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By Emmerson Campbell Three games, three wins, eight scored goals, no problem.

ATHENS/GDANSK, (Reuters) – Germany humiliated Greece in the Euro 2012 soccer tournament yesterday, rubbing salt in the wounds of a nation reeling from a dire economic crisis which many blame on Berlin.

GALLE, Sri Lanka,  (Reuters) – Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara struck fluent centuries as the Sri Lankan top order punished Pakistan’s wayward bowlers on the opening day of the first test yesterday.

By Iva Wharton Hosororo Secondary School’s football team will today oppose Region One champions Port Kaituma in the second round of the Digicel Schools tournament at the Settlement Ground, Mabaruma after whipping Wauna Secondary 5-0 yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies A team manager Colin Borde wants young Test opener Kieran Powell to make the most of his appointment as captain for the Twenty20 doubleheader against India A this weekend.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former Pakistan and Essex leg-spinner Danish Kaneria was banned for life by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Friday after being found guilty of corruption.

LEEDS, England,  CMC – West Indies’ quest to salvage pride from a wretched One-Day International series ended in disappointment when persistent rain washed out the third and final game, without a ball bowled here yesterday.

Says Donald Duff “Not one, not two, not three….”  With those famous words basketball superstar LeBron James, in promising to win multiple NBA titles for the Miami Heat, created a burden of expectations for himself and for the Heat basketball fans who had seen their franchise win only once before in 2006 after being formed in 1988 so huge that he had difficulty in fulfilling it.

By Emmerson Campbell The Guyana Jaguars will be hunting a victory today when they tackle regional powerhouse, Bermuda in the final NACRA 2015 RWC 15s regional qualifier match in Bermuda.

EUGENE, Oregon, (Reuters) – Former world champion Sanya Richards-Ross had only one problem with her women’s 400 metres preliminary race at the rainy U.S.

The much anticipated semifinal match-up between Western Union Plaisance/Vryheids Lust and Wismar in the National Community Basketball League (NCBL) which was schedule for today will have to wait a little longer as the game was postponed.

LONDON, England, CMC – West Indies vice-captain Dwayne Bravo has been fined 20 per cent of his match fee by the International Cricket Council for criticizing the umpires after Chris Gayle was controversially given out during the second One-Day International on Tuesday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker is seeking up to $20 million in damages from a New York City nightclub for injuries he says he sustained when a fight erupted between friends of singers Chris Brown and Drake.

By Emmerson Campbell “I am his stumbling block, he got some issues with accepting the fight, and I can’t say if he’s scared or not but I was confident on giving him a thrashing, He not confident of beating me, here is a big full stop and a question mark also because what is the reason he doesn’t want to fight me”?

(Reuters) – The Miami Heat demolished the Oklahoma City Thunder 121-106 yesterday to win the National Basketball Association championship 4-1, sweeping the last four games of the series.

By Emmerson Campbell Back Circle Stallions (Team Guyana) trampled Team Antigua 5 goals to nil in their opening match of the three-night inaugural Guinness Caribbean Street Football Challenge last night at the National Park tarmac.

GDF currently leads in the President’s Beer/GFA League Tournament with 30 points, after securing a 4-nil victory over Black Pearl on Wednesday at the GFC Ground, Bourda.

Guyana Education Trust College is through to the second round of the Digicel Schools Football Tournament after a 4-1 win over St Joseph High School.

Manager of Body Maxx Gym, Ashton Barker yesterday handed over an undisclosed sum of money to the Inter Ministries/Corporations’, seven-a- side football organizer, Mark Young.

On Wednesday, four matches in the Inter Ministries/Corporations’ seven-a-side tournament were played at the Banks DIH Thirst Park ground and the Education Ministry whipped its counterparts at the Foreign Affairs Ministry.