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Published:Tuesday | July 16, 2013 | 12:00 AM

A pulsating contest is expected today in the quarter-final of the Flow/National Basketball League, when St. George's Slayers face Tivoli Gardens Wizards at the National Stadium Courts, starting at 7:45 p.m.

Published:Tuesday | July 16, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Head coach of MVP track club, Stephen Francis, says he warned his top male sprinter and former world record holder, Asafa Powell, about the physiotherapist he and his agent Paul Doyle employed; and also distanced the camp from a positive drug test on...

Published:Tuesday | July 16, 2013 | 12:00 AM

LONDON (AP):International officials are looking at the bright side of the latest doping scandals to jolt track and field.The positive tests that nabbed top-name sprinters Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson are disappointing, but also proof that...

Published:Tuesday | July 16, 2013 | 12:00 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):West Indies are not likely to make changes to the team which suffered a humuliating 126-run defeat to Pakistan in the first of five one-day internationals, when the second ODI bowls off in Georgetown today.Captain Dwayne Bravo...

Published:Tuesday | July 16, 2013 | 12:00 AM

KINGSTON: Young squash sensation, Alyssa Mullings, made history and Chris Binnie continued his dominance as the 2013 All Jamaica Senior Squash Championships wrapped up over the weekend. Fourteen-year-old Mullings rewrote the record books by becoming the youngest female...

Published:Tuesday | July 16, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Jamaican sprint stars Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson are free to come home after a raid by police on the hotel where they have been staying with Powell's physiotherapist,...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 8:11 PM

Athletes from St Kitts and Nevis are threatening to boycott the upcoming IAAF World Championships in Athletics set for Moscow, Russia, after their national body asked them to pay to compete.

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 2:58 PM

Boldon made the comment following the revelation Sunday that former 100-metre record holder Asafa Powell and his MVP teammate Sherone Simpson tested positive for the banned stimulant oxilofrine.

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 2:39 PM

An out-of-competition test completed by Gay in May tested positive, according to the US Anti-Doping Agency.

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 11:05 AM

Playfiar-Scott said the only room that was raided was that of the trainer, Christopher Xuereb, and Powell's team has been working with Italian police on the matter.

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 8:52 AM

Young squash sensation, Alyssa Mullings made history and Chris Binnie continued his dominance at the 2013 All Jamaica Senior Squash Championships, which ended at the weekend.

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 8:51 AM

Hosts Jamaica will go in search of their first victory when the Regional Under-15 Cricket Tournament resumes today with the second round of matches.

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 8:51 AM

West Indies cricketers, who suffered a big 126-run defeat to Pakistan in the first of five One-Day Internationals at Providence in Guyana yesterday, will have a full training session today.

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 8:48 AM

The 26-year-old Russian, who lost in the second round of Wimbledon to Michelle Larcher de Brito, announced she had split with coach Thomas Hogstedt.

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 7:21 AM

Dr Paul Wright made the comment after it was confirmed yesterday that MVP Track Club stars Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson were among five Jamaican athletes tested positive for a banned substance.

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica's Under-21 netball coach, Oberon Pitterson-Nattie, has expressed delight after her team outclassed their England counterparts 53-26 to record their second consecutive victory in the triangular...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Gore Homes junior tennis - JAMAICA'S top-ranked juniors and others from within the region will take part in the Gore Homes Blue Mountain Caribbean Open Junior Tennis Championships, which serves off at 9:00 this morning at Liguanea Club, New Kingston.The...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Carl Brissett, coach of Jamaica's team, said they will not be taking the Leeward Islands lightly when the two meet in the West Indies Cricket Board Under-15 Tournament at Manley Horne Park...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):West Indies bowlers and batsmen failed to capitalise on an early breakthrough from promising fast bowler Jason Holder, allowing comeback kid Shahid Afridi to unleash a game transforming all-round performance to lead Pakistan to...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

DONETSK, Ukraine: Redemption. Jamaica's sprinting standout, Michael O'Hara, made it quite clear before his 200m final inside the RSC Olympiyskiy yesterday that his objective was to secure redemption after his disappointing fourth-place finish...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

Local anti-doping and sports medicine expert, Dr Paul Wright, has deemed it stupidity that another set of local athletes have returned adverse analytical findings, given that they have access to a state-of-the-art laboratory...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

My birthday started well enough yesterday.In fact, the celebrations had started the night before, when a group of us gathered at a local restaurant, before heading out for some drinks to ring in the actual...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

DONETSK, Ukraine: Boys' 400m champion, Martin Manley streaked across the line, stopping the clock in the boys' medley relay final at 1:49.23 - the fastest time ever in the boys' medley relay final at 1:49.23 - the fastest time ever in the event...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

American 100-metre record holder, Tyson Gay, who had promoted himself as a clean athlete, tested positive for a banned substance and said he will pull out of the World Championships next month in Moscow. Gay wouldn't reveal the substance in a phone...

Published:Monday | July 15, 2013 | 12:00 AM

President of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA), Dr Warren Blake, is mum on the five Jamaican athletes who returned adverse analytical findings, pending the testing of their 'B' samples....

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