Five straight for Harbour View
Harbour View United extended a remarkable spell of dominance with a 2-1 win over rivals Waterhouse, for a fifth consecutive hold of the Sherwin Williams Colourscape Knockout Trophy, at the UWI Bowl yesterday. "All credit to the girls, they did what they had to do...
Jamaica set for best medal haul
LOCAL track and field fans are eagerly awaiting the start of the Beijing Olympics, as the country is expected to have its best ever haul in the individual events.The Games is set to start on August 8, but for local fans, the real Games begin a week later with track and field ...
Reallocation of 4x400m medals uncertain
BEIJING, China (CMC): Jamaica and the Bahamas will have to wait to see if the International Olympic Committee's stripping of the United States' 4x400 metres relay team at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, will result in medals for them.The IOC...
Tick, tick, tick: Beijing Olympics is almost here
BEIJING (AP): Tick, tick, tick.The official countdown clock in Tiananmen Square hits "4 Days To Go" yesterday.More than 40 million potted flowers are in bloom everywhere, even along the centre medians of gritty highways.
Six-love win keeps Jamaica on course - Haiti clinch quarter-final berth
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):Jamaica easily won their second match, but Wislet St Louis netted a first-half brace as Haiti beat Cayman Islands to secure the first quarter-final spot in the Caribbean Football Union Youth Cup here on Saturday....
Brooks preparing well - Coach
MIAMI, Florida (CMC): Despite being below the radar this season, Commonwealth Games 100 metres champion, Sheri Ann Brooks, of Jamaica, has the confidence to get back to the top of her game. According to her coach, Marlon Malcolm, Brooks, a member of...
Young Reggae Girlz destroy Aruba
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):Peola Caine scored a hat-trick in the space of three minutes as Jamaica began their hunt for the inaugural Caribbean Football Union Girls Invitational Championship crown with a 13-0 demolition of Aruba Saturday.Despite the...
Trinidad and Tobago deny Barbados regional double
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Trinidad and Tobago, behind an excellent all-round performance from Kjorn Ottley won the TCL West Indies Under-19 Challenge one-day title when they defeated Barbados in the final by eight runs at the Banks Breweries Ground on...
Safina racks up Rogers Cup
MONTREAL (AP):Dinara Safina won her second straight tournament, defeating Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 6-1 yesterday to win the Rogers Cup and improve her record since May to 27-3.Safina, a six-foot Russian who had a nine-inch height advantage over the...
Murray wins first Masters championship
MASON, Ohio (AP): Forced to play another tie-breaker after wasting four match points, Andy Murray pulled off the best shot of the game - an in-the-corner backhand - that set up a 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5) win over Novak Djokovic for the Cincinnati Masters title...
England skippers step down
LOUGHBOROUGH, England (AP): Michael Vaughan stepped down as England's Test cricket captain yesterday, following a string of poor individual and team performances.Vaughan announced his decision at a news conference just a day after England lost the third...
India square series
GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP):Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh bagged a 10-wicket match haul yesterday as India claimed the last five Sri Lanka wickets for just six runs to win the second Test and square the series. Singh finished with 4-51 for the innings ...
Bridgmohan wins Regal Gal Stakes
MIAMI, Florida (CMC): Jamaican jockey Jermaine Bridgmohan landed one of the two secondary stakes races on Saturday's race card at the Calder Race Course.The 20-year-old Bridgmohan won the Regal Gal Stakes for three-year-old fillies going one mile...
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