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Sports Update...
Thursday, August
28th, 2008
Bolt could have run 9.52 in Olympics,
coach says
ZURICH, Switzerland (Reuters): Triple
Olympic gold medalist and world record
holder Usain Bolt could have run the 100
meters in 9.52 seconds if he had not slowed
to celebrate, his coach said on
Wednesday......Read
More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Wednesday, August
27th, 2008
Bolt ok with tests
Jamaican Olympic hero, Usain Bolt, is not surprised by the
number of raised eyebrows following his performances at the
Beijing Olympics, but said he has nothing to worry about because
he is clean. Bolt turned the Olympics upside down with his three
gallant performances, win-ning gold in the 100 metres and 200
metres in world-record times.....Read
More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Tuesday, August
26th, 2008
OAS hails Jamaica on Olympic success
The Organisation of American States has
hailed Jamaica's superb performance at the
Beijing Olympics, which concluded Sunday....Read
More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Monday, August
25th, 2008
It seems the Caribbean
cannot win for losing
“Faster, higher, stronger” is the motto of
the Olympic Games. An event that ought to
provide a platform for unity and peace,
where countries come together for a couple
of weeks of competition and sportsmanship,
putting their differences aside........Read
More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Friday, August
22nd, 2008
Shawn Crawford says Bolt
was track's Phelps
BEIJING, China: American sprinter Shawn
Crawford, the Olympic 200-metres silver
medallist, said Usain Bolt's performance on
the track was just as excellent as Michael
Phelps' achievements in the pool....Read
More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Thursday, August
21st, 2008
Jamaica and US set to
battle it out in sprints
BEIJING, China
(Reuters): The latest round of Jamaica's sprint battle with the
United States in the women's 200 meters and Jeremy Wariner's
400m clash with fellow American LaShawn Merrit are the
highlights of Thursday's athletics program.....Read
More
 Bolt
strikes twice, with a second WR Posted
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
BEIJING - Usain Bolt completed his sprint double Wednesday with
a gold medal in the men's 200m.....Read
More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Wednesday, August
20th, 2008
Shericka
snatches 400 metre silver
BEIJING, China - Shericka Williams etched
her name in the annals of Jamaica's
athletics with a fighting display to capture
the silver medal in the Women's 400 metres
at the 29th Olympiad in the Bird's Nest Stadium yesterday.Read
More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Monday, August
18th, 2008
Caribbean celebrates Bolt and Thompson Olympic
victories
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The entire Caribbean is proud of
Jamaican Usain ‘Lightning’ Bolt and Trinidad and Tobago’s
Richard Thompson, who ran away with the gold and silver medals
in the men’s 100 meters at the Beijing Olympics over the
weekend.....Read More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Sprint Star Bolt Smashes Record
USAIN BOLT smashed the world record with his sensational victory
in the Olympic 100 meters final. The Jamaica star blew apart the
competition to slash 0.03sec off his own previous best by
finishing in 9.69.....
Read More
Caribbean
Sports Update...
Jamaica worried
about many drugs tests
Thursday, August
14th, 2008
BEIJING, China (Reuters): Jamaican athletes have undergone an
"extremely unusual" number of doping tests since arriving in
Beijing for the Olympic Games, potentially harming their
performance, the team's chef de mission said on Wednesday.....Read More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Bolt and Gay will not catch me, says Powell
Wednesday, August
13th, 2008
BEIJING, China (Reuters): Former world record holder Asafa
Powell says Jamaican compatriot Usain Bolt and American world
champion Tyson Gay will not run him down if he takes the lead in
their anticipated Olympic 100 meters final showdown....Read More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Tuesday, August
12th, 2008
Cuba's Correa aims to walk in father's
footsteps
BEIJING, China (Reuters): Cuban boxer Emilio
Correa wants to become a second generation Olympic champion and
follow his father to the top of a Games podium 36 years on...Read More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Monday, August 11th, 2008
'Bolt thinks this
Olympics is his to shine' - Agent Peart backs sprinter's
decision to double
BEIJING, China (CMC): Norman Peart, agent for Jamaican sprinter
Usain Bolt, has backed the decision made by his coach Glen Mills
to allow the sprinter to chase the sprint double at the 29th
Olympiad....Read More
 Caribbean
Sports Update...
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Italian Olympic
Volleyball Player Heads To Cuba
Italian indoor volleyball player Taismary Aguero
has apparently been allowed a visa to Cuba to visit her ill
mother, after originally thinking she had been denied.... Read More
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.
Read More
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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....
Read More
 Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Former Brazilian football star Pele has
been robbed by an armed gang while on his way to his
seaside home. ...
Read More
 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.
Read More
 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..
Read
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...
Read More
 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....
Read More
 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.....
Read More
 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!!...
Read More
 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.
Read More |
 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.
Read More
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.
Read More |
 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. ...
Read
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.
Read More
 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. ...
Read More
 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 ....
Read More
 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. ..
Read More
 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 ...
Read More
 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...
Read More
 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....
Read More
 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"...
Read More
 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).
Read More
 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.
Read More
'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.....
Read More
 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.
Read More
 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....
Read More
 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
Read More
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.
Read More
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..
Read More
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