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Published:Saturday | May 21, 2022 | 12:09 AM

LONDON, England (CMC): Former West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard has joined English county Surrey for the T20 Blast bowling off next week. The 35-year-old will link up with sidelined West Indies off-spinner and fellow Trinidadian Sunil Narine...

Published:Saturday | May 21, 2022 | 12:09 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Former Jamaica Sunshine Girls technical director Jill McIntosh is scheduled to arrive here later this year to conduct a two-day coaching workshop ahead of the start of the Americas Regional Netball World Cup (NWC) qualifiers. McIntosh, along with...

Published:Saturday | May 21, 2022 | 12:09 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

Many children who compete in sports internationally often have difficulties balancing sports and having a normal childhood. This is something 14-year-old race kart driver Alex Powell can relate to. “It’s not easy to balance my sport along with...

Published:Saturday | May 21, 2022 | 12:08 AM

LAUNCESTON, Tasmania (CMC): Shimona Nelson’s excellent effort went in vain as Collingwood Magpies suffered their sixth defeat of the Australian Super Netball Championship, with a 69-60 loss to Giants on Wednesday night. Playing at the Silverdome in...

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 1:50 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer -

TAROUBA, Trinidad and Tobago Off Spinner Jamie Merchant and medium pacer Derval Green took five wickets each to lead the Jamaica Scorpions to an innings and 14 runs win over the Windward Islands Volcanoes before tea on the third day of their...

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 11:59 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer -

TAROUBA, Trinidad and Tobago Off-spinner Jamie Merchant picked up two quick wickets just before lunch to leave the Windward Islands Volcanoes in a spot of bother at 165 for six, still trailing the Jamaica Scorpions by 44 runs in their second...

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:12 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

May is recognised as Mental Health Awareness Month and the Jamaica Association of Sports Medicine (JASM) is promoting mental health awareness among Jamaican athletes. Elite sports psychologist and JASM member Dr Jason Hamilton says an athlete’s...

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:11 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

TAROUBA, Trinidad and Tobago Jamaica Scorpions batsman Brandon King showed just how much he loves the pitch at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy as the right-hander scored his second first-class hundred at the venue to lead the Jamaica Scorpions’...

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SIMILAR to a compass, the handicap needle for Sunday’s Seeking My Dream automatically points north, FURTHER AND BEYOND, suggesting the reigning Horse of the Year should repeat his April 2 Saint Cecelia Trophy clobbering of EXCESSIVE FORCE and I’VE...

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:11 AMDaniel Wheeler/Staff Reporter

The final edition of the Concacaf Caribbean Club Championship will not end in title glory for Waterhouse Football Club. Waterhouse were defeated 3-1 by Haitian club Violette AC in their semi-final game yesterday at the Estadio Cibao in the...

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:10 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

This year’s staging of the Americas Regional Netball World Cup (NWC) qualifiers has received a $12 million sponsorship from the Government. Minister of Sport, Olivia Grange, the patron of the tournament, made the announcement during yesterday’s...

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:10 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

After recently clocking the fifth-fastest 800 metres time by a Jamaican, Navasky Anderson hopes to become the first Jamaican male to compete in the event at the World Athletics Championships since Marvin Watts in 2001. Anderson, who ran a personal...

Published:Friday | May 20, 2022 | 12:07 AMHubert Lawrence/Gleaner Writer

In the 65 years since the respected United States (US) journal Track And Field News began to publish its annual world rankings, no Jamaican has ever been numbered in the top ten in the women’s high jump. That’s about to change, thanks to Lamara...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 8:13 PM

Netball Jamaica will be getting support worth $12 million from the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport to host the Americas Netball World Cup Qualifier for the 2023 Netball World Cup. “The ministry and its agencies are...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 5:33 PM- Lennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer -

TAROUBA, Trinidad and Tobago: Seamer Derval Green removed openers Kimani Melius for 17 and Devon Smith for 34 to leave the Windward Islands Volcanoes on 101 for three, still trailing the Jamaica Scorpions by 108 with seven wickets in hand at...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 4:06 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer -

TAROUBA, Trinidad and Tobago Brandon King scored his third first class century while Jamie Merchant got a half century to help the Jamaica Scorpions to healthy score of 346 all out, a lead of 209 runs against the Windward Islands Volcanoes at...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 2:14 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer -

TAROUBA, Trinidad and Tobago Brandon King scored his third first class century while Jamie Merchant got a half century to help the Jamaica Scorpions to healthy score of 346 all out, a lead of 209 runs against the Windward Islands Volcanoes at...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 12:09 PMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

TAROUBA, Trinidad: Right-handed batsman Brandon King scored an unbeaten half century to guide the Jamaica Scorpions to 219 for seven, a lead of 82 runs against the Windward Islands Volcanoes at lunch on day two of their West Indies Championship...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 11:27 AM

Five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah is out of Saturday's Diamond League meet in Birmingham, England. A release today from Andi Sports Managements, the athlete's agent, said Thompson-Herah decided not to travel to Birmingham '...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 12:12 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

JEREMY DELISSER, coach of Jamaica’s top junior triple jumper, Jaydon Hibbert, says his young charge is now back in training and preparing for the National Junior Trials after a number of niggling injuries that affected his performance at the...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 12:11 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

TAROUBA, Trinidad: JAMAICA SCORPIONS fast bowler Marquino Mindley secured career-best bowling figures by bagging five wickets against the Windward Islands Volcanoes on the opening day of their West Indies Championship third-round clash at the Brian...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 12:11 AM

SEVILLE, Spain (AP): EINTRACHT FRANKFURT’S 42-year wait for a European trophy is over, but Reggae Boy Kemar Roofe’s pain over what could have been has just begun. Roofe, who had been in a race to be fit for the encounter, made a substitute’s...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 12:10 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

THOUGH NETBALL Jamaica’s first staging of the Elite League in nearly three years is just a matter of weeks away, the organisation says it still has not found a sponsor to offset some of the costs associated with hosting it. The organisation is,...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 12:10 AMSharla Williams/Gleaner Writer

As the world recently celebrated Mother’s Day and we are fast approaching the end of Child Month, legendary sprinter Usain Bolt’s mother, Jennifer Bolt, is encouraging parents to support their children’s dream of having a professional sports career...

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2022 | 12:10 AM

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): WORLD GOVERNING body of association football FIFA has partnered with the Barbados Football Association (BFA) to assist member clubs in developing their game through a Talent Development Scheme scheduled to begin next...

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