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Stories by Livingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Published:Tuesday | December 9, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

CHAD JAMES netted a brace, his first goals for the club, as defending champions Cavalier cooled Jamaica Premier League (JPL) leaders Montego Bay United 3-0 in the early game at Stadium East yesterday. Jerome McCleary gave Cavalier a 33rd-minute...

Published:Monday | December 8, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

The annual Reggae Marathon, staged in downtown Kingston for the first time in its 25-year history, was hailed as a success after more than 17,000 participants, in the 5K, 10K and half-marathon events, crammed the streets of the capital early...

Published:Monday | December 8, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) interim General Secretary Roy Simpson believes that the national football team has moved away from the main ingredient of their past successes on the international stage and wants to see a greater belief in local-...

Published:Saturday | December 6, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Coach of Mount Pleasant Football Academy and national football icon Theodore Whitmore was the recipient of the Kingston and St Andrew Business House Football Association’s Abe Alexander award for excellence for 2025 at the competition’s awards...

Published:Thursday | December 4, 2025 | 12:12 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

ELTHAM HIGH are through to the quarter-finals of the ISSA/WATA Manning Cup after a hard-fought 3-2 win over Spanish Town rivals St Jago in Group 4 of the round of 16 at the Drewsland Stadium yesterday. The St Catherine school topped the group with...

Published:Wednesday | December 3, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S BASKETBALL team defeated Puerto Rico 97-92 in their FIBA Americas World Cup qualifiers in Puerto Rico on Monday to complete the double over their opponents, ranked 79 places above them in the FIBA ranking. Jamaica, who had to surrender...

Published:Tuesday | December 2, 2025 | 12:08 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

MOUNT PLEASANT Football Academy take a 1-0 advantage into their Concacaf Caribbean Cup final second leg against Universidad O...

Published:Monday | December 1, 2025 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

National senior men’s basketball coach, Rick Turner, said winning consecutive games against Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico would be an amazing feat as Jamaica prepare to face the hosts for the second time in three days in the FIBA America World Cup...

Published:Thursday | November 27, 2025 | 12:08 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

MOUNT PLEASANT Football Academy went a step closer to their dream of being crowned Concacaf Caribbean Cup champions after defeating Universidad O...

Published:Wednesday | November 26, 2025 | 12:13 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

MOUNT PLEASANT took a vital 1-0 lead over Universidad O...

Published:Tuesday | November 25, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

WITH THE restart of the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) a little under two weeks away, the Professional Football Jamaica Limited (PFJL) is working to ensure that Montego Bay United and Treasure Beach have ideal venues to host home matches come...

Published:Tuesday | November 25, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

MOUNT PEASANT Football Academy are well aware of how much Universidad O...

Published:Monday | November 24, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz and interim head coach Rudolph Speid will enter next year’s intercontinental play-offs as strong favourites to get past semi-final opponents New Caledonia, a group of islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, east of...

Published:Saturday | November 22, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

TOP local coach and football administrator Rudolph Speid will be the man in charge when Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz contest the intercontinental World Cup playoffs in March 2026. Effective December 15, the Cavalier FC boss and Jamaica Football...

Published:Friday | November 21, 2025 | 1:38 PMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Iconic former Reggae Boyz coach Rene Simoes, in a video on social media, offered his services to the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) with a proposal to establish a 'crisis cabinet', with him at the head, to oversee the Reggae Boyz through the...

Published:Thursday | November 20, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE Chairman of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) Rudolph Speid says everyone involved in the Reggae Boyz’ disastrous World Cup qualifying campaign should take some of the blame, including him. Needing to win to automatically...

Published:Saturday | November 15, 2025 | 12:20 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

REGGAE BOYZ coach Steve McClaren has been feeling the heat for the team’s underwhelming performances in the Concacaf World Cup Qualifiers. Former national assistant coach, Bradley Stewart, is one of those questioning McClaren’s coaching capacity...

Published:Thursday | November 13, 2025 | 12:15 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

WITH THE nation still recovering from devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa and the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) not resuming until December 7, Concacaf Caribbean Cup finalists Mount Pleasant will endure more than a month without competitive...

Published:Wednesday | November 12, 2025 | 12:39 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

AS ORGANISERS continue to grapple with the decision of when or if to restart the suspended 2025 schoolboy football season after the devastation caused by the passage of Hurricane Melissa, one highly respected coach, Lenworth ‘Teacher’ Hyde of...

Published:Tuesday | November 11, 2025 | 1:12 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

THE 2025 schoolboy football season could resume as early as next week, Gleaner sources close to the meeting between the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) and coaches on the weekend revealed. It is understood that some coaches wanted...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:10 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

CALLS FOR a return of the Jackie Bell knockout football competition, the premier and once-coveted Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) tournament, were echoed all around the annual Bell/Ziadie football festival on Heroes Day at...

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2025 | 12:08 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

MOUNT PLEASANT Football Academy took a giant step towards qualifying for the Concacaf Caribbean Cup final with a decisive 5-1 first-leg, semi-final win over Defence Force of Trinidad and Tobago at the Hasley Crawford Stadium in Trinidad yesterday...

Published:Wednesday | October 22, 2025 | 12:09 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

AFTER TOPPING the preliminary group with a perfect record, Mount Pleasant will look to take a step closer to the Concacaf Caribbean Cup final when they play away to Defence Force of Trinidad and Tobago in their first-leg semi-final at the Hasley...

Published:Monday | October 20, 2025 | 12:11 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

Cavalier rebounded from their defeat to Portmore last week with an effortless 3-0 win over bottom-of-the-table Spanish Town Police, thanks to an Adrian Reid Jr brace (48th and 79th) in the Jamaica Premier League (JPL) at the Waterhouse Mini Stadium...

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 12:15 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer

AFTER AN impressive 4-0 win over Bermuda in their Group B Concacaf World Cup Qualifier at the National Stadium on Tuesday, Reggae Boyz coach Steve McClaren said the chemistry between the Trench Town attacking trident of Shamar Nicholson, Renaldo...

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