Caribbean can rebound from scandal says CFU president
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Football Union president, Gordon Derrick, believes the Caribbean can rebound from the latest scandal to shake the region.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Caribbean Football Union president, Gordon Derrick, believes the Caribbean can rebound from the latest scandal to shake the region.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – Massachusetts prosecutors said yesterday that an anonymous caller, who told lawyers for former NFL star Aaron Hernandez that one of the jurors who found him guilty of murder should have been disqualified, had a sexual relationship with the athlete.
(Reuters) – World number one golfer Rory McIlroy has scheduled a Saturday practice round at Whistling Straits, site of next week’s PGA Championship, a reliable source told Reuters yesterday.
The ladies of the Guyana National cricket team departed this morning for Trinidad & Tobago ahead of the WICB Regional Super50 Tournament which begins on Thursday, August 6, 2015.
KUALA LUMPUR/SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Some of the readings from athletes’ blood tests leaked by a whistleblower for a report exposing suspected doping were so extreme they were “downright dangerous”, one of the experts cited in the report told Reuters yesterday.
National Coach Garvin Nedd will bowl off his annual Cricket Summer Camp from August 10-22 at the Demerara Cricket Club Ground (DCC) from 9:00hrs, Mondays to Fridays.
This weekend’s National Novices Championships and the ones going forward will be named after Guyana’s first world boxing champion, Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis as a way of paying homage to the fallen hero.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia’s Athletic Federation will not act on allegations of widespread doping among its sports stars before the world athletics championships in Beijing later this month, the acting head of the body, Vadim Zelichenok, told Reuters yesterday.
The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTYSC), recently received a massive boost via a financial contribution from the Calcutta Sports Club of Freeport, Central Trinidad.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – The head of world athletics vigorously defended the IAAF’s anti-doping record on Monday, as global sporting bodies called for a thorough probe of the latest allegations to plunge international sport into crisis.
The dynasty continued as Christianburg/Wismar sealed their fourth consecutive championship, squeaking past Georgetown unit Chase Academy 2-1 when the 5th Annual Digicel Secondary School Championships concluded yesterday at the National Stadium in Providence.
MANDEVILLE, Jamaica, CMC – Led by a half century opening partnership Guyana defeated Jamaica to retain the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Under-19 50-over tournament here yesterday.
After placing second last week in Berbice, Michael Anthony took his talents to the roadways of West Demerara yesterday and sprinted off with the spoils of the 11th Reagan Rodrigues Memorial 50-mile event.
Former Caribbean junior girls champion and three times Junior Sports woman-of-the-year winner Chelsea Edghill has been granted a partial scholarship to Lindenwood University Missouri, United States of America.
The Referee/Judges Commission of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) held a refresher course yesterday at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Gym.
Guyana’s Calvin Thomas Friday captured the gold medal in the 5000m event at the Special Olympics World Games competition in the United States of America.
The quartet of Jamal John, Raphael Leung, Andrew Hicks and Romello Crawford have been selected to represent Guyana at the August 8-9 Caribbean Junior Cycling Championships in the Dominican Republic.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC — Contrary to reports in some circles experienced wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin was not dropped from the West Indies team for the proposed tour of Zimbabwe.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Endurance runners suspected of doping have been winning a third of Olympic and world championship medals, two news organisations said yesterday, after a leak of thousands of blood test results from 2001-2012 threw global athletics into chaos.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Four Caribbean Member Federations of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) are supporting calls for reforms to athletics governing body.
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