Waterhouse, Harbour View to resume KO final Friday
THE ABANDONED final of the Jackie Bell Knockout football competition will be completed at the Edward Seaga Complex on Friday afternoon at 4:00. Sunday's final, which was abandoned with 15 minutes remaining because of unruly crowd behaviour at the Harbour View Mini Stadium ...
Final-round action fires up
DEFENDING champions Harbour View and Water-house hope to come flying out the gate for the third and final round of the Cash Plus Premier League (CPPL), but they face tough opposition against St. Georges and Seba today. Following a slip-up by second-place Tivoli Gardens...
Tivoli stunned in Trelawny
TIVOLI GARDENS' manager, Brian Rose, was at a loss for words to explain the championship contenders' humiliating 3-0 defeat at the hands of cellar team Village United, in the Cash Plus Premier League at Elliston Wakeland Centre on Sunday....
Skyway Express ready to fly high
THE AMERICAN five-year-old gelding SKYWAY EXPRESS, can score a fitting victory in the three-year-old and up overnight allowance race for the Wayne DaCosta Trophy at Caymanas Park today.Significantly, the race is run in honour of seven-time champion trainer DaCosta...
Stars up for grabs at high-tech auction
MUMBAI, India (AP): INDIA'S CRICKET experts are fine-tuning software programmes and crunching numbers ahead of a landmark auction today to secure the world's best players in a brand new Twenty20 league. Team owners - featuring billionaires and Bollywood...
Referees and those contentious decisions
YOU'D LAUGH to hear some of the things referees joke about.Funny, they are meant to make you laugh, that's why they call them jokes.Like getting stoned for being brave enough to make marginal calls that impact heavily against a team with fanatical...
Liverpool walk over Inter Milan
LONDON (AP): LIVERPOOL, AS Roma and Schalke each made good use of home-field advantage yesterday, winning their matches in the first leg of the Champions League's second round.Chelsea, however, were held to a 0-0 draw at Olympiakos. Dirk Kuyt and Steven Gerrard scored...
Things are looking good for Barcelona
LONDON (AP): FC BARCELONA already got one bit of luck in the last week and another could put them on the verge of a place in the Champions League quarter-finals. Barca are at Celtic today in the first leg of the second round, just four days after the award of a dubious, late penalty kick...
Calabar, George's through to semis
CALABAR AND St.George's got by St. Catherine and Excelsior to book their places in the semi-finals of the ISSA/KFC Southern Conference Under-19 schoolboy basketball competition at the National Stadium courts yesterday. In Under-16 action, the final semi-final spots ...
Sigma Run for renal units across the island
"FOR CORPORATE Jamaica, the Sigma Run is a matchless opportunity for us to get behind a common goal," said Steven Gooden, vice-president and general manager of the Pan Caribbean Asset Management Company Limited, at yesterday's launch of the annual Sigma Corporate Run...
T&T plans to put spin on Barbados
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): TRINIDAD AND Tobago are plotting to strangle Barbados with spin in Friday's semi-final of the Stanford Twenty20 tournament."Our spinners are expected to play a major role in the semi-finals against Barbados.
Bull Bay upset Mt View United
BULL BAY United created a major upset in the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Super League on the weekend when they defeated Mountain View United 5-0 to increase their points total to 26, dethroning group leaders Meadhaven United, who remain on 24 points....
FIFA slams proposal
LONDON (AP): FIFA's OPPOSITION to the Premier League's plan to play an additional round of matches overseas in the 2010-11 season could kill the proposal.Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, facing hostile questioning from a parliamentary committee yesterday...
Pakistan defeat Kiwis
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP):DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Pakistan recovered from a poor start to beat New Zealand by 27 runs and India outclassed South Africa in a six-wicket win in first-round matches yesterday at the Under-19 World Cup. Australia defeated Nepal...
London draws tough line on drug cheats
MELBOURNE (AP): ATHLETICS LUMINARY Sebastien Coe doubts the sport would survive another doping scandal the likes of one which last month landed Marion Jones a prison sentence. Coe, who won two Olympic 1,500-metres gold medals and is now head of the London...
Dhoni carries India home
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP): MAHENDRA SINGH Dhoni posted the winning runs and his half century with the same shot, leading India to a two-wicket win over Sri Lanka with five balls to spare in yesterday's tri-series limited-overs international. Dhoni, expected to be one of the hottest....
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