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(Reuters) – The San Antonio Spurs built a big lead over the Denver Nuggets but were forced to hang on for a 121-117 win on Saturday.

Guyana’s Lady Jags lost their opening game of the CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championships to hosts Cuba 1-5 on Saturday at the Estadio Pedro Marrero Ciudad de La Habana ground.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Liverpool have offered an apology over the alleged racist abuse suffered by Oldham Athletic’s Tom Adeyemi at Anfield during Friday’s third round FA Cup match for which a spectator was arrested and charged over the weekend.

The Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) will be 100 years old this year and the club has planned a year-long  programme of activities.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s embattled cricket board has defended its player management practices in the face of withering criticism following a raft of injuries that have gutted the team’s bowling unit.

(BBC)  England’s batsmen were made to struggle on the second day of their three-day warm-up game against an ICC Combined Associate and Affiliate XI in Dubai yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – All-rounder Albie Morkel has been called up to South Africa’s one-day international (ODI) squad as an injury replacement for the five-match series against Sri Lanka, Cricket South Africa announced yesterday.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal will be gunning for Novak Djokovic this year to prevent Serbia’s world number one from having another record-setting season, Juan Martin del Potro said  yesterday.

SYDNEY, Australia, CMC – Sydney Thunder, with West Indians Chris Gayle and Fidel Edwards in their side, lost by 17 runs on the Duckworth /Lewis Method in a rain-affected game against cross-town rivals Sydney Sixers at Stadium Australia yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Talented all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite says he is confident of sparking a revival in the Barbados team as the former regional powerhouses look to win their first ever Caribbean Twenty20 title.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – As Jamaica hunt an elusive Caribbean Twenty20 title in the tournament which starts today in Antigua, team coach Junior Bennett reckons that the batsmen must try not to allow so many dot balls to be bowled.

(Reuters) – The Chicago Bulls extended their winning streak to six games with a late run to pull away from the Orlando Magic 97-83 at the Amway Center on Friday.

Despite the occasion it was a sombre Alpha United team that turned up Friday evening at the Banks DIH Limited Sports Club at Thirst Park to receive the awards the team won in the inaugural Banks Beer Cup knockout football competition which ended on January 1.

The National Twenty20 cricket team under skipper Christopher Barnwell left Guyana yesterday for Antigua where they will participate in the West Indies Cricket Board Regional Twenty20 series.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Amir Khan’s promoter said on Saturday the WBA had informed him it will order a rematch with American Lamont Peterson following the British boxer’s controversial defeat on a split decision in their world title fight in Washington last month.

At the end of another particularly bad week, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) issued a statement reiterating that it will “continue with its programme for the restructuring of West Indies cricket and will pursue through all available channels the arrangements that are necessary for the progress of cricket in the territories and the region.”

By Iva Wharton The Georgetown Football Association (GFA), Banks DIH sponsored President’s Beer tournament resumes in another two weeks and according to Kwabina Griffith, GFA’s Vice President with responsibility for Technical and Tactical Development they will be doing so with one team less, Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Another national association is being chastised by its Government for the way it has been handling the administration of the game in their country.

The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) threatened to take the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to court over Guyana’s exclusion from the upcoming Caribbean T20.

By Emmerson Campbell If the saying that opportunity comes at least once in everyone’s lifetime is true, the opportunity of boxer Mark Austin’s life has now presented itself.