Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Saturday | March 21, 2009
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Regional cricket strike - Players boycott first-day play due to WICB/WIPA dispute
Regional cricketers boycotted what was to have been the opening day of the 11th round of matches in the WICB Regional four-day tournament yesterday because of a conflict with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

Liverpool get Chelsea again
Chelsea and Liverpool will resume their private Champions League contest when they meet for a fifth time in five years and for the right to meet either Barcelona or Bayern Munich in the semi-finals.

Sunshine Girls fail to stop whitewash
Jamaica's Under-21 netballers suffered their second consecutive series whitewash to their Australian counterparts, as they were beaten 55-39 in the final match in their three-Test series at the G.C. Foster College in St Catherine yesterday.

Costly miscalculation - Mathematical error sends WI to one-run defeat under D/L Method
A terrible miscalculation on the part of West Indies coach John Dyson gifted England a fortuitous win in a bizarre end to the opening One-Day International that appeared destined for a dramatic finish yesterday.

Dyson takes the blame
West Indies coach John Dyson has accepted full responsibility for the dreadful miscalculation that cost the regional side a chance to win the opening One-Day International against England yesterday.

Water polo, synchronised girls' teams ready to shine
President of the Amateur Swimming Association of Jamaica (ASAJ), John Eyre, has confirmed a 13-member, under-18 female team to participate in water polo at the XXIV CARIFTA Games Swimming Championships, to be held in Curaçao from April 9-13.

It hasn't really affected us much - Bennett
Play in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) regional four-day championship between leaders Jamaica and the Combined Colleges and Campuses (CCC) will begin today at Sabina Park.

Ahwhofah tipped for big grade-one battle
Seven top-class horses are slated to contest the season's second grade-one feature, the Arthur Jones Memorial Cup, over 1200 metres at Caymanas Park today.

A huge missed opportunity
A huge "missed opportunity". That's how Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president, Captain Horace Burrell, views another near, but hurtful elimination from World Cup qualifying for the young Reggae Boyz.

IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
Leaders Kool Kat captured the St Thomas Captain's Bakery Major League mid-season title after their 3-2 win over Lyssons at the York Sports Complex last Saturday.

Bridgeport's Murphy on record pace for Champs
Bridgeport High School's Jazeel Murphy is on pace to break Yohan Blake's three-year-old Class Two boys' 100 metres record of 10.34 seconds.

Holmes moving well
After three rounds of play in the Magnificent Chess University of the West Indies (UWI) Masters International Tournament, the favourite, Spanish Grandmaster Alfonso Romero Holmes, held the lead with two and ha half points, closely followed by Jamaican FIDE Master Warren Elliott, with two points.

Venezuelan victory primes Busta Fighters for US clash
LAST WEEKEND's 7-3 victory for Jamaica's combined martial arts team over Venezuela in Caracas is being hailed as the perfect warm-up ahead of the final leg of the Busta Pan Am Challenge, when they will face the United States in Philadelphia in May.

Caribbean Games to be smoke-free
The Local Organising Committee of Caribbean Games 2009, in partnership with the Bloomberg Tobacco Control Project and the Cancer Society of Trinidad and Tobago, has declared that the inaugural Caribbean Games 2009 will be a smoke-free event.


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