CASTRIES, St Lucia – Former West Indies captain Darren Sammy has urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) and its member cricket boards to speak out against social injustice and racism, amid public outrage in the United States and across the globe over the death of a Black man in police custody. Sammy, stressing that the […]
Fred VanVleet says people in the United States are reaching a boiling point after hundreds of years of racism. The Toronto Raptors guard was asked on Monday what he thought of the protests in major cities across the United States following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Hew was killed after a police officer […]
LOS ANGELES — National Basketball Association (NBA) legend Michael Jordan decried “ingrained racism” in the United States as the sports world’s reaction to the death of unarmed black man George Floyd leapt leagues and continents. “I am deeply saddened, truly pained and plain angry,” Jordan said on Sunday as protests over Floyd’s death on May […]
Tennis Star, Japanese-Haitian tennis star Naomi Osaka is the highest-paid female athlete According to Forbes, the Japanese-Haitian athlete earned a total of $37.4 million USD from prize money and endorsements between June 2019 and May 2020. Osaka is currently backed by 15 endorsement partners ranging from Nissan Motor, Shiseido and Yonex, with almost all of […]
ST JOHN’S, Antigua — Cricket West Indies (CWI) has approved the Test tour of England, paving the way for cricket’s first-ever biosecure Test series to proceed behind closed doors in July. In a statement on Friday, CWI said the decision was made following discussions between its medical advisors and the England and Wales Cricket Board […]
Veteran Barbadian jockey Patrick Husbands, his brother Cybert, and several other Caribbean riders will soon be back at the Woodbine racetrack in Toronto, after the Ontario government last week sanctioned the return of horse racing as part of stage one of its reopening measures. The season here was scheduled to get under way on April […]
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Cricket West Indies (CWI) has begun its search for a permanent head coach to oversee the embattled senior women’s side and halt a troubling run of results. Former Test player Gus Logie was named interim coach last October, replacing Barbadian Henderson Springer, but suffered series losses to India in both white-ball […]
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Grenadian sprinter Bralon Taplin has lost his appeal against a four-year ban for dodging a doping test, which means he will miss the Tokyo Olympics if it comes off next year, as well as the next two World Championships. After saying that it was “comfortably satisfied” that the athlete purposely evaded testing, […]
THE VALLEY, Anguilla, CMC – Former West Indies all-rounder Omari Banks has recalled his role in the Caribbean side’s record run chase 17 years ago, which propelled the Brian Lara-unit to a historic win over Australia in Antigua. The Anguillian, who had made his debut as a fledgling 20-year-old just a week earlier in Bridgetown, […]
JOHN’S, Antigua —International cricketers could return to the field for the first time since March in the inaugural T10 Vincy Premier League (VPL) tournament in the Caribbean next week, according to a report yesterday. The VPL is due to start next Friday in St Vincent and will be the first professional tournament to be played […]