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The Milo U-20 School Football Tournament restarts this weekend with the final round of group fixtures set for the Ministry of Education Ground, after having been rescheduled to facilitate Republic Day celebrations.

(Reuters) – Golden State guard Stephen Curry scored a NBA season-high 54 points but only earned praise and not a win as the New York Knicks prevailed 109-105 against the Warriors at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – Kevin Durant landed a triple double as the Oklahoma City Thunder recorded a 119-74 blowout victory over the outclassed New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday.

LAHORE,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Hanif Mohammad believes the team’s Australian coach Dav Whatmore needs to learn Urdu if he is to succeed with the players.

ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada, , CMC- Captain Dwayne Bravo says he was delighted with the turn-out of supporters in Grenada to the three-match One-Day International series between West Indies and Zimbabwe.

(Reuters) – Hamish Rutherford put himself firmly in contention to make his test debut next week against England after he scored 90 for the New Zealand XI on the second day of their four day match against the tourists in Queenstown yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Adrian Sutil sealed his Formula One comeback yesterday with Force India announcing they had given the 30-year-old German racer a second chance as team mate to Britain’s Paul Di Resta this season.

(Reuters) – Swimming great Dawn Fraser wants life bans imposed on members of the Australian men’s 4x100m freestyle relay squad who admitted using a banned sedative in a bonding session before last year’s London Olympics.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s Young Reggae Boyz are heading home from Mexico after failing to qualify for the 2013 FIFA Under-20 World Cup in Turkey.

(Reuters) – LeBron James and Dwyane Wade combined for 79 points as the Miami Heat prevailed 141-129 in a double overtime marathon against the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday.

Ashley deGroot completed a resounding win against her older brother Raphael deGroot on night two of the Guyana Squash Association’s (GSA) Bounty Farm Mash Handicap tournament last night at the Georgetown Club’s Squash Facility.

President of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) Godfrey Munroe and his administration have made their intentions clear once again about following through with the GTTA’s decision to decentralize the sport in Guyana.

Coach of the Georgetown compilation of senior players for this weekend’s contest against Linden Robert Cadogan is confident that the capital city players will be victorious on Saturday night at the Cliff Anderson Sport Hall.

The Guysuco Training Centre/Port Mourant (GTC/PM) volleyball club recently returned from Suriname beaten not broken in failing to win the Yellowbirds Volleyball Club’s 50th anniversary volleyball tournament in Paramaribo.

Even though he has the most severe handicap of the tournament, 18-year old squash campaigner Jason Ray Khalil is looking to the defy the odds and win 2013 Bounty Farm Mash Handicap tournament.

In keeping up with its five-year youth development programme which started in 2010 the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has once again collaborated with a corporate

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC-Assad Fudadin dug out a half century but Guyana faltered against a persistent Windward Island bowling attack on the first day of their regional four day match  yesterday.

National men and women’s champions Sudesh Fitzgerald and Hemwattie Amyan were beaten in the finals of the men and women’s singles of the Guyana darts Assoiciation Mashramani Darts Classic at the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union Club (CCWU) last Sunday.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has extended congratulations to Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shemaine Campbelle on their recent successful achievements against Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka respectively.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC-Captain Kirk Edwards is on the verge of scoring his second century as Barbados leads Combined Campuses and Colleges by 61 runs on the first day of their regional four day match yesterday.