Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller was one of the first persons to congratulate new World Boxing Association (WBA) feather-weight champion, Nicholas Walters, after his victory over Darius Prescott of Colombia at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston in the wee hours yesterday morning.

Crowd disorder marred the Premier League's Manchester derby yesterday, with United defender Rio Ferdinand injured after being struck by a coin and police arresting a spectator for racist chanting.

After spurning Manchester City's advances in the off season, Robin van Persie scored the goal that ended the champions' unbeaten start to the Premier League season and took Manchester United six points clear of their neighbours yesterday.

The University Dynamites are champions of the inaugural Jamaica Premier League T20 cricket competition, after defeating Half-Way Tree Sparks by seven wickets in the final at the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium yesterday.

Bangladesh's series win over West Indies has put them within 10 ratings points of the Caribbean side in the International Cricket Council's one-day rankings table.

Jamaica's Reggae Boyz suffered a massive blow to their title defence when they were stunned by French Guiana in their opening match of the CFU Caribbean Cup Finals on Saturday night.

In addition to the main bout between Nicholas 'The Axeman' Walters and Daulis Prescott on the Wray and Nephew Rumble on Jamrock promotion for the World Boxing Association featherweight title, there were three other title fights - two for female world titles - on the exciting card that was promoted by SportsMax, at the National Indoor Sports Centre last Saturday night.

The selection committee of the RJR Sports Foundation has added new World Boxing Association (WBA) featherweight champion, Nicholas Walters, to the list of nominees for the award of Jamaica's National Sportsman of the Year 2012.