$30 million for 'Champs 100' budget
It will cost just over $30 million to execute next year's milestone staging of the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA) Boys' and Girls' Athletics Championships, which is scheduled to get under way at the National Stadium from March 24-27 in a year in which organisers...
Day/night matches, pink balls for regional matches
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) officially announced yesterday a new-look 2010 regional first-class season that will include unprecedented day/night matches.Shortened from last year's home-and-away round-robin format...
Premier League lacks quality finishers - Hyre
With a plethora of draws since the start of the Digicel Premier League (DPL) second round, ascendancy has been hard to come by, making the battle for the second End-of-Round final closer than expected and certainly much too early to call this time around...
Williams stars at B'dos trials
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):Off-spinner Kenroy Williams captured a remarkable eight wickets, as the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) began its first trial match on Monday for the West Indies 2010 first-class season.Playing for the Ryan Hinds XI at...
Cavalier, Greenwich in Confed showdown
An epic battle is expected when Cavalier and Greenwich Town meet in the Claro Jackie Bell Confederation KO decider today at the Spring Complex at 3 p.m.Cavalier, who currently lie second in the Claro Super League standings...
Bridgmohan completes title success in style
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (CMC):Jamaican Jermaine Bridgmohan completed the second jockeys' championship win of his fledgling career on Monday when he comfortably topped the standings at the 2009 Remington Park horse racing season.On Monday's final day...
ITF: Wickmayer still ineligible to play tennis
LONDON (AP): Yanina Wickmayer is still not eligible to compete despite a court injunction in Belgium that suspended her one-year ban for violating anti-doping rules.Wickmayer, a US Open semi-finalist and Xavier Malisse had their doping bans suspended...
East meets west in 'Christmas Extravaganza' - Former national stars to benefit
Western Bureau: Five members of Jamaica's team which qualified for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, as well as Barrington 'Cobra' Gaynor, another former national player, will be honoured in two benefit football matches in Montego Bay and Kingston over the yuletide season...
Tiger's troubles widen his distance from blacks
(AP): Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods' troubles - the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses - little attention has been given to the race of the women linked with the world's greatest golfer.
Coley happy U-19s got good practice
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): West Indies Under-19 coach Andre Coley has described as 'satisfying' Monday's warm-up victory over Canada for next month's Youth World Cup in New Zealand. Led by a well-measured, unbeaten century from Kraigg Brathwaite...
SPORTS BRIEFS
Ribery comeback - MUNICH, Germany (AP):Bayern Munich says France winger Franck Ribery may make his comeback from a knee injury this weekend in the last league match before the winter break. The 26-year-old has been sidelined for much...
West Indies women doing well in Australia
SYDNEY, Australia (CMC):West Indies players Stacy-Ann King, Deandra Dottin and Shanel Daley have been posting prominent performances playing professional women's cricket in Australia.Trinidad and Tobago's King and Kirbyina Alexander, Barbadian Dottin...
'A one-all result would be fantastic' - Gayle eyes victory in final Test
Perth, Australia:Captain of the West Indies, Chris Gayle, has his eyes set on a drawn Test series against Australia which he says would be just as significant as a win. For the three-match series to be a drawn affair...