Defending champions Jamalco will oppose Waulgrovians 'A' in the opening game of the Jamaica Netball Association (JNA)/Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) FastNet tournament at the Leila Robinson courts starting at noon.

Petrojam captured seven awards at the KSAFA/Western Sports Business House Football Association (BHFA) awards presentation function held at Red Stripe Sports Club on Monday night.

The launch of the LIME/INSPORTS Primary League on Thursday at the Anthony Spaulding Complex has brought back into sharp focus the need for guidelines regarding school-safety regulations concerning sporting equipment and how they are developed.

In its inaugural staging in 1978, the Milo Western Relays was staged in the blazing sun on a grass/dirt track at Cornwall College. Now, fast forward 34 years, this year's event will be staged under floodlights on the synthetic track at the Montego Bay Sports Complex in St James.

Leon Johnson stroked a half-century as Guyana made the most of the rain-hit opening day of their first round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship match against Leeward Islands here yesterday.

The annual renewal of the $250,000-$210,000 claiming race for the Mortimer 'Morty' Heron Memorial Cup over 1820 metres is the feature event at Caymanas Park today, with 10 down to face the starter.

Former Olympic javelin champion, Theresa 'Tessa' Sanderson, is concerned that more Jamaicans aren't getting involved in the discipline and has offered her expertise in the area.

Up until the revival of the Olympic Movement in the last quarter of the 19th century, athletic meets were dominated by professional runners and gambling was inextricably linked to athletic competitions. Over time, gambling led to public scandals and mob violence, which deeply offended the moral rectitude of the Christian community in Victorian England.

The 2011-12 St James Goodwill Netball Competition which was slated to start immediately after the recent Christmas holiday but was put on hold on account of the unavailability of its founder/coordinator, Charles Stephenson, is set to start within another three weeks.

Brissett crowned themselves champions of the 2011-12 Hanover Sports Development Council Stephen 'Shorty' Malcolm/Denton Samuels seven-a-side football champions, when they defeated Lucea Old Road 6-5 on penalties, Sunday at Central playing field in Hanover.

The New England Patriots may be the favourites for local bookmakers Justbet, but as far as some of the biggest players in NFL history are concerned, Super Bowl XLVI will go to the New York Giants when both teams meet in Indianapolis tomorrow.

FIFA says it has appointed Caribbean official Horace Burrell to its committee organising Olympic soccer tournaments, three weeks after he completed a suspension for unethical behaviour.

THE 2012 track and field season will continue this morning with the staging of two meets - the JAAA/Puma Development Meet at Jamalco in Clarendon and the Youngster Goldsmith Classics at G.C. Foster College in Angels, Spanish Town.

THE sore issue of electricity theft from Caymanas Park, carried out by residents of squatter settlements bordering the horse-racing facility, has again come to a head.