RATIFIED - IAAF certifies Bolt's 100-metre world record
MONTE CARLO, Monaco (AP): Usain Bolt's 100-metre world record was ratified yesterday by the Inter-national Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The Jamaican sprinter ran the 100 in 9.72 seconds on May 31 in New York, breaking Asafa Powell's...
Hue, Kelly recalled
Harbour View mid-fielders Jermaine Hue and Keith Kelly could well be singing the Bob Marley song Coming in From The Cold, as both have been included in a 23-man local-based squad to begin training on Thursday, August 7, for the country's upcoming World...
Jamaica move into quarters
JUVANE Benjamin scored nine minutes from time to hand Jamaica's Under-17s a crucial 1-0 win over the Dominican Republic, in a Group E Caribbean Football Union Youth Cup match, at Fatima College in Trinidad and Tobago, yesterday...
Wilmot, Phillips emerge overall champions
Following the third and final event of the Jamaica Surfing Associations (JSA) 2008 National Junior Surfing Championship Series, Ivah Wilmot, on 2,670 points and Ackeam Phillips (2,860), were crowned national under-16 and Under-18 champions...
Weeding out the cheats - Dopers caught before they get to Olympics
BEIJING (AP):There's one good way of avoiding a rash of damaging doping scandals at the Olympics: Catch the drug cheats before they get there.The policy seems to be working ahead of the Beijing Games, with dozens of Olympic athletes from different sports ...
Pietersen appointed England captain
LONDON (AP):Kevin Pietersen's remarkable career took its latest and arguably most dramatic turn yesterday when he was named England cricket captain. The South African-born batsman will lead England in Test, one-day and Twenty20 matches, starting with the fourth Test...
Local 'ballers surrender lead - Draw hands Haiti group honours
BROOKLYN, New York (CMC): In what has been described as their best display this season, Haiti held defending champions Jamaica to a 2-2 draw Sunday to win Zone I of the New York Caribbean Football Cup. Two goals down half hour into the final match of Sunday's triple header...
Alpart make light work of champions
Former champions Alpart thrashed defending champions Windalco 4-1 in the opening game of the Inter-Bauxite table tennis men's competition last Saturday, at Kirkvine Sports Club.Alpart got off to a fast start when Robert Gabay blew away defending singles...
Tiger on the mend
AKRON, Ohio (AP): PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem saw Tiger Woods for the first time since his season-ending surgery and reported Sunday that the No. 1-ranked golfer was his usual self, except for being about 10 pounds lighter and walking with a slight limp...
T&T cruise into semi-final
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):Trinidad & Tobago guaranteed themselves a spot in the semi-final of the inaugural Caribbean Football Union Girls Invitational Champion-ship, with a solid whipping of Anguilla on Sunday. Striker Jo-Marie Lewis...
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