Jamaica Gleaner Sport
Published: Monday Sunday | December 6, 2009
Prolific Brown hands STETHS crown
St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) won their third ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel daCosta Cup title yesterday afternoon, when they clipped first-time finalists Manchester High School 1-0 in the 2009 finals at Jarrett Park in Montego Bay. Read More...
Teacher wins Reggae Marathon
Thirty-two-year-old Physical education teacher, Rupert Green, clocked 2:31:50 to lift the ninth Reggae Marathon championship title in Negril yesterday. Green eclipsed veteran long-distance runners Linton McKenzie and Justin Henry, who clocked 2:40:11 and 2:56:01, respectively, to cop second and third places. Read More...
Lamey ... Waterhouse's football 'king'
Waterhouse Football Club (WFC) striker Kevin Lamey is an anomaly in modern football, having spent 14 consecutive years at one club. He has in the process written his name on the hearts of the fans, having scored more than 250 goals. Read More...
Red-hot 'Firehouse' aim to celebrate in style
RAMPANT Waterhouse will look to crown their 30th-anniversary celebrations in style with victory over St Georges Sports Club when both teams meet in a Digicel Premier League second-round match at Waterhouse Mini-Stadium this evening at 6:00. Read More...
Wrong move by the gentlemen of cricket
The Jamaica Cricket Association's (JCA) annual awards function held at the Hilton Kingston Hotel recently was a wonderful affair. In my humble opinion, but for one or two presentations, it was from start to finish a thing of beauty and something of which the cricket fraternity should be proud. Read More...
Queen's Park CC names Darren Bravo Sportsman of the Year
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): The famous Queen's Park Cricket Club (QPCC) named the young West Indies batsman Darren Bravo its 2009 Sportsman of the Year at the club's annual awards and dinner on Friday night. Read More...
Lack of guaranteed lighting stumps Jamaica's bid
Paul Campbell, president of the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA), says the time period specified for the issuing of a government guarantee regarding the implementation of lights at Sabina Park was the main reason behind Jamaica not getting to host matches in next year's ICC World Twenty20 Championship, which will be held here in the Caribbean. Read More...
Nash's faith pays rich dividends
ADELAIDE, Australia (CMC):Brendan Nash felt aggrieved that he failed to score his second Test hundred, but regarded his faith in the lower-order batsmen more valuable to the short-term future of West Indies. Read More...
Work on stadium pool could begin in January
The long-awaited work on the National Stadium swimming pool is expected to finally get under way in January 2010 after the Government committed a portion of funds towards the project, according to John Eyre, president of the Amateur Swimming Association of Jamaica (ASAJ). Read More...
Saint Cecelia mines Gold
The 1000 Guineas and Oaks winner SAINT CECELIA went wire-to-wire at Caymanas Park yesterday to win the 38th running of the CTL Gold Cup over 1400 metres in a driving finish from the talented American filly HONEYOFALADY. Read More...
Bloomfield creates history
Jamaica's Johnny Bloomfield created history yesterday afternoon at the Half Moon Golf Course in Montego Bay, when he became the first man to win the Lime Jamaica Golf Open three consecutive times. Read More...
Bennett wants more from quicks
National senior team coach, Junior Bennett, has given a passing grade to his batsmen, but marked down the fast bowlers for their inconsistent line as the final Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) trial enters its penultimate day today at Melbourne Oval. Read More...
Recession hits JMMC rally with low turnout
Teams from Barbados, St Vincent and a half team out of Trinidad and Tobago are the overseas participants slated to take part in the motor rally being co-hosted by the Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club (JMMC), Hilton Hotel and Petcom. Read More...
Campbell-Brown's group focuses on assisting primary schools
Veronica Campbell-Brown is getting used to her new training routine and home in the American city of Atlanta. The last couple of months have been about change for Jamaica's top female sprinter, after she changed her coach and moved with her husband and Jamaican quarter-miler Omar Brown from the town of Clermont in the American state of Florida. Read More...
