'Win record makes me very happy' - Ennis-London believes gold will spur teammates
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: National 100 metres hurdles champion Delloreen Ennis-London has described her victory at the Pan American Games as a good tune-up for next month's IAAF World Champion-ships in Japan. "I chose to come to the Pan Am Games...
It's only 'mental' - Simpson's manager says sprinter didn't run freely in Monaco
Paul Doyle, manager of top Jamaican athlete Sherone Simpson, attributed her poor run in the women's 100 metres at yesterday's Herculis Super Grand Prix in Monaco to a 'mental problem'. Simpson, who was forced to miss the National Championships with a hip injury...
Overwhelmed by gold - Decathlete Smith turns attention to World Champs
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Jamaica's Pan American decathlon gold medallist Maurice Smith will be seeking quick fixes to niggling injuries as he prepares for next month's IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan. The 26-year-old national decathlon record holder at 8,349 points...
Spaldings aiming for daCosta Cup quarters
Preparations for the upcoming schoolboy football season are now in high gear at the Spaldings High School in Clarendon. The institution, which won Zone G of the Cup competition last season and made it to the second round...
Jamaica in charge
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (CMC): Jamaica gave another authoritative display to hold the upper hand on the second day of their opening round match against Trinidad and Tobago in the 2007 TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge yesterday.
Birthday boy Oral Bennett in big upset
Competent apprentice Oral Bennett celebrated his 26th birthday with a shock victory aboard 40-1 out-sider SIR CHARLES in the feature race at Caymanas Park yesterday. SIR CHARLES, the least fancied in the seven-strong field which contested race number one in the second...
Strikers crush Dragon
Rising to the big occasion, Rowe's Strikers from Chelsea Avenue crushed Dragon Strikers from Giltress Street 6-2 in the final to win the 2007 Wray and Nephew skittles club league at Mystix Sports Bar, Hagley Park Road, on Sunday night....
Davis granted work permit
Jamaican international Claude Davis is officially free to join English Premier League club Derby County, after being granted a work permit from the United Kingston Home Office yesterday.Davis had attempted to make a £3 million move away from relegated Sheffield United...
Heated battle for spot in final
Two of the three teams locked in a heated battle for a spot in the KFC/National Basketball League (NBL) mid-season final, Urban Knights and Denham Town Wizards, will match up in crucial encounters at the National Stadium courts...
Leader Rasmussen sacked by his team
GOURETTE, France (AP)Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen of Denmark was removed from the race, said a spokesman for the Danish rider's Rabobank team yesterday."Michael Rasmussen has been sent home for violating (the team's) internal rules,"...
Big guns ready for Independence showdown
The last time they were scheduled to clash, mechanical problems kept Peter 'Bull' Thompson and Doug Gore away from the starting grid, leaving hundreds of die-hard motorsport fans at the Dover Raceway, St. Ann, disappointed.
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