FORMER international goalkeeper Ryan Thompson is beaming with joy after he was elected to the University of Tampa’s Hall of Fame Class of 2022. The 37-year-old Thompson, who attended the university on a football scholarship following his...
AIRLINE cancellations forced reigning Jamaica Premier League (JPL) champions Harbour View FC to postpone yesterday’s club friendly against Guadeloupe-based Antigua GFC at the Trinity Health Stadium in Hartford, Connecticut. The match has been...
FRESH OFF the West Indies’ T20 International cricket series against New Zealand, hard-hitting all-rounder Rovman Powell, captain of the Jamaica Tallawahs, is upbeat heading into the inaugural season of the SKYEXCH 6IXTY tournament. The Men’s...
WEST INDIES Women will face New Zealand (NZ) Women from September 16 to October 6 as the Hayley Matthews-led team embarks on their first series since reaching the semi-finals of the ICC Women’s World Cup earlier this year. Head coach of the team...
EXPERIENCED West Indies batsman Shamarh Brooks will be looking to carry over his recent rich run of form into the second One Day International (ODI) against the Kane Williamson-led New Zealand tourists when the teams meet in the second match in the...
WEST INDIES Test vice-captain Jermaine Blackwood, despite an aggressive bent, has been used almost solely in the longest format by the regional side but always wanted a chance to turn out in the 50-over game for the men in maroon. Blackwood, in his...
WITH GROWING calls for the sacking of West Indies head coach Phil Simmons on the back of an extended run of poor results for the regional side, veteran cricket analyst and commentator, Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira, believes that while players must put...
HARBOUR VIEW FC are already looking for the next batch of young and talented players, with the reigning Jamaica Premier League (JPL) champions arranging a one-day tryout for hopefuls seeking to kickstart professional football careers. According to...
WEST Indies under the guidance of vice-captain Rovman Powell managed to salvage some pride in the last fixture of their three-match T20 International series against New Zealand by registering an eight-wicket victory at Sabina Park yesterday....
FORMER national golf champion, William Knibbs, says he has now set his sights on the Jamaica Open after helping the national team finish fourth at the recently concluded Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships in the Turks and Caicos Islands. “...
NINE-TIME National Champion O’Dayne Richards is slowly putting the disappointment of his sixth-place finish in the final of the men’s shot put at the recently concluded Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, on the back burner. Speaking with...
FORMER NATIONAL goalkeeper Allien Whittaker is eyeing a successful 14th staging of the Unity Cup, set for this weekend at Turner’s Oval in Chapelton, Clarendon. The Unity Cup, a pre-season tournament for Manning and daCosta Cup teams, is a knockout...
ACTION IN both the men’s and women’s 100m semi-final will headline action on day seven of the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. However, Jamaica’s first medal in track and field could come in the women’s shot put, as Danniel...
A STRONG 12-member squad representing Jamaica will take to the golf course in the Turks and Caicos Islands for the 65th Caribbean Amateur Championships, beginning today. The squad, which is down to compete until August 5, is relatively young, with...
CLYDE JUREIDINI, general manager of reigning Jamaica Premier League (JPL) champions, Harbour View, is more than pleased with the announcement from the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) that seven players from his club have been called to the...
HARD-HITTING Melbourne Cricket Club opening batsman Leroy Lugg says he is mentally prepared and is eyeing a fruitful Caribbean Premier League (CPL) debut season with the St Lucia Kings, when the CPL tournament bowls off later this summer....
VETERAN Jamaican athletics mentor, Wayne Jolly, who currently provides mental health advice to some of Jamaica’s elite college athletes, is of the belief that the current collegiate programmes being offered to local athletes in the United States...
Jamaica’s lone representative in the men’s 400m final at the World Athletics Championships, Christopher Taylor, finished seventh in a time of 45.30 seconds as the United States’ Michael Norman finally found his way to the top of the podium. Norman...
Bahamas’ double Olympic gold medallist, Shaunae Miller-Uibo, has finally added a World Championship title over 400 metres after dominating a strong field at the Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon earlier this evening. Miller-Uibo stopped the clock in...
Jamaica’s Natoya Goule has qualified for the final of the Women’s 800m final at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Goule, who competed in the second of three semi-finals, finished second in a fast 1:58:73 seconds. The race was...
Jamaica’s quartet of Ackeem Blake, Kemar Bailey-Cole, Conroy Jones and Jelani Walker scraped into the final of the men’s 4x100m at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Jamaica finished fourth in heat two of two in a time of 38.33...
Jamaica’s quartet of Briana Williams, Natalliah Whyte, Remona Burchell and Kemba Nelson are through to the final of the women’s 4x100m at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Running from the outside lane in heat one, Jamaica...
FORMER St Catherine High School star athlete Julien Alfred is at the centre of an online attack against her country’s athletics federation. The 21-year-old St Lucian, a student of the University of Texas, entered the World Championships as the...
JEFF MILLER, chief executive officer (CEO) of two-time Caribbean Premier League (CPL) champions, Jamaica, believes in the team his staff has picked to take on the 2022 edition of the competition. During the recently held CPL Draft, it was...
BAHAMIAN SPRINTER Anthonique Strachan was having a breakout season, her best in almost a decade, until disappointment struck during the heats of the women’s 200 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Monday. Strachan,...
