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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Mar 2, (CMC) – Exciting West Indies all-rounder, Andre Russell, could face a doping ban, after missing three doping tests within a 12-month period, media reports said, yesterday. The 27-year-old Jamaican, a much sought-after Twenty20 specialist, failed to ...

(NC) It can be difficult for many elite athletes to find sufficient funding to allow them to train full-time. That said, it is arguably most difficult for women in Canada. This inequality is exemplified through the professionally-run Canadian Women’s Hockey ...

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – High Court Judge Frank Seepersad, on Monday, said, the objectification of women continues to be viewed as culturally accepted, as he ordered West Indies batsman, Lendl Simmons, to pay TT$150,000 (One TT dollar =US$0.16 ...

Photo above is of Dalton Pompey. Photo credit: www.bluejayhunter. By Lekan Afolabi PRIDE Sports Columnist It is September in baseball. This means Major League Baseball teams in postseason race are making moves for October (MLB postseason). They are looking to ...

Photo above is of Nigeria team members celebrating AfroBasket 2015 win. Photo credit: www.Fiba.com. By Lekan Afolabi PRIDE Sports Columnist Nigeria just won the country’s first ever FIBA African Basketball Championship (also known as AfroBasket). FIBA (Fédération Internationale de Basketball) is ...

By Lekan Afolabi PRIDE Sports Columnist This is a rant. It is a sports rant but it is also a rant about some of the social ills that black communities, both in the United States and in Canada, are facing. ...

Photo above is of members of the Jamaica Olympic Ice Hockey Federation’s first try-outs. Photo credit: www.joiht.org. By Lekan Afolabi PRIDE Sports Columnist Canada is a country with a deep love for hockey. I remember how much hockey content used to ...

Photo above is of Damian Warner. Photo courtesy of QMI Agency. By Lekan Afolabi PRIDE Sports Columnist Aside from every Torontonian, and Canadians as a whole, the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games – which concluded on Sunday July 26 with ...

Photo above is of Harry Jerome receiving the Gold Medal for the 100m win (10.2 sec) at the 1967 Pan-Am Games in Winnipeg. Photo credit: HarryJerome.com. By Lekan Afolabi PRIDE Sports Columnist While I watched the Opening Ceremony of the Toronto ...

Above photo courtesy of AliaAtkinson.com. By Lekan Afolabi PRIDE Sports Columnist Let us abandon this notion that our sporting interests, as a community, should fall within the expected norms. By the time most of us in the African Canadian and Caribbean ...