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December 9, 2025

Sponsors put in more money for Nattie 3-on-3 basketball tourney

Players shooting for top awards in the Marland Nattie Legends 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament now have a ‘sweeter’ pot at which to aim, with double the serving in prize money for the Most Valuable Player…
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December 9, 2025

Netball World Youth Cup: Young Sunshine Girls bow out in quarterfinals

Jamaica’s young Sunshine Girls crashed out of the Netball World Youth Cup in Gibraltar yesterday after they were brushed aside 85-33 by Australia in the quarter-finals of the competition. Needing a…
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December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

All set for fourth staging of YFL’s Junior Cup U11

The Youth Football League (YFL) officially launched the fourth staging of its Junior Cup under-11 competition yesterday, with managing director Paula Pinnock highlighting the tournament’s role in…
UNSPUN (left), ridden by Richie Shakes, wins the ninth race over six furlongs ahead of UNBELIEVABLE FORCE (Tajay Suckoo) at Caymanas Park on Saturday, May 3, 2025.
December 9, 2025 by Ainsley Walters

Classy Unspun to take the Typewriter

HIGHLY fancied at odds of 2-1 in the Kenneth Mattis Memorial two weeks ago after galloping 1:06.1 for five and a half furlongs at exercise seven days prior, United States-bred UNSPUN ran smack into an…
Ryan-Oniel Francis (left) of Tivoli High and Marlon Anderson of Haile Selassie High battle for possession during yesterday’s ISSA Manning Cup match at Tivoli. The game ended in a 2-2 draw.
December 9, 2025 by Robert Bailey

Fortis goal feast: KC put 14 past Tarrant

Defending champions Kingston College (KC) went on a goal spree yesterday when they demolished Tarrant High 14-0 in their ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup Zone B clash at the Stadium East Field. KC, unbeaten…
Ian Forbes
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Government, JAAA get to work on keeping Jamaica’s athletes

TRACK AND field stakeholders, the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport and the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), are still making their way through the fallout of…
Oblique Seville talks with members of the media on his arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport from the Tokyo World Athletics Championships where he won gold in the men's 100 metres.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

Quietly confident Oblique back in the island

Basking in the feeling of being the first Jamaican man to reach the top of a World Athletics Championship podium, since Usain Bolt did in 2015, 100 metre Champion Oblique Seville returned to the…
Jamaica’s Assinie Wilson competes in the heats of the men’s 400-metre hurdles qualifiers on day three of the Tokyo World Athletics Championships at the Japan National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, September 15.
December 9, 2025 by Karen Madden

‘They are not alone’

A GAP in the public education programme is being blamed for some athletes not being aware of the financial assistance available to them. Eyebrows were raised during the recently concluded World…
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December 9, 2025 by Livingston Scott

Whitmore elated with Mt Pleasant’s Caribbean Cup final-four berth

MOUNT PLEASANT Football Academy advanced to the semi-finals of the Concacaf Caribbean Cup (CCC) after a dominant 2-0 victory over Central FC of Trinidad, in Port of Spain, on Tuesday night. Raheem…