Jamaica Gleaner Sport
Published: Monday Tuesday | November 3, 2009
JFF to discuss English FA debt - Burrell expected to be served with summons for balance incurred by Boxhill team
THE JAMAICA FOOTBALL Federation (JFF) top brass is expected to decide today on how to proceed in the matter regarding English-based event management firm, NVA Manage-ment, after bailiffs were sent to the federation's New Kingston secretariat last Thursday to settle... Read More...
World's fastest man adopts world fastest feline
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP): The world's fastest man adopted the animal kingdom's fastest sprinter yesterday, as Usain Bolt welcomed a new baby cheetah named 'Lightning Bolt' into his life. The Jamaican sprinter's sponsorship of the three-month-old male cheetah... Read More...
JC resume quest for double
Jamaica College (JC), fresh from their Walker Cup triumph, will meet Calabar High in the opening match of today's double-header, as the ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel urban area Manning Cup schoolboy football competition resumes with second round matches, at the Constant Spring Complex... Read More...
St Georges take aim at DPL title
Two years after gaining promotion to the nation's top-flight football competition, Portland-based outfit St Georges Sports Club have been busy carving out a solid reputation. They are within touching distance of the Digicel Premier League (DPL) end-of-first... Read More...
Vernal marks return with a double
George Vernal made good his return to the Boys' Town team with a spectacular double strike to further complicate Sporting Central Academy's woes, inflicting a 2-1 beating in their Digicel Premier League encounter at Brancourt on Sunday... Read More...
Lamey, English help 'Firehouse' climb
Striker Kevin Lamey is a big reason why Waterhouse are climbing the points table rapidly in the Digicel Premier League. Lamey, the player 'Firehouse' fans affectionately call 'King' Lamey, scored twice, in the 49th and 88th minutes in Waterhouse's 4-1 drubbing... Read More...
'Don't leave us now' - Duckie appeals to Sporting Central's fans
The spate of consecutive defeats in the Digicel Premier League, which now number five, has seemingly passed the worrying stage for Sporting Central Academy hierarchy and even their fiercest competitors. Last week, after watching Kevin Lamey inflict... Read More...
Four from 'makeshift' West Indies team selected
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): Four players from the controversial makeshift outfit have been retained, but selectors yesterday named a full-strength 15-man squad for the tour of Australia, ending a dark period in West Indies cricket where the best players... Read More...
Bryan - We have learnt from 2007 CWC
Tournament director of the ICC World Twenty20 (WT20) WI 2010, Richard Bryan, says regional organisers learnt valuable lessons from the 2007 Cricket World Cup, which they will use to enhance next year's staging of cricket's newest showpiece event... Read More...
Gayle the unanimous choice
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Chris Gayle was the unanimous choice to lead West Indies on the three-Test tour of Australia, chairman of selectors Clyde Butts revealed yesterday. The Jamaican, who has led the regional side for the last two years... Read More...
Antigua to revoke Stanford knighthood
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): Disgraced billionaire cricket financier Sir Allen Stanford is to have his knighthood revoked by Antigua, the first time in the country's history officials have ever withdrawn its second highest honour.Dr Jacqui Quinn-Leandro... Read More...
French duo cop major titles at Rose Hall triathlon
Western Bureau: Nicolas Becker and Isabelle Ferrer, both from France, emerged the toast of Saturday's second renewal of the WATA Rose Hall triathlon when they captured the international male and female titles, respectively, in the tri-dimensional event staged against... Read More...
