Battle royal at Alpart
THE JAMAICA Super League relegation clash between Westmoreland Wizards and Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is evenly poised entering today's final day at Alpart Sports Club in St Elizabeth.
Mind Your Business
Twenty-eight teams will contest the 2008 Kingston and St Andrew Business House domino competition which gets under way on Friday, May 30 with play in two divisions.
Coaches the key, says Baris
"MY PHILOSOPHY is that if we do not develop coaches with the right attitude we cannot develop good players," says Baris Johnson, director of coaching for Global Soccer Ministries (GSM) Jamaica.
Total, unadulterated madness
THE SELECTION of players for a team in a game like cricket is difficult, and there can be no question about that - especially so with all the insularity around and with every country expecting their players to be in the team.
Smoothability all the way
SMOOTHABILITY, RUNNING at odds of 5-1 with apprentice Javour Simpson riding for owner/trainer Anthony Ferguson, went wire to wire in the 50th anniversary of the Frankie Frazer Memorial Cup feature over 1300 metres at Caymanas Park yesterday.
Trio of teams in fight for survival
BESIDES HEART, mathematics and good fortune will play a crucial role in determining which of three teams survive the drop on this the final day of the National Premier League.
Record-breaking Aiken fires 'Birds' to victory
TEENAGE JAMAICA goal-shooting sensation Romelda Aiken placed her named in the netball record books when the Queensland Firebirds retained their lead at the top of the table in the ANZ League Championship with a comprehensive 66-52 win to overwhelm the New South Wales Swifts on Friday night.
Girls have the talent, says Simoes
NATIONAL TECHNICAL director Rene Simoes singled out confidence as one of the major tools required for local female footballers looking to play the game at a higher level and, in the same breath, the Brazilian encouraged them to seize every available opportunity with both hands.
Strikers squeeze into semis
Millennium Strikers' Julieth Thomas (left) prepares to throw the ball ahead of Jetsetters' Ovorita Porteous during their JNA/Supreme Ventures quarter-final at the Leila Robinson Courts yesterday.
Parchment to lead charge against Aussies
WEST INDIES representative Brenton Parchment has been chosen to lead Jamaica in a three-day practice match against Australia later this week.
Kerr chases dream
As Usain Bolt soaked up the enormity and adulation of his feat last week, another young athlete, born in the Chinese Year of the Tiger - 1986, just like the sprinter, was pounding the pavements of Kingston to keep alive his hopes of representing Jamaica at the Olympics.
Ricketts keeping in shape with U21s
WHILE WAITING on another UK work permit to resume his professional football career in England, first-choice national goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts has been keeping in form by working out with the national U-20 team, which is preparing for World Cup qualifiers in July.
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