The year 2022 was going to be great for DeAndre Daley of Herbert Morrison Technical High School. Daley was almost unstoppable in March and April, but disaster struck at the National Championships in June. With that disappointment behind him, Daley...
THE INCOMPARABLE Usain Bolt has made an indelible mark on the world of sport and fans everywhere. Among them is former England international footballer Jamie Carragher who yesterday named Bolt among his top-three sportsmen of all time. Carragher,...
THE CARIBBEAN was well represented by Puerto Rico at the just-concluded World Team Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu, China. That’s the considered view of Peter Moo Young, a former Jamaica Table Tennis Association president. Moo Young was...
China thoroughly dominated the 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships, which ended on October 9, with crushing 3-0 victories in both finals. However, a stern challenge in the men’s semi-finals confirmed for some observers that the gap between...
There’s a good chance that the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) will continue with the new schedule introduced at the Boys and Girls’ Championships this year. Meet director Anthony Davis is about to recommend that it stays in...
WORLD ATHLETICS, the global governing body of track and field, is set to introduce a second-chance provision at the 2024 Olympics. This repêchage round might also surface at Boys and Girls’ Championships (Champs) in the future. While Jamaica’s...
With Jamaican Aiko Jones making a sterling contribution, the University of Louisville surged forward in its defence of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) volleyball title on the weekend. Louisville smashed visiting Clemson University on Friday and...
NO CO-EDUCATIONAL institution has won the Manning Cup since 2006. Though the history of the urban schools’ football competition shows such victories are possible, those wins have been few and far between recently. The Cup has gone to a co-ed school...
The Titans Track Club went to Eugene, Oregon for this year’s World Athletics Championships, with Yohan Blake and Ackeem Blake being two of the nation’s three entries in the men’s 100 metres. The return of mere semi-final finishes for both was...
IF JAMAICA College (JC) wins the Manning Cup and Olivier Shield high school football competitions this year, the school will relive the accomplishment of its undefeated 1962 squad. For Norman McDonald, the left back on the 1962 team, the double...
TITANS TRACK Club head coach Gregory Little wants to rebuild Jamaica men’s sprinting in partnership with his friend Michael Frater. Their new project will be the continued development of Olympic relay gold medallist Briana Williams. Little believes...
With Jamaican Aiko Jones doing her part to steady the ship when needed, the University of Louisville rolled past two conference rivals last weekend. Jones served with deadly intent and blocked with purpose as Louisville swept both the University of...
Tobi Amusan of Nigeria; the Jamaicans, Rasheed Broadbell and Janieve Russell; and Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands have two things in common; all four were winners in hurdling events at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and all...
Semifinalists last year, the University of Louisville are poised to make another deep run through the NCAA Volleyball women’s championships. Jamaica’s Aiko Jones is part of a stable core of senior players who have given coach Dani Busboom Kelly...
It isn’t out of the question that 110 metres hurdlers in black, green and gold could occupy two spots on the podium in Budapest, Hungary, at next year’s World Athletics Championships. So says the dean of Jamaican sprint hurdlers Maurice Wignall....
After a long break enforced by the COVID-19 pandemic, volleyball made a step back toward normalcy with the reintroduction of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) National Championship earlier this year. The next step in the sport’s...
Excelsior High School has geared its football programme not just to add to its tally of seven Manning Cup titles, but also to equip its players to play for Jamaica and to win scholarships. That’s the word from the school’s head coach, Xavier...
The headlines will rightly point to World Under-20 champion Kerrica Hill as the next great Jamaican 100 metres hurdler. However, her former Hydel High School teammate Oneka Wilson has a bright future ahead of her too, and she has taken her talents...
JAMAICA’S ADELLE Tracey isn’t a pacemaker by trade, but almost led Faith Kipyegon to a world record in Monaco last month. The fabulous Kenyan may have another crack at the record – three minutes, 50.07 seconds – this week at the Diamond League...
THE CLOSER we get to the end of the athletics season, the less talk there is about world records. At the Brussels Diamond League meet last week and Continental Tour meets in Padova and Berlin last Sunday, you could see the tired legs. Expectant ‘...
When Elaine Thompson Herah sees the schedule for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, she’s bound to smile. That’s because World Athletics, the global governing body of track and field, is returning to the sprint schedule...
Long ago, I dreamt of a time when Jamaicans would win the women’s and men’s 100 metres at the Olympics. Thankfully, that dream came true in 2008 when the incomparable Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce sped to victory in Beijing’s magnificent...
When Rasheed Broadbell beat two-time world 100 metres hurdles champion Grant Holloway in Lausanne, Switzerland, last week, he did more than just set a personal best with his winning time of 12.99 seconds. He joined Olympic gold medallists Omar...
Even before a leg discomfort forced her out of the 100 metres at last week’s Lausanne Diamond League meet, five-time World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was looking into the future. In the short term, the little speed merchant is eagerly waiting...
JAMAICA’S TROUBLE-free run at last week’s NACAC Open Championships had one blot. On the last of three glorious days in Freeport, Bahamas, an untimely injury threatened to topple the team’s medal hopes in the men’s 4x400-metre relay. Lead-off runner...
