PERTH, Australia— West Coast Fever Head Coach Stacey Marinkovich hailed Jamaican goal shooter Jhaniele Fowler-Reid as the best overseas goal shooter to ever play in domestic Australia netball competition. Marinkovich congratulated Fowler following another outstanding season, which culminated in her being crowned Fever’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) for the second consecutive year and also the […]
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Chief selector Roger Harper said West Indies are keen to put behind them last week’s ban from training by health authorities and focus on the real mission on the Tour of New Zealand. Health officials in the country had prevented the Windies from training because members of the squad had […]
Toronto Blue Jays rightfelder Teoscar Hernandez has won a Silver Slugger Award for the first time in his career. The 28-year-old Hernandez, a native of the Dominican Republic, broke out as one of the game’s top sluggers in the shortened 2020 season for the Blue Jays. He hit 16 home runs with 34 RBIs in […]
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — All members of the West Indies touring party have returned second negative COVID-19 tests, bringing them one step closer to full integration with the community here. The group arrived from the Caribbean a week ago and have been undergoing a 14-day quarantine at the High Performance at Lincoln University, just outside […]
After calling off the proposed October women’s camp in England, Canada Soccer has opted not to summon the men for November’s match window. In both cases, the governing body said the decision was pandemic-related and made in consultation with health and medical experts. “Canada Soccer remains hopeful that global health and travel measures may improve […]
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, – Members of the travel-weary West Indies touring party have all tested negative for COVID-19 following their arrival here last week. The contingent left the Caribbean for London from where they connected through Dubai and onto Auckland, before taking a short 1-½ hour flight here to South Island. West Indies are now […]
Six-times world champion Lewis Hamilton became the most successful Formula One driver of all time in terms of race wins on Saturday with a dominant 92nd career victory at the Portuguese Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver, who took the chequered flag a huge 25.592 seconds ahead of second-placed team mate Valtteri Bottas, had equalled Ferrari […]
Cricket West Indies (CWI) president, Ricky Skerritt, says international cricket could return to the Caribbean as soon as the first quarter of next year but the challenge remains the creation of safe bio-secure “bubbles” at Caribbean venues. He revealed that CWI had only recently produced a draft schedule for 2021 for board approval and were […]
Jamaica’s champion swimmer Alia Atkinson secured her 11th consecutive 50-metre breaststroke victory at the second International Swimming League (ISL) in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday. Atkinson, now representing the Melanie Marshall-coached London Roar, not only executed a fine race to earn 10 valuable points for her new team, but also ensured that her unbeaten run at […]
ST JOHN’S, Antigua — Darren Bravo and Shimron Hetmyer has been named in the West Indies squad for the proposed two-Test series in New Zealand, having turned down invitations for the tour of England earlier this year. The top-order batsmen both opted out of the Test series against England in July that marked the return […]
