HAVING SHATTERED her own regular season scoring record in Australia’s Suncorp Super Netball League, Sunshine Girls’ captain Jhaniele Fowler has turned her attention to another goal, one that has eluded her for a few years. Fowler really wants to...
IT HAS been a struggle over the past few years for Jamaican men in the 400 metres at the international level, and local fans will be hoping for some special performances when they turn up at next week’s National Senior Championships. A year ago, no...
JAMAICA’S UNDER-20 captain, Christopher Pearson, is relishing the role of leading the young Reggae Boyz into the upcoming Concacaf Under-20 Championship, set to take place in Mexico from June 18 to July 4. The Kingston College midfielder believes...
THE NATIONAL Senior Championships inside the National Stadium from June 23-26 is set to throw up some interesting competition ahead of the World Championship in Eugene next month. One of the races that might be most exciting in terms of who is...
FORMER TRINIDAD and Tobago defender-turned-analyst, Brent Sancho, believes Aston Villa and Jamaica winger Leon Bailey has all the tools for success despite a sub-par season for the English club and spotty performances for the national team. “I...
FORMER GREAT Britain gymnastics prodigy Tyesha Mattis and her sister China are both in Jamaica completing a naturalisation process with a view to turning out for Jamaica. Mattis has had an injury-plagued career since becoming a senior in 2014 but...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, (CMC): DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Barbados put one hand on the Women’s T20 Blaze title when they defeated main rivals Jamaica in the penultimate round here on Monday. In one of three matches at the Guyana National Stadium, Barbados...
The decade-long wait for a home win against Mexico will have to continue. However, Jamaica ensured that they will have a slim lead over their group in the Concacaf Nations League into the new year after their 1-1 draw at the National Stadium last...
AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP): COSTA RICA completed a 32-nation World Cup line-up in Qatar by beating New Zealand 1-0 in an intercontinental play-off on Tuesday. Leaning heavily on its core of veterans, Costa Rica defended a third-minute goal from Joel...
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP triple jump silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts ensured that she will enter next weekend’s National Senior Championships in winning form after her exploits at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland, yesterday. Ricketts won the...
Jamaica drew with Mexico 1-1 in their Concacaf Nations League game at the National Stadium tonight. Leon Bailey gave Jamaica the lead in the fourth minute but Luis Romo equalised with 45+3 gone on the clock to share the spoils. The result...
A week after Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz threatened to boycott their Concacaf A League, Group A Nations League game against Suriname, if Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) general secretary Dalton Wint did not hand in his resignation to the federation,...
For Jamaica to capture their first win against Mexico on home soil in over a decade, interim head coach Paul Hall says that discipline in their defence and in their temperament will be key factors as their Concacaf Nations League campaign continues...
World championship triple jump silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts and hurdler Britany Anderson will be the only two Jamaicans in action at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland, today. The meet will be the final World Athletics Continental Tour...
Many-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt has captained the Soccer Aid World XI to victory in the Soccer Aid for Unicef UK charity football match which helped to raise 16 million euros (almost J$2.6 billion) for children in need. "We raised an...
MULTAN, Pakistan (CMC): Despite the West Indies’ whitewash in their ODI series against Pakistan, skipper Nicholas Pooran says the team has emerged more united and followers of the game can expect a turnaround in the regional side over time. He said...
Jamaica’s Young Reggae Boyz, having seen failure upon failure after qualification back in 2001, are determined to make a difference when the 2023 Under-20 World Cup takes centre stage, and this time around, the dream isn’t just a pie in the sky....
GROS ISLET, St Lucia (CMC): St Lucia comfortably defeated Anguilla 2-0 before a home crowd at the Darren Sammy Cricket Ground on Sunday night, securing promotion back up to Concacaf Nations League B and a place in the 2023 Gold Cup preliminaries....
With just under two weeks to go before the start of the National Championships, Glen Mills, coach of Jamaica’s top sprinter Oblique Seville, says his charge remains very calm and focused as he bids to secure a spot on this year’s World...
Now that Navasky Anderson has given the Jamaican 800 metres record a gentle nudge towards respectability, we can all breathe a little easier. After all, the old mark by 1976 Olympic semi-finalist Seymour Newman was a quality performance when it was...
AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP): Australia qualified for a fifth straight World Cup after a 5-4 penalty shoot-out win over Peru in their intercontinental play-off on Monday. The teams failed to score in regulation and extra time at Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, and...
For the first time in Jamaica’s football history, a team will be directed by women only as former Reggae Girls Tashana Vincent and Alicia James will serve as head coach and assistant coach, respectively, for the national under 15 girls. They will...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): Opener Jeremy Solozano fell short of triple figures, but captain Yannic Cariah and tail-ender Preston McSween added fifties of their own to thwart Bangladesh on the final day of the three-day tour match here yesterday....
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Barbados and Jamaica both pulled off convincing wins in Saturday’s third round of the Women’s T20 Blaze to set up a meeting of the tournament’s only unbeaten teams in today’s fourth round. Title-holders Barbados thrashed...
MULTAN, Pakistan (CMC): Captain Nicholas Pooran and Akeal Hosein excelled in unfamiliar roles but neither could save West Indies from a 53-run defeat in the final One-Day International (ODI) and yet another whitewash to Pakistan here yesterday....
