AFTER a six-year absence due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and lack of sponsorship, the 2024 Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Under-17 competition kicks off today with matches in Zones B and D. Among the title...
Founder of Phoenix Academy Craig Butler is pushing for local football academies to be included in the Malta-sponsored Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) Under-17 development programme. The programme was launched on Wednesday, and teams...
ONE OF Jamaica’s brightest under-17 talents, Marcus McDonald, has been given the opportunity to showcase his skills at the upcoming Basketball Without Borders Americas Camp. The internationally recognised camp, jointly organised by the National...
THE PROFESSIONAL Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL), in partnership with Malta, yesterday launched its Under-17 development programme at the UWI-JFF Captain Horace Burrell Centre of Excellence. The pilot programme, which will see four teams – Arnett...
JAMAICA’S Under-18 Reggae Boyz recently returned to the island following their participation at the UEFA Friendship Tournament in Turkey. The young Reggae Boyz played in four games and suffered defeats to Saudi Arabia (2-1) Turkey (10-1 ) and Mali...
WITH 85 DAYS left before the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics, concerns are mounting due to the rise in dengue cases in the country. With well over 1,500 reported cases since the start of the year, president of the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA...
JAMAICA’S SENIOR men’s national basketball coach, Rick Turner, is blaming inexperience for missing the opportunity to have the country’s 3x3 team represented at the Paris Olympics later this year. The team just failed to take advantage of any of...
LAST SATURDAY the Jamaica Racing Commission (JRC), the regulators of local horse racing, flexed their muscles at Caymanas Park by enforcing rule 44 which stipulates that once a post time is made official a race can be abandoned by the race stewards...
PRESIDENT of the Intercollegiate Sports Association (Intercol), Paul Beckford, has described the recent announcement from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to allow immediate eligibility for athletes who transfer between...
EXCELSIOR High School lifted their third title of the 2024 ISSA schoolboy cricket season yesterday, defeating rural area champions Manchester by 185 runs in the ISSA All-Island Spaulding Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Oval. The Mountain View Avenue...
EXCELSIOR HIGH tightened their grip on local schoolgirls’ football as they drubbed Holmwood Technical 9-1 in the final of the ISSA/TIP Friendly Society Schoolgirls competition at the Stadium East field yesterday. The victory gave Excelsior an...
EXCELSIOR WERE crowned urban area T20 champions yesterday after a dominant 181-run victory over Kingston College (KC) at the Melbourne Oval. Excelsior racked up a mammoth 244/5 from their 20 overs before bowling out a shell-shocked KC for just 63...
The national Under-18 team will depart the island today to compete in the 2024 UEFA Friendship Tournament to be hosted in Turkey. The team, which is drawn in Group A alongside the trio of Mali, Saudi Arabia and hosts Turkey, will kick off their...
EXCELSIOR OPENER David Dewar produced a blistering 60 not out from 18 deliveries to propel his team to a 10-wicket victory over St George’s College in the semi-final of the ISSA/GK Insurance Urban T20 tournament at Emmett Park yesterday, setting up...
UNITED STATES-born Jamaican UFC fighter Aljamain ‘Funk Master’ Sterling’s featherweight debut brought with it a bittersweet victory. Sterling registered a decision victory over striking specialist Calvin Kattar at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas,...
LOCAL referee instructor Mark Sullivan has described the recently concluded five-day FIFA referee’s seminar held at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Montego Bay Sports Complex in St James as “awesome”. The seminar which was designed to develop and...
HEAD coach of Manchester High School’s cricket team, Barry Barnes, said his team were aware of the quality of the May Day High School team and the threat they posed, but they were always confident that they would lift the 2024 ISSA/GK Insurance...
DAY two of the 2024 ISSA GK Insurance Headley Cup final between Manchester High and May Day High served up some enthralling action at the Manchester High cricket field yesterday. After resuming day two on 118 for 9, May Day failed to add to their...
MANCHESTER HIGH School closed day one of the 2024 ISSA GK Insurance Grace Headley Cup final in the driver’s seat against last season’s beaten finalists May Day High School, the latter closing with only one wicket remaining, trailing by 101 runs....
WITH less than two months to go before the start of the 2024 T20 World Cup, Darren Sammy, head coach of West Indies white ball team, stated that preparations have being going well, and would be stepped up next month. “We’ll be having a camp...
AFTER missing out on playoff action in his first season as head coach of Portmore United, Phillip Williams, in his second year at the helm, is pleased to have guided the team to this season’s playoffs. Portmore ended the regular season in fourth...
President of the Aquatic Sports Association of Jamaica (ASAJ), Lance Rochester, has heaped praise on the swimmers who represented the island at the recent Carifta Aquatics Championships at the Betty-Kelly-Kenning Aquatic Centre in The Bahamas....
David Riley, technical director of Jamaica’s team at the recent Carifta Games, has hailed the officiating crew at the 2024 edition of the meet which was hosted in Grenada at the Kirani James Athletics Stadium. “Surprisingly, this Carifta went...
