St Mary-based Tacky High will face off against St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) for the ISSA/TVJ Super 8 T20 title on Saturday at Sir P Oval in Treadlight, Clarendon, after dominating semi-final performances yesterday. In the first...

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MANCHESTER, England (AP): Manchester United kept their hopes of European qualification alive through placing in the English Premier League by beating Newcastle 3-2 yesterday. A strike by substitute Rasmus Hojlund in the 84th minute was the...

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NEW YORK CITY, USA (CMC): Officials of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and organisers of the ICC Men's Twenty20 World Cup matches in the United States of America (USA) said they were confident that the drop-in turf pitches installed at the...

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Coach Marcel Gayle contends that the chances of progressing to the final would have been better if Waterhouse had been more clinical in their second-leg Jamaica Premier League (JPL) semi-final against Mount Pleasant Football Academy on Sunday....

https://jamaica-star.com/article/sports/20240516/gayle-knocks-waterhouse-finishing

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP): FIFA moved, yesterday, toward ending decades of football tradition by ordering a review of its policy that currently blocks domestic league games from being played in other countries. Fans are likely to object to their...

https://jamaica-star.com/article/sports/20240516/fifa-moves-toward-letting-league-games-be-staged-other-countries

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP): A high court in Nepal yesterday overturned an eight-year prison sentence for rape for the country's star cricket player and former captain of the national team and cleared him of all charges. A two-judge panel of the Patan...

https://jamaica-star.com/article/sports/20240516/nepal%E2%80%99s-top-cricket-star-has-sentence-rape-thrown-out

BERLIN (AP): Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann was supposed to announce his European Championship squad tomorrow but others have been doing it for him instead. Bakers, singers, entertainers, art venues, radio stations. The German football...

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DHAKA, Bangladesh (CMC): Vastly experienced left-arm spinning all-rounder Shakib al Hasan has been included in a largely predictable Bangladesh 15-man squad for next month's Twenty20 World Cup. The 37-year-old, who only returned to the...

https://jamaica-star.com/article/sports/20240515/shakib-picked-another-world-cup

World 200 metres champion Shericka Jackson will make her 2024 Wanda Diamond League debut in the half-lap event at the year's fourth meet in Rabat, Morocco, on Sunday. Jackson, who won the 100 and 200 metres double at the Diamond League finals...

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