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In the space of six months, Davion Ferguson is on the verge of title success both at the schoolboy and top-flight levels. And while his journey to Mount Pleasant as the second in command to head coach Theodore Whitmore has not been without...
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As the Hockey5s Pan American Cup enters its final weekend, international players have been grateful for the hospitality that Jamaica has shown them as first-time hosts. Jamaica were awarded hosting duties, with Jamaica Hockey Federation president...
If the results from the Jamaica Golf Association National Senior Trials are anything to go by, Jamaica’s team to the Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Championship should be hard to beat after youngsters Ryan Lue and Mattea Issa bettered their more...
ON the heels of a successful 2022 staging of the Red Bull Car Park Drift competition, organisers are eyeing another season filled with tyres screeching and engines revving. This year’s qualifiers, which is expected to be a thrilling showdown of...
There are coaches whose track record is so compelling that you believe them when they speak. One such is Bobby Kersee, who has helped Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone become the fastest 400 metres hurdler of all time. Kersee believes that his pupil can...
IN A major upset former Kingston College jumper (KC) Carey McLeod, representing the University of Arkansas, turned the tables on his teammate Wayne Pinnock, also a former KC jumper standout, to capture the long jump title at the NCAA Division 1...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): Opener Kirk McKenzie believes confidence was key to his exciting form on West Indies A’s recent tour of Bangladesh, and said he was now focused on building on those performances. The 22-year-old left-hander scored 209 runs...
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (CMC): Johnson Charles has praised Darren Sammy’s inspirational leadership and believes he will prove a positive impact on the entire white-ball squad. Sammy, a two-time T20 World Cup-winning captain, was last month...
Former world 100 metres champion Yohan Blake will be hoping to clock his first sub-10 performance of the season as he headlines a small Jamaican contingent at the Diamond League meet in Paris starting at 11:57 a.m. Jamaica time. Blake will line up...
Jamaican athletes made it two from two in the long jump at the NCAA Division One Outdoor Championships as Ackelia Smith was victorious in the women’s event tonight, following Carey McLeod’s victory in the men’s event on Wednesday. Smith, the...
“I AM still wondering if I am dreaming, and that I will wake up to find that it was all in my imagination or some sort of April Fool’s joke,” said Alicia ‘Slick’ Ashley when she spoke with The Gleaner yesterday about her induction into the...
OLYMPIC GARDENS have been booted from the Jamaica Women’s Premier League (JWPL) following last Saturday’s no-show for a semi-final against Frazsiers Whip. Additional sanctions will have significant impact on the Olympic Gardens club and its manager...
SABRINA LYN, one of the four swimmers named to the Jamaica team for the CCCAN Swimming and Open Water Championships in El Salvador, from August 13 to 25, has her sights set on reaching the finals in her favoured events. The 18-year-old, who...
MIAMI (AP): LIONEL MESSI’S decision to play in the United States might be the biggest boost ever for American soccer on the pro stage. Some of the game’s biggest names – Pele, Thierry Henry, Inter Miami owner David Beckham – have come to the US...
FIVE-TIME NATIONAL champion discus thrower Fedrick Dacres is downplaying his performance at the fifth staging of the Racer’s Grand Prix, held at the National Stadium on Saturday, where he finished fourth. Dacres only managed a best throw of 62.85...
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (CMC): JOHNSON CHARLES said his thoughts were already on a third One-Day International hundred after scoring a Man-of-the-Match half-century on Tuesday in his second match since his return from a seven-year spell on...
