By Dennis Young, NY Daily News The NCAA has canceled the men’s and women’s Division I basketball tournaments because of the coronavirus pandemic. The tournaments will not be delayed or played at a later date. The news came after a chaotic two days, when Rudy Gobert’s positive test started a series of cancellations in American […]
St. John’s played Georgetown on Wednesday night in front of a sparse Madison Square Garden crowd impacted by coronavirus concerns.(Kieran Lynch/New York Daily News) By Dennis Young, NY Daily News As basically every single college conference canceled their men’s basketball tournaments over the coronavirus, the Big East continued play in New York City. The conference […]
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The Commonwealth of Dominica has hopped, stepped, and jumped out to the forefront of the push for participation in the 2020 edition of the Olympic Games, with the republic’s top female triple jumper making the minimum standards for this year’s showcase. Turning 26 in April, Thea LaFond reset her Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) […]
Photo: Bleacher Report By Bryan Hood, Robb Report NBA players have been investing their money in businesses for decades, but this year one player is aiming to flip that model. Brooklyn Nets point guard Spencer Dinwiddie wants you to invest in him, and he plans to use blockchain technology to make it happen. Last summer, […]
The University of Texas Longhorns Track and Field programme won eight individual events and one relay at the FasTrak Collegiate Opener on Saturday (7 Dec), their first meet of the 2019-20 indoor season. The Longhorns also set nine personal bests at Yeoman Fieldhouse in Houston. In the women’s 60-metre dash, Saint Lucian sophomore Julien Alfred […]
World-Record holder Keni Harrison will make her Armory debut in February at the 113th NYRR Millrose Games. Photo courtesy of USATF She Will Face a Stellar Field Including 2018 USA Indoor 60m Hurdle Champion and American Record-Holder Sharika Nelvis and Former NCAA and Pan American Champ Queen Claye at The Armory NEW YORK, December 5, 2019 – Keni Harrison, […]
Montego Bay, Jamaica – February 13 2016: Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce after anchoring and winning the 4x100M Relay at the 2016 Milo Western Relays in the Catherine Hall Stadium, Montego Bay, Jamaica. – Image By Gregory Molette, The Jasmine Brand A queen has been crowned, again over the weekend (Sept. 29th), during Sunday’s women’s 100m final, […]
On Monday, a bronze sculpture of Gibson, the first black player to win a Grand Slam, will be unveiled outside Arthur Ashe Stadium at Flushing Meadows in New York - the world's biggest tennis arena named after another pioneering African-American. These two tributes stand as testaments to obstacles overcome, during a time when the United States was politically and socially rooted in racial segregation.
Gibson, pictured here with Marble at Forest Hills in 1950, went on to win five Grand Slam singles titles – the French Open (1956), Wimbledon (1957, 1958) and the US Open (1957, 1958) By Jonathan Jurejko, BBC Sport in New York “Everything was white. The balls, the clothes, the socks, the shoes, the people. Ev-ery-thing.” […]
Photo Source: Facebook By Xavier Murphy, jamaicans.com Jamaica’s swim sensation and Olympian, Alia Atkinson took first place gold in the 50-meter breaststroke competition on Sunday, August 4 at the 2019 FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 in Tokyo, Japan, adding another gold medal to her expanding collection. Atkinson, who holds the short course world record in this event, made […]
By Basil Springer, GCM Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” At the beginning of 2019, Cricket West Indies (CWI) appointed an interim head coach, Richard Pybus, an Englishman with experience […]