AFTER Tivoli High’s Dwayne Johnson smashed the crossbar of Haile Selassie High’s goal with a header as early as the 10th minute during yesterday’s Walker Cup KO final at Sabina Park, the signs were clear that the Christopher Nicholas-coached team...
THE CONTINENT of Africa has five countries participating in the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar (Senegal, Cameroon, Morocco, Ghana and Tunisia) and while all of them have performed creditably with Tunisia, the African champions through to the round...
DENNIS CHUNG, general secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), hopes national representative Leon Bailey hasn’t found himself in “hot water” following scathing remarks aimed at football’s governing body in a podcast done earlier this...
FOLLOWING his outstanding performance in the recently concluded Regional Super50 tournament, which saw him bag 15 wickets and end up tied for first with teammate Odean Smith and Trinidad and Tobago’s Shannon Gabriel for most wickets, Jamaica...
IN THE midst of the excitement of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, third-place finisher at the recently concluded Jamaica Golf Open Championships, William Knibbs, revealed that this time around he’s watching football’s showpiece event as a neutral to avoid...
HAVING waited a decade to lift another Regional Super50 title, the Rovman Powell-led Jamaica Scorpions also finished atop the batting and bowling departments. Captain Powell was the leading scorer for the 2022 season after tallying 346 runs, four...
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Weightlifting Federation, Dr Mark Broomfield, has revealed that in order for the sport to grow locally there are three key components that should be in place, facilities, equipment, and what he terms as the ‘technical know-...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Basketball Association, Paulton Gordon, is confident the inaugural staging of the 3x3 Basketball competition for high school boys, which tips off on Saturday and ends on November 20 at the Montego Bay Convention Centre,...
UNDETERRED BY the fact that Australia hasn’t been a happy destination for the West Indies team in Test cricket, captain and opening batter Kraigg Brathwaite is of the belief that this team is more than just optimistic ahead of their two-Test series...
HAVING MIGRATED from Jamaica at the age of 13, Rajiv Maragh, now 37 years old, plies his trade on the American circuit, on the foundation of a stellar career in which he has ridden over 1,600 winners, inclusive of the Florida Oaks (2009), Louisiana...
President of the Jamaica Golf Association, Jodi Munn-Barrow, has predicted that this weekend’s 55th staging of the Jamaica Open Golf Championships will bring out the best in all the participants vying for the 2022 national golf title. The...
DEFENDING CHAMPIONS St Catherine started off their title defence of the Walker Cup in empathic fashion, dismissing rivals St Jago 2-0 at the Spanish Town Prison Oval yesterday. What started off as a cagey encounter between the pair grew to match...
JAMECO, JAMAICA’S largest fleet company, yesterday, donated a 27-seater King Long Bus valued at approximately $7.3 million to the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), which is aimed at easing the pressures of transporting players representing the...
THE ERA of Phil Simmons as head coach of the West Indies senior men’s team will culminate following a two-match Test series Down Under against Australia, with the first Test set to start on November 29. Simmons announced his decision to step away...
VETERAN local table tennis coach, Samuel Lamount, believes his time has come to take over the reins of the sport in Jamaica following what he terms as a ‘growing calls’ for him to throw his hat into the 2023 presidential ring. “A lot of the key...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Golf Association, Jodi Munn-Barrow, hopes that the current trajectory of the sport in Jamaica will lead to a burgeoning of the financial support needed for further growth. “We keep talking about the lack of support that we...
PHILADELPHIA UNION shot-stopper and Reggae Boyz Captain Andre Blake picked up enough votes in the run-in to the 2022 Landon Donovan MVP Award to finish third behind eventual winner Hany Mukhtar (Nashville SC) and Sebastian Driussi (Austin FC)....
THIRD-GENERATION SHOOTER Chad Ziadie is beaming with joy after he created history at the 2022 National Shotgun Championships at the Grand Port Royal Hotel on the weekend. With his win, the 26-year-old became the youngest ever national shotgun...
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight star Aljamain “Funk Master” Sterling has ended his well-deserved rest in Dubai following his dominant performance against rival T.J Dillashaw, which saw him successfully defend his title in a manner...
There was a feeling of elation in the Molynes United camp after their first victory of the 2022-23 Jamaica Premier League season at the Stadium East field yesterday. Molynes United’s head coach Alex Thomas was a happy man as his charges bounced...
THE 2022 Junior Cup football competition, organised by the Free Your Image (FYI) Consultancy group, will crown the all-island champions today with match time set for 2 p.m. Urban champions Emmanuel Christian Academy will oppose rural champions...
AS part of their new initiative, Lynk, who recently inked a three-year agreement with the Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) to introduce a digital payment solution for football matches on the island, will be adding a new Gold Cup...
WHILE members of the Harbour View Football Club (HVFC) senior team are finalising last-minute details for their opening fixture of the 2022-23 Jamaica Premier League (JPL) on Monday against newcomers Chapelton Maroons, work is being done to find...
AFTER A humbling 4-2 defeat at the hands of their North Street rivals, St George’s College, the Raymond Watson-coached Kingston College (KC) got back to winning ways, registering a workmanlike 2-0 victory over Waterford in their Group ‘A’ ISSA/...
THE 2022 Junior Cup, organised by the Free Your Image (FYI) consultancy group, will kick into high gear today at the Constant Spring Football Field, starting at 9 a.m. as teams will be jostling for a spot in the knock-out stages of the competition...
