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Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:14 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA SCORED their second successive win in the Concacaf Group B final round of World Cup qualifiers, turning back archrivals Trinidad and Tobago 2-0 at the National Stadium last night. Goals in either half from Bailey Cadamarteri (36th minute)...

Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:14 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICAN TRIPLE jumper Jordan Scott says he is ready to step onto the world stage with confidence, as he aims to challenge for a medal at this month’s World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. Scott, who has enjoyed an excellent season, enters the...

Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:14 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

HEAD COACH of Jamaica’s World Under-21 netball team, Annett Daley, is upbeat about the squad’s chances at this year’s World Cup tournament set for Gibraltar from September 19-28. Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday on the eve of the team’s...

Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:14 AM

NORTH SOUND, Antigua (CMC): JONATHAN VAN Lange and Aadian Racha shared an unbroken partnership of 28 for the ninth wicket as the West Indies Under-19s held on to earn an important two-wicket win over Sri Lanka Under-19s in the fifth Youth One-Day...

Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:13 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

EL SUNZAL, EL SALVADOR IN A tense display of calculated surfing, national surfer Akeam Phillips safely advanced through his opening repechage heat here at the ISA World Games yesterday, booking his spot in the next round alongside teammates Javaun...

Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:13 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

IT IS expected to be another blockbuster showdown in the men’s 200 metres, with the three medallists from last year’s Olympic Games set to clash once again. Leading the charge is Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, the gold medallist, alongside America’s...

Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:13 AM

BOTSWANA’S OLYMPIC 200-metre champion Letsile Tebogo led a Kids’ Athletics activation at the Minato City Takanawadai Elementary School yesterday, to get children moving and build further excitement ahead of the World Athletics Championships Tokyo...

Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:12 AM

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CMC): THE 2026 T20 World Cup, which is being jointly hosted by India and Sri Lanka, will reportedly be held between February 7 and March 8 next year. While the International Cricket Council (ICC) has not made any...

Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SPORTS TOURISM got a big boost last week with news out of the 11th Sandals Latin American Travel Advisors Golf Tournament of a spin-off set for November 21-26, a Jamaican-inspired Latin American all-female match, set to attract top Argentine...

Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:12 AM

ROME (AP): OWN GOALS. Uncharacteristic defensive lapses. General disorder. But lots of attacking flair. If the idea in hiring Gennaro Gattuso to replace the fired Luciano Spalletti was to restore order and discipline to Italy’s under-pressure squad...

Published:Tuesday | September 9, 2025 | 10:34 PM

Jamaican football legend Allan 'Skill' Cole, has died. In paying tribute to him on Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness said his legacy is etched in both Jamaica's sporting and cultural history, and he will forever be remembered as...

Published:Tuesday | September 9, 2025 | 12:11 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

EL SUNZAL, EL SALVADOR: JAMAICA’S SURFING campaign at the International Surfing Association (ISA) World Games gained crucial momentum on day three, as both competitors in action successfully manoeuvred the consolation repechage round to advance to...

Published:Tuesday | September 9, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

TIVOLI GARDENS Football Club registered their first win in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) yesterday, after a hard-fought 2-1 win over 10-man Spanish Town Police, who have lost all their matches to date, at Stadium East. Anthony Nelson (14th...

Published:Tuesday | September 9, 2025 | 12:11 AM

JAMAICAN SPRINT superstar Usain Bolt has been announced as the ‘Ultimate Legend’, as excitement continues to build ahead of the first edition of the World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest. The Ultimate Championship — to be held for the...

Published:Tuesday | September 9, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

DEFENDING CHAMPION Shericka Jackson will be looking to spoil the party for St Lucia’s Julien Alfred and the United States’s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden when the women’s 200 metres takes centre stage in Tokyo. Jackson, the second-fastest woman ever...

Published:Tuesday | September 9, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

REGGAE BOYZ coach Steve McClaren says they must respect Trinidad and Tobago, who they take on in the final-round Group B Concacaf World Cup Qualifiers this evening at the National Stadium at 7 p.m. McClaren noted that although their Caribbean...

Published:Tuesday | September 9, 2025 | 12:10 AM

PROVIDENCE, Guyana (CMC): IN A heart-stopping finish that epitomised the drama of the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League, the St Kitts...

Published:Tuesday | September 9, 2025 | 12:10 AM

AT JUST eight years old, Jamaica’s Jillian Yap is already carving out a name for herself in badminton. The reigning All Jamaica Junior Under-11 champion and defending Shuttle Showdown U11 winner is preparing for another big stage, the second...

Published:Tuesday | September 9, 2025 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’s bronze medal won in the 200-metre Major Mixed Final at the fourth Bahamas Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, August 30-31, has sparked a female run on the sport, which debuted locally at Port Royal in late May. Denise Romero-Williams, who...

Published:Tuesday | September 9, 2025 | 12:09 AM

AHEAD OF the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, the International Fair Play Committee (CIFP), in partnership with World Athletics, would like to remind fans and media colleagues across the world that they can nominate moments that epitomise...

Published:Monday | September 8, 2025 | 12:11 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) Barbados Royals skipper Rovman Powell and Chris Green produced clinical performances to finally end their side’s drought with a comprehensive 27-run victory over defending champs and table leaders St Lucia Kings yesterday...

Published:Monday | September 8, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Track and field fans will not have to wait long for the most anticipated clash at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. The men’s 100 metres final is set for Sunday’s second day at 8:20 a.m. Jamaica time. For some, it’s a Jamaica...

Published:Monday | September 8, 2025 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BLACK Bombshell (Northern Giant-Buyabook), a $4.5-million sale-topper at the 2019 Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association’s Yearling Sale, and retired after earning a measly $39,950 from four starts, yesterday rewarded Trinidadian owner Chevan...

Published:Monday | September 8, 2025 | 12:10 AM

CORPORAL Oshane Wilson and Constable Rushaine Tyrell, bronze medal winners on Jamaica’s 200-metre mixed team at the August 30-31 Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival at Goodman’s Bay, Nassau, returned home planning for next year’s staging,...

Published:Monday | September 8, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Harbour View coach Bjorn Thomas said he is under no immediate pressure from the club hierarchy after the team suffered their second consecutive defeat and are yet to get a win in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) this season. Harbour View fell 5-2...

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