Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Wednesday | January 28, 2009
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Chase on for final place
COMPETITION FOR the one remaining spot among three legitimate contenders in the end of the second-round final has intensified interest in today's penultimate set of Digicel Premier League games. Defending league champions Portmore United have already qualified ...

Jamaica bracing for tough clash with Barbados
CRICKET FANS who turn up at Kensington Park on the weekend for the fourth-round WICB Four-Day Championship clash between champions Jamaica and title challengers Barbados should be treated to some fine cricket, says Jamaica's captain, Tamar Lambert...

Cornwall College, Manning's School battle for Under-19 crown
WESTERN BUREAU: WITH THEIR best-of-three finals locked at 1-1 after two hard-fought games, Cornwall College and Manning's School will be gunning to crown themselves KFC Western Conference Under-19 champions when they meet in today's deciding Game Three ...

Belgian athletes challenge WADA
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP):A GROUP of Belgian athletes is mounting a legal challenge against the whereabouts rule for out-of-competition drug testing, a move that could undermine the work of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The athletes claim the rule...

Seba United qualify for first-round final
WESTERN BUREAU: SEBA UNITED became the first qualifiers for the first end-of-round final in the Captain's Bakery Western Super League on Saturday when they played out a 0-0 draw with Negril to secure the point they needed to seal their place...

England score easy victory in St Kitts
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): CODVILLE ROGERS struck his second half-century of the match, but could not prevent St Kitts and Nevis from tumbling to a 217-run defeat at the hands of England, on the final day of their three-tour match yesterday....

Manchester United trounce Albion
LONDON (AP): CRISTIANO RONALDO'S double rounded off Manchester United's 5-0 demolition of 10-man West Bromwich Albion yesterday to complete an English Premier League record 11th match without conceding a goal. Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar went a league record...

Jamaica's Olympic bobsled team to train in Utah
THE JAMAICAN bobsled team won't be going to to Pemberton, Canada to train this season, according to Christian Stokes, general secretary of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation (JBF).Despite the accommodation and support offered by the residents of Pemberton...

Roddick to face Federer in semis
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): NOVAK DJOKOVIC'S hopes for a second straight Australian Open title ended under a broiling sun Tuesday.With ice packs and massages failing to provide relief, third-ranked Djokovic looked increasingly woozy and had to give up...

Muralitharan poised to be Test, ODI leading wicket-taker
DAMBULLA, Sri Lanka (AP): MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN is poised to become the leading wicket-taker in Test and one-day cricket when Sri Lanka's five-match limited-overs series against India starts today....


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