KIMBERLEY – All-rounder Nyeem Young became the first West Indian and only the fourth player of all time to hit a half-century and take five wickets at an ICC Under-19 World Cup, as a clinical West Indies trounced England by 71 runs under Duckworth-Lewis-Stern last Monday, to take a giant step towards the second round […]
The statute of Olympian and former world record holder over 100 metres, Asafa Powell, is to be unveiled at Independence Park at the National Stadium in Kingston on Sunday, February 9. That’s according to the Minister of Sport, Olivia Grange who has said all is on track for next month’s unveiling. She gave the […]
PARIS, France — Trinidad and Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye, an Olympic sprint finalist, has been banned for two years after “whereabouts failures”, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced. Ahye, sixth in both the 100 and 200m at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and again sixth in the 100m at the 2017 London world championships, is suspended […]
Canada’s 15 member squad, which will be captained by Astan Deosammy, managed by Anil Khanna with former Canadian national Senior Team Captain Farouk Kirmani as its Head Coach, departed for South Africa on Friday January 3. The Canadians left to join fifteen other competing country teams that will be participating in the South Africa hosted […]
By Macera Akilah Thomas was away on a business trip to Atlanta but was glued to her cell phone as Canada and Russia locked horns in 2020 World Junior Hockey gold medal game in the Czech Republic. With 3:58 minutes left in a 3-3 game, her son Akil hopped on the ice and closed in […]
By Lincoln DePradine It is widely known that Canada’s top individual female global sporting champion is Bianca Andreescu, who won the U.S. Open Tennis championship last September. What’s not so well-known is that the latest male individual world champion is a Black Canadian, Ethan Small, whose parents were born in Jamaica. Small travelled to Chile […]
Chennai – Centuries from Shimron Hetmyer and Shai Hope powered West Indies to an eight-wicket win over India after chasing down a target of 288 in the first one-day international (ODI) on Sunday. Hetmyer, who hit a career-best 139, and Hope, unbeaten on 102, put on a key 218-run second-wicket partnership as West Indies […]
By Stephen Weir If your son or daughter has ever lined up all night on Yonge Street to buy a pair of designer sneakers, there is a book you might want to buy and sneak under the Christmas tree! Available only through on-line booksellers like Amazon.ca and Indigo, The Art of Sneakers written by Hollywood actor Ivan […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – So the Reggae Boyz have completed their fixture in Group C of League B in the inaugural CONCACAF Nations League with a win and a draw. The Boyz went into the final game inside Catherine Hall Stadium in a perfect win record after five games, but the much changed-up starting 11 […]
Michael Anthony Fray faced the starter on earth for the last time last Tuesday, en route to a journey to the land beyond. The Jamaican Olympian, who was found dead on November 6 in Kingston under still unclear circumstances, was hailed by multiple speakers at a thanksgiving service for his life at the Church of […]
