Bolt could have run 9.55- physicist
OSLO, Norway (AP):Usain Bolt could have run the 100-metre Olympic final in 9.55 seconds if he had not slowed down to celebrate winning gold, a Norwegian physicist said yesterday."We estimate that he could have finished the race...
Champions Garvey,JC to kickoff season
Western Bureau: First-time champions Gar-vey Maceo are favoured to begin the defence of their Inter-Secondary Sports Association/Pepsi/Digicel daCosta Cup title on a winning note this afternoon at...
Ivan The Terrible for Viceroy Trophy
Grade one horses hold centre stage at Caymanas Park today when they contest the $900,000 Viceroy Trophy race over 1800 metres feature event on the 10-race programme.The race is run annually in honour of the three-time 'Horse...
Powell gets another shot at world record
STUTTGART, Germany (AP):Asafa Powell will get another shot at regaining the world record in the 100 metres at the World Athletics Final today.After five races in eight days, however, Powell may not have enough left to challenge his Jamaican countryman...
Premier league to kick off Sept 21
Following a third week of postponement, the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) yesterday announced that the way is now clear for the National Premier League (NPL), under the banner of new title-sponsors Digicel, to finally get...
Carl Lewis questions Bolt's form, Ja's testing
MIAMI, United States (CMC): American Olympic legend Carl Lewis has raised stern doubts over Usain Bolt's recent stunning performances, but has stopped short of accusing the Jamaican sprint marvel of doping.
Pakistan invites WI for Tests
KARACHI, Pakistan (CMC):The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said yesterday they had invited the West Indies to play a two-Test series here in November, in an attempt to compensate for the postponed ICC Champions Trophy."We have formally...
Melbourne, Westmoreland clash
Eight of the island's top cricket teams will be in action today in the quarter-final round of Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) limited overs competition.In the feature game, champions Melbourne will play Westmoreland at...
Keane calls Warner a 'clown'
LONDON, England (CMC): Sunderland manager Roy Keane has dismissed regional football guru Jack Warner as a "clown" and says he is a "disgrace" for handling the Dwight Yorke issue in the way he has.The former Irish international was responding after Warner...
Boyz hanging by a thread
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras:WISHING on a hope and a prayer. That's the position the Reggae Boyz have found themselves in, following a 0-2 loss to Honduras in their Group Two CONCACAF semi-final round World Cup qualifier at the Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on Wednesday night.
General Accident won't take Air Jamaica lightly
Defending Champions General Accident will oppose Air Jamaica in today's feature game of the Locker Room Sports/Business House Super League netball competition, at the Leila Robinson Courts, starting at 6:30p.m.
BRIEFS
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC):Football's world governing body, FIFA, has slapped a US$ 16 000 (EC$ 42 000) fine on the Grenada Football Association for failing to send a team to participate in a qualifying round of the Under 17 World Cup...
DaCosta Cup 2008 - Maceo the team to beat
WESTERN BUREAU: WHILE THEY no longer have the services of prolific striker Ashton Bennett, the man who lit up their campaign with 37 goals last season, champions Garvey Maceo, with 75 per cent of their victorious team lining up to defend their title, must be the team to beat this season.
Central vs west tug-of-war looms
WESTERN BUREAU: IF THE recent history of the daCosta Cup is anything to go by, the 2008 season should boil down to a face-off between the big guns from central Jamaica and western Jamaica, the two dominant regions over the past 25 years.Since the fabulous 1981 Dinthill...
THE GLEANER's FAB 5
GARVEY MACEO: Position last season: Champions (defeated Glenmuir in the final).Number of players retained: 75 per cent of last year's squad.New players to watch: Players from last year's Under-16 team who are looking to break into the team.Returning...
What next for the Reggae Boyz?
RENÉ SIMOES' second stint at the helm of the good ship Reggae Boyz ended ignominiously early Thurs-day morning when Captain Horace Burrell made him walk the plank.In what must have been an incredibly tough decision, Burrell put performance before...
Performer of the week: Easy does it, Asafa
MANY TRACK-and-field fans see running in the 9.7+ seconds range these days as slow or not worth talking about.But, just three years ago, before Asafa Powell made running in the 9.7s look easy, anything under 10 seconds was...
In your neighbourhood
Several cricket matches will be played this weekend across the island as four venues will be used in each parish to facilitate the elimination process of the National Community Cricket Competition.This is...
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