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Two players tussle for the ball during the Santos vs Banks DIH All-Stars game. (Orlando Charles photo)
Two players tussle for the ball during the Santos vs Banks DIH All-Stars game. (Orlando Charles photo)

GFC, Santos FC advance to Banks Beer quarter-finals

Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Santos FC were the victorious teams in the final two round-of-16 matches in the Banks Beer Knockout Cup at the Georgetown Football Club Ground on Wednesday evening.

Bravo comes up short again

HOBART, Australia, CMC – Dwayne Bravo again played a negligible role and Sydney Sixers were undermined by Pakistani fast-medium bowler Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, losing by 42 runs against Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League on Wednesday.

Eduardo Medina

Cuban national coach urges follow-up to develop water polo teams

Cuban national coach, Eduardo Medina, has expressed  confidence that water polo will become  an acclaimed  sport in Guyana in time with continued efforts, following the FINA (World Swimming Federation) Beginner’s Level Water Polo Clinic that concluded on Tuesday at the National Aquatic Centre.

Strauss aims for four straight Ashes wins

LONDON, (Reuters) – England captain Andrew  Strauss is aiming to complete four successive Ashes series  victories over Australia with wins at home in 2013 and again on  the return leg in 2013-14.

Shane Warne and his replica (theage.com.au) photo)

Heavyweight Warne immortalised in bronze at MCG

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Shane Warne cuts a svelte  figure these days but his time as a more rotund player were  recalled when a bronze statue of the spin-bowling great was  unveiled at Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday.

From left, Kashif Muhammad, Caledonia AIA Coach/Technical Director Travis Mulraine, Jamaal Shabazz and Walter Moore during yesterday’s press conference. (Orlando Charles photo)     

Revenge Mission

With the elimination of the Trinidad Soca Warriors football team by Guyana’s Golden Jaguars from the 2014 World Cup Qualifying campaign still fresh in their minds, a Trinidad Club team is here to avenge that team’s elimination while hoping to strike gold to boot, a pound of gold that is.

 John Terry

Chelsea’s terry charged over racism claim

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Chelsea and England captain John Terry will be prosecuted for the alleged racial abuse of Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in a Premier League match in October, British authorities said  yesterday.

Fidel Edwards

Edwards named Barbados captain

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados defied conventional wisdom and chose Kirk Edwards to lead the national team in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship next month.

Floyd Mayweather shows off the many World title belts he won during his illustrious career.

Floyd floored!

(Reuters) – A Las Vegas judge sentenced boxer Floyd Mayweather yesterday to six months behind bars for a 2010 attack on the mother of his children, but half of that jail term was suspended, officials said.

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