FOLLOWING last year’s successful staging of his first goalkeeping training camp, Jamaica’s senior Reggae Girlz goalkeeper coach Andrew Sewell will host a second camp this year to help improve the standards of Jamaica’s best shot-stoppers....
FORMER Reggae Boyz goalkeeper Ryan Thompson has hailed the appointment of Englishman Stephen McClaren as the new Reggae Boyz head coach. McClaren, a former England manager, left Manchester United at the end of last season. He was a member of...
HAMMER THROWER Nayoka Clunis, while disappointed at the realisation that she will certainly miss competing at the Paris Olympics, believes that her best days are ahead of her. Yesterday, the 28-year-old said she was pleased with the outpouring of...
JAMAICAN international Jordan Kellier has secured his first professional contract with Slovakian club BK Iskra Svit. The move comes after he ended his collegiate season with the West Chester Golden Rams averaging 12.8 points and 10.7 rebounds per...
THE wait is now over as the Paris Olympics will officially begin today. As Jamaicans wait anxiously for the start of the track and field competition on August 1, national track and field coach Corey Bennett shared that he will have his...
SHANNIKA JOHNSON, captain of the title-winning Manchester Spurs netball team, believes the perfect mix of youth and experience helped her team successfully defend Elite League crown. According to Johnson, the mix of youth and experience, with lazer...
SWIMMER Sabrina Lyn is very nervous heading to her first Olympic Games in Paris but she is also excited at the prospects that lie ahead. The former Campion College student, who idolises former national representative Alia Atkinson, is aiming at...
DR EMIR Crowne, attorney- at-law, representing embattled hammer thrower Nayoka Clunis, believes a decision from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) should be available by Monday. Clunis had, on Tuesday, asked her lawyers to write to the CAS,...
THE HIGH school quartet of Jamaica College, Kingston College, Hydel, and Excelsior were presented with financial donations of US$1,200 from Team Jamaica Bickle for their outstanding performances at the 2024 Penn Relays. Speaking at Wednesday’s...
USAIN BOLT and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s names appearing on an ESPN list of the 100 greatest athletes of the 21st century threw up much discussion yesterday. The sport broadcasting powerhouse listed Bolt as the ninth greatest athlete of the century...
VETERAN COACH Lenworth ‘Lenny’ Hyde believes Dunbeholden Football Club jumped the gun when they sacked him. Hyde was relieved of his duties after one season. The team finished eighth. “I needed time to build a team. I remember a game against...
Chairman of the Jamaica Racing Commission (JRC) Clovis Metcalfe says random drug testing of jockeys at Caymanas Park will soon become a reality. Metcalfe, in an interview with RJR Sports, shared that the implementation of the rule is in keeping...
FORMER NATIONAL representative Allien Whittaker is backing the under-20 Reggae Boyz to safely navigate their way through the Conacaf U20 Champinships in Mexico next week and book a spot to next year’s FIFA under-20 World Cup. “The chances of us...
WHILE THERE has been no word from the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) on why hammer thrower Nayoka Clunis was not on its list to World Athletics ahead of the Olympic Games in Paris, the Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has...
DENNIS CHUNG, general secretary of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), says he is surprised that former Reggae Boyz head coach, Heimir Hallgrimsson, is the new man in charge of the Republic of Ireland’s senior men’s programme. Chung revealed...
FIVE-TIME national discus champion Fedrick Dacres has revealed that a minor knee surgery prevented him from performing at his usual best at the recently concluded JAAA/Puma National Junior and Senior Championships at the National Stadium. Dacres...
WORLD-RENOWNED SPRINT coach Glen Mills believes that Omar McLeod’s suggestion that he could be switching from the 110-metre hurdles to the sprints must have been well considered. McLeod, a former Olympic champion, the country’s national record...
HIGHLY RESPECTED track and field coach Stephen Francis is suggesting that five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson Herah takes up a training programme in the United States. Speaking with Nationwide Sports, Francis explained that many coaches in...
THE PHYLIS Thompson-coached Jamaica under-21 Sunshine Girls are locked in preparation for the Americas Netball World Youth Cup qualifiers in Guadeloupe set for July 7-14. According to Thompson, the coaching staff is seeing positive signs. “...
FORMER JAMAICA Premier League and schoolboy football title-winning coach, Ludlow Bernard, explained that Heimir Hallgrimsson’s tenure as head coach of the Reggae Boyz was a marriage destined for divorce. Bernard further suggested that the...
HEADING INTO the JAAA/PUMA National Junior and Senior Championships with a season’s best of 49.48 seconds in the 400-metre hurdles and not in the greatest form, many thought former Commonwealth Games silver medallist and three-time national...
VETERAN cricket administrator Mark Neita says he’s humbled and pleased to return as president of Melbourne Cricket Club following Thursday’s annual general meeting. Neita who was returned unopposed shared that the previous 11 years have been good...
IN A bid to further enhance Jamaica’s track and field programme, Supreme Ventures Limited yesterday pledged $25 million over five years to governing body Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA). Kamal Powell, head of marketing at...
JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) General Secretary Dennis Chung said yesterday’s announcement that the organisation would suspend invitations to Leon Bailey to be part of the Reggae Boyz squad indefinitely was to create ‘clarity’. According to...
VETERAN CRICKET analyst Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira and former Jamaica batsman Mark Neita are putting the blame for West Indies’ failed bid to win a T20 World Cup at home squarely on indifferent batting. The West Indies bid for a third Twenty20 World...
