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Sports News...
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Jamaicans warm up for the Games in style
BEIJING, China (Reuters): Usain Bolt jamming Bob Marley, Maurice
Smith posing on the catwalk and Shevon Stoddard modelling a
track outfit that would have her arrested if she ventured
outside - welcome to Olympic preparation Jamaica style.
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Caribbean
Sports News
Friday , July 25, 2008
Merlene Ottey has failed in her final attempt to achieve the
100m qualifying time that would have taken her to an
unprecedented eighth Olympic Games.
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 Caribbean
Sports News
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Jamaican-born
sprinter Merlene Ottey is reportedly trying for an astounding
eighth appearance at an Olympic Games. ....Read
More
 Caribbean
Sports News
Friday, July 4, 2008
To millions of US wrestling fans,
Kofi Kingston is the first Jamaican wrestler in World Wrestling
Entertainment (WWE), however, he is NOT Jamaican....
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 Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Former Brazilian football star Pele has
been robbed by an armed gang while on his way to his
seaside home. ...
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 Trinidad
Loss Shocks CONCACAF
Published June 15th,
2008
The top teams in the CONCACAF zone started down the road
to the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ this weekend.
And while most contests went according to the script or
thereabouts, there were a few shocks, most notably
Trinidad and Tobago's 2-1 loss to rank outsiders Bermuda
on home soil.
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 Sarwan
Century Seals Windies Draw
Published Thursday, June 5, 2008
A superb rearguard century from skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan
helped the West Indies to draw the second Test Match
against Australia in Antigua..
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More
 World
Record For Jamaican Usain Bolt!
Published:
Sunday | June 1st, 2008
Twenty-one-year-old Usain
Bolt is the new world record-holder in the Men's 100
meters after smashing Asafa Powell's 10-month-old mark
with a brilliant, scintillating 9.72 seconds at the
Reebok Grand Prix at the Icahan Stadium in New York on
the night of Saturday, May 31st...
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 Caribbean
Sports News.....
Published:
Wednesday |
May 21st, 2008
Manchester United have won
the Champions League after beating Chelsea 6-5 in a
penalty shoot-out in Moscow....
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 Caribbean
Sports News.....
Published:
Sunday |
May 11th, 2008
St. Vincent and the Grenadines star
quarter miler, Kineke Alexander, is preparing herself secretly
to become her country’s first-ever 400m female finalist.....
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 USA
vs. World
Penn
Relay Results
Published:
Saturday |
April 26th, 2008
Check out the results of the Team
USA relays in the men's the women's 4x100, 4x400, men's distance
medley and women's sprint medley which was broadcast live on
ESPN2 from 2-4 p.m. Eastern Time. The Caribbean nationals
represented to the fullest!!...
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 Jamaican
Cyclist Alden Clunis Is Dead
published: Thursday |
April 17th, 2008
The Jamaican cycling fraternity is mourning the loss of
local rider Alden Clunis, who succumbed to injuries
sustained in a traffic accident last Thursday along the
Stony Hill to Temple Hall roadway.
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 Stalemate
at The Office
published:
Thursday | March 27, 2008
CAPTAIN AURTIS Whitely rifled a spectacular left-footed goal in
the 90th minute to earn Trinidad and Tobago a 2-2 draw against
the
Reggae
Boyz as the
Caribbean heavyweights clashed in a friendly international at
the National Stadium last night.
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Windies Lose Again?
published:
Thursday | March 27, 2008
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Despite showing valiant fighting
spirit, West Indies handed Sri Lanka their first Test win in
the Caribbean after losing the opening Digicel Test by 121
runs in the dying stages of the final day at the Guyana
National Stadium.
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 Caribbean
Sports Round-up
Published
S aturday,
March 15th, 2008
Adam Hyde is not sure if he is the first Jamaican to reach
Kilimanjaro's highest peak, Uhuru, but he certainly took on
Africa's tallest mountain. ...
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More
 Caribbean
Sports Round-up
Published
Sunday, March 2nd 2008
Andrew Strauss says he has rekindled his
international form ahead of the first Test against New Zealand.
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 Caribbean
Sports Round-up
Published
Thursday February
21, 2008
West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels will undergo independent
analysis of his bowling action after being reported for a suspected
illegal technique. ...
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 Caribbean
Sports Round-up
Published
Sunday February 17, 2008
Jamaica's former world boxing champion Glen
Johnson sent a stern knockout message to world light heavyweight
king Chad Dawson ....
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 Caribbean
Sports Round-up
Published
Wednesday February 13, 2008
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) - World 100 meters record
holder Asafa Powell said yesterday he has withdrawn from the
Sydney grand prix athletics meeting on Saturday with a cut knee. ..
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 Nephew
Gets Life For Trevor Berbick's Murder
Published
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
In Jamaica, the nephew of former World Heavy Weight Boxing Champion
Trevor Berbick has been sentenced to life imprisonment for his
murder. ... Read More
 Premiership
Uncertainty
Published Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
CAPTAIN
Horace Burrell, who recently yanked the reins of the Jamaica
Football Federation from Crenston Boxhill, yesterday counted his
words, refusing to delve into the uncertainty now surrounding
sponsorship of the Cash Plus Premier League ...
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 WINDIES
WIN! Finally!!
Published Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Few gave West Indies any chance of
breaking their downhill slide when they started the three-Test
series in South Africa, but it has taken them just four days to turn
things around... Read More
 Caribbean
Sports Update... Asafa Powell Best Male Athlete For 2007
Published Friday, December 28th, 2007
Asafa Powell was elected the best Central
American and Caribbean Male Athlete of the year...
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 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Published Sunday,
December 9th, 2007
Digicel, the largest sponsors of football in the
Caribbean, on Friday, December 7th announced details of the
‘Digicel Kick Start Football Clinics’, which will offer talented
young footballers a once in a lifetime chance to learn
invaluable football skills.... Read More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Published Thursday November 29th,
2007
In Jamaica, Parliament on Tuesday paid tribute to Olympian Herb
Henry McKenley who died on Monday at the University Hospital of the
West Indies.... Read More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Published Wednesday November 28th,
2007
One of Barbados' outstanding young athletes is dead. Former Grantley
Adams Memorial School and Rising Stars track club athlete Angus
Pierre died last Sunday... Read More
 Caribbean
Sports News
published:
Saturday | November 17th 2007
Netball:
Despite putting up a valiant fight, Jamaica's Sunshine Girls
were beaten 59-49 by defending champions New Zealand, in their
semi-final clash at the 12th World Netball
Championships in Auckland, New Zealand....
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 Caribbean
Sports Round Up...
Published
Sunday,
October 14th, 2007
Port Au Prince, Haiti - Jamaica's
chances of advancing to the football tournament at the Beijing
Olympics took a nosedive... Read More
 Caribbean
Sports Round Up...
Published
Sunday,
October 7th, 2007
IAAF
president Lamine Diack believes disgraced American sprinter
Marion Jones will be remembered as "one of the biggest
frauds in sporting history"...
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 Girlz
seek 2nd win
Printed Friday 5th, 2007
Jamaica will
tackle Antigua and Barbuda in a top-of-the-table clash as the
second round of Group C, Caribbean First-Round Qualifiers takes
place at the Antigua Recreation Ground, starting at 2:45 pm
(local time).
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 Caribbean
Sports Round Up...
Published
Thursday,
August 16th, 2007
THE opening day of the Sherwin
Williams Women's Football League was tainted by a post-match
brawl... Read More
 Caribbean
Sports News
published:
Sunday | July 29, 2007
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - The quartet of Sherri-Ann
Brooks, Tracy-Ann Rowe, Aleen Bailey and Peta-Gaye Dowdie
won Jamaica's third gold medal at the 15th Pan American
Games in miserable weather at the Joao Havalage Stadium on
Saturday, July 28th.... Read More
Alia Goes for Gold
 Jamaica
could win its first medal on today's sixth day of the
competition at these XV (15th) Pan American Games, when
swimmer Alia Atkinson competes in the 100-meter butterfly
final at 10:34 am (8:34 am Jamaica time) at the Riocentro
Aquatic Park.
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'Stop investing in a dying sport'
published: Wednesday | June 20, 2007
WARNER
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC:
CARIBBEAN GOVERNMENTS have been chastised for their
over-obsession with
cricket while allowing football to suffer without
providing much-needed funding. Read More
 England
Beat West Indies Cricket Team in Leeds, England
Published
Tuesday,
May 29th, 2007
Michael Vaughan was delighted
with England's ruthless approach after they beat the West
Indies..... Read More
Jamaican High Relays Featured at Reebok Grand Prix
In addition to the more
than a dozen top stars of Jamaican track and field, led by
sprint queen Veronica Campbell, Jamaica's top boys
high school 4 x 400m relay teams will compete.....
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 ASAFA
Returns!
... makes season debut in Serbia on
May 29
Friday, May 11, 2007
THE long-awaited season debut of world 100-meter record-holder
Asafa Powell in his pet event will take place in 18 days at the
second Athletics Bet meet in Belgrade, Serbia.
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 Caribbean
Athletes Shine At Penn Relays In USA
Published:
Monday | April 30, 2007
Netherlands Antilles' world-rated
sprinter Churandy Martina made a successful start in the
100-metres this season, after he ran away with the event on the
final day of the Penn Relays....Read More
 Australia
Lifts World Cup Trophy
published: Sunday | April 29, 2007
Opener Adam Gilchrist's century was
overshadowed as Australia won a fourth World Cup amid scenes of high
farce..... Read More
 West
Indies Greats Pay Tribute To Lara
published:
Sunday | April 22, 2007
A host of former West Indies
greats have paid tribute to Brian Lara after the batsman revealed he
was retiring from all forms of cricket... Read
More
In Jamaican Politics, Cricket Always Wins
Letter from Jamaica
By Marc Lacey
Published: April 2, 2007
KINGSTON, Jamaica: Prime Minister
Portia Simpson-Miller of Jamaica is not a member
of the West Indies cricket team now competing in
the World Cup... Read More
of this letter
 West
Indies Team Fined For Slow Over Rate
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Georgetown, Guyana (CMC) - West Indies have been fined for a slow
over rate during their 113-run loss to Sri Lanka in their Cricket
World Cup, Super Eight match Sunday, April 1st, 2007....
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 Pakistanis
Hold Memorial Service For Woolmer
Tuesday April 3rd, 2007
Lahore, Pakistan (CMC) - A memorial service, with
a congregation of about 300, was held for Bob Woolmer
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More ICC CWC 2007 Super Eight
Tickets On Sale For Barbados
 West
Indies' World Cup Disasters Deal A Blow To Fragile Caribbean
Cricket
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
GEORGETOWN,
Guyana (AP) - It didn't look as though Brian Lara had lost a cricket
match. It was as if he had lost much more.
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Jamaican
police say cricket coach murdered
Published Thursday, March 22nd
Authorities said Thursday
that Pakistan’s cricket coach was strangled in his hotel room
the day after his team suffered a humiliating World Cup loss — a
murder that has shocked the proper world of cricket..
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West Indies
storm to opening victory
The West Indies
shrugged off any early-tournament nerves with a convincing 54-run
win over Pakistan in the opening match of the World Cup at Kingston
in Jamaica, with a notable allround performance from Dwayne Smith.
It was an impressive win, not least for their ability to absorb the
expectation of hosting their first World Cup.
Read More
 World
Cup Cricket Woes In Trinidad & Tobago
Published Saturday, March 10th 2007
St. Augustine, Trinidad
(Reuters): A pitch slammed as "unfit" by South Africa capped a
week of woe for 2007 World Cup organizers in Trinidad.
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 Caribbean
Sports News Updated...
Published Sunday, March 4th, 2007
In Guyana, Mortimer Stewart,
Banks DIH Sales and Marketing representative pledged the
company's continued assistance to the `I' Movement Group
promoters of today's 'Rasta' versus 'Baldhead' football
clash.... Read More
Mexican test
for U-20s
JAMAICA'S Under-20 team faces a sterner test at the Banorte Stadium
when they play host Mexico in the feature match here at 7:00 pm
(9:00 pm local time) in the Group B CONCACAF qualifiers.
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Oberlin clinch crown
published:
Wednesday | February 21, 2007
Shawn King of Oberlin races to victory in the boys'
Class One 200m in a record 22.18 on yesterday's final day of the
JN/JPS/Juciful Eastern Champs at the National Stadium. - Ricardo
Makyn/Staff Photographer.
Anthony Foster,
Freelance Reporter
IN THE closest championships in recent years,
Oberlin regained their title but Seaforth's Javere Bell was the
star of the two-day Eastern Secondary Schools Sports Association
(ESSSA) JN/JPS/Juciful Athletics Championships which ended at
the National Stadium. Read More
Fans now
collecting their World Cup tickets
Sunday, February 18,
2007
Cricket fans across the globe
have started receiving their ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 match
tickets and more will have them in hand by next week.
Read More
All systems go for CWC
Caribbean Sports News
Update.....
Published Saturday Feb. 10, 2007
ALTHOUGH acknowledging a "few issues", ICC Cricket World Cup West
Indies 2007 managing director Chris Dehring and ICC chief executive
Malcom Speed said all systems are go, while Dehring is excited about
hosting the international event that bowls off in the region from
March 13. Read More
 Caribbean
Sports News Update.....
Published Sunday, January 21st, 2007
English football club
Bradford City completed a hat-trick of Jamaican talent after another
Reggae Boy, Omar Daley, was given the green light from the British
Home Office to continue his career with the English League One
club... Read More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Published Wednesday January 10th,
2007
J amaica
Make Winning Start
Leeward Islands' captain Sylvester Joseph lashed an even,
unbeaten century but could not prevent Jamaica from snatching an
exciting five-wicket win at St Mary's Park.
Read
More
 Berbick's
Teenage Nephew Remanded
Saturday,
November 4, 2006
Harold Berbick, the nephew of former world heavyweight champion
Trevor Berbick, and a teen accomplice were remanded in police
custody in Jamaica on Friday, November 3rd after being charged with
murdering the fighter... Read More
 Australia
advance to the final
published: Thursday | November 2, 2006
SHOULD THE West Indies defeat
South
Africa
today to reach the final of the ICC Champions
Trophy on Sunday in Mumbai, their opponents will
be Australia.
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Berbick Found Dead
Ex-champion was last to Fight Ali & Lost
Title to Tyson
Saturday October 28th, 2006
Former heavyweight champion
Trevor Berbick was found dead in a church courtyard
in Jamaica on Saturday....Read
More
Ja Booted From DigiCup
Monday, October 02, 2006
If the
Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president Crenston Boxhill
thought his administration was under pressure, then the Reggae
Boyz's failure to adva |
