Despite a brilliant knock of 127 by Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the West Indies still came up 31 runs short in their first one day international with Zimbabwe. Chasing 275 for victory, they only could muster 243/8. The second match will be played on Sunday. Click here for more details.

After a two week hospitalization, Herb McKenley has closed his eyes for the last time. McKenley, widely regarded as one of the most outstanding Olympians Jamaica has ever produced, has one gold and three silvers to his credit. As a result he was conferred with the nations third highest honour, the Honour of Merit in 2004. He’s also well regarded as one of the best athletic coaches Jamaica has produced, guiding the Calabar and JAAA teams to championship. Prime Minister Bruce Golding said, “Jamaica has lost one of our greatest achievers.”

Jamaica cruised to a comfortable 2-0 win over Guatemala in another friendly at the Jamaican National Stadium on Wednesday. Under interim coach Theodore Whitmore, a former Reggae Boy, Jamaica registered yet another win, a precious commodity in recent history as they are crawling back from their lowest ever placing in the FIFA rankings. Jamaica played beautiful, attacking football and the efforts paid off in the tenth minute when defenders failed to clear a ball which fell in the path of forward Ricardo Fuller who slotted it past the keeper. The attack again bore fruit in the 22nd minute when Omar Daley made an inspired run that shook three defenders in the process before shunting it past the keeper. After slipping from 68th to 103rd in the FIFA rankings and a disastrous 2007 campaign this is a welcome close to their season.

Chris Gayle, who led Jamaica to an impressive win of the regional KFC cricket tournament, is slated to head up the West Indies tour of Zimbabwe. Gayle, who led the side in the ODI tournament in England earlier this year, is to captain the squad as Ramnaresh Sarwan is out with injuries. Get more details here.

After going down 59-49 to New Zealand, the Sunshine girls of Jamaica put on an impressive showing to win the bronze. Up against a strong English contingent, the Sunshine girls led all the way to eventually win 53-52. Read more about them here.

The hopes of the Jamaicans to secure gold at the World Netball Championships were dashed when they went down 59-49 to the New Zealand Silver Ferns. Although putting up a valiant fight the  girls will now have to play for third place against England who went down to Australia 33-51. Read more about it here.

Trinidad and Tobago walked away with the Pan American Cup in both the men’s and women’s competition. Trinidad narrowly edged out Jamaica 1-0 in the female competition whilst they put on an impressive 4-1 over Barbados for the men’s title. Get more details about the competition here.

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It’s long been known that this day would come but it is finally here. Captain Horace Burrell was nominated unopposed to replace Crenston Boxhill as president of the Jamaica Football Federation. Captain Burrell in his inaugural speech bemoaned the current state of football in Jamaica and announced a sweeping set of changes for the national program:
- A coaching development program
- referee development program
- administrative reform
- playing facility improvements
- National Premiere League development
- a special youth development program
- a football academy
- a focus on World Cup 2010 and beyond

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With tears in their eyes, they lofted the cup aloft. Calabar is the 2007 winners of the Walker Cup. They dedicated their effort to their recently deceased coach, David ‘Wanga’ Hunt. Hunt recently died from a heart attack at home. It seemed to be at the forefront of their minds as they seemed on a mission when they steamrolled Jamaica College 3-0 in the final.

There will be weeping and wailing as one of Jamaica’s most eligible sprinters goes off the market. Veronica Campbell and Commonwealth Games 200M champion, Omar Brown will tie the knot in Ironshore, Montego Bay. Among the guests slated to attend, sprinter Tyson Gay, Merlene Ottey, and Aileen Bailey. Windies Sports wishes her all the best.