Sports

The second annual Digicel Cancer Awareness cycle road race will be launched this morning at the company’s head office Lot 8 Fort and Barrack Streets Kingston.

(Reuters) – Hashim Amla notched his 20th test century but three wickets for 34-year-old debutant Zulfiqar Babar allowed Pakistan to restrict South Africa to 245 for eight on the opening day of the first test in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s selectors need to show faith in their top six batsmen after undermining their confidence by chopping and changing the order during the recent Ashes series defeat, former captain Ricky Ponting has said.

West Berbice on Saturday scored a comfortable seven-wicket victory over a depleted Albion Community Centre team to ease into the final of the 2013 Universal DVD first-division T20 cricket competition.

The third annual International softball cricket tournament known as the Guyana Cup III will be launched on Thursday, said vice president of the Guyana Floodlights Softball Cricket Association (GFSCA) Ricky Deonarine.

The eagerly anticipated Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA)/Yolo Entertainment Super Sevens tourney recently acquired major support from the Guyana Basketball Officials Council (GBOC) and Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) organizations.

A 12-member team of swimmers comprising six males and six females will represent Guyana at the second leg of the Inter Guiana Games (IGG) in Suriname.

Newcomer Shanella Webster on Saturday won the second annual President’s Cup golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Club.

After two weeks of high intensity training, two of Guyana’s top amateur boxers, Imran Khan and Dennis Thomas will begin their quests for medals at the World Amateur Boxing Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Thursday.

Rosignol United edged BK Western Tigers in a penalty shootout (3-0)  following a 2-2 score at the end of regulation time when the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Premier League continued on Sunday at the Georgetown Football Club ground, Bourda.

GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller is among confirmed speakers for the inaugural CONCACAF Sports Summit in the Cayman Islands next week.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC– New Zealand football team is eagerly anticipating their showdown with Trinidad and Tobago when the two teams meet in a friendly international here tonight.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The World’s Anti-doping Agency is to launch an “extraordinary” audit of Jamaica’s drug-testing agency following allegations that its policing of the island’s track athletes all but collapsed in the months before the London Games.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) ran away with yesterday’s Banks Sevens Club Championship beating the University of Guyana (UG) ruggers 19 to 12 in the final at the National Park.

(BBC) American Timothy Bradley on Saturday retained his WBO welterweight title with a split-decision victory over Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas.

Junior Sportsman of the Year, Paul DeNobrega has a knack for winning big money races.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC — Bermudian triathlete Tyler Butterfield produced a tremendous performance to finish seventh on Saturday in the Hawaii Ironman World Championships, considered one of the toughest races in the world, media here reported.

MOSCOW, Russia,  CMC – Two of the Caribbean’s top swimmers were double medallists on the third stop of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 in Moscow this weekend.

Santos FC edged Fruta Conquerors 1-0 in their quarterfinal showdown when the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Players Cup continued at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda on Friday.

(Reuters) – Australia’s Sam Stosur fought back from a set down to claim the Japan Open for a second time on Sunday and deny Canadian teenager Eugenie Bouchard her first WTA title.