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Published:Friday | October 24, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED States-bred MAIN MISTRESS and in-form native runner ZULU WARRIOR should use similar running styles to land divisions one and two, respectively, of Saturday’s Front Runner Caymanas Park Announcers’ Trophy at six and a half furlongs....

Published:Friday | October 24, 2025 | 12:08 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

Having been drawn in Pool B for the FIBA Basketball World Cup Americas Qualifiers, Jamaica men’s basketball head coach, Rick Turner, said they now face the toughest pool in the competition. Jamaica are drawn alongside Canada, Puerto Rico, and The...

Published:Friday | October 24, 2025 | 12:07 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Having registered a massive upset victory over defending champions Kingston College (KC) on Wednesday, Alex Thomas, head coach of Hydel High, says his players are now beginning to believe that they can reach the semi-finals and final of this year’s...

Published:Friday | October 24, 2025 | 12:07 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

Camperdown High School’s junior and senior netball teams are enjoying their best start in years in the ISSA urban schoolgirls competition, with both teams unbeaten after four matches each. The Wayne Stewart-coached squads have been dominating their...

Published:Friday | October 24, 2025 | 12:07 AM

NEW YORK (AP): The head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and a player for the Miami Heat were arrested yesterday along with more than 30 other people in a takedown of two sprawling gambling operations that authorities said leaked inside...

Published:Friday | October 24, 2025 | 12:06 AM

Jamaica’s outstanding junior shooter Aliana McMaster created history recently at the Jamaica Skeet Club’s Portmore headquarters when she was crowned HOA (Highest Overall winner) of the Bernard Cridland Memorial Sporting Clays shoot. She topped the...

Published:Friday | October 24, 2025 | 12:06 AM

MIRPUR, Bangladesh (CMC): The West Indies produced yet another abysmal performance with the bat to gift Bangladesh a mammoth 179-run victory in the third and decisive One Day International (ODI) which helped them to claim the series here yesterday...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 9:09 PM

High school sports’ governing body, the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) has indefinitely postponed its top football competitions, the daCosta Cup and the Manning Cup, due to the threat of Tropical Storm Melissa. The directive,...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:02 PM

MONACO (AP) — Women's marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepng'etich has been banned for three years after admitting a doping violation, track and field's Athletics Integrity Unit said Thursday. The AIU said Chepng'etich admitted anti-doping...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 10:16 AM

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP) — Lionel Messi has finally agreed to a new contract with Inter Miami, a deal that required several months to complete and ensures that the sport’s biggest icon will be with the Major League Soccer club for its planned...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:11 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THE LARGE turnout of fans at the Wembley Excellence Centre yesterday were treated to some exciting football despite the goalless draw that ensued between defending champions Garvey Maceo and former champions Clarendon College in their Zone 3 ISSA...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:11 AM

INDORE, India (AP): DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Australia remained unbeaten as Ashleigh Gardner and Annabel Sutherland shared an unbroken 180-run partnership in a six-wicket win over England at the Women’s Cricket World Cup yesterday. Gardner hit her...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:10 AMGregory Bryce/Staff Reporter

JAMAICA OLYMPIC Association (JOA) President Christopher Samuda has signalled his full support for Jamaica’s involvement in a four-nation bid to host the 2031 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), alongside the United States...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:10 AM

FORMER JAMAICA Olympic Association (JOA) Vice-President Don Anderson was recognised and honoured by the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) at its 23rd General Assembly, held in Guyana last week. Anderson was honoured for...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

CALLS FOR a return of the Jackie Bell knockout football competition, the premier and once-coveted Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) tournament, were echoed all around the annual Bell/Ziadie football festival on Heroes Day at...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:10 AM

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC): WITH A hectic 2026 schedule fast approaching, West Indies Women have begun an intensive eight-week training camp in Antigua to prepare themselves for a rigorous year of cricket. The camp, which started on October 20 and is...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:10 AM

MIRPUR, Bangladesh (CMC): IN A match that defied logic and pushed tension to the absolute limit, Captain Shai Hope, with a dogged unbeaten half-century, and spinner Akeal Hosein, combined to pull off a stunning, last-gasp victory for the West...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:10 AM

KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC): SOBERING AND brutally honest assessments came from two former West Indies and Jamaica cricketers, pointing to a long road to redemption for the region’s cricket, with one stating it could take “a generation or two” to...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:08 AMAshley Anguin/Gleaner Writer

A MUST-SEE clash between St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) and Kemps Hill High at the STETHS Sports Complex turned ugly yesterday, with the visitors and officials engaging in hostile exchanges. The ISSA daCosta Cup Zone 2 game was a one-...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:54 PMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Kingston College (KC) suffered a shock 1-0 defeat to Hydel High in their Group Two ISSA/WATA Manning Cup round-of-16 encounter yesterday at Stadium East. The defeat was the first for the Vassell Reynolds-coached KC, who are...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:08 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

MOUNT PLEASANT Football Academy took a giant step towards qualifying for the Concacaf Caribbean Cup final with a decisive 5-1 first-leg, semi-final win over Defence Force of Trinidad and Tobago at the Hasley Crawford Stadium in Trinidad yesterday...

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2025 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

AFTER TOPPING the preliminary group with a perfect record, Mount Pleasant will look to take a step closer to the Concacaf Caribbean Cup final when they play away to Defence Force of Trinidad and Tobago in their first-leg semi-final at the Hasley...

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2025 | 12:09 AM

BURGER KING Jamaica launched the 2025 staging of its 5K...

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2025 | 12:09 AM

MIRPUR, Bangladesh (CMC): CAPTAIN SHAI Hope and Akeal Hosein combined to lead West Indies to an unlikely, heart-stopping victory over Bangladesh in the second One-Day International (ODI) that had to be decided by a rare Super Over. In pursuit of...

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2025 | 12:08 AMRaymond Graham/Gleaner Writer

THREE CLARENDON powerhouses, Garvey Maceo, Glenmuir, and Clarendon College, will be in action today as the daCosta Cup round of 16 kicks off with Zone 3, dubbed the ‘Group of Death’. Defending champions Garvey Maceo will face Clarendon College in a...

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