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Published:Wednesday | November 6, 2024 | 12:08 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

REGGAE GIRLZ goalkeeper Rebecca Spencer has signed a new deal with Barclays Women’s Super League (WSL) outfit Tottenham Hotspur FC, which will see her tied to the North London club until June 2026. The announcement was made yesterday with Spencer...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 12:12 AM

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): CAPTAIN PAT Cummins kept his nerve on his return to international cricket to lead Australia to a nervy two-wicket win over Pakistan in the first One-Day International yesterday. A calm Cummins made an unbeaten 32 off 31...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 12:11 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): JUSTIN GREAVES became the first West Indian to score three consecutive List A centuries, and his historic performance helped the Leeward Islands Hurricanes to an impressive seven-wicket win over the Trinidad...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 12:11 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): ANDREW RAMBARAN and Johann Layne defied a fighting effort by the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) Marooners to help the West Indies Academy earn their first win of this year’s Regional Super50 tournament yesterday...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 12:11 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

WITH THE nation under a tropical storm warning, the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association’s (ISSA’s) decision to postpone the quarter-finals of the ISSA Manning Cup has drawn concern from schoolboy football coaches over playing several games in...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 12:11 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

LLORI SHARPE created history over the weekend, becoming the first Jamaican woman to win the elite women’s road race at the Elite Caribbean Cycling Championships in Georgetown, Guyana. Carlton Simmonds, head coach of the team, said Sharpe’s...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 12:10 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR of Vere United, Craig Butler, explained that getting his players to stay mentally sharp for their rescheduled game against Mount Pleasant will not be difficult to achieve as the team is focused on the long haul. Matches in the...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 12:10 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

WITH A tropical storm warning forcing organisers of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) to postpone both Manning and daCosta Cup quarter-final openers, coaches have had mixed feelings about what the delays mean. Cleighton Stephens...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 12:10 AM

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): DOMINICA’S FIRST-EVER Olympic gold medallist, Thea LaFond-Gadson, on Sunday officially received her nation’s highest honour, the Dominica Honour Award, for her historic achievement at the Paris Olympics. LaFond-Gadson, who...

Published:Tuesday | November 5, 2024 | 12:10 AM

MONACO (CMC): ST LUCIA’S sprint queen Julien Alfred will go head-to-head with American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone for the prestigious Women’s Track Athlete of the Year award. The 23-year-old Alfred created history earlier this year when she won gold...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 1:21 PM

Monday night's matches in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) have been postponed. The affected games are Vere United vs Mount Pleasant and Waterhouse vs Montego Bay United. The announcement was made via JPL's social media pages and ...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 12:09 AM

NEW YORK (AP): Abdi Nageeye and Sheila Chepkirui used strong kicks in the final mile to pull away from their nearest competitors as both won the New York City Marathon for the first time yesterday. Nageeye, who became the first runner from the...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 12:09 AMOrane Buchanan/Staff Reporter

FORMER national champions Portmore United moved to top spot in the Jamaica Premier League with an emphatic 4-0 victory over Molynes United yesterday. Portmore lead the standings with 16 points from eight games, two ahead of Montego Bay United and...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 12:09 AM

MILAN (AP): Inter Milan moved just one point behind Serie A leaders Napoli ahead of their early title showdown next weekend. Lautaro Martínez scored the only goal of the match to help Inter to a 1-0 win over lowly Venezia yesterday shortly after...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 12:09 AM

LONDON (AP): The first Champions League team will reach 10 points this week and likely ensure advancing to the knockout stage as the untested 36-team standings format reaches the midway point. Either Liverpool or Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 12:08 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Demetrius Richards scored a patient, unbeaten half-century to ensure that Barbados Pride remained at the top of the table of the Regional Super50 with a tense one-wicket victory over the Guyana Harpy Eagles at Queen’s...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

COREY Schafer, president, International Sports Karate Association (ISKA), and organiser of the annual United States Open in Orlando, Florida, has heaped praises on Jamaica’s five-man team, which took home 10 medals from ISKA Europe’s Amateur...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 12:08 AM

MADRID (AP): Dani Olmo made the most out of his return as a starter with Barcelona, scoring twice to lead the Catalan club to a 3-1 win over Espanyol in the city derby in the Spanish league yesterday. Raphinha also scored for Barcelona, which a...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 12:08 AM

MANCHESTER, England (AP): Moises Caicedo’s stunning long-range volley secured a 1-1 draw for Chelsea against Manchester United in the English Premier League yesterday. In front of the watching American singer and actress Olivia Rodrigo, Caicedo’s...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 12:07 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): Despite a disappointing loss to England in the second One-Day International (ODI) on Saturday, West Indies white-ball head coach Daren Sammy says he is seeing some improvements in the regional side’s play. After posting a...

Published:Monday | November 4, 2024 | 12:07 AM

LONDON, England (CMC): Jamaican superstar forward Khadija Shaw scored her fourth goal of the season to help Manchester City thrash Crystal Palace 3-0 in the Women’s Super League (WSL) here yesterday. Shaw, City’s all-time leading goalscorer, netted...

Published:Sunday | November 3, 2024 | 12:15 AMAshley Anguin - Gleaner Writer

A BRACE from Keanu Reid, inclusive of a dramatic late goal, helped Ocho Rios High squeeze into the final eight of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup in a nail-biting 2-2 draw with Dinthill Technical at Drax Hall Sports Complex yesterday. Ocho Rios, first-...

Published:Sunday | November 3, 2024 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

DANE DAWKINS, on winter break from Assiniboia Downs in Canada, continues to hold his own among the pair of Raddesh Roman and Tevin Foster amid the duo’s battle for the jockeys’ crown he won in 2022. Dawkins reeled off a hat-trick of wins on the 11-...

Published:Sunday | November 3, 2024 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham - Gleaner Writer

A BRACE from Tobagonian Kaiem Lewis gave St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) a good 2-0 win over Kemps Hill in their top-of-the-table Group One round-of-16 match at the Wembley Centre of Excellence of Sports yesterday. The win put STETHS on...

Published:Sunday | November 3, 2024 | 12:14 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): ENGLAND’S STAND-IN captain Liam Livingstone scored a breathtaking, maiden One Day International century to steer his side to an impressive five-wicket victory over the West Indies and level their three-match series...

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