LONDON (AP):Venus Williams wiped tears from her eyes during her Wimbledon news conference yesterday.She shook her head, fiddled with her hair and sat, silently.The wave of emotion came as Williams attempted to answer a question about the two-car...
Published:Monday | July 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMRobert Bailey
A confident 12-member Sunshine Girls Under-21 team left the island yesterday for the IFNA Netball World Youth Cup, which will be held in Gaborone, Botswana from July 8 to 16.The junior Sunshine Girls won the bronze medal in Glasgow, Scotland four...
Published:Monday | July 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMRobert Bailey
The Queen's Baton Relay, which contains Her Majesty's message, which will be read at next year's Commonwealth Games in Australia, is due to arrive in the island tomorrow.Details of Jamaica's leg of the Queen's Baton Relay were announced at a press...
BRISBANE, Australia (AP):It went all the way and ended in a contentiously bitter loss, the opposite of what Manny Pacquiao's handlers predicted for his World Boxing Organisation (WBO) welterweight world title fight against Jeff Horn.Pacquiao's long-...
LEICESTER, England (CMC):A frustrated West Indies Women's captain Stafanie Taylor implored her embattled side to undertake deep soul-searching in the wake of yet another devastating defeat in the ICC Women's World Cup yesterday.The Windies slumped...
Danielle Dodd is hoping to improve her national shot put record of 19.15m. In addition, Dodd is aiming for the final of the IAAF World Championships next month and sees herself in the next generation of great shot putters. Understandably, she...
Published:Sunday | July 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
PARIS, France:Shericka Jackson has been the country's top female quarter miler for the past two years after winning bronze in the one-lap event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships and the Rio Olympic Games last year.Normally a slow starter to her...
Fedrick Dacres continued his fine form at last Saturday's Last Chance Throws meet inside the National Stadium. With only throwers in the audience, Dacres launched his discus 66.90m. He was one of four men to pass the 60m mark.Chad Wright, who is...
Jamaica failed to add another medal to its tally at the United States Open Saturday night when Subrina Richards lost to Argentina's International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) world champion Camila Canut on the ESPN-televised Night of Champions at the...
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (AP):Germany's experimental young side overcame streetwise Chile to win a bruising Confederations Cup final 1-0 yesterday, vindicating Joachim Lˆw's decision to leave most of his world champions at home.The only goal in St...
NORTH SOUND, Antigua (CMC): West Indies stunned India by 11 runs in a bizarre low-scoring encounter here yesterday to snap their losing streak and haul themselves back into the five-match series.All but written off after struggling to an inadequate...
PARIS, France:One of, if not the biggest performance at Saturday's IAAF Diamond League Meet at the Stade Charlety in Paris, France, came from someone whom it was least expected from in the form of Jamaica's Ronald Levy. He scored a major upset in...
New Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) interim president Bruce Gaynor wants to make a big impact in his two months in the role. The former St James Football Association president says he intend to use his time in office to build on what former...
PARIS, France:FOLLOWING her victory on Saturday in the Women's 400m sprint in Paris, Novlene Williams-Mills, with 20 points, is now the leader in the one-lap event for females in the IAAF Diamond League series, a title she has already won in her...
Published:Sunday | July 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMMarc Stamp
Sandals South Coast advanced to the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) for the first time when they held Cavalier SC to a 1-1 draw in the final round of the Magnum-Charley's JB-JFF promotion play-off series at Stadium East Complex yesterday.Cavalier,...
Jamaica last night amassed 68 medals 21 gold, 20 silver, and 27 bronze at the International Sports Karate Association United States Open at the Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida. Jamaica combined martial arts team light...
Published:Saturday | July 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeroy Brown
A date in early August is likely for the return World Boxing Council (WBC) world title fight between champion Fatuma Zarika from Kenya and Jamaica’s Alicia Ashley, the former champion. This was disclosed to The Sunday Gleaner yesterday by...
The world has changed since I was boy, and the question is, Has it changed for the better?When I was a boy, if you loved sport, you played sport at elementary school; at high school, if you were one of the lucky ones to get into a high school; at...
Anticipation continues to build for the 9th staging of the GraceKennedy Education 5K Run on Sunday, July 9, with a new start of 6 a.m.The event organisers are expecting a record turnout, while participants are gearing up for a healthy and fun-filled...
Published:Saturday | July 1, 2017 | 3:22 PMNodley Wright
Reggae Boy Romeo Parkes thought that that one moment of madness would have been the end of his career. A life ban would surely be the consequence of his uncharacteristic out of the blue attack on an opponent in May 2016, Parkes thought.Having...
LEICESTER, England (CMC):Without a win on tour and with confidence quickly draining, West Indies Women face a massive challenge in turning around their ICC Women's World Cup fortunes when they face South Africa Women in their third game today (4:30...
Published:Saturday | July 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMRaymond Graham
PARIS, France:One of the season's most improved athletes, sprint hurdler Ronald Levy, surprised a class field yesterday to win the 110 metres hurdles at yesterday's seventh leg of the Diamond League series at the Charlety Stadium in Paris.Levy's...
Published:Saturday | July 1, 2017 | 7:00 PMRaymond Graham
PARIS, France:Omar McLeod revealed after his Diamond League 110 metres hurdles race in Paris yesterday that he was not at his best physically when he faced the starter.In the semi-final, McLeod clocked 13.13 seconds to win his heat, but come the...
Published:Saturday | July 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMLeroy Brown
Several of Jamaica's top junior tennis players will go after titles today starting at 9 o'clock this morning, when the curtain comes down on the 2017 Access Financial Services All Jamaica junior tennis tournament, at the Eric...
