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Caribbean Cup champions Cuba were eliminated from the CONCACAF Gold Cup Tournament with a 6-1 loss to Panama in a quarter-final game yesterday.

LENDL SIMMONS, who cracked the top score for the West Indies last Friday's drawn thriller against Pakistan at Beausejour Cricket Stadium in St Lucia, said he was a bit disappointed he was unable to take the team to victory.

Kumar Sangakkara smashed a career-best 169 yesterday as Sri Lanka thrashed South Africa by 180 runs. Sangakkara hit six sixes and 18 boundaries in an entertaining 136-ball innings to lift Sri Lanka to a commanding 320-5 in 50 overs.

THE TREATMENT room and paths lining Rachel Gooden's sporting endeavours are full of challenges. A doctor by profession, Gooden, who only took up the sport recently, won last Sunday's National Cycling Championship's 32-mile road race for women.

President of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), Captain Horace Burrell, said his administration is still seeking further sponsorship to help cover the salary of newly hired national coach, Winfried 'Winnie' Schaefer.

In doing so, Sammy became the first West Indian sports personality to be given the honour.

JOHANNESBURG (AP):Olympic silver medallist Caster Semenya appears likely to miss next month's World Championships after she was left off an initial list of South African athletes on Friday to compete in Moscow, having struggled over the past year to get...

NO-NONSENSE martial arts practitioner, Herbert 'Herbie' Stewart, fifth degree instructor at Jamaica Taekwondo, is confident that Jamaica's growth on the international stage will be further fuelled by emerging talent.

WESTERN BUREAU:A number of respected track and field coaches and officials from western Jamaica believe the recent string of revelations regarding the use of banned substances by local track and field stars will in no way take away from Jamaica's international image as a relatively clean country.

WESTERN BUREAU:The curtains will come down on the 2013 Gas Pro Western Masters Football League tomorrow afternoon when many-time champions Hanover Masters and the exciting Jamaica Brazil square off in the championship game at Jarrett Park, starting at 4 p.m.

With the scheduled Reggae Trophy grade-one feature having to be abandoned due to insufficient entries, the overnight allowance race over the round-five course takes the spotlight at Caymanas Park today.

Jamaica's Stephanie McPherson continued her steady improvement in the women's 400 metres, lowering her personal best (PB) to 49.92 seconds at yesterday's Monaco Diamond League meet.