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LONDON, (Reuters) – President Sepp Blatter’s push to clean up FIFA flushed out another potentially corrupt official on Monday when executive committee member Vernon Manilal Fernando of Sri Lanka was banned from any football activity for three months.

The 18th annual Mayor’s Cup knockout football tournament, scheduled to commence Friday, was officially launched at Mayor Hamilton Green’s Office City Hall yesterday.

The Guyana National Cricket team along with their coach and manager arrived back home yesterday after competing valiantly in the first leg of the Regional Four Day and Super50 cricket tournaments.

BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – Lionel Messi’s Barcelona gave an emphatic response to the doubters when they made Champions League history by overturning a 2-0 first-leg deficit to oust seven-times European Cup winners AC Milan  yesterday.

INDIAN WELLS, California,  (Reuters) – Former champion Maria Sharapova raised her game when it mattered to storm into the BNP Paribas Open quarter-finals with a 7-5 6-0 victory over Spaniard Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino  yesterday.

(Reuters) – Marlon Samuels proved an unlikely bowling hero for West Indies as he grabbed four wickets to help dismiss Zimbabwe for 211 on the first day of the first test at the Kensington Oval today.

BARCELONA,  (Reuters) – A fired-up Lionel Messi inspired Barcelona to a sensational Champions League comeback against AC Milan with two goals in a thrilling 4-0 home victory today to help the Spaniards reach the quarter-finals.

SAO PAULO, Brazil,  CMC- Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has been named sportsman of the year at the prestigious Laureus Sports Awards, officials here announced Monday night.

GALLE,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh drew the high-scoring first test against Sri Lanka at the Galle International Stadium today to snap their 12-test losing streak against the islanders.

For the second time in less than a week Trinidad and Tobago’s cricketers proved their superiority over Guyana this time in the West Indies Cricket Board’s regional Super50 day/night encounter played at the Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad.

By Juanita Hooper Winston George represented Guyana in the 400m at the London Olympic Games last year.

Silver medallist in the 400m at last year’s World Junior Track and Field championships in Spain, oversea-0bsed athlete Kadecia Baird will spearhead the Guyana track and field team to this year’s CARIFTA Games to be held in Nassau, The Bahamas, from March 28-April 1.

A hat trick from Colin Peters supported by a brace from Keith Caines enabled South Ruimveldt to score a crushing 8-1 victory over North Georgetown as the Milo U20 schools football tournament continued at the Ministry of Education Ground, Carifesta Avenue on Sunday.

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) named a nine-member team on Sunday to attend the 2013 CARIFTA Games which will be held in Bahamas March 29-April 1, but a few local coaches feel that their athletes were not given ample opportunities to qualify for the meet.

Bounty Colts completed a resounding 17-point win against Nirva Knights, while Trinity Grid Holding (TGH) Pacsetters racked up their second win during the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association first division Super League on Burnham Court Sunday night.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding says there is no logic in Clive Lloyd’s decision to run for the president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

The highly anticipated Digital Technology/`Chow Pow’ 10/10 Challenge Series got underway at 10am last Sunday at the Wales Center Ground with wins for Recharge and Farm XI over Regal XI and Omesh XI respectively.

The West Demerara Cricket Association has named its squad for the upcoming Demerara Cricket Board (DCB) Under-15 competition which commences on March 14.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC-West Indies plan to extend their unbeaten run in test to six consecutive wins when they meet Zimbabwe here today in the first of two test matches that wrap up their Caribbean tour.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and British heptathlete Jessica Ennis won the Laureus World Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year Awards  yesterday following their success at the 2012 London Olympic Games.