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BBC SPORTS: Tyson Gay beats Usain Bolt in the 100m in Stockholm

Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt has ruled out competing for the rest of 2010 with a back injury. The Jamaican suffered only his second professional 100m defeat on Friday when he was easily beaten by Tyson Gay at Stockholm’s Diamond League meeting.

Following an examination in Germany, Bolt said: “2011 and 2012 are very important championship years and I hope to be back fully fit and healthy.” Read the rest of this entry »

The Netherlands just beat my team Brazil 2 – 1 and sent them packing. I can just guess the sweet taste on the lips of all the persons who actually bet that the Netherlands would beat Brazil. What an upset, who would have thought. Well I certainly don’t bet. All teams are there with one intention and that is to win. So who says Brazil is unbeatable. Congrats Netherlands, now that very important win should boost the teams ego to go all the way and win the finals. Okay let me wait and see.

Tiger Woods and wife Elin

In the meantime FOXNEWS is reporting that Tiger Woods is banned from letting girlfriends near his kids in a divorce deal netting his ex a record $750 million settlement, The Sun reported Wednesday.

The golfer agreed to keep single women away from daughter Sam, three, and son Charlie, one.

He can bring a new flame into their lives only if he marries her. In return, former wife Elin Nordegren ,30, gets the biggest payout ever seen in a celebrity divorce.

But she can never publicly speak out over his alleged flings with socialite Rachel Uchitel, reality star Jaimee Grubbs, porn queen Joslyn James and up to 17 others.

A pal said: “Elin is desperate to protect the children from the womanizing side of their father. Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK AP – With games airing live on cell phones and computers, the World Cup will get more online coverage than any major sporting event yet. Watching highlights the next day on TV or YouTube will suddenly seem a downright ancient way to keep up with the action.

When the soccer tournament begins Friday, footy fans can follow the action from an array of mobile and Web applications and share in triumph and heartbreak across social media.

Walt Disney Co. networks ESPN and ABC, which are broadcasting the games in the U.S., will stream 54 games live on the newly launched ESPN3.com, formerly ESPN360. The games are free to those in the U.S. who get their Internet from a service provider affiliated with ESPN, including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and many others. The 10 games that will air live on ABC won’t be available on ESPN3.com, but all 64 matches in the Cup will be available live on mobile devices to customers whose plans include TV on their phones.

Univision Communications has the Spanish-language broadcasting rights in the U.S., and it, too, will have games available on Univision.com and Univision Movil.

The digital coverage will be an especially important component for the World Cup because U.S. audiences will be watching many of the games — all being played in South Africa — during the day, possibly on their computers at work. Read the rest of this entry »

The 33rd Bigga/JISA Inter Prep Schools Track & Field Championship runs off tomorrow at the National Stadium with the first event being the 400M Class 1 Boys at 8:30 am. The three-day meet will end on Saturday, June 5 with the 4x200M Open Boys. There will be three finals tomorrow High Jump CI and CII boys, and Long Jump CII girls.

Defending champion Hydel Prep with a reduced (over last year’s 68) contingent of 41 athletes are expected to retain their title in both the boys and girls categories but not without a fight from the other 51 schools who will battle them for top honours. IAAF Level 11 coach Corey Bennett – head coach at Hydel, was unsure about retaining the championship though. He said “Hopefully we will end up in the top two or three. We see this year as re-building year, added to the fact that our preparation was negatively affected by last week’s disturbances”. He however indicated the some of the athletes to look out for are Bejour Russell CII 100M and 150M; Chanice Ricketts CI 300M and 150M and Atatia Parkes CI 100M and Long Jump.

Last year’s second place school Vaz Prep boasts total of 60 athletes. Coach Carol Simpson is expecting the school to do well this year. Three athletes were singled out to deliver good performances, they are Vashon Lynch CI 300M; Yashawn Hamilton CII 100M and 80M; and Mario Heslop CII 100 and 80M. Read the rest of this entry »

Kingston, Jamaica (ACE Communications) — The 60-year-union between Coca-Cola and FIFA has been nothing short of creative and trailblazing since Coca-Cola ‘s days of merely advertising at every FIFA World Cup in 1950. So successful has it been, that their offsprings (football fans and Coca-Cola consumers), will benefit from the perfectly blissful union.

This year, the majestic duo has scored a landmark goal by embarking on a FIFA promotion that will leave Jamaican tongues wagging for months to come. As the longest-standing corporate partner of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Coca-Cola has gained exclusive rights to retain 12 Jamaican students between the ages of 12-16 to travel to South Africa to become official flag bearers at the opening ceremony for the World Cup.

Unbelievable, but true. Teens can now step away from their Wii consuls and experience the action live in South Africa. The 12 lucky students will get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to explore the African Safari, play games, visit sites, and ofcourse be a flag bearer for one of his/her favourite football teams while millions look on and cheer – all for free. Again, incredible, but true. The four days and three nights will be nothing short of exciting for the young minds. Read the rest of this entry »

Michael David Barrett,

LOS ANGELES – ESPN reporter Erin Andrews says her ordeal at the hands of a video stalker still haunts her every time she steps into a hotel room, wondering if someone is in the next room waiting to invade her privacy with a hidden camera.

Andrews spoke Monday just after the Illinois insurance executive who acknowledged shooting videos of her naked through hotel peepholes received a 2 1/2 year federal prison sentence.

“I’m at the angry stage. I’m mad,” a tearful Andrews told reporters outside court. “Thirty months isn’t enough.”

Michael David Barrett, 48, pleaded guilty in December to interstate stalking in the case. Prosecutors had accused him of following Andrews to at least three cities and then posting the videos of her on the Internet.

U.S. District Judge Manuel Real, who sentenced Barrett, gave him a longer term than the 27 months agreed to in a plea bargain. He said 30 months was the maximum he could impose under court guidelines.

“The victim, Andrews, will be suffering with this problem for the rest of her life,” Real said. “There is no life sentence that can be imposed upon him, except his own guilt.”

Her lawyer, Marshall Grossman, said there could be more charges forthcoming in other districts involving additional women who were stalked by Barrett. He gave no specific details. Read the rest of this entry »

by: Trudy Williams

The 4th MILO Central Champs runs off tomorrow at the GC Foster College in St. Catherine with a record forty (40) schools including two new ones (Ascott High and Hydel High). The two day meet – Thursday and Friday, March 11 and 12 – will begin at 9:30 am each day and will feature defending champions Holmwood Technical (girls) and St. Jago High (boys).

The top five schools last year were: Girls – Holmwood, Vere Technical, Edwin Allen, Manchester High and Bellfield while the top five boys schools were: St. Jago, Holmwood, Claude McKay, Edwin Allen and Vere Technical.

Jerry Holness, meet director and coach of Manchester High indicated that this year’s championship will see high quality competition as the top five girls schools nationally all hail from the central region. In the boys section, St. Jago is expected to be the runaway winner based on their current form and the fact the last year they won by a big margin over second place Holmwood last year.

He also mentioned some of the young athletes to look out for this year including Jenieve Russell and Chris-Ann Gordon from Holmwood; Shericka Jackson from Vere; sisters Nikita and Ristananna Tracey and from Edwin Allen; Natoya Goule and Sandrae Farquharson from Manchester High; Kemoy Campbell from Bellfield High and Kemar Bailey-Cole from Old Harbour High.

The first event on the track on day one will be the 400M Hurdles Open for boys and girls while the meet will end with the 4x400M Relays for boys and girls.

The 4th staging of MILO Central Champs was launched today (Thursday, March 4) at the Tropics View Hotel in Mandeville. Meet organizer Jerry Holness announced that the meet will be held at GC Foster College next Thursday and Friday (March 11 and 12) beginning at 9:30 am each day. He spoke about the importance of staging MILO Central Champs to the region and that it represents a good indication of how the girls’ teams will perform at Champs.

He also spoke about the continuing domination of the central region in the girl’s category at Champs and that it will be no different at ‘Champs 100’ later this month. To support his point, Holness pointed to the fact that schools in the central region won Girls Champs a total of 37 times – more than any other region, with Vere Technical – 23 times and 15 straight wins, Holmwood – seven times (straight wins), St. Jago High – four times and Manchester High – 3 times.

He also said that the region had produced more national representatives the any other region. This year the entire team to the NACAC Cross Country Championship in Trinidad that left the island today come out of the central region. Additionally the technical leader (Jerry Holness) and about half of the team to the IAAF Indoor Championship in Doha next week is made up of central region athletes. Read the rest of this entry »