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Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:13 AM

Barely a year after receiving his grooming licence at Caymanas Park, Coby Anthony is calling being crowned the 2025 champion groom a dream come true. Anthony, who works in the father-and-son barn of Ian Parsard and Peter-John Parsard, topped the...

Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:13 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

For much of the first round of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL), Molynes United were a top candidate for relegation this season. The Jermaine Thomas-coached team went 10 matches without a win to start the season; however, since the league returned...

Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:13 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Having won their first and only Olivier Shield title in 1999, Omar ‘Rambo’ Wedderburn, head coach of reigning daCosta Cup champions St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS), says his team is taking this year’s final against Excelsior very...

Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:12 AM

BRISBANE, Australia (AP): Former cricketer Damien Martyn, who played 67 Test matches for Australia, is in serious condition in a Gold Coast hospital south of Brisbane, Australian media reported yesterday. The 54-year-old former right-hand batter...

Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:12 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): West Indies Women wicketkeeper-batsman Shemaine Campbelle has been appointed captain of Guyana Women’s team which will compete in next year’s Regional Super50 Cup and T20 Blaze tournaments. However, while they will have...

Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:12 AM

MELBOURNE, Australia (CMC): Having played a major role in helping England secure their first Test match win in Australia in 11 years, Barbadian Jacob Bethell has his eyes set on securing the all-important number-three spot in the batting line-up....

Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:12 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Former West Indies cricketer Deryck Murray has called on Cricket West Indies (CWI) President Dr Kishore Shallow and the entire board to step down. Speaking on the Mason and Guest radio programme on Tuesday, the 82-...

Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:11 AM

BOSTON (AP): New England Patriots star wide receiver Stefon Diggs is facing strangulation and other criminal charges in connection with a dispute with his former private chef, police said. News of the charges emerged after a court hearing on...

Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:11 AM

TOKYO (AP): He turns 59 in February, and the globe’s oldest professional football player has a new club as he gets set for his 41st season. This is of course Kazuyoshi Miura, who is known in Japan as ‘King Kazu’. Miura announced his signing this...

Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:11 AM

MADRID (AP): Former Brazil and Real Madrid defender Roberto Carlos has undergone surgery for a heart problem, Spanish daily sports newspaper Diario AS reported yesterday. The 52-year-old former full back, who now serves as a Madrid ambassador, was...

Published:Thursday | January 1, 2026 | 12:11 AM

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP): Bazoumana Touré scored in stoppage time as defending champions Ivory Coast recovered from a two-goal deficit to beat Gabon 3-2 yesterday in the Africa Cup of Nations, which now enters the knockout stage. Christopher Opéri...

Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2025 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

After years in the doldrums, life is steadily returning to the iconic Jarrett Park, the once go-to venue, undergoing a much-needed facelift, restoring its vibrancy and bringing it back into the football spotlight. The renovation has transformed...

Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Saturday’s feature, the Security Department Trophy, is a complex five-furlong straight event in which varying factors, most notably the track bias and handicaps, could turn the race on its head. Anthony Nunes’ ANOTHER ONE could start favourite as a...

Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

The sudden passing of renowned sports journalists and broadcaster Donald Oliver has sent shockwaves across sporting and media landscapes. Oliver, who had more than 20 years’ experience working with prominent media entities such as the RJR...

Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2025 | 12:11 AM

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): The pitch used for the fourth Ashes Test that finished inside two days has been rated as “unsatisfactory” by cricket’s world governing body. No batter scored a half-century, and 36 wickets fell across six sessions at...

Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2025 | 12:10 AM

LONDON, England (CMC): Barbadians Jofra Archer and Jacob Bethell have been included in England’s 15-man provisional squad for the 2026 T20 World Cup. Archer has been named in the squad despite suffering a side strain in the third Test of the Ashes...

Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2025 | 12:10 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): President of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), Kieron Edwards has revealed that Dwight Yorke will remain as head coach of the national team, despite failing in his bid to qualify for the 2026 World...

Published:Wednesday | December 31, 2025 | 12:10 AM

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): World champion javelin thrower Keshorn Walcott and sprinter Leah Bertrand capped off an impressive 2025 by capturing the Sportsman of the Year and Sportswoman of the Year awards at the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic...

Published:Tuesday | December 30, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Tivoli Gardens ended a two-match unbeaten run to climb four places up the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) standings to eighth with 15 points, after a 2-0 win over Chapelton Maroons at the Edward Seaga Sports Complex yesterday. Rodico Wellington (32nd...

Published:Tuesday | December 30, 2025 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Bruceontheloose Sprint winner, Florida-invader OF A REVOLUTION, opens Anthony Nunes’ 2026 title bid in Thursday’s Miracle Man Cup at seven furlongs among open-allowance runners, a level lower than the grade-one event he won when debuting locally on...

Published:Tuesday | December 30, 2025 | 12:09 AM

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP): Anthony Joshua, the British boxer and former world heavyweight champion, was hospitalised yesterday with “minor injuries” after a car accident that killed two other passengers in Nigeria. The Lagos state commissioner for...

Published:Tuesday | December 30, 2025 | 12:09 AM

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Daren Sammy’s future as all-format head coach could hinge on the West Indies’ performance at the upcoming T20 World Cup, says renowned cricket commentator and former West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop. Sammy, who...

Published:Tuesday | December 30, 2025 | 12:09 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Reigning four-time champion trainer Jason DaCosta has admitted this year’s trainers’ championship was the most difficult he has won, as he was forced to overcome early setbacks before emerging on top once again. DaCosta, the son of 18-time champion...

Published:Tuesday | December 30, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Ardenne High School’s Mowan Bonnick is making waves in the ISSA Urban Schoolboy Basketball Competition, producing remarkable performances that have helped his team to stay in touch with defending champions and favourites, Campion College. In his...

Published:Tuesday | December 30, 2025 | 12:08 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Find your passion outside of track and field and work hard at the craft. That is the advice Jamaican female sprinting icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has for young athletes coming up in the sport. Fraser-Pryce, who was honoured by the Waterhouse...

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