Windies blow by England
LONDON (CMC):THE WEST Indies heaved a collective sigh of relief with a 15-run win in the first Twenty20 international against England yesterday. The West Indies successfully defended a target of 209, when they restricted England to 193 for seven in their allocation ...
West Indies A tour of Zimbabwe scrapped
LONDON (CMC): THE WEST Indies A team tour of Zimbabwe scheduled for next month has been scrapped, the Cricinfo website reported yesterday. The A team was set to leave the Caribbean today for the southern Africa nation that included a series of three...
FROM THE BOUNDARY - It's 'St Bess' versus Melbourne for Cup
AFTER EIGHT weeks of action between the rain drops, the Jamaica Cricket Association's Super Cup all-island competition comes to an end this weekend with St. Elizabeth and Melbourne face to face at Melbourne Oval in a battle for the title....
The Reggae Boyz win one … finally
JAMAICA'S REGGAE Boyz finally got the monkey off their backs with a 2-0 win over Malaysia at the Bukit Jalil National Stadium yesterday in the third match of their four-game friendly tour of Asia. Having scored the only goal of the tour so far in Jamaica's 2-1 loss to Indonesia...
Pink slip for Capello
MADRID, (Reuters): REAL MADRID sacked coach Fabio Capello yesterday, 11 days after he led them to their first Primera Liga title in four years. The 61-year-old Italian, who also won the league title with Real in the 1996-97 season during his first spell...
Federer rolls on
WIMBLEDON, England (AP): ROGER FEDERER won his 50th straight match on grass, needing only 11 minutes yesterday to complete a 6-2, 7-5, 6-1 victory over 18-year-old Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina to reach the third round at Wimbledon.
Jamaica add more medals to tally
JAMAICA BOOSTED their medal tally to seven after participating in seven finals on Wednesday night as the Central America and Caribbean Swimming Championships (CCCAN) continued in El Savador. Two silver and two bronze medals were added to the one goal...
Quarrie lauds Bolt's record run
KINGSTON (CMC): LEGENDARY JAMAICAN sprinter Donald Quarrie, who won Olympic 200-metre gold in 1976, has praised Usain Bolt's remarkable victory in the half-lap sprint at the Jamaica National Championships, last weekend. The 20-year-old Bolt ran a personal...
Heavyweightscontinue to struggle
MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP): DAY TWO of the Copa America and the tournament heavyweights continue to struggle. An ailing Mexican team missing several regular starters owing to injury stunned defending champion Brazil 2-0 on Wednesday night...
Japan seek third Asian Cup crown
TOKYO (AP): BIDDING FOR for a third consecutive title, and to become the first four-time continental champions, Japan enter the Asian Cup recognising that winning again has become a lot more difficult. Japan won the Asian Cup in 2000 by edging then...
Send them on!
'THE HARDER they come, the harder they fall' is what THE BOMBER's groom, Carl 'Blacks' Taylor, is predicting ahead of the July 7 Jamaica St.Leger. Taylor, a 30-odd-year-old-looking man, who confessed to be 44, could easily pass for a jockey...
Simpson set to take over from Francis
FIVE-TIME CHAMPION Trevor Simpson looks set to wrest the lead in the jockeys' standings from suspended Paul Francis this weekend as he has three hot mounts on tomorrow's 11-race card - SUMMER PRINCESS in the second, GRANDPA'S DREAM in the sixth and ROYAL COMMAND...
HORSE SENSE - What went wrong ... (conclusion)
WE HAVE travelled a long way in the series of articles on the developments in the racing industry. We are at the stage where the expectations of a not-for-profit promoting company, owned and operated by the stakeholders of the industry, is in the hands...
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