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NATIONAL BASKETBALL Association (NBA) referee Mark Lindsay says it is important to start basketball refereeing in Jamaica at the grassroots level to keep up with the rest of the world. Lindsay, a referee for 18 years in the NBA, hosted a referees’...

TAROUBA, Trinidad (CMC): PLAYER-OF-THE-MATCH COLIN Munro and skipper Nicholas Pooran scored impressive half-centuries as the Trinbago Knight Riders dispatched the winless Barbados Royals by seven wickets in the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier...

AP: AFRICAN MEDIA quizzed FIFA president Gianni Infantino yesterday if people from the continent will be safe and welcome in the United States at the 2026 World Cup. Football fans from Africa “are a little bit jittery” about current events in the...

WESTERN BUREAU: OUTGOING BRITISH High Commissioner Judith Slater says the United Kingdom has played a pivotal role in Jamaica’s National Stadium redevelopment, with United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF) offering to underwrite the project’s loan, a ‘...

REPEATING HIS age-old adage of there being ‘no easy games in the Caribbean’, Reggae Boyz head coach Steve McClaren has warned against the notion that the final round of Concacaf World Cup Qualifiers will be a simple formality for Jamaica’s...

NEWCASTLE, England (AP): GERMANY STRIKER Nick Woltemade became Newcastle’s record signing yesterday after joining from Stuttgart for a reported fee that could total 69 million pounds (US$93 million). Newcastle’s move for the 23-year-old Woltemade...

JAMAICA’s OPEN and mixed teams at the fourth annual Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival yesterday paddled their way into today’s seeded finals of the 200-metre events at Goodman’s Bay in Nassau, Bahamas. Jamaica’s open team ended the day...

ROME (AP): The 18-year-old Liverpool centre back Giovanni Leoni was one of three players given their first national team call-up by new Italy coach Gennaro Gattuso yesterday. Also named to the Azzurri squad for the first time were Inter Milan...

THE Reggae Boyz kick off their Concacaf final round World Cup (WC) qualifiers away to Bermuda next Friday, before hosting Trinidad and Tobago at home the following Tuesday, and Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president Michael Ricketts said the...

CREMONA, Italy (AP): Former Chelsea players Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Christian Pulisic scored as AC Milan beat hosts Lecce 2-0 for their first win in the new Serie A season yesterday. Actress Helen Mirren donned a yellow Lecce shirt and watched from...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): The International Cricket Council (ICC) and one of the leading technological companies in the world, Google have collaborated to increase the visibility of women’s cricket. The announcement, which was made on...

While confirming long-term Reggae Boyz target Mason Greenwood has received his documents needed to represent the island, head coach Steve McClaren said the striker does not want to commit his future to Jamaica just yet. McClaren explained after...