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MUMBAI, India,  CMC-West Indies will play a test series in India in November, according to media reports quoting a source at the Indian cricket board (BCCI).

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- One of Jamaica’s most decorated athletes, Veronica Campbell-Brown, was expected to face a disciplinary panel  yesterday after she returned a positive drug test in May.

BERLIN, Germany, CMC- Jamaican sprinter Kemar Bailey-Cole captured the men’s 100 metres at the ISTAF Athletics Meeting here in Berlin, Germany on Sunday.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands,  CMC- Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Keston Bledman and hurdler Mikel Thomas won their respective events at the Flame Games in Amsterdam, Netherlands over the weekend.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Roger Federer was dumped from the U.S.

Another tournament, another championship as Alpha ‘the Hammer’ United silenced their critics, defeating Slingerz FC 4-2 in a hard-fought grand final of the Slingerz/National Association for Women Football (NAWF) Goal for Gold tourney.

Trinidad’s Dexter St Louis and the Dominican Republic’s Eva Brito were crowned king and queen when the 55th annual Caribbean Table Tennis championships  ended Saturday night at the Beausejour Indoor Facility in St Lucia.

Skipper Christopher Barnwell’s all-round class, Robin Bacchus’s maturity and Krishmar Santokie’s 4-wicket haul, led Guyana to a 10-run victory over the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force on Saturday night, as the hosts levelled the two-match T20 series, 1-1 at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The start of the transformation of Gareth Bale from a gangly teenager who did not play on the winning side in his first 24 Premier League matches for Tottenham Hotspur to the world’s most expensive player can be pin-pointed to an exact place and time.

Riddim Squad FC crushed Flamingo FC 4-1 as action in the inaugural Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Players Cup continued on Saturday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Grand slam king Roger Federer showed off his fitness by sprinting into the round of 16 at the U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Top seed Novak Djokovic roared into the fourth round of the U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Serena Williams avenged her loss to Sloane Stephens earlier this year by thrashing her fellow American in straight sets yesterday to reach the quarter-finals of the U.S.

TORONTO, Canada,  CMC – Former Jamaican born Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson is to lead a new anti-drugs campaign set to launch this month.

(Barbados Nation) Next year, beleaguered regional carrier LIAT could find itself on the outside looking in on the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) because of the poor quality of service it delivered during the just-ended Twenty20 tournament.

(Reuters) – Batsman David Warner has been dropped from Australia’s one-day international squad while paceman Mitchell Starc will fly back home because of lower back soreness, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC – Olympic 400 metres champion Kirani James of Grenada is celebrating his 21st birthday with family and friends on the island.

From the humble beginnings of Corriverton to the top of the power lifting world stands the 5-foot, 3-inch, 115-pound gladiator, Gumendra Shewdas.

In sweltering conditions at the National Park yesterday, Roraima Bikers Club’s (RBC) Alanzo Greaves won his 13th local signature race for the season when he scorched a star-studded field of rivals in the feature 35-lap event of the National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored 11-race cycle programme.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent and the Grenadines (CMC) – A former West Indies cricket player is concerned about the contribution of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League (LCPL) to the development of the sport in the region.