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Published:Thursday | October 24, 2024 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

LAST YEAR, Clarendon College walloped Glenmuir 6-2 in the final of the daCosta Cup football competition, marking them as decidedly second best, but based on form this year, the Andrew Peart-coached team is playing some of the best football in the...

Published:Thursday | October 24, 2024 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

CHAIRMAN OF the Jamaica Racing Commission (JRC), Clovis Metcalfe, explained that he was left bitterly disappointed by the fact that only two scheduled races were run at Caymanas Park on Monday due to rioting by spectators. Metcalfe added that...

Published:Thursday | October 24, 2024 | 12:06 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

CAVALIER HEAD into their second straight Concacaf Caribbean Cup semi-final when they play against Moca of the Dominican Republic at the Estadio Complejo Deportivo Moca 86, in the Dominican Republic today at 7 p.m. Rudolph Speid, Cavalier coach,...

Published:Thursday | October 24, 2024 | 12:06 AM

MANCHESTER, England (AP): ERLING HAALAND scored an outrageous backheel volley in the Champions League yesterday to issue a timely reminder of his credentials as a potential Ballon d’Or winner. A day after Vinicius Junior hit a hat-trick for Real...

Published:Thursday | October 24, 2024 | 12:06 AM

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP): FORMER URUGUAY striker Diego Forlán will make his professional tennis debut next month when he plays doubles at an ATP Challenger tournament. The 45-year-old Forlán will play with Argentina’s Federico Coria at the clay...

Published:Thursday | October 24, 2024 | 12:06 AM

BALAGOLLA, Sri Lanka (CMC): SRI LANKA secured an ODI series win over the West Indies with a commanding five-wicket victory in a rain-shortened second match at the Pallekele International Stadium yesterday. The visitors are now 2-0 down in the three...

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

FORMER PRIME Minister Portia Simpson-Miller, who headed a list of local and international 2024 inductees into the Cricket Hall of Fame, was yesterday recognised for her achievement by the organisation at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel. On October 5,...

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2024 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

ST ELIZABETH Technical High School (STETHS) ensured there were no hiccups on their way to the next round of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup football competition when they ended The Manning’s School’s hopes of doing the same with a 3-0 victory at The...

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2024 | 12:10 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

FOLLOWING A 3-0 win at home over Paul Bogle in their final match of the second round of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup football competition, coach Andrew Peart is now looking at recovery. Former Denbigh High player, Dunsting Cohen, followed up on his...

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2024 | 12:10 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

RUSHELL CLAYTON is the latest Jamaican to sign on to compete in the inaugural Grand Slam Track League. The series of track events, put on by sprinting legend Michael Johnson, pits 96 athletes across 12 distances four times per year. The league...

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2024 | 12:09 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

IF THEIR first encounter was epic, then their second meeting was its critically acclaimed sequel, as Eltham edged Hydel 2-1 in a tightly contested Zone A finale to finish atop the ISSA Manning Cup group with a perfect record. Playing with the title...

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2024 | 12:09 AM

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP): THREE STRAIGHT wins, no goals conceded, and top of the league on maximum points. Aston Villa’s first-ever appearance in the Champions League couldn’t be going any better. Villa’s 2-0 home win over Bologna yesterday...

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2024 | 12:09 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

HIS FLIGHT is already booked and he is itching to get on the course. Once again as the reigning Jamaica Open Golf Champion, American Andrew Arft, gets set to attempt a title defence at the prestigious event, taking place from November 9-12 at the...

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2024 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

DESPITE A demoralising 2023 regional CG Insurance Super50 Cup season where the Jamaica Scorpions failed to win a game, Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) chairman of selectors, Delroy Morgan, is looking for the Scorpions to be competitive enough to...

Published:Wednesday | October 23, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

AS JAMAICA’S elite team of martial artists prepare to face the best of Europe in tatami kickboxing at the 2024 International Sport Kickboxing Association Amateur Members Association (ISKA AMA) World Championships, starting in Vienna, Austria, today...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

THE JEROME Waite-coached Tivoli Gardens registered their first victory of the 2024-25 Jamaica Premier League season, courtesy of a Horatio Morgan strike in the 80th minute against the newly promoted Racing United on a rainy Monday evening at the...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:11 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

THERE WILL be a new face at the helm of the St Thomas Football Association (FA) in the coming days, as outgoing president Wayne Thompson has said he will not be going up for re-election, come their annual general meeting (AGM), set for October 26...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

REGGAE GIRLZ coach Hubert Busby Jr says he detects a bit of vengeance in the request from France, who they play next Friday, in international friendly games and in one from Brazil earlier this year. The Girlz upset the applecart at the World Cup in...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PANDEMONIUM BROKE out at Caymanas Park yesterday, resulting in abandonment of the Heroes’ Day meet, following a disqualification which levelled the heated jockeys’ title race between Raddesh Roman and Tevin Foster. With fans of either jockey highly...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:08 AM

A NUMBER of golfers from the national senior men’s, ladies’ and junior levels have already registered to be among the more than 80 players expected to participate in the 22nd staging of the Red Blazer Golf Tournament, set for November 2 at the...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:08 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

AT THE 39th staging of the Bell-Ziadie Memorial Football Festival yesterday at Winchester Park (St George’s College), several iconic names in Jamaica’s football community, including veterans of the 1998 Reggae Boyz squad, were honoured for their...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:08 AM

BALAGOLLA, Sri Lanka (CMC): WEST INDIES bowling coach James Franklin is calling for better execution from his bowlers for the remaining two matches of their One-Day International series against Sri Lanka. The West Indies lost the opening ODI on...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:08 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

IT’S WIN or go home for some teams when the second round of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup resumes today with nine matches across the island. In the west, many-time champions Cornwall College will face an already eliminated Spot Valley, who are trying...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:07 AM

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks...

Published:Tuesday | October 22, 2024 | 12:07 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

WHEN ELTHAM High School and Hydel High School meet in today’s ISSA Manning Cup top-of-the-table clash, both will be aware that it is more than group honours on the line as the Zone A winner will avoid the second round’s group of death. With Eltham...

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