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The country’s leading junior and senior chess players were recently honoured for outstanding performances at the just-concluded National Chess Championships.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC– Former Barbadian national player, Pat Greenidge, has been named West Indies Women’s Team Manager, the West Indies Cricket Board announced yesterday.

PERTH,  (Reuters) – South Africa asserted their position as the best team in the world with an emphatic 309-run victory over Australia in the third test to clinch the hard-fought series 1-0 and ruin Ricky Ponting’s farewell yesterday.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil must not repeat the “national tragedy” of losing the 2014 World Cup as it did when it hosted the event in 1950, the country’s Minister of Sport Aldo Rebelo said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Three times Tour de France champion Greg LeMond is to run for president of the International Cycling Union (UCI) after a series of doping scandals in the sport.

PERTH, (Reuters) – Ricky Ponting was moved to tears after his celebrated test career came to a close with a whimper rather than a bang yesterday when his beloved Australia side suffered a series defeat against South Africa.

(Reuters) – The Orlando Magic caught fire in the fourth quarter to stun the Los Angeles Lakers 113-103 and get the better of former player Dwight Howard on Sunday.

SOFIA, (Reuters) – Prize money for the 2013 World Match Play Championship will rise to 3 million euros ($3.90 million), Per Ericsson, president of event management for sponsors Volvo said yesterday.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh pace bowler Abul Hasan has been ruled out of the remaining three one-day internationals of a five-match series against West Indies due to a side strain, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said yesterday.

PERTH,  (Reuters) – South Africa captain Graeme Smith thinks home advantage will give England the edge in the first of two Ashes series against Australia next year.

By Iva Wharton The 2012 Diamond Mineral Water Indoor Hockey Tournament concluded last night with first-time participants Toronto Academy walking away with the ladies title, while Hikers won the Veterans and Men’s categories.

By Emmerson Campbell Seventy-four kilogramme, Masters Two World dead lift record holder Winston ‘Little Master ‘Stoby was predicted to break his own record but it was Vijai Rahim, Anis Ade Thomas and Karel Mars who broke theirs.

PERTH, (Reuters) – South Africa’s AB de Villiers removed the question mark over whether he could bat while also keeping wicket with a storming 169 yesterday to help his country to the brink of a series triumph over Australia.

KHULNA, Bangladesh,  CMC – Erratic West Indies were left tottering on the brink of an embarrassing series loss after another abysmal performance saw them slump to a belittling 160-run defeat to Bangladesh in the second One-Day International.

PERTH, (Reuters) – Hashim Amla scored 196 and AB de Villiers 169 in a batting exhibition that drove South Africa to a commanding lead of 631 runs before they were dismissed for 569 on the third day of the third test against Australia yesterday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – West Indies off spinner Shane Shillingford grabbed 10 wickets and opening batsman Tyron Theophille slammed a century as hosts Dominica defeated Grenada by an innings and 10 runs in the opening round of the Windward Islands Championship here Saturday.

THOUSAND OAKS, California, (Reuters) – Graeme McDowell continued his love affair with California by winning for the first time in two years when he held off playing partner Keegan Bradley to clinch the World Challenge by three shots yesterday.

By Tony Cozier One by one, the batting legends of a generation are yielding to the inevitability of fading reflexes, tired muscles and, above all, misgivings over the rare talents that placed them on a plane above their contemporaries.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – CONCACAF, boosted by Mexico’s triumph at the London Olympics, is making ambitious plans to grow and develop soccer in the region as it starts afresh after last year’s corruption scandal.

KHULNA, Bangladesh,  CMC – West Indies captain Darren Sammy yesterday opted for optimism though his side dangled perilously close to an embarrassing series loss at the hands of minnows Bangladesh.