Francis blasts the JAAA
This is the second and final part of an interview with top Jamaican coach Stephen Francis. SEVERAL OF the world's leading athletes will be converging at the National Stadium tomorrow night to compete at the Jamaica International Invitational meet. They include American Tyson Gay...
Trainers on the warpath
AN IRATE group of trainers and assistant trainers, numbering more than a hundred, has written to the Jamaica Racing Commission (JRC) requesting that the March 30 elections, which returned Vincent Edwards as president of the Jamaica Racehorse Trainers Association (JRTA)...
Discipline did it for us - Dixon
PORTMORE UNITED coach Linval Dixon has credited his side's Premier League victory to discipline and consistency over an extended season, featuring five additional games, which took a toll on other teams. "Our discipline was on a high and we stuck together as a team," Dixon said...
Would new coach help Powell deliver?
WITH THE 2008 Olympic Games less than 100 days away, should the world's fastest man, Asafa Powell, after failing to realise his full potential at the 2004 Games and last year's IAAF World Athletics Championships, have considered a coaching change?...
Wizards snatch crucial victory
CLEVELAND (AP): WASHINGTON'S CARON Butler made a lay-up with 3.9 seconds left and Cleveland's LeBron James missed a potential series-ending shot at the horn, giving the Wizards an 88-87 victory over the Cavaliers on Wednesday night to cut the deficit in their play-off series...
Mavericks fire coach Johnson
DALLAS (AP):THE DALLAS Mavericks fired coach Avery Johnson on Tuesday, a move that likely was the first of many in the off-season by the club.Despite having the National Basketball Association's (NBA) highest annual payroll, Dallas were eliminated in...
FROM THE BOUNDARY - It's now Man U vs Chelsea
AFTER MANY, many months of action all across Europe, the Champions League football tournament has reached its showdown match - its championship match. Probably not to the surprise of many but a little bit to me, on Wednesday, May 21, in Moscow, it will...
Single overseas player selected
AFRIKA MORRIS is the only overseas-based player selected by the Jamaica Netball Association (JNA) to its Under-21 fourteen-woman squad for next month's three-Test series against Australia. Morris, formerly of St Hugh's, now attends Leeds Metropolitan University in England...
Jamaican Bridgmohan to ride Pyro in Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (CMC):TOP THREE-year-old colt PYRO, to be ridden by Jamaican jockey Shaun Bridgmohan, was drawn on Wednesday to run from post position nine in tomorrow's 134th Kentucky Derby at the Churchill Downs racetrack. Bridgmohan, who rode...
HORSE SENSE - Racing in Trinidad
The Trinidad racing scene is bubbling with excitement. The Betting and Levy Board have recently increased purses by some 400 per cent, repeat 400 per cent. Their top race, the Gold Cup for 3-y-o and up, going over 2000 metres (similar to our Supersakes) and run on Boxing Day...
NCB Capital Markets polo
The prestigious NCB Capital Markets Limited High Goal Challenge Polo Tournament takes place at the Kingston Polo Club, Caymanas Estates, this Sunday with four participating teams. Plans for the event were outlined by representatives of NCB Capital Markets Limited...
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