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MONTREAL, Canada,  CMC- A report on the state of Jamaica’s drug testing programme is expected to be examined next week during a meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in South Africa.

A clash of titanic proportions is expected when St Pius tackles West Ruimveldt in the final of the Pee Wee U11 football tourney tomorrow at the Thirst Park ground at 4.00 pm.

KOLKATA, India ,CMC- Shane Shillingford grabbed four wickets to lead a West Indies fightback but a seventh-wicket stand between Rohit Sharma and Ravichandran Ashwin erased those gains as India remained ahead in the first test match here yesterday.

National Cycling Coach, Hassan Mohamed has organized back-to-back events this weekend to keep the competitive juices of the nation’s wheelsmen flowing ahead of next week’s seventh annual Ride For Life five-stage road race.

(BBC) Michael Carberry is in line to complete a remarkable turnaround in his career if he is chosen for England in the opening Ashes Test.

Machinery Corporat-ion of Guyana Ltd (MACORP) in collaboration with the Lusignan Golf Club, yesterday launched its 7th Annual Invitational Golf tournament, scheduled to tee-off tomorrow at the Lusignan Golf Course.

KINGSTOWN, St.Vincent,  CMC- Lloyd Small has resigned as First Vice-President of the St.Vincent

A flurry of punches will be thrown today when the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) stages its annual national Open championships at the National Gymn-asium.

NEW YORK, CMC – The fastest man on the planet, Usain Bolt of Jamaica, wants to run the 200 metres in under 19 seconds and possibly as early as 2014.

GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands,  CMC- Trinidad and Tobago have been drawn in Group B along with host and seeded team Cayman Islands, Honduras and Mexico for the 2014 CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Championship to be hosted in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, from January 9 to 19.

Queenstown FC hammered the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) 8-0 when action in the Interim Management Committee of the Essequibo/Pomeroon Football Association (EPFA) Premier League continued at the NOC ground on Wednesday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The hardest nut in men’s tennis again proved resistant to the heaviest of sledgehammers as Novak Djokovic absorbed the brute force of Juan Martin del Potro to book his place in the last four of the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday.

(Reuters) – Lance Armstrong believes he was treated unfairly and singled out for punishment by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) after being banned for life for doping.

(BBC) Sachin Tendulkar scored just 10 runs in the first innings of his penultimate Test as India took control on day two against West Indies in Kolkata.

KOLKATA, India, CMC- A day that started with much promise ended in an anti-climax for West Indies, after a half-century from Marlon Samuels failed to ignite their batting, as newcomer Mohammad Shami triggered a collapse to give India an early advantage in the first Test yesterday here.

Registration for the upcoming seventh annual ‘Ride For Life’ five-stage cycle road race will close on Monday.

Lower East Coast Bulls, West Bank Demerara Mavericks, Georgetown Bears and Lower East Bank Lions yesterday recorded commanding victories when the third round of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)/Raj Singh Insurance Company-sponsored O40 20-overs-a-side tournament continued.

Guyana Football Feder-ation (GFF) President Christopher Matthias says that the FIFA Goal Project will be officially moved from its current location of Orangestein, Essequibo to the Leonora Synthetic Track Facility on the West Coast of Demerara.

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) in collaboration the founder members of Rollers Volleyball Club of New Amsterdam will stage the inaugural Rollers Old Boys Champion of Champions lien volleyball competition for teams in Berbice.

Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) on Monday scored a 54-run win over Malteenoes Sports Club (MSC) as the Georgetown Cricket Association/Carib Beer first division T20 tournament continued.