Walker hopes to break world record 'soon'
Olympic and World Championship 400m hurdles champion, Melaine Walker, says her next big goal is to break the event's world record, which at present stands at 52.34 seconds.Speaking on her arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport yesterday...
West Indies eye upset
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CMC): West Indies will be looking to cause a stir in their opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy, when they face Pakistan today at The Wanderers.Floyd Reifer's inexperienced side are hoping to spring an early upset ...
Samuel's hat-trick lifts KC
Kingston College (KC) proved to be too much for Haile Selassie in their Group B ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel Manning Cup schoolboy football fixture yesterday at the Tinson Pen football field, to emerge 4-1 winners. KC were led to victory...
Sri Lanka score first win
CENTURION, South Africa (AP): Ajantha Mendis mesmerised South Africa's top order as he took 3-30 to spin Sri Lanka to a 55-run victory in the rain-shortened Champions Trophy opener yesterday.Mendis removed South Africa skipper Graeme Smith (58), then...
Rickayba to beat Sticksontheloose
Race Number three in the popular Champion Betting/CTL Claiming takes place over 1100 metres at Caymanas Park today, this being one of three trophy races on the 11-race programme. The others are the $650,000 Dewhurst Stakes...
Champions Trophy in danger of falling in cricket's shuffle
The ICC Champions Trophy, a one-day 50-over-a-side contest, got underway in South Africa yesterday and, after 21 years and five tournaments, after four winners, including the West Indies in 2004, this one could be the last one.With the coming of...
Francis believes short games will suit Sunshine Girls
Connie Francis, coach of the Jamaica's Sunshine Girls, is confident her team will win the World Series Fast Net Championships, which will be held in Manchester, England, from October 9 to 11."I think this one favours us because we are accustomed to playing short games...
Cedric Titus lose perfect record
Western Bureau: Cedric Titus High School lost their 100 per cent win record in the 2009 ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel daCosta Cup schoolboy league football competition yesterday afternoon, when they were surprisingly held to 1-1 draw...
Issa, Sirgany impress at Rotax Grand National
Though they returned home without a podium finish at the United States (US) Rotax Grand National Go-Kart Championship, which concluded in Oklahoma on Saturday, 11-year-old Thomas Issa and nine-year-old Joshua Sirgany are being showered with praises for their outstanding...
T&T runner banned
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Trinidadian quarter-miler Ato Stephens has been slapped with a two-year doping ban by track and field's world governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).