FOUR OF Jamaica’s reigning national champions are set to headline the Monaco Diamond League today with Nickisha Pryce, Megan Tapper, Jordan Scott, and Romaine Beckford all set to compete. The four are part of a contingent of six Jamaican athletes...
THE JAMAICA Olympic Association (JOA) announced a new three-year partnership with the Racers Track Club yesterday which is geared towards the development of Jamaica’s track and field athletes, coaches and administrators. Speaking in a press...
KRISTINA CHUCK-SMITH, Jamaica’s Goodwill Swimming Championships team manager, said parents are committed to shouldering the exorbitant costs of over $400,000 per swimmer needed for the team to compete at the upcoming meet. Jamaica will be...
ANOTHER REGGAE Girl has secured a new club this transfer window as Taylor Hinds made the switch from the red of Liverpool to the red of North London, the defender signing for Arsenal in the Barclay’s Women’s Super League (WSL). Hinds joined...
THE NATIONAL Tackle Football Association (NTFA) announced that four Jamaican athletes have been offered full-ride scholarships following a recent gridiron football showcase held at the UWI Mona Bowl in collaboration with the Sul Ross State...
The fastest man in the world this year, Kishane Thompson said ‘anything is possible’ when it comes to potentially breaking Steve Mullings’ men’s 100-metre meet record of 9.80 seconds at the Prefontaine Classic today. Thompson is scheduled to line...
Jamaican international Demarai Gray said he is ready to achieve further success in his career upon completing a return to his boyhood club Birmingham City in the English Football League (EFL) Championship. Gray made the switch from Saudi Pro League...
FOLLOWING THE successful opening staging of the Wray and Nephew Fight Nights series at Ferdi Neita Park in Portmore over the weekend, Jamaica Boxing Association (JaBA) President Stephen ‘Bomber’ Jones is eyeing future stagings in various...
STEPHEN ‘BOMBER’ Jones, president of the Jamaica Boxing Association (JaBA), lauded the return of the Wray and Nephew Fight Nights series as a success despite hiccups during the opening staging over the weekend. The Fight Nights series made its...
HAVING WON his first 400-metre national title on Sunday at the JAAA National Junior and Senior Championships, Rusheen McDonald is taking aim at 43.93 seconds — his own national record. “I feel like I’m in a 43 [seconds] shape this year. I feel like...
FOLLOWING HIS team’s triumph in the final of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Under-17 final at the Constant Spring Sports Complex on Sunday, Harbour View coach Sydney McFarlane said the club is still producing top youth...
Tasked with finding the best players to represent Jamaica in the Reggae Girlz squad, head coach Hubert Busby, said he has been keeping a close eye on the local talents available in the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL). Speaking in a recent...
Several of the top names in Jamaican track and field showed their quality on the opening day of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) National Junior and Senior Championships yesterday at the National Stadium. Five-time women’s...
With no relay events scheduled at the National Senior and Junior Championships this year, the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has highlighted three meets where they are confident Jamaica can qualify its remaining teams to the...
IN ANNOUNCING his squad for the Reggae Girlz upcoming international friendly against England, head coach, Hubert Busby Jr, confirmed striker Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw is still recovering from the season-ending injury she suffered earlier this year....
WITH THE Reggae Girlz set to take on England in an international friendly on June 29 at the King Power Stadium, head coach Hubert Busby Jr said he will be focusing on the positives as his squad will be without several of his more experienced...
WHILE PREPARING to lose four of its key track and field athletes to Türkiye via a switch of allegiance, the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) has called for World Athletics to take action to prevent even more athletes from leaving...
JUST DAYS after deriding the news of key Jamaican athletes making the switch to Türkiye as simply “allegations”, Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) president Garth Gayle has officially acknowledged the matter but says that Jamaica...
For many coaches, winning the first game of a best-of-three basketball series would bring some measure of relief. But Simon Brown, head coach of Upper Room Eagles, knows the job is not yet done as they face a tough task to defeat UWI Runnin’...
Following reports that a number of elite track and field athletes are set to switch their allegiances from Jamaica to Turkey, Member of Parliament and Olympian Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn has called for further questions into the role of Jamaica’s sports...
While the track and field community is caught in a frenzy following reports of several elite athletes switching their allegiance from Jamaica to Turkey, Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) President Garth Gayle said that at this...
HAVING LOST a number of players since the start of the season, Oniel Brown, head coach of Urban Knights, said his team will be drawing on their experience as defending champions when they take on St George’s Slayers in the first game of the...
XAVIER GILBERT’S move to Montego Bay United (MBU) from Arnett Gardens came as a shock to many as Gilbert had become a well-liked figure in the Junglists’ technical area. However, the head coach explained he leaves the club on good terms after...
JAMAICA BOXING Association (JaBA) president Stephen ‘Bomber’ Jones has hailed the Wray and Nephew Fight Nights series as an essential platform for the development of Jamaica’s amateur and professional boxers. Jones was speaking yesterday at the...
