LONDON – Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was awarded a knighthood in the UK New Year’s honours list published last week The 35-year-old last year became the most successful F1 driver of all time after equalling Ferrari great Michael Schumacher’s record seven titles and beating the German’s 91 race wins. The sport’s only […]
Superstar Chris Gayle and West Indies white-ball captain, Kieron Pollard, have been named in the International Cricket Council’s Twenty20 Team-of-the-Decade. In awards announced last week by the sport’s world governing body, West Indies women’s captain, Stafanie Taylor of Jamaica, along with the dynamic Barbadian all-rounder Deandra Dottin were also included in the ICC Women’s T20I […]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Joshua Da Silva’s impressive half-century on debut did little to diminish West Indies’ pain as they crumbled to an innings and 12-run defeat to the Black Caps inside the first hour of the penultimate day of the second Test here on Sunday. Resuming on 244 for six, West Indies lost captain […]
Canada Soccer has spoken out after Canadian national team stars Alphonso Davies and Jordyn Huitema were the subject of racism remarks on social media. “Canada Soccer stands firm against racism and discrimination of any kind both in the game and within all of our communities around the world,” the Canadian governing body said in a […]
MIAMI— The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) announced last Thursday the structure of a new senior women’s national team football calendar which will begin in 2021 and include major centralised summer tournaments in 2022 and 2024. In a release, the sub-continental body said its council approved this structure of new […]
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) said it has decided that the regional qualifiers for its Women’s Under-17 competitions have been cancelled. This follows the decision of FIFA, the sport’s World governing body, last week to cancel the Women’s Under-20 and Women’s Under-17 World Cups. Eight Caribbean Football Union (CFU) […]
MOUNT MAUNGANUI, New Zealand – Torrential rain prevented West Indies from salvaging pride, and they had to settle for a no-result against New Zealand in the final Twenty20 International of their three-match series on Monday. Only 2.2 overs were possible before heavy showers swept across the Bay Oval and forced the players and umpires to […]
Canada’s men’s basketball team pulled out of two FIBA AmeriCup 2021 qualifying games on the weekend due to concerns around COVID-19. Canada was scheduled to play Cuba on Nov. 29 and the US Virgin Islands on Nov. 30 in a bubble format in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Playing the games would have contradicted not just […]
Two Jamaicans, including former Jamaica College stand out Nick Richards, were selected in last week’s National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Draft that was conducted virtually for the first time because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Isaiah Stewart, who attended the University of Washington, was taken with the 16th pick in the first round while Richards who […]
QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand — West Indies got an early sight of the depth of the batting that New Zealand may be able to call upon during their two-Test series next month, before they drew their warm-up match against the Blackcaps’ reserves on Sunday. After they were bowled out for 366 to take a first innings […]
