Coach Merron Gordon has blamed insufficient preparation and playing at a high altitude in Guatemala for the national Under-17 team’s early exit from the 2023 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. The young Reggae Boyz were eliminated at the round of 16 stage...
ACTION IN the Junior Cup Under-9 football competition kicks off today at the Constant Spring Football Field in Kingston at 9 a.m. The much-talked-about Emmanuel Christian Academy will be looking to follow up their Under-11 championships season...
FOLLOWING the 2023 staging of the Central Athletics Championships, the issue of lighting at G.C. Foster College is again being discussed. Chester McCarthy, athletics director at the sports college, said following what he termed an ‘excellent’...
FOLLOWING a three-year stoppage, dating back to 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the KPMG Squash League will make its return to the court following Tuesday’s launch at the Liguanea Club in Kingston. The league, which is set to run from...
BARBADOS AND West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder has joined rare company but still feels he has much more to give to cricket in the region. Holder, yesterday, joined countryman and West Indies great Sir Garfield Sobers as players from the region...
Still locked into a tightly contested battle with South Africa after two days in the first Test at Centurion Park, the West Indies were given reason to smile earlier today after Barbados-born all-rounder, Jason Holder, became the second West...
THE STATE of football fields in Jamaica has once again taken centre stage, becoming the topic of many discussions. One such discussion brings into question, who should be responsible for the development of fields, given its purportedly close...
FORMER Jamaica international Darren Mattocks has called time on his playing career to focus on his faith in Christ and to become a pastor. The forward, who made his debut for the senior team back in 2012, has a total of 50 appearances while...
SENIOR Reggae Boyz head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson does not think he needs to be in any great rush to register his first victory in two upcoming friendly matches on home soil. Since taking over the reins of the national men’s programme, Hallgrimsson...
PREPARATIONS are in high gear for the national women’s softball team as they are set to embark on the English Caribbean Amateur Softball Confederations (ECASC) tournament in the US Virgin Islands (USVI), which is set to begin on March 1 and end on...
National men’s 800 metres champion Navasky Anderson has revealed, following his record-breaking indoor performance last week at the Music City Challenge meet at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, that the plan heading into that race...
FOLLOWING the West Indies’ men’s 1-0 victory over Zimbabwe in their recently concluded Test series, chief selector of the senior men’s team, Desmond Haynes, says much isn’t being said about the team when they perform well, especially in an away...
DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Excelsior High School were heavy hitters on day one of action in the ISSA TIP Friendly Society School Girl Football season at the Stadium East Sports Complex yesterday. In the day’s featured encounter, the second of a double...
WITH THE Supreme Ventures Gymnastics Classics and National Trials done and dusted, a committee is now pouring over the results to come up with the persons who will represent the country at the World Junior and Pan American Championships, the former...
DESPITE signing four players prior to the start of the 2022-23 Jamaica Premier League season, defending champions Harbour View Football Club felt the need to bring in reinforcements in order to challenge for their sixth local title. Clyde Jureidini...
AS the city of Portmore edges closer to becoming Jamaica’s 15th parish, some of the island’s key football stakeholders have had mixed reactions about the move and are contemplating some of the issues or changes that would be brought about following...
FOLLOWING a two-year hiatus due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the S.W. Isaac-Henry Track and Field Invitational, named in honour of the former principal of St Andrew Technical High School, will return on February 18 at the National...
EMBARKING upon his third Test match for the West Indies team, opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul, son of former West Indies captain and batting legend Shivnarine ‘Tiger’ Chanderpaul, said that the constant comparison to his father is something that he’...
FORMER assistant national coach of the Sunshine Girls, Winston Nevers, believes the second staging of the ‘Future Netball Academy’ will attract more participants than its inaugural year in 2022. The netball clinic, which is the brainchild of former...
NESTLED IN the cool hills of St Catherine, Guy’s Hill High School, for the third time in a row, were the most impressive participants in a series of junior athletes’ anti-doping education workshops. For their diligence, the Jamaica Anti-Doping...
HAVING JOINED the professional circuit, one of the country’s leading male tennis players, John Chin, is eager to showcase his talent in the upcoming two-day Davis Cup tournament on local soil, set to serve off on Saturday. Davis, who is still a...
AFTER WONDERFUL competition among under-11 footballers in last year’s Junior Cup, it is now time for the best of Jamaica’s under-nines to come to the fore. The Junior Cup combatants were well supported last year, with Corinaldi Primary, among the...
Elite Horizon were crowned 2023 Elite 1 Caribbean Basketball League champions following their 113-89 victory over the Elite Storm on Sunday night at the National Arena. The Horizon, who entered as favourites, were led to victory by in-form point...
FOLLOWING a call earlier this week by chairman of Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL), Christopher Williams, for the number of teams in the Jamaica Premier League to be reduced from 14 to 10, general secretary of the Jamaica Football...
President of Tennis Jamaica, John Azar, has confirmed that preparations are in top gear for the hosting of Jamaica’s first Davis Cup tie in 16 years. The two-day World Group II play-off tie against Estonia will take place on February 4 and 5 at...
