BY SEAN A WILLIAMS Assistant Sport Editor KIMANI Ffriend no longer has the mansion in Atlanta or the luxury cars. His two years battling a vehicular manslaughter charge in Serbia, which started in November 2012, have taken away a lot materially from the Jamaican basketball star. But in his own words: “I have also gained a lot” from the Serbian nightmare. “When you talk about the ... »
Floyd Mayweather is not as famous as he thinks he is and even gets offended when this Jamaican woman told him to his face that she don’t have a clue who he is. Floyd Mayweather was getting his hair cut in a barber shop in Brixton, UK, when the woman told him that she does not know who he is. Mayweather went nuts and asked her if she have a TV or she could even Google him. But what was even more bi... »
BY HOWARD WALKER Sunday Observer senior reporter ATHLETICS star Yohan Blake has paid the Jamaica Government $52 million for a property at 11 Jack’s Hill Road in St Andrew. But Blake will need to spend heavily on fixing the property, as its condition has deteriorated badly in recent years and is said to require “major repairs”, by one official close to the transaction. The Governm... »
Ray Rice made a huge mistake when he knocked his wife Janay Palmer Rice out in a hotel elevator Ray Rice is having the worst week of his life after leaked video footage showing him knocking out his wife who was his then fiance Janay Palmer surfaced online yesterday. The Baltimore Ravens running back was dropped from the team and suspended indefinitely from the NFL. He has also been getting widespr... »
Baltimore Ravens Ray Rice has some damage control to do after leaked video surfaced showing him knocking out his fiancee, who is now his wife. TMZ released the video on Monday showing Rice and his wife Janay Palmer getting into a heated argument before going inside an elevator. The graphic video footage show Rice punching Palmer inside the closed elevator knocking her out cold. When the elevator s... »
Goal scorer Kemar Lawrence KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica were defeated 1-3 by Canada tonight at the BMO field in Toronto in a friendly international encounter. Kemar Lawrence actually put Jamaica in front in the 30th minute, but Canada quickly drew level in the 32nd minute. The first half ended 1-1. Canada then took the lead in the 68th minute and made sure of victory with a third goal in the ... »
Is Floyd Mayweather suffering from a case of the bitter ex or did he really beat his former fiance Shantel Jackson. Shantel Jackson has filed a lawsuit against the boxing legend and she is making some damaging claims. During a press conference yesterday. Jackson, accompanied by her attorney Gloria Allred, told reporters that Floyd Mayweather assaulted her on several occasions and even once pulled ... »
BANGALORE, (AFP) – Sprint superstar Usain Bolt said Tuesday he wanted to play cricket for Jamaica as a youngster but his father convinced him to take up track and field instead. Bolt, the world’s fastest man, could have followed in the footsteps of Jamaican speedsters Michael Holding and Courtney Walsh, who struck fear into the hearts of batsmen while playing for the West Indies in the... »
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Veronica Campbell Brown of Jamaica won the Zurich Diamond League 100 metres in 11.04 seconds Thursday clocking the same time as second place Muroiel Ahoure. Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare, who defeated Campbell Brown to win the Commonwealth Games was third in 11.06 seconds. Kerron Stewart finished fifth in 11.19 seconds. source: jamaica observer »
JAMAICA’S Alia Atkinson kicked off her 2014/2015 FINA World Cup campaign with a master class in breaststroke sprinting, when she won the 100m in Doha, Qatar. Swimming from lane four at FINA/MASTBANK Swimming World Cup, Atkinson had a bullet start with a reaction time of 0.69 seconds. By the time she turned at the first wall she already had a body length lead. At the half-way mark her split w... »
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica — Reports out of Europe are that triple World Record holder Usain Bolt has pulled the plug on his short 2014 season and has withdrawn from Thursday’s Diamond League meeting in Zurich. Athletics Weekly posted on its twitter account Sunday morning that Bolt who just celebrated his 28th birthday last week had “decided to end his season following outing in Warsaw.” The artic... »
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt (centre) competes with Poland’s Karol Zalewski (left) and Jamaican’s Sheldon Mitchell (right) during the 100m of the 5th athletics Kamila Skolimowska Memorial event, a tribute to deceased Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowska, at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, yesterday. (PHOTO: AFP) WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — Jamaican sprint superstar Usain Bolt set a n... »
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jaheel Hyde set a new World Youth Best 12.96 seconds to win the men’s 110m hurdles gold medal at the 2nd IOC Youth Olympics this morning at the National Stadium in Nanjing, China. Hyde decimated the field winning by over a half a second as he added the Youth Olympic title to the IAAF World Youth title he won in Ukraine last year as well as the IAAF World Junior Championsh... »
“I don’t even have money for a cheeseburger,” said Iverson. Troubled former NBA basketball player Allen Iverson was seen begging for change outside of Lenox Mall in Atlanta. Several mall patrons reported a man with a disheveled appearance harassing them for change. When security arrived, they were shocked to see it was none other than basketball legend Allen Iverson. Iverson was asked to leave the... »
Jamaican sprinter and Olympic multi-champion Usain Bolt (right) competes during an exhibition race at Leme Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday. (PHOTO: AFP) RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt won his first 100-metre of 2014 yesterday in an exhibition race run on Rio’s iconic Copacabana beach, two years out from the 2016 Olympics. ... »
LONDON (AP) — Former boxing promoter Frank Maloney announced in a newspaper interview Sunday that he is undergoing a sex change. The 61-year-old Maloney, who guided Lennox Lewis to the world heavyweight title in the 1990s, told Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper that he is now living as a woman under the name Kellie. The twice-married Maloney ended his illustrious career last October an... »
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Sports Illustrated (SI) listed track legend Usain Bolt as the third fittest professional athlete in the magazine’s Top 50 fittest athlete list. Topping the list is basketballer Lebron James with footballer Cristiano Ronaldo in second spot. Sports Illustrated ranked the athletes under speed, strength, agility and endurance with James scoring maximum 10 points in all four s... »
Three of Jamaica’s relay teams at the the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland took gold in games record times today. A star studded Jamaica men’s 4x100m relay team clocked a games record 37.58 seconds to take the gold medal in that event. The team comprising Commonwealth Games 100m gold medallist Kemar Bailey-Cole, bronze medallist Jason Livermore, Nickel Ashmeade and U... »
(From left) Jason Livermore, Rasheed Dwyer and Warren Weir round the bend in the final of the men’s 200m inside Hampden Park at the XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday. (PHOTO: JOSEPH WELLINGTON) GLASGOW, Scotland — To have done it once, was an amazing thing. But twice in one tournament, is nothing short of miraculous. Like their female counterparts in the 400m two nights ago at ... »
André Lowe, Senior Staff Reporter Kimberly Williams Andrew Riley Glasgow, Scotland: The writing was on the wall. From heats to final, if a Jamaican was in a women’s 400m race at the 2014 Commonwealth Games she would be the first across the finish line. So it wasn’t too big a surprise when one after the other, the Jamaican threesome – Stephenie-Ann McPherson, Novlene Williams-Mill... »
GLASGOW, Scotland — It seems, and understandably so, that the Commonwealth Games is a pull for royalty. Just these past couple of days the Glasgow Games has had Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her husband Prince Phillip and the monarch’s son and heir apparent Prince Charles inside the athletes’ village. Some athletes, including two from Jamaica, were privileged to greet and have lun... »
GLASGOW, Scotland (CMC) — Sprint super star Usain Bolt has criticized anti-doping officials for reducing Tyson Gay’s doping ban. Gay and Bolt’s fellow Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell, both 31, failed drug tests for oxilofrine, in July 2013. Gay was given a one-year ban and Powell was initially suspended for 18 months. “I’m not really happy with the situation and with how it was done,” B... »
The latest FIFA world rankings shows CONCACAF’s Costa Rica as one of the confederation’s best teams. The world cup quarter-finalists climbed 12 places to 16th place, just below the United States who fell two places to 15th. Mexico inched two places to 18th, but bucking the trend of regional teams qualifying for the world cup was Honduras, who slipped 7 places to 40th. The Reggae Boyz... »
Argentina’s legend Diego Maradona has labelled Lionel Messi’s Golden Ball Award from FIFA as a marketing plan. Maradona, who led his country to the title in 1986, said his countryman was not deserving of the award as persons such as Germany’s Thomas Mueller and Arjen Robben of the Netherlands, were more deserving. He also highlighted Colombia’s James Rodriguez, who collecte... »
World and Olympic Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce produced an improved performance but was still not at her best in a second place finish in the 100 meters on day two of the IAAF Diamond League meet in Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday. Fraser Pryce was overtaken in the closing stages by the “new kid on the block”, Michelle Lee Aye of Trinidad and Tobago. The victory was Aye’s ninth consecutive... »
