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(The Sports Xchange) – Tony Allen said the Los Angeles Lakers played with more of an edge Tuesday, and the result was a surprising victory over the Memphis Grizzlies.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – England’s top-order capitulation against Afghanistan’s inexperienced bowling attack in yesterday’s World Twenty20 match will worry their fans but skipper Eoin Morgan is concerned.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Mar 23, CMC – Former West Indies and Trinidad and Tobago captain Rangy Nanan has died, media reports here have said.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – England flirted with danger before overcoming a spirited Afghanistan by 15 runs in a World Twenty20 Group One match yesterday to boost their semi-final hopes with a second successive victory.

(Reuters) – A federal judge has dismissed former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s lawsuit accusing the National Basketball Association of antitrust violations for forcing him to sell the franchise in 2014.

(Reuters) – Six-times Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt will run in the London Anniversary Games ahead of his multiple title defence at the Rio Olympics in August.

BENGALURU, (Reuters) – Hosts India snatched victory from the jaws of defeat to keep alive their hopes of reaching the World Twenty20 semi-finals with a dramatic one-run win over Bangladesh today.

Guyana’s pursuit of regional glory last evening began on a positive note as the team humbled lowly rated Anguilla 7-0 in their Scotiabank Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Caribbean Cup qualifying opener at the National Stadium in Providence.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Sprint super star Usain Bolt has announced his intention to call curtains on his Olympic Career after the games in Brazil later this year.

NAGPUR, India, CMC- Chris Gayle has described fellow opener Andre Fletcher as a ‘dangerous’ batsman capable of posting big scores after he plundered an unbeaten half century to lead West Indies to a seven wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the T20 World Cup on Sunday.

ST.JOHNS, Antigua, CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has praised the consistency of the Guyana Jaguars after they successfully defended the Regional Four-Day Professional Cricket League Title on Sunday.

Kuru-Kururu Warriors secured a vital win in the inaugural Guyana Beach Soccer Association (GBSA) National Championships edging Silver Bullets 6-5 Sunday at the Bayroc Beach Facility in Linden.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Head coach of Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, Gus Logie, has blasted as “disappointing, frustrating and embarrassing,”  the team’s performance against Windward Islands Volcanoes in their final match of the regional four-day tournament.

DHARAMSALA, India, CMC- All-rounder Deandra Dottin says she is not worried by her poor form with the bat thus far and is confident she can deliver big scores for West Indies in crucial remaining Group matches of the ICC T20 Women’s World Cup in India.

Ithaca Hardliners sealed their berth to the final of the Berbice Amateur Basketball Association (BABA) sanctioned Anamayah Memorial championships downing Rose Hall Town Jammers 54-46 Sunday at the Rose Hall Basketball Court.

ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) says it wants to stage a series of fast bowling camps as part of a plan to rekindle an area of the game that has been struggling in recent years.

(Reuters) – South Africa will play Friday’s vital World Twenty20 Group 1 match against West Indies without all-rounder JP Duminy who has been ruled out with a hamstring strain.

MOHALI, India, (Reuters) – New Zealand became the first team to book a spot in the World Twenty20 semi-finals after opener Martin Guptill smashed his 10th fifty in the game’s shortest format to set up a 22-run win against Pakistan in their Super 10 stage match yesterday.

Fresh from winning the Masters title at this year’s Masters tournament in Florida, United States of America, Floodlight Masters softball cricket team will be the spearhead of three teams representing the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association Easter Sunday in Berbice.

Benjamin Mekdeci Sunday was crowned category A champion after defeating Alec Melville in straight games 11/4, 12/10, 11/8 in the final match on Sunday as the curtain came down on the Kraft Toucan Industries Limited Junior Skill level tournament organized by the Guyana Squash Association (GSA) in collaboration with its corporate sponsor Digicel.