DEFENDING world 400-metre champion Antonio Watson, who has hardly competed in the event since his success two years ago in Budapest, Hungary, was a winner in Europe yesterday. Competing at the Folksam Grand Prix in Sollentuna, Sweden, Watson...
CAIRO (AP): Mohamed Salah is questioning UEFA’s “farewell” to former Palestinian footballer Suleiman Obeid, who was reportedly shot and killed by Israeli forces while awaiting aid in Gaza. “Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?” Salah asked...
LONDON, England (AP): Crystal Palace pulled off another Wembley upset by beating Premier League champions Liverpool to lift the Community Shield yesterday. After stunning Manchester City in the FA Cup final in May, Palace defied the odds again —...
JAMAICA will be represented at the August 30-31 Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival at Goodman’s Bay, Nassau, by a McKay Security-sponsored mixed team, comprising mainly martial artists from the combined martial arts team. Mixed-team winners...
RUNNING IN silky fashion as the 4-5 favourite, United states-bred RIDEALLDAY made last year’s Jamaica Derby runner-up, RUN JULIE RUN, appear ordinary in a dismissive performance, which left the filly struggling for fourth in yesterday’s seven-and-a...
THE REGGAE Marathon is again ensuring its global road race status with the official certification of its new course in downtown Kingston as part of the historic milestone for the 25th staging of one of Jamaica’s premier sporting events. The newly...
THE SCHEDULE in Europe for Jamaican athletes continued with the latest assignment coming at yesterday’s World Continental Tour Bronze meet, the Mityng Ambassadorow Bialostockiego Podlaskiego Sport, in Bialystok, Poland. The best performance by a...
JAMAICA COMPLETED an unbeaten campaign to claim the Concacaf Boys’ U15 Championships League B title yesterday when they defeated Puerto Rico 2-0 at the Guillermo Prospero Trinidad Stadium in Aruba. Tevin Savage (second minute) and Kelvin Brown (...
TAROUBA, Trinidad (CMC): HASAN NAWAZ and Hussain Talat piloted Pakistan to an impressive five-wicket victory over the West Indies in the opening One-Day International (ODI) at the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium on Friday. Debutant Nawaz and Talat,...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): FORMER WEST Indies star and 2016 T20 World Cup hero Carlos Brathwaite has officially declared his candidacy for a director position on the Barbados Cricket Association’s (BCA) board, pledging to bring innovation, global...
TAROUBA, Trinidad (CMC): WEST INDIES captain Shai Hope believes the challenging conditions at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy, coupled with the inability of the team’s batters to bat deep into the innings, were the main reasons for their five-wicket...
MANCHESTER, England (AP): MANCHESTER CITY midfielder Rodri could be sidelined for the start of the Premier League season because of an injury sustained at the Club World Cup, manager Pep Guardiola said. The 2024 Ballon d’Or winner sat out nearly...
MANCHESTER, England (AP): MANCHESTER UNITED signed Slovenia forward Benjamin Sesko yesterday, in an attempt to bounce back from their worst season in the Premier League era. United paid Leipzig a fee that could reach 85 million euros (US$99 million...
DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP): THE CHAIRMAN of Fortuna Düsseldorf has defended the German football club’s decision to pull out of signing Israeli player Shon Weissman after fan backlash over his contentious social media posts about Gaza, and said it’s “...
MADRID (AP): BARCELONA SAY Marc-Andre ter Stegen will return as first-team captain after announcing on Friday that the goalkeeper had authorised the club to send his medical report to the Spanish league. The announcement came as Ter Stegen talked...
JULIEN TURONE was born to ski. He was also raised with a lot of Jamaican pride. His grandmother, Doreen Brown, was the former head of TV and Radio at Jamaica Information Service (JIS) and served as Jamaica’s information attaché at the Jamaican...
ATLANTA, Georgia (CMC): THE ATLANTA Vibe have secured a key piece of their roster for the 2026 Major League Volleyball (MLV) season, re-signing Jamaican opposite hitter Aiko Jones after an impressive debut campaign in 2025. Jones quickly became a...
AFTER AN outstanding first year with Glendale Community College (GCC) in California, Jamaican basketballer Shadel Ffrench is looking for even bigger things in the upcoming season which starts in October. The former Bog Walk High School (now Edna...
FOXBOROUGH, Massechusetts (AP): TOM BRADY’S statue weighs six tonnes and rises 17 feet off the ground, from the bottom of the six-sided base – one for each of the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl victories – to the tip of the bronze fist raised in...
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC): ST VINCENT and the Grenadines’ Minister of Tourism Carlos James has revealed that the island is exploring the possibility of becoming the new home base for a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) franchise. Following the...
Jamaica’s senior men’s basketball team produced a strong performance in their opening match at the FIBA America World Cup pre-qualifiers in Mexico yesterday with a decisive 101-79 victory over Barbados. They were led by Romaine Thomas and Romario...
MANCHESTER, England (AP): Manchester United opened its new “world class” training complex yesterday that it hopes will help return the fallen giants to the top of European football. A 50 million pound (US$67 million) revamp of the club’s Carrington...
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (AP): Three big centuries by top-order New Zealand (NZ) batters led the Black Caps to a record-breaking 601-3 against an exhaustive Zimbabwe on the second day of the second Test yesterday. Rachin Ravindra was unbeaten on 165 from...
