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West Ruimveldt lock horns with Marian Academy today from 15:00hrs, in the grande finale of the Courts Pee Wee Primary Schools Football Championships at the Thirst Park ground.

MILAN, (Reuters) – The huge hoardings around the O2 Arena promoting the season-ending ATP Finals will get some quizzical looks this year with several familiar faces conspicuous by their absence.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia fast bowler Nathan Coulter-Nile could miss the Ashes series against England after breaking down with another back injury.

(The Sports Xchange) – James Harden produced a triple-double as the Houston Rockets held on for a 117-113 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday.

  Men crush Panama 9 – 0, Ladies defeat Bermuda 3 – 0Guyana’s Men’s and Women’s teams moved one step closer in qualifying for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games, when they secured wins against Panama and Bermuda, respectively, yesterday.

ZURICH, (Reuters) – FIFA revived the Telstar, the first made-for-television football used at the 1970 World Cup, as it unveiled on Thursday the official match ball for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Germany coach Joachim Loew has said he will experiment with his team when they take on England in a friendly today, as the world champions prepare for their title defence next year.

BELFAST, (Reuters) – Switzerland made the most of a controversial penalty converted by Ricardo Rodriguez to secure a 1-0 win away to Northern Ireland in a pulsating and bruising first leg of their World Cup qualifying playoff on Thursday.

AGREB, (Reuters) – Croatia edged closer to next year’s World Cup with an emphatic 4-1 home win over Greece on Thursday in the first leg of their two-legged playoff.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Italy arrived in Sweden for the first game of their two-legged World Cup playoff against Sweden with doubts about the fitness of striker Simone Zaza, who has knee injury which is likely to keep him out of today’s match.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Half-centuries from Montcin Hodge and Keacy Carty helped Leeward Islands Hurricanes control the opening day of their third round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship against leaders Guyana Jaguars here Thursday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Hundreds from their current captain Denesh Ramdin and a former captain Jason Mohammed in a record, fourth-wicket stand gave Trinidad & Tobago Red Force the early leg up on Windward Islands Volcanoes in the Regional 4-Day Championship on Thursday.

With less than six days before the deadline of team submissions, a record turnout is expected for the Qualifying Tournament in the 2017 Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Georgetown Zone.

Unbeaten Winners Connection climbed atop the standings in the Upper Demerara Football Association (UDFA) 2017/2018 Senior League, crushing Blueberry Hill 3-0, on Wednesday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – British Cycling chairman Jonathan Browning is stepping down after 10 months in the job as part of governance reforms following recent bullying and doping scandals.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Felipe Massa hopes his home Brazilian Grand Prix can stay on the Formula One calendar despite a drought of local drivers and uncertainty about the long-term future of the Interlagos circuit.

MILAN,  (Reuters) – Some thought he was mad launching a tournament with radical rules claiming to be re-inventing tennis, but ATP chief Chris Kermode believes his Milan experiment has a future.

   (The Sports Xchange) – Highlights from National Basketball Association games on Wednesday: Celtics 107, Lakers 96 Aron Baynes matched his career high with 21 points and the Boston Celtics won their 10th straight game, holding off the Los Angeles Lakers 107-96 on Wednesday night.

BRISBANE, Australia, CMC – West Indies made light work of Northern Suburbs District Invitational XI but their two-day warm-up match finished in a predictable draw here Thursday.

The 2017 edition of the National Schools Cycling, Swimming and Track and Field Championships will usher in a new era of positive change.