Austin stokes £1-million deal
Portmore United midfielder, Rudolph Austin, has agreed to a £1-million transfer fee with English Premier League outfit Stoke City. The Reggae Boy, who turned 23 in June, has been hotly sought by American and Brazilian clubs and is now awaiting a work permit...
Burrell rejects Mexican sweet deal
FOR the Reggae Boyz, it's very unusual, weird, to say the least. Even laughable if you take it to the extreme. But it happened. In what would have equated to a real 'sell-out', in the context of Jamaican parlance, a Mexican football agent...
Mixed results for national teams
Jamaica's women's volleyball team got off to a good start in the Caribbean Volleyball Championships (CVC) in Barbados, as they defeated the United States Virgin Islands 3-1. However, the men's team was not as lucky as they went down 1-3 to Martinique...
Spinners wreck Jamaica
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Spin bowlers Keron Cottoy and Dalton Polius combined for eight wickets to wreck Jamaica's batting on a rain-affected opening day of their third-round TCL Group West Indies Under-19 match yesterday. Jamaica dramatically lost...
Bulls mow down Slayers
Port Royal Bulls, the new sensation in the Kentucky Fried Chicken-sponsored National Basketball League, beat veteran team St George's Slayers 71-61 to keep their winning streak intact, at the National Stadium Courts on Sunday night...
Hoopers escape Avalanche to take finals lead
Western Bureau: Hoopers have taken a 1-0 lead in the best-of-five finals of the Western Basketball Association (WBA) Lucozade men's championship, following their 70-68 win against Inner-City Avalanche in Game One at the Montego Bay Cricket Club Courts...
Excitement builds for weekend spectacle
A carnival-like atmosphere will hit the eastern end of the island from July 18-20, as stage three of the 2008 Suzuki Caribbean Surf Network Tour (CSNT), in association with the Jamaica Surfing Association (JSA), glides off at...
Sirgany stirs up Baby Class
After a pep-talk from his father, Steve Sirgany, at the recent International Go Kart meet, six year-old Justin created a stir in the 50cc Baby Class, winning four of the six races.His stunning performance left many motorsports fans speechless. Prior to the racemeet...
Chambers' court verdict delays naming of 100m squad for Beijing
LONDON (AP):Just one of Britain's three 100-metre athletes for Beijing was named yesterday ahead of the outcome of Dwain Chambers' legal bid to overturn a lifetime doping ban.Chambers was an emphatic 10-second winner in Saturday's national trials, but...
Burke advances, but other Jamaicans fail to survive
It was a tough day for Jamaica's top junior players in the opening round of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) championship at the Eric Bell Centre yesterday, as only fifth-seeded Brandon Burke advanced to the second stage. Burke defeated Nikita Fomine of Russia ...
Facilities, amateur game stall netball's lunge for glory
The national netball team begins the defence of their Caribbean title later this week in St Vincent and the Grenadines and in all likelihood it will be successful. The last time the national team did not hold that Caribbean title was in 1984 when it finished third...
'We'll win more medals' - National coach promises better performance at CISC
With confidence beaming in her eyes, national technical director of swimming, Jackie Walter, guaranteed Jamaica's swim team would win more medals at this year's Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships (CISC) than the 2006 edition...
Ennis-London registers 12.62s win in Greece
RETHYMNO, Greece (CMC): Jamaica's two-time World Championship medallist, Delloreen Ennis-London, led a quartet of Caribbean-born winners at the 24th Vardinoyiannia track and field meeting yesterday.Ennis-London won the women's sprint hurdles with authority ...
South Africa force draw
LONDON (AP): South Africa successfully held out against England for more than two days to draw the first Test yesterday. When stumps were drawn midway through the evening session at Lord's, with England employing part-time spinners Kevin Pietersen and Alastair Cook...
Evans takes Tour lead after punishing day in Pyrenees
HAUTACAM, France (AP): A bruised and sore Cadel Evans took the yellow jersey at the Tour de France after Leonardo Piepoli of Italy won a punishing climb through the Pyrenees to capture the 10th stage yesterday.Evans, the 31-year-old Silence Lotto leader,...
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