UNDETERRED BY the fact that Australia hasn’t been a happy destination for the West Indies team in Test cricket, captain and opening batter Kraigg Brathwaite is of the belief that this team is more than just optimistic ahead of their two-Test series...
HAVING MIGRATED from Jamaica at the age of 13, Rajiv Maragh, now 37 years old, plies his trade on the American circuit, on the foundation of a stellar career in which he has ridden over 1,600 winners, inclusive of the Florida Oaks (2009), Louisiana...
President of the Jamaica Golf Association, Jodi Munn-Barrow, has predicted that this weekend’s 55th staging of the Jamaica Open Golf Championships will bring out the best in all the participants vying for the 2022 national golf title. The...
DEFENDING CHAMPIONS St Catherine started off their title defence of the Walker Cup in empathic fashion, dismissing rivals St Jago 2-0 at the Spanish Town Prison Oval yesterday. What started off as a cagey encounter between the pair grew to match...
JAMECO, JAMAICA’S largest fleet company, yesterday, donated a 27-seater King Long Bus valued at approximately $7.3 million to the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), which is aimed at easing the pressures of transporting players representing the...
THE ERA of Phil Simmons as head coach of the West Indies senior men’s team will culminate following a two-match Test series Down Under against Australia, with the first Test set to start on November 29. Simmons announced his decision to step away...
VETERAN local table tennis coach, Samuel Lamount, believes his time has come to take over the reins of the sport in Jamaica following what he terms as a ‘growing calls’ for him to throw his hat into the 2023 presidential ring. “A lot of the key...
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Golf Association, Jodi Munn-Barrow, hopes that the current trajectory of the sport in Jamaica will lead to a burgeoning of the financial support needed for further growth. “We keep talking about the lack of support that we...
PHILADELPHIA UNION shot-stopper and Reggae Boyz Captain Andre Blake picked up enough votes in the run-in to the 2022 Landon Donovan MVP Award to finish third behind eventual winner Hany Mukhtar (Nashville SC) and Sebastian Driussi (Austin FC)....
THIRD-GENERATION SHOOTER Chad Ziadie is beaming with joy after he created history at the 2022 National Shotgun Championships at the Grand Port Royal Hotel on the weekend. With his win, the 26-year-old became the youngest ever national shotgun...
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight star Aljamain “Funk Master” Sterling has ended his well-deserved rest in Dubai following his dominant performance against rival T.J Dillashaw, which saw him successfully defend his title in a manner...
There was a feeling of elation in the Molynes United camp after their first victory of the 2022-23 Jamaica Premier League season at the Stadium East field yesterday. Molynes United’s head coach Alex Thomas was a happy man as his charges bounced...
THE 2022 Junior Cup football competition, organised by the Free Your Image (FYI) Consultancy group, will crown the all-island champions today with match time set for 2 p.m. Urban champions Emmanuel Christian Academy will oppose rural champions...
AS part of their new initiative, Lynk, who recently inked a three-year agreement with the Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) to introduce a digital payment solution for football matches on the island, will be adding a new Gold Cup...
WHILE members of the Harbour View Football Club (HVFC) senior team are finalising last-minute details for their opening fixture of the 2022-23 Jamaica Premier League (JPL) on Monday against newcomers Chapelton Maroons, work is being done to find...
AFTER A humbling 4-2 defeat at the hands of their North Street rivals, St George’s College, the Raymond Watson-coached Kingston College (KC) got back to winning ways, registering a workmanlike 2-0 victory over Waterford in their Group ‘A’ ISSA/...
THE 2022 Junior Cup, organised by the Free Your Image (FYI) consultancy group, will kick into high gear today at the Constant Spring Football Field, starting at 9 a.m. as teams will be jostling for a spot in the knock-out stages of the competition...
THE ‘SPICE Girls’ of Grenada have not been to a Netball World Cup in 19 years. They want to be at the next one. Shakira Collymore, captain of the Spice Girls, shares those hopes when she considers the upcoming Americas Netball World Cup qualifiers...
FOUR YEARS ago, Trinidad and Tobago’s Shaquanda Greene-Noel made her debut at the Netball World Cup. As the Americas Netball World Cup qualifiers approach, Greene-Noel is not only a seasoned veteran but captain of the ‘Calypso Girls’, who will be...
Ahead of the start of the 2022 Americas Netball World Cup Qualifiers in Kingston, Margaret Cutting, head coach of the Barbados Gems, believes that, in order for her team to book a spot at the 2023 Netball World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa, their...
The first round of the urban leg of the Free Your Image (FYI) consultancy group-organised 2022 Junior Cup competition has been completed and the focus is now on the rural leg of the competition which will kick off at 8 a.m. today on the grounds...
ANTIGUA-BORN WEST Indies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph, on the back of a strong showing at the recently concluded Caribbean Premier League, CPL, where he captured a tournament-best 18 wickets, carried over his good form to Australia where he ended the...
FORMER NATIONAL 400m record holder Jermaine Gonzales is optimistic that his post-track career will be equally, if not, more fruitful than the one he had when donning his spikes. The two-time Commonwealth Games bronze medallist from the 2006...
THE APPETITE of sports car fanatics in Jamaica has been whetted following the conclusion of the 2022 Red Bull Car Park Drift competition last weekend at Catherine Hall, Montego Bay, and come December 7 and 8 when champion Nicholas ‘Tazz’ Barnes...
CAMPION COLLEGE, Excelsior, Jose Marti and Clan Carthy will have their abandoned games on Thursday, played from the point at which they were called off. In a release, the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) said the two Manning Cup...
