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Jamaica confident of making beach soccer playoffs

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 1:48 PMMarc Stamp

Head coach of Jamaica's Beach Soccer team that will participate in the CONCACAF Championship, Andrew Price, is optimistic the side will advance to the playoff stage for a spot in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Portugal in July.The 12-man Jamaica...

St Jago make right moves for chess title in ISSA all-island championship

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 2:07 PM

KINGSTON:Defending champions St Jago High won the 2015 Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) Group National Schools Chess Championship, a convincing 3-1 victory over Calabar High in the all-island final at PCJ Auditorium, New Kingston.St Jago took...

Richmond favoured to topple Ja’s Miller in Wray & Nephew Contender Series

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMLeroy Brown

Dereck Richmond from Guyana is the firm favourite to win tonight in his clash with Jamaica's Gregory Miller over six rounds, as the Wray and Nephew Middleweight Contender 2015 contest moves into the second week of competition at the Chinese...

Gayle to play T20 for Somerset

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 4:10 PM

SOMERSET, England (CMC):West Indies opener Chris Gayle has agreed a shot-term deal with Somerset to play in this year's NatWest T20 Blast, officials have announced. Gayle, Somerset's most high-profile signing to date, could play as many as six games...

Coach not satisfied despite Dacres’ world best at UWI Invitational

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 5:24 PMLeighton Levy

Despite producing two of the top-three best discus throws in the world this year, Federick Dacres' coach, Julian Robinson, believes if the youngster is to have a shot at a medal at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World...

Class Two girls throw up stiff challenge at GraceKennedy/ISSA Boys and Girls' Champs

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 6:18 PMShayne Fairman

Needing a qualifying mark of 11.50 metres, girls' Class Two shot putters were down to business straight away, with some impressive heaves resulting in personal bests and keen competition on day one's preliminary-round action at the Inter-Secondary...

Boys excite in 400m excitement on Champs 2015's opening day

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

Calabar's Christopher Taylor teased the crowd and Class One quarter-milers Akeem Bloomfield, Twayne Crooks (Kingston College), Nathon Allen and Martin Manley (St Jago) confirmed what we already knew - Saturday's final is going to be something...

St Andrew’s Murray targets golden treble at Champs

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 9:02 PMShayne Fairman

Long, triple and high jumper Lorean Murray of St Andrew High School (STAHS) will be hoping for a golden treble when she battles Class Two rivals from today through to Saturday at the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championship (Champs)...

That big-three showdown!

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 6:06 PMDania Bogle

THREE of Jamaica's biggest names in sprinting all ran together in one heat of the 100 metres at the 1992 Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Boys' Athletic Championships at the National Stadium.Disgraced former national 200m champion,...

CRICKET: Richards says WI must build on World Cup experience

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Former West Indies player Sir Vivian Richards says the Caribbean men should use the 2015 Cricket World Cup experience to improve their game in the near future. Richards, who was part of the West Indies World Cup winning teams in 1975 and 1979, says...

CRICKET: New Zealand beats South Africa in World Cup

Published:Tuesday | March 24, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Co-hosts New Zealand qualified for the final of the ICC Cricket World Cup, when they defeated South Africa in an absorbing semi-final game at Eden Park, in New Zealand earlier this morning. The Black Caps scored a nerve wracking four wicket win...

Transfer, drug-testing issues the damp spots

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 11:18 AM

THE Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association(ISSA) Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships is under way. Champs is on.The most popular and extensive age group athletics competition for children in the world begins. For the next five days, our...

Support your own school

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 11:29 AM

I have been shocked over the past week by the reality that the 'Kingston College (KC) and Calabar girls' fraternity in Jamaica is so vigilant, widespread, and active.Actually, it's been a rude awakening for me, borne out of the toxic, emotional, and...

Injury-free Edwin Allen will win Champs – Dyke

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 12:25 PMMarc Stamp

Coach of Edwin Allen High Michael Dyke is extremely confident that his girls will successfully defend the title at the Grace Kennedy/Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Boys and Girls' Athletics Championship, which begins today and...

Seeing VCB at stadium is SFP’s lasting Champs memory

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 12:41 PMLeighton Levy

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will go down in history as one of track and field's most successful sprinters ever. With two Olympic 100-metre titles and five World Championship gold medals on her mantle, the diminutive Pocket Rocket is an elite athlete...

Vere seek return to glory days

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 12:46 PM

Vere Technical High hopes to get back to the glory days at Girls' Championship. Back in the day, Vere won the title 22 times, including 15 consecutive holds. Nowadays, the school is struggling to get back to the pinnacle.John Mair, who is in charge...

Treatment principles for sport injuries

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 1:22 PM

The following injuries are considered as dangerous:Concussions: Injury to the brain after a knock on the head. Sometimes there is a delay between the injury and losing consciousness. The casualty may be unconscious, sick, or drowsy, get confused,...

Past Winners at Boys' and Girls' Champs

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 3:20 PM

PAST WINNERSGirls' champions1957: St. Hilda's High1958-60: No Competition1961: Manchester High1962: St. Andrew High1963: Titchfield High1964: Titchfield High1965: Mannings High1966: Mannings High1967: Vere Technical1968: Vere Technical1969: Mannings...

Champs Schedule - Tuesday

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The 2015 ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships gets under way today at the National Stadium in Kingston with mainly field events. 

Fierce Champs battle for boys' and girls' titles

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMAndre Lowe

"Come and get it if you can!"That's the challenge from defending boys and girls' champions Calabar and Edwin Allen High schools.They won't be short of takers, so brace yourselves for what is expected to be one of the most exciting Inter-Secondary...

Sprint hurdles, 400s take spotlight on Champs Day One

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 4:03 PMOliver Harris

There will be no finals on the first day of the GraceKennedy Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Boys and Girls' Athletic Championship, but the level of excitement will be quite high. The events to be contested are the preliminaries of...

Juggling act ... junior athletes balancing books and sport

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 6:53 PMErica Virtue

As athletics-crazy Jamaica begins its zoom on the 105th Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Grace-Kennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships at the National Stadium today, one of the country's elite junior athletic coaches...

Champs Preview: the Hunt Legacy

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 7:04 PMLaurie Foster

Champs 2015 is here. With it comes the regular features one associates with the world-acclaimed spectacle it has become.The fact that peace initiatives have been introduced - fÍtes and parties jointly orchestrated by the main rivals to curb youthful...

Fit JC ready to seize moment if Calabar, KC slip at Champs

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 7:32 PMRobert Bailey

"We are the perennial underdogs, and we are comfortable operating from this standpoint."Those are the ominous words of Jamaica's College (JC) track and field head coach, Orville Brown, who noted that they are fit and ready to seize upon any...

Jamaica, Barbados play out tame draw in WICB PCL

Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 8:06 PMJermaine Lannaman

Jamaica Franchise and dethroned champions Barbados Pride yesterday played a dull draw in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Professional Cricket League four-day match at Sabina Park, thanks to some defensive batting from the latter.Resuming their...

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