More silver for Jamaica - Team rises to seventh in standings
Members of Jamaica's silver medal winning 4x100m teams pose on yesterday's penultimate day of the 12th IAAF World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
A sister act Jamaican style
WHILE THE Williams sisters battled each other for the coveted Wimbledon championship last week in England, another pair of sisters were fighting to retain their titles at the 2008 Pan Caribbean All Jamaica Junior Tennis Championships at the Eric Bell Tennis Centre in Kingston.
Reid quits as coach of Granville
TOP FEMALE football coach Tracy Reid, who guided St. James' Granville FC to three titles in her four years as head coach, has announced her resignation from the club with immediate effect, citing irreconcilable differences with other members of the club.
MIND YOUR BUSINESS
The Gleaner swamped pre-season favourites Supreme Ventures 4-1 at the Constant Spring playfield last Monday to advance to the semi-finals of the KSAFA/Scotia Bank-sponsored Business House KO football competition.
Hope renewed in Payne Land
A HOME-MADE basketball hoop sits in the centre of the section of Payne Land known as High Rise. The familiar inner-city apartment blocks surround the hoop and a 30' x 30' concrete playing surface. Children take aim in the midday sun, hoping one day to represent their community.
A match, a spectacle to remember
THE PAST week was an interesting time for sport, what with Michael Holding resigning from the ICC's Cricket Committee, the ICC bending backwards to accommodate Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka giving their players the go-ahead to play in the IPL next year despite despite a clash with their tour of England.
Shoucair champions Jamaica's combined team
PAUL SHOUCAIR not only finances the Busta Fighters, through Jamaica Beverages' sponsorship, but is also the martial arts team's biggest fan.
Alsafra wins Triple Crown
THE GUINEAS and Derby winner, ALSAFRA, stamped herself as the best three-year-old filly since the 1984 'Horse of the Year' THORNBIRD, completing a unique Triple Crown in winning the season's final classic, the RJR Jamaica St Leger over 2000 metres at Caymanas Park yesterday.
McInnis stars as Westmoreland retain Super League spot
WESTMORELAND WILL again ply their trade in the Jamaican Super League, after completing a convincing five-wicket win over Kensington in a play-off encounter at Sabina Park yesterday.
England have SA on the ropes
SPINNER MONTY Panesar took four wickets for 74 yesterday to help England dismiss South Africa for 247 and force the tourists to follow on at Lord's on the third day of the first Test.
Jamaica team aiming for more medals
A STRONG 28-member Jamaica badminton team will depart the island today for Junior Pan American Championships, which will be held in Guatemala City from July 15-20.
St Catherine and St Andrew claim the parish titles
ST CATHERINE and St Andrew captured the male and female parish titles on the second day of the national table tennis championships at G.C. Foster College yesterday.
Marketing is a vital strategy for success
A NUMBER of key players in western Jamaica's football are convinced that strengthening the marketing arm is a key element for elevating its status, according to feedback from an Editor's Forum hosted by The Gleaner at its Western Bureau on Thursday.
Time for Confederation to show some unity
RIDDLED BY political infighting and crippled by internal bickering for at least a decade, football's Western Confederation, spurred by the region's lack of success at the top level, finally appears set to put forward a unified front.
It's not all doom and gloom, say football bosses
AMID THE gloom surrounding the relegation of Seba United from the National Premier League and the failure of Wadadah to advance from a subsequent play-off tournament, football administrators in the west remain convinced that the region's football is not in as bad a shape as it would appear.
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