AT THE recently held Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) annual congress, Spartak Moscow forward Shamar Nicholson and Reggae Girlz central defender Allyson Swaby were named the federation’s male and female footballers of the year. This, according to...
THREE FORMER daCosta Cup champions - Glenmuir, Garvey Maceo, and Rusea’s – will continue their hunt for silverware this schoolboy football season when the teams contest the rural area Ben Francis Cup quarterfinals today at St Elizabeth Technical....
JAMAICA’S O’DAYNE Richards, who was recently elected chairman of the NACAC Athletes’ Commission, is encouraging local and regional athletes to lodge their complaints with him or their local athlete representatives and he will do his best to have...
IN 2018 the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) approved parkour as an official discipline of the sport, and with the arrival of the first-ever pieces of parkour equipment, courtesy of the Pan American Gymnastics Union (PAGU), Jamaica Amateur...
The Jamaica Amateur Gymnastics Association (JAGA) will host the annual International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) technical committee meetings at Oceans Coral Springs Hotel in Falmouth, November 25-29. President of JAGA, Nicole Grant-Brown, said it...
JOINT LEAGUE leaders Arnett Gardens and Montego Bay United highlight this weekend’s round of Jamaica Premier League (JPL) fixtures and Montego Bay United coach Donovan Duckie is hoping to make the most of home advantage. Duckie pointed out that an...
ST CATHERINE High School continue their hunt for a three-peat of Walker Cup titles when they face off against Haile Selassie in one quarterfinal at the Prison Oval today starting at 3 p.m. The St John’s Road-based school won their first schoolboy...
THE JAMAICA Premier League (JPL) returns this afternoon, after a break over the weekend, with two high-profile rescheduled games at the Stadium East complex. In the opening game at 1 p.m., defending champions Harbour View take on the Theodore...
THE FORMAT of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Walker Cup knockout competition is once again becoming a heated topic of discussion. The Walker Cup started in 1961 as a challenge trophy between the top four Manning Cup teams but...
JAMAICA AND Miami FC midfielder, Lamar Walker, is being linked with a move to Preston North End (PNE), according to online reports. Deepdaledigest.com and 876 stream reported that Walker is being monitored by the League One club after he was...
Reggae Girlz star striker Khadija Shaw is now well settled in England and is having an outstanding second season for Manchester City in the Women’s Super League (WSL). The big striker has already scored nine goals and provided one assist in eight...
Reggae Girlz coach Lorne Donaldson is happy the team is creating chances and remains confident that the goals will come after Jamaica went down 2-1 to Paraguay in the second and final friendly international at the National Stadium last night....
After three rounds of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL), Montego Bay United are surprisingly the early league leaders. Local football observers have been praising coach Donovan Duckie for the improvements he has made to last season’s last-place...
Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) second vice president Mark Bennett is expected to succeed outgoing president Wayne Shaw when affiliates cast their votes to elect a new leader this afternoon at the office of the Jamaica Football...
KINGSTON COLLEGE (KC) continued their dominance of the ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup with a 5-0 win over Charlie Smith yesterday at Stadium East that put them into the competition’s semi-final. Teyshawn Mattis (34th and 56th) scored a brace before the ‘...
REGGAE GIRLZ coach Lorne Donaldson said his team must be prepared to take their chances against Paraguay as he anticipates that they will have their work cut out breaking down the Paraguay defence when the teams meet in their international friendly...
FORMER INTER-SECONDARY Schools Sports Association (ISSA) president, Dr Walton Small, said former competitions officer and close ally George Forbes was the person he leaned on during his 12 years in office, and that his influence on the organisation...
JAMAICA’S REGGAE Boyz and the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon will square off in their first-ever meeting at the Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo in the African country today at noon, and Jamaica coach Heimir Hallgrimsson believes it will be a good test for the...
Former Inter-Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA) competitions officer, George Forbes, passed away early Tuesday evening from a long illness The Gleaner has learned. The highly regarded sports administrator, who served ISSA for 18 years,...
ASTON VILLA forward Leon Bailey has joined the voices of those questioning the way the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system is used in England after Manchester United defender Lisandro Martinez escaped punishment for a double elbow on the Jamaican...
Harbour View destroyed Dundeholden 4-1 in a repeat of last season’s Jamaica Premier League (JPL) final at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday. Nicholas Hamilton led the way for the ‘Stars of the East’ with a brace (34th and 86th minutes...
The scheduling of Jamaica Premier League (JPL) games for Monday night’s televised fixtures has once again come into question, as many football fans were left scratching their heads last week after learning that the Portmore United versus Vere...
The Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) will lose their automatic spot in the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Tier Two competition if they fail to take up their slot this season. The first season of the National Tier Two...
THE OUTSTANDING performances of world under-20 triple jump champion Jaydon Hibbert have placed him among the elite of junior athletics and in the running for the 2022 World Athletics Men’s Rising Star award. Hibbert was among five athletes named by...
OUTGOING KINGSTON and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) president Wayne Shaw has described a letter criticising his leadership and the association’s handling of a recent general meeting “disingenuous”. The letter, from SUFC (Shortwood United...
