August Town back on track
AUGUST TOWN registered a 2-1 win over Naggo Head at the University of the West Indies field yesterday to put their premier league promotional bid firmly back on track. The prolific Nicholas Smith opened the scoring for the home team...
Negril net equaliser at the death
NEGRIL FOOTBALL Club continue to lead the Wray and Nephew National Premier League play-offs after coming from behind to eke out a 1-1 draw with St. George's at Lynch Park in Portland yesterday.
Learmond double lifts nationals
MANDEVILLE: TWO GOALS by the star of the last daCosta Cup schoolboy season, Carnell Learmond, as well as an own-goal, gave the national senior outfit a 3-0 win over a Clarendon All Stars team at Jamalco yesterday.
King's Watford win promotion to Premiership
CARDIFF, Wales (CMC): JAMAICA INTERNATIONAL Marlon King celebrated promotion to the 2006-07 English Premiership with Watford FC yesterday when they whipped Leeds 3-0 in the Coca-Cola League Championship playoff final.
Slayers stay alive
STARING ELIMINATION square in the face, defending champions St. George's Slayers rallied from an eight-point deficit headed into the final stanza, to keep their season alive by beating the Denham Town Wizards 76-61 in KFC/bmobile.
Speedy Campbell runs 10.99
CARSON, California (AP): WALLACE SPEARMON defeated Jeremy Wariner in the 200 metres and Veronica Campbell of Jamaica won the women's 100 - both with the fastest times in the world this year - at the Adidas Track Classic yesterday.
Torrington seal Western Union title
TORRINGTON PARK A on Saturday captured the Western Union division B crown after beating Skibo A 37-36 in extra-time at the Leila Robinson Courts. Both teams played to a 29-29 score at the end of regulation time. It was Skibo-A that ended the first round..
Jamaican WNBA star Edwards quits Storms
JAMAICAN INTERNATIONAL Simone Edwards has thrown in the towel after a six-year career with Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team Seattle Storms. Edwards' announcement comes just ahead of her plans to represent the nation...
Hyde at Harbour View
PORTMORE UNITED may not be the only ones counting their losses following the departure of Lenworth 'Teacher' Hyde to Harbour View last week. Tivoli Gardens, the club that it was rumoured Hyde was going to take control...
World's longest race coming to Jamaica
THE CLIPPER Ventures 05-06 Round the World Yacht race is coming to Jamaica. Billed as the world's longest, the yacht race will make a six-day stop in Port Antonio from June 14-20. Port Antonio is the final stop...
Win, a big step forward - Lara
GIVEN THEIR experi-menting in the build-up to this Digicel one-day international series, West Indies skipper Brian Lara labelled Saturday's sensational one-run win against India at Sabina Park as "important"...
West Indies squad unchanged
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): WEST INDIES named an unchanged squad yesterday to travel to St. Kitts for the third one-day international (ODI) match of the Digicel 2006 Home Series against India tomorrow.
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