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Published:Thursday | August 21, 2025 | 12:23 AM

IF JAMAICA’S Reggae Girlz are to make it to their third FIFA Women’s World Cup in a row, they will have to navigate Group B of the first round of the Concacaf W Qualifiers. Jamaica, who have been to the last two World Cups in 2019 and in 2023, were...

Published:Thursday | August 21, 2025 | 12:21 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

THOUGH SPARINGLY raced, BARNABY might very well be the most improved horse out of last year’s Mouttet Mile, a point he could underline against FUNCAANDUN, winner of the US$250,000 race, when they meet in Saturday’s Distinctly Irish Trophy at nine...

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 4:51 PMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Oblique Seville continued his dominance over the United States’ Noah Lyles with another impressive victory at today’s Wanda Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland. Seville powered to 9.87 seconds in the men’s 100m despite heavy rains, a wet track...

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 12:18 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

DESPITE PLAYING a man down for the majority of the contest, Mount Pleasant Football Academy kickstarted their Concacaf Caribbean Cup campaign with a win, downing SV Robinhood 1-0 last night at the National Stadium. Sue-Lae McCalla scored the all-...

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 12:18 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S MEGAN Tapper needs a special performance in Lousanne today if she is to make the final of the Wanda Diamond League in Zurich. The 100-metre hurdler sits on 12 points heading into today’s 2:14 p.m. meeting in undoubtedly one of the most...

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 12:17 AM

FEW CRICKETERS possess the ability to change a match in a single over, which made the sight of the West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin limping out of warm-ups before a crucial Women’s Premier League (WPL) playoff match much more heartbreaking....

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 12:17 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

WHEN SPANISH Town Police play their first home game in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) this season, they will not do so from the comfort of their customary home ground, the Spanish Town Prison Oval, because the field at the venue failed to meet...

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 12:17 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

FAILING TO advance to the quarterfinals in last season’s ISSA daCosta Cup season, Cornwall College team’s ambition for the upcoming season is to surpass that achievement and potentially compete for the championship. Cornwall’s coach, Hector Wright...

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 12:16 AM

THE MINISTER of Culture, Gender, Entertainment, and Sport, Olivia Grange, has congratulated Jamaica’s athletes on a “weekend of exceptional performances”. Grange said she was “very proud of Jamaica’s athletes at the NACAC (North Central American...

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 12:15 AM

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): CRICKET WEST Indies (CWI) has unveiled a formidable 16-man squad to face Sri Lanka in a seven-match Youth ODI series set to ignite Antigua from August 25 to September 16. The regional side will be captained by Barbadian...

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 12:14 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING A dominant 18-6 win over New Zealand in their final game of Pool C at the 2025 World Lacrosse Men’s U20 Championships, Jamaica will take on Ireland today in the play-in round at the Gongcheonpo Training Centre in South Korea. Jamaica...

Published:Wednesday | August 20, 2025 | 12:14 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

THE U14 Reggae Girlz have taken group honours at the 2025 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) U14 Girls’ Challenge Series Tier-I Group B following three consecutive victories against Bermuda, Aruba, and, yesterday, Trinidad and Tobago. Jamaica opened...

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:15 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

THEODORE ‘TAPPA’ Whitmore, head coach of Mount Pleasant Football Academy, said the onus will be on his team when they open their 2025 Concacaf Caribbean Cup campaign today against Surinamese giants SV Robinhood at 7 p.m. at the National Stadium....

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:10 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

VAUXHALL HIGH School head coach Kyle Butler says one of his main goals is to bring a winning mentality and a strong sense of school pride within his team’s Manning Cup programme. No stranger to schoolboy football following his time as a part of...

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:09 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

OBLIQUE SEVILLE will renew his rivalry with the United States’ Noah Lyles in the men’s 100 metres when the 13th leg of the Wanda Diamond League gets under way tomorrow in Lausanne, Switzerland. Seville, who defeated the American at the London...

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:09 AM

BERBICE, Guyana (CMC): THE HORSE-RACING community is in mourning after 19-year-old jockey Kishawn Pereira suffered fatal injuries during a race at the Guyana Cup meet on Sunday evening. The promising young rider fell from his horse and was trampled...

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:09 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): CRICKET WEST Indies (CWI) has taken another major step in its groundbreaking India development programme, sending 15 of the region’s most talented female cricketers to a high-performance training camp at the prestigious...

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:08 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): CRICKET WEST Indies (CWI) took centre stage at the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) annual conference in Singapore, presenting an ambitious plan to unite the Americas under a single cricketing federation and...

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:08 AM

THE LEGACY of Ryan Reid, the former Florida State University and Jamaica national team standout who passed away suddenly on July 9 at age 38, will be permanently enshrined by his alma mater Boyd Anderson High School, with a ceremony set for...

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Garth Gayle, says he is pleased with Jamaica’s performance at the NACAC Senior Championships in Freeport, The Bahamas, over the weekend. Jamaica mined 25 medals — including 10...

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:07 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

THE AQUATIC Sports Association of Jamaica has named eight swimmers, four boys and four girls, to represent the island at the 2025 World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships set to begin today in Romania. The World Junior Championships will begin...

Published:Tuesday | August 19, 2025 | 12:07 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

TEAM JAMAICA picked up the bronze medal at the recently concluded Caribbean Regional Badminton Confederation (CAREBACO) Juniors Team Championship, defeating host nation Barbados 3-0 in the third-place play-off match. Jamaica recovered well after...

Published:Monday | August 18, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica ended the final day of competition at the NACAC Senior Championships in Freeport, Bahamas, on a high after garnering three gold medals — two in individual events and one in relays. Nickisha Pryce and Shanieka Ricketts were individual...

Published:Monday | August 18, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Spanish Town Police FC’s technical director, Corporal Howard Dyer, is appealing for an exemption that would allow their experienced former national assistant coach Bradley Stewart to sit on the bench during the upcoming Jamaica Premier League (JPL...

Published:Monday | August 18, 2025 | 12:11 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

An overhead kick from Nickane Brown in the dying moments of the game sparked a dramatic end as Cornwall College were crowned the first champions of the first Montego Bay United FC Invitational high school football competition when they clipped...

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