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United States-based publication Track and Field News has named Jamaican sprinter Briana Williams as its High School Athlete of the Year. The world junior champion received 14 of the 19 votes for the top honour. The other number-one votes went to...

It’s been quite an interesting season for Manchester United fans, some of whom I have lost favour with. In putting away my fanaticism and wearing my analytical hat before the start of our 2019-20 campaign, I declared within a football group of...

Western Bureau: A brace from Sheldon Smart saw Clarendon College come from behind to defeat Mannings 2-1 in their quarter-final match of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup at Frome Sports Complex in Westmoreland, yesterday. Tavar Thompson gave Mannings an...

Defending champions Kingston College (KC) had to work hard to fend off a stubborn challenge from the pesky Vauxhall High, however, the famed purples came away with a 3-1 win in their first leg second-round Manning Cup encounter at the Stadium East...

Enigmatic Jamaica and West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels has shrugged off any notion of retirement as the right-hander has been drafted to play in season three of the Abu Dhabi T10 league, which is scheduled to bowl off on November 15. Samuels will...

Norway’s Karsten Warholm is in pole position in the race to be crowned IAAF Male World Athlete of the Year. That’s my opinion. He capped a fast, undefeated season with a win over his prime 400-metre hurdle rivals in Doha, where he won his second...

After being forced to withdraw from the 200m and 4x100m at the recent World Championships in Doha owing to calf and Achilles issues, double Olympic sprint ­champion Elaine Thompson will be advised in two weeks’ time on the course of ­treatment...

Founder and head coach of SWEPT Track Club Okeile Stewart believes that the addition of Jamaican hurdler Jaheel Hyde to his training group will lead to a return to form for the 22-year-old, who is looking to kick-start his career after a ­...

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC): New Windward Islands head coach, Andrew Richardson, hopes to mark his first season in charge with the capture of the Regional Super50 which bowls off next month. Speaking ahead of the November 6 start of the tournament,...

The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) and the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which the exchange of coaching expertise, technical and scientific research and sport medicine capabilities across...

SUPERLUMINAL used his proven class to turn back five Anthony Nunes runners, including Triple Crown winner SUPREME SOUL, in the seven-and-a-half furlong Fontainbleu Trophy, leaving the leading trainer winless on the 10-race card yesterday. SUPREME...

West Indies cricket legends Clive Lloyd and Michael Holding are urging Caribbean fans to be patient with new head coach Phil Simmons and captain Kieron Pollard as the regional side begins yet another era of leadership, starting with an away series...