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Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 11:44 AM

Lennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer Middle-order batsman Jermaine Blackwood will be looking to press on from his decent start, as the right-hander heads into lunch on the first day of the fourth round West Indies Championship match against the Guyana...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:14 AM

BOSTON (AP): HUGE LEADS. Lengthy scoring droughts. Blowouts. The Eastern Conference finals between the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics are as close as can be, heading back to Miami all tied up at two wins apiece. But the individual games have been...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:14 AM

PARIS (AP): US OPEN champion Daniil Medvedev acknowledged it’s “very strange” that he could rise to Number One in the rankings as a result of not being allowed to play at Wimbledon. The Russian, ranked second behind Novak Djokovic, began his French...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:13 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

DOUBLE OLYMPIC sprint champion Elaine Thompson Herah says she is still feeling pain from an injured shoulder which forced her to pull out of last weekend’s Birmingham Diamond League meet. Thompson Herah, who was down to contest the 100m event in...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:13 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA SCORPIONS head coach Andre Coley says his side will need to play patient cricket if they are to get the better of the Guyana Harpy Eagles in their fourth-round West Indies Championship encounter at the Diego Martin Sports Complex. The...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:13 AM

PUNE, India (CMC): DEANDRA DOTTIN’S incisive opening spell was to no avail as her Supernovas suffered a seven-wicket defeat to Velocity in the Women’s T20 Challenge here yesterday. With Velocity chasing 151 for victory at the Maharashtra Cricket...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:13 AM

PERTH, Australia (CMC): JHANIELE FOWLER and fellow Jamaican star Shimona Nelson both turned in outstanding performances but suffered contrasting fortunes, in the 11th round of the Australian Super Netball Championship. Playing at the RAC Arena here...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:12 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICAN OLYMPIC medallists Elaine Thompson Herah, Shericka Jackson and Briana Williams are set to run in what is expected to be a competitive 100m against Sha’Carri Richardson and Dina Asher-Smith at the Prefontaine Classic this Saturday. The line...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:12 AMKavarly Arnold/Gleaner Writer

Western Bureau: FALMOUTH UNITED’S president Brenton Rodney says the aim of getting to the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) next season starts with creating the sort of atmosphere that will see the people of Trelawny identify with the club when they...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:12 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICAN REFEREE Jessica Kerr-Wilson said she is happy that female referees will be given the opportunity to showcase their talent at the FIFA Men’s World Cup in Qatar from November 21 to December 18. Last week, FIFA announced that France’s...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:07 AM

WITHIN FIFA, Diego Guacci was the women’s soccer expert in South America chosen to help select candidates for its world player of the year award. To teenage players in Argentina, he was the coach who allegedly exposed himself on a video call, sent...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:07 AM

LONDON (AP): THE PREMIER League has approved the proposed sale of Chelsea to a consortium fronted by Los Angeles Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly, although the British government still needs to sign off on the deal before it can be completed. Boehly...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:07 AM

DOUBLE OLYMPIC champion Caster Semenya said she offered to show her vagina to athletics officials when she was just 18 years old to prove she was a female. In an interview with HBO Real Sports, she also accused track and field’s world governing...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:07 AMDaniel Wheeler/Staff Reporter

ONLY ONE more opportunity remains for Waterhouse to qualify for continental competition this season, an opportunity that club president Donovan White says they are ready and prepared to take advantage of. Waterhouse will face Puerto Rican outfit...

Published:Wednesday | May 25, 2022 | 12:06 AMDaniel Wheeler/Staff Reporter

WITH FORMER national player Paul Hall seemingly on track to take over the national senior men’s programme full time, Jamaica will get a glimpse of some young talent when they face Catalonia today at the Estadi Municipal de Montilivi in Girona,...

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2022 | 12:11 AMDaniel Wheeler/Staff Reporter

Montego Bay United have not had a Jamaica Premier League (JPL) win to celebrate in four months. But finally the long barren spell has ended. They beat Portmore United 1-0 in yesterday’s game at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex. Nevaun Turner’s...

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

AMY THE BUTCHER closed out four winners for Dick Cardenas and a three-timer for champion trainer Anthony Nunes by scoring a textbook length-and-quarter victory in yesterday’s Labour Day Trophy at seven furlongs. Running the rail throughout, after...

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2022 | 12:11 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica will make history in international lacrosse next month when the country becomes the first Caribbean nation to compete at the World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship. The championship will be held in Maryland, United States, June 29 to...

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2022 | 12:10 AM

A hard-working, unified team playing attacking and entertaining football. Erik ten Hag has set out his vision for Manchester United after being presented as the fifth manager in nine years at a fallen giant coming off their worst ever season in...

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2022 | 12:10 AM

SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS, Dominican Republic (CMC): Jamaican side Waterhouse have one last chance to get a spot in next year’s Concacaf Champions League after missing the opportunity to secure that berth in Sunday night’s FLOW Concacaf Caribbean...

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2022 | 12:10 AM

SANTIAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS, Dominican Republic (CMC): Despite not finishing in the top three of the 2022 FLOW Concacaf Caribbean Club Championship, two Jamaican clubs walked away with top honours in the tournament. Fourth-place finisher Waterhouse...

Published:Tuesday | May 24, 2022 | 12:09 AMDaniel Wheeler/Staff Reporter

With a change in approach and perspective from his Tokyo Olympic campaign, Olympic diver Yona Knight-Wisdom says that he hopes that he can be in the perfect form for a chance at a medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games this summer. Knight-Wisdom...

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 12:09 AM

Daniel Green netted a brace as Mount Pleasant turned back Tivoli Gardens 4-1 in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) yesterday, and in the process, climbed to the top of the goa-scoring chart with 12 goals. Green has overtaken former leading scorer...

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Secretary of the Aquatic Sports Association of Jamaica (ASAJ) Shauna Jackson says the association has taken steps to reduce the cost of sending a 15-member team to the Pan American Aquatic Championships in Trinidad and Tobago, June 2-5. Although...

Published:Monday | May 23, 2022 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PHILIP Feanny’s I’VE GOT MAGIC wore down speedy RUNAWAY ALGO at the last hop, winning Sunday’s Seeking My Dream Trophy by a neck at odds of 17-1, leaving 4-5 favourite FURTHER AND BEYOND to finish a floundering third. Attempting to make all in the...

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