Montego Bay Sports Complex, but his opponent has not yet been...
THE COVID-19 pandemic delivered a body shot to an already staggered local boxing scene from which it has not really fully recovered or got up. With the Wray and Nephew Contender Boxing series coming to an end in 2018, the local boxing scene was...
Athletics in 2021, especially from a Jamaican perspective, was dominated by one person: Elaine Thompson Herah. She was at the heart of a renaissance in women’s sprinting that saw the 100 metres event at the Tokyo Olympics become the most highly...
Sports lawyer Emir Crowne says he hopes that the Norman Manley Law School Sports Law Specialist Clinic evolves into one that welcomes athletes in need of legal aid. The seven-week clinic, which ended recently, had Crowne as its facilitator and was...
Camperdown High School and St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) have had contrasting starts to the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup competition after three games in Group B. Camperdown secured a 2-1 win over STATHS when they met at Stadium East in...
For most, a victory by a 26-0 scoreline would be considered a performance that warrants no criticism, but St Catherine High School’s head coach, Anthony Patrick, sees room for improvement. St Catherine recorded the win over St Mary’s College in...
National 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was victorious in Poland yesterday, setting a meet record at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Silesia, Poland, on Sunday, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting. She won in 10.81 seconds,...
Shericka Jackson will feature in her first 200m race since the Tokyo Olympic Games last month when she takes the track in the Wanda Diamond League in Brussels, Belgium, this afternoon. Jackson, the Olympic Women’s 100m bronze medallist, was...
Just like when Theodore Whitmore took charge of the national senior men’s football team for the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying campaign, he finds himself in Estadio Azteca for the first qualifier. The Jamaicans face Concacaf Gold Cup and Nations...
Ever the perfectionist, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce says she could have done better, in spite of running a personal best in the 100m at the Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland, yesterday. It was a day when all eyes were on the Olympic...
Olympic 110m hurdles champion Hansle Parchment has called for more public support for Jamaica’s athletes in their difficult periods. Parchment returned to the island via the Donald Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday...
The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has addressed rumours regarding the absence of Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) President Garth Gayle at the Olympic Games. The JOA said last night that it is false that Gayle was...
New kits, new players, new members of the technical staff are some of the notable changes as Jamaica get their Concacaf Gold Cup campaign started against Suriname in Orlando, Florida, this evening. Theodore Whitmore’s Reggae Boyz come into this...
Dr Emir Crowne, the legal representative for reigning 400m world champion Salwa Eid Naser, has questioned whether the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was improperly motivated to sanction his client with a two-year ban after allowing a...
Ato Boldon, coach of Under-20 double sprint World Champion Briana Williams, says her feat of breaking the national under-20 record yesterday, was just part of the grander plan to get her ready for the National Senior Championships next month. This...
Concacaf President Victor Montagliani has warned member associations and their clubs to not use the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse for not getting in line with its mandates on professionalism. This mandate sets out that all clubs within Concacaf...
The 2021 Carifta Games has been rescheduled from April 3-5 to July 2-4 in Bermuda. The North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) President Mike Sands says that the postponement is because of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Damani Ralph, the agent of national striker Junior Flemmings, says things are positive for his client after his club, Phoenix Rising, revealed that he will be released when his contract expires at the end of the month. Flemmings, with 14 goals, was...
Mixed martial artist Matthew ‘Gold Lion’ Colquhoun says not even the coronavirus pandemic can prevent him from achieving a berth in Dana White’s Contender Series. Colquhoun leaves Jamaica for the United States, where he faces Mark ‘Showtime’ Martin...
Phoenix Rising FC General Manager Bobby Dulle says it is important that striker Junior Flemmings and other members of the club undergo sensitivity training after an allegation that he used a homophobic slur in a recent game. Flemmings was given a...
Phoenix Rising FC head coach Rick Schantz says his Jamaican striker, Junior Flemmings, was not given fair treatment after allegations that he made a homophobic slur towards an opponent. The allegation is that Flemmings used a derogatory Jamaican...
Junior Flemmings, the Jamaican Phoenix Rising player alleged to have used a homophobic slur against an openly gay opponent during a United Soccer League (USL) match on Wednesday night, feels hard done by. It is alleged that Flemmings used a...
FIFA, football’s world governing body, has suspended the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) with immediate effect for what it says are “grave violations of FIFA statutes”. The matter surrounds the former leadership of the TTFA lodging...
With Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange expected to return as minister of sport when Prime Minister Andrew Holness completes his Cabinet, three sporting figures have shared varying views about her previous stint in the role. In Grange’s last four and a half...
A new book will be published in the United Kingdom (UK) this month, which features footballers of Jamaican heritage and their contribution to English football. Football’s Black Pioneers: The Stories of the First Black Players to Represent the 92...
