Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Friday | June 5, 2009
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Windies ready to take on the world
LONDON, England (CMC): West Indies batting ace Ramnaresh Sarwan has shrugged off his team's below-par performances in England on their current trip and declared the Caribbean side as positive ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 Championship...

Ardenne in front
Ardenne are ahead of defending champions Hydel entering today's penultimate day of the three-day Bigga/JISA Inter Prep Schools Track & Field Championship at the National Stadium. At press time, with two of the three scheduled finals ...

English racing
Today's racing takes place at Wolverhampton, Catterick and Epsom, which stages day two of its big Derby Day meet which ends tomorrow.

Bucknor heads WICUA
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): Retired International Cricket Council (ICC) umpire Steve Bucknor is the new president of the West Indies Cricket Umpires Association (WICUA).Jamaican Bucknor defeated incumbent Hartley Reid by three votes at the WICUA's 24th...

Saudi Arabia drub China
Saudi Arabia scored two goals in each half yesterday to beat China 4-1 in a warm-up for next week's World Cup qualifier at South Korea.Yasser Al Kahtani put the visitors ahead in the sixth minute but China's Jiang Ning equalised in...

Racers boss vows to develop top-class athletes
Top local track and field coach, Glen Mills, said on Tuesday that the goal of the Racers Track Club is to develop top-class performers and to help them towards a balanced development. Mills, who is the president of the club, was speaking at its official...

Ramsammy among winners
Two-time Woodbine champion jockey Emile Ramsammy registered one of three Caribbean victories on Wednesday's midweek card, and the Trinidadian remains No.3 in the current standings.Barbadian Patrick Husbands had a rare winless...

Junior golfers look to top Carib
Jason Lopez, coach of Jamaica's junior golf team, said yesterday he is confident that the hosts can win this year's Caribbean Amateur Junior Championships, which will be held at the Cinnamon Hill Golf Course in Montego Bay, July 5-10...

Football: Costa Rica whip US 3-1
Alvaro Saborio scored 79 seconds in, the second-fastest goal against the United States in a World Cup qualifier, and Costa Rica coasted to a 3-1 victory Wednesday night. Celso Borges added a goal in the...

Elliot, Miller put Kangaroos on top
Former Jamaica youth player Yannick Elliot and West Indies spinner Nikita Miller were in top form on the weekend, claiming eight and seven wickets, respectively, to guide the Melbourne Kangaroos to a 122-run win over Trelawny Buccaneers...

Resurgent Wadadah thwart August Town
Western Bureau: Former champions Wadadah FC partly placated their fans for their horrendous start to the 2009-10 NPL play-off tournament on Wednesday night, when they clipped leaders August Town 2-1 in their first-round...

Fly with Spaceman
Thanks to a 217-1 upset by ALEXANDRA'S SPIRIT in the seventh race at Caymanas Park on Wednesday, the Pick-9 had no takers. The carryover remains at $1 million, but the Pick-9 should still offer a payout in the region of $1.7 million....

'Symonds let Australia down'
LONDON (AP): Australia cricket captain Ricky Ponting says allrounder Andrew Symonds let himself and the team down with his latest off-field troubles.Symonds was sent home from the Twenty20 World Cup yesterday for what Cricket Australia described...

It's a Russian affair - Safina, Kuznetsova reach French final
PARIS (AP):Dinara Safina shanked shots, endured a flurry of double-faults, screamed profanities at herself and still advanced to an all-Russian final at the French Open.The combustible Safina beat Dominika Cibulkova...


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