Back with one-day crown - U-19 team happy despite missing regional double
If the words of Jamaica's coaches and players at the TCL West Indies Under-19 cricket tournament are anything to go by, the national team was the best at the three-week long championships. The championships ended with the one-day final in St. Kitts last Saturday...
Successes crown Wilson as Caribbean 'king'
Jamaica's Brandon Wilson followed up his win at the CMMB Caribbean Open Chess Championships held in Trinidad and Tobago with an emphatic win at the Sagicor Open Junior Chess Championship held in Barbados last week...
NBA youngsters outshine Team USA
LAS VEGAS (AP): It's a good thing Team USA wasn't playing Brazil or Argentina last Saturday. The Americans had trouble shooting against zone defenses in splitting a four-quarter scrimmage with the United States select team, comprised of younger NBA...
Tired Tiger takes a break
The PGA Tour has touted its new FedEx Cup competition by making references to the Green Bay Packers and New York Yankees. But when golf's version of the play-offs begin this week in New York, it won't include Tiger Woods.
McCook wins tight race for NACAC presidency
Jamaica's Neville 'Teddy' McCook is the new president of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC). In a close race held in Osaka, Japan, yesterday, McCook edged out Keith Joseph of St.Vincent and the Grenadines - who failed to report...
WICB to review semi-final rule
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Tournament organisers will be reviewing the controversial semi-final rule that kept Barbados out of the TCL West Indies Under-19 one-day final, in a bizarre conclusion to the tournament last week in St. Kitts...
Decision time for KSAFA U-15 finalist
The extensive delay of the Kingston and St.Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Under-15 league final has served as a 'demotivating factor' to the only team certain to play in the championship game, Harbour View Football Club (HVFC).
England score huge win
SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP):England defeated India by 104 runs with maiden centuries from Alastair Cook and Ian Bell and a four-wicket haul from fast bowler James Anderson in the first of seven One-Day Internationals yesterday. England set India a target of 289 to win at the Rose Bowl...
Indian Board sacks Dev as academy head
NEW DELHI (AP):India's World Cup-winning skipper Kapil Dev was sacked yesterday as head of the national academy for joining an unofficial league that has challenged the cricket board's authority. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), said it...
Davenport's comeback postponed by rain
NEW HAVEN, Conn.(AP): Lindsay Davenport's return to professional tennis was postponed yesterday when her doubles match at the Pilot Pen event was bumped because of rain. Davenport gave birth to her first child, Jagger Jonathan Leach, in June and has not played since..
Federer, Henin top seedings
NEW YORK (AP): Three-time defending champion Roger Federer was seeded No.1 at the U.S. Open for the fourth consecutive year, and Justine Henin topped the women's seedings yesterday. Thirteen players who have won Grand Slam titles are among the 32 men and 32 women seeded...
Pollard rues non-selection
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):Trinidad and Tobago's hard-hitting batsman, Kieron Pollard, is disappointed over his non-selection for the International Cricket Council's Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa next month. Anticipating selection, the 20-year-old Pollard had been preparing...
Logie hails Bermuda U-19s for earning World Cup spot
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): National coach Gus Logie has saluted Bermuda's young cricketers after they secured a place in next year's Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia by narrowly beating Canada in Toronto at the weekend. Logie singled out Under-19 coaches...
No immediate decision on Vick
NEW YORK (AP) National Football League (NFL) commissioner Roger Goddell is not rushing to judgment on disciplinary action against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick. In all likelihood, Goodell will wait until Vick enters a guilty plea Monday to federal ...
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