Jamaica Gleaner Sport

Published: Monday Thursday | November 12, 2009

Thomas gets late call - Bafana Bafana recall star striker McCarthy
Chivas USA defender Shavar Thomas has benefited from his team's elimination from the US Major League Soccer championship with a national recall. The 26-year-old defender will travel today today with the Reggae Boyz to South Africa for a friendly international against... Read More...

St James, Glenmuir advance
Western Bureau: Reigning champions St James High School and newly crowned Ben Francis KO champions Glenmuir were among the eight teams that qualified for the quarter-final round of the 2009 ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel daCosta Cup, following yesterday's final round of inter-zone games... Read More...

KC still in the hunt
Kingston College (KC) kept their hopes alive of progressing to the semi-finals of the urban area ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel Manning Cup senior schoolboy football league competition, following their 2-1 win over Tivoli High in Group Three action yesterday at the Constant Spring... Read More...

'Bimbo' looking to go out in style
TEN STARTERS have been declared for the first-ever Legends and Veterans Jockeys race to be run over 800 metres straight at Caymanas Park tomorrow. Even with Donovan Lindo and Winston Ford - two jockeys who excelled in the '70s - unable to come... Read More...

Wizards determined to build momentum
Tivoli Gardens Wizards will be looking to build on their momentum for the National Basketball League (NBL)/Flow play-offs, when they oppose Selassie Gardens in their last preliminary-round match at the National Stadium... Read More...

UWI bolsters sporting ranks - Racers, HPTC now official members of institution's team
A 20-year deal with the Racers Track Club and an agreement with the IAAF High Performance Training Centre (HPTC) are just a few of the steps being taken by officials at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, as they move to pair sporting excellence... Read More...

T&F development at core of Powell foundation
Springing from an idea in the mind of one of the fastest men in history, the Asafa Powell Foundation (APF) became a reality in the Port Antonio Suite of the Pegasus hotel on Tuesday night.Before a healthy turnout of fellow athletes, track and field officialdom... Read More...