The British government on Thursday announced it would relax stiff income tax rules for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, a move that could lure Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt and a host of top-tier athletes to the Glasgow showpiece.
Ground was yesterday broken by Natalie Neita-Headley, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, with responsibility for sports, for the construction of an international standard baseball diamond at the GC Foster College in St Catherine.
Jamaica's combined martial arts team, more renowned for its success against the world's top martial arts teams, has this year incorporated the road-race circuit as part of its endurance training as well as a bid to attract potential sponsors.
Even at this stage of her career, on top of her game with stacks of medals and global titles piled next to her name, Veronica Campbell-Brown still leans heavily on confidence and caution. No outlandish predictions. No public declaration of superiority over rivals whose accomplishments pale next to hers.
The track and field season will continue today with the staging of the STETHS Invitational Meet at Santa Cruz, beginning at 9 a.m and the Queen's Grace Jackson Meet inside the National Stadium, which starts at 8:30 a.m.
The Leila Robinson Courts will be buzzing with excitement today when favourites and defending champions Jamalco face Tivoli Gardens 'A' in a top-of-the-table clash, in the Jamaica Netball Association (JNA)/Jamaica National Building Society Open League competition, starting at 3:40 p.m.
The three-year-old campaign leading up to the classics continues today at Caymanas Park with the colts and geldings contesting the Mercury Sprint over the straight-five course.
League champions Eagles Strikers and Waltham Strikers will contest the final of the Jamaica Skittles Federation Pattex Cup final after both scored decisive wins in semi-final action last Sunday at Mystix Sports Bar, 783/4 Hagley Park Road.
The High Mountain 10K Race, Jamaica's longest running and most challenging 10K race, is on tomorrow at Williamsfield, Manchester. Digicel Business will be supporting the event as silver sponsor for the second year running as well as providing handsets for the main prize winners.
Fireworks should rule supreme tomorrow afternoon when joint Zone One leaders Wadadah FC and Granville FC meet in a big top-of-the-table clash in the 2011-12 Captain's Bakery Western Super Football League at the Sam Sharpe Teachers' College grounds, starting at 3:00 o'clock.
Novak Djokovic overcame his breathing problems and a "physical crisis" to beat Andy Murray in an almost five-hour Australian Open semi-final yesterday and move into his third-straight Grand Slam final.
With the first speed event of the Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club's (JMMC) National Sprint Championship season now history, spirits are high heading into the second dirt sprint, which will be staged at Badda Badda Raceway in Priory, St Ann, on Sunday, February 5.
The quality of St James' netball got a major endorsement last weekend when three of the parish's promising junior players got selected in a national Under-17 squad following a trial conducted by national coordinator Maureen Hall at the National Stadium, in Kingston.
Rusea's High's star striker, Brian 'Rambo' Brown, whose goalscoring exploits were pivotal in the school's 2011 ISSA/Gatorade /Digicel daCosta Cup success, is now in England on trial with Barclays Premier League outfit Aston Villa.