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MHS on the road to redemption After taking Linden by storm, the Mackenzie High School (MHS) basketball team is now feasting their eyes on capturing the National Schools Basketball Festival (NSBF) title and according to their coach Quincy Cummings, it would be a form of redemption since they finished fourth in the last installation of the tournament.

The tension is building for the S and S Promotions ‘Final Execution’ card as Leon ‘The Lion’ Gilkes throws out a challenge to anyone in the sport, stating that he would wager $100,000 that Leon ‘Too Sharp’ Allen cannot knock him out in four rounds.

Sylvan Gardner is continuing his climb in the sport of bodybuilding after placing sixth in the Pro-Class of this year’s Musclemania which was held over the weekend in Miami.

Triple Olympian and 2002 Commonwealth Games 400 metres gold medalist Aliann Pompey has expressed her frustration at not being able to compete at this year’s inaugural Caribbean Games in Trinidad and Tobago next month, since it was cancelled.

It has been three months since Guyanese striker Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson has been playing in the USA Major League Soccer (MLS) with the Colorado Rapids and speaking with Stabroek Sport on Saturday from Colorado, Richardson said that he has been enjoying the league so far but he is waiting on his time to shine.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports yesterday opened up the doors of its  new resource centre for sports located at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

– outbreak of H1N1 virus cited President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K.A.

– says Leon ‘The Lion’ Gilkes“This is my time to shine .

At age 41, James Phillips considers himself the strongest man in Guyana and now he wants to compete in the well-recognized event in strength athletics, the American Strongman Competition and ultimately to become the World’s Strongest Man.

– sponsors national super middleweight title fight Guyana’s leading furniture and appliance store Courts has come on board the June 27 S and S Promotions boxing card entitled ‘The Final Execution’ by sponsoring the national super middleweight  title fight between Lennox ‘Too Sharp’ Allen and Leon ‘The Lion’ Gilkes at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Former national basketball captain and two-time Caribbean all star point guard Lugard Mohan and local referee Aubrey Young would be looking to add their names to the list of FIBA-certified officials when they embark on a certification today in Colorado, USA.

Leon Moore: ‘I really want to give Marques the whipping of his life’ Guyana’s world-rated and WBC Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) and NABA bantamweight champion Leon ‘Hurry-up’ Moore will be facing national bantamweight champion Dexter Marques for his title next weekend and he told Stabroek Sport yesterday that his aim is to give his opponent the whipping of his life.

A financial shortfall by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has caused four local athletes to miss this year’s Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) age group championships which is scheduled to commence in  the Bahamas tomorrow.

-says Marian Burnett Guyana’s two-time Olympian Marian Burnett says that she is currently battling with an injury which she suffered while in training but made it clear that she would be fully fit in time for the July 12-22 Caribbean Games which will be held in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Giftland Office Max All-Stars eased past the GT&T IM2GO North Ruimveldt team by 15 points (70-55) as the Georgetown Inter-Ward tournament officially came to an end on Saturday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

 Four young ladies will head to the Turks and Caicos Islands to join an overseas group of players to represent Guyana at an invitational Under-20 four-nation tournament from tomorrow.

Munroe puzzled, saddened by non-selection One of Guyana’s top female sprinters believes that she should have been named on the Guyana athletics team to the inaugural Caribbean Games scheduled for next month in Trinidad and Tobago.

-GFFPresident of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass and national coach Paul James believe that disgruntled former members of the Golden Jaguars still stand a chance of coming back and representing their country.

The match-up between the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) sponsored North Ruimveldt and the Giftland Office Max All-Star team is certainly the talk of the town and tonight, the two teams will put those words to the test when they clash in an All-Star game dubbed ‘The settlement of all confrontations.’

  Wind Jammers International Hotel has come on board to support former national point guard Lugard Mohan and Aubrey Young on their venture to the Colorado Springs, USA where they will be taking part in a FIBA referees certification course from June 19-22.