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NEW YORK,  CMC-A FIFA draw is to be conducted to determine which teams will play each other in the final round of the CONCACAF qualifier for the 2014 world cup in Brazil.

– “Sickened” UCI strips Armstrong of Tour wins GENEVA, (Reuters) – Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life yesterday after the International Cycling Union (UCI) ratified the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s (USADA) sanctions against the American.

– Golden Jaguars looking to bounce back tonight From Emmerson Campbell in St Lucia Guyana’s Golden Jaguars football team will be looking to bounce back against Curacao tonight after an upset 1-2 loss against their other Group Two foe, St.

A large crowd turned up to witness the local boys of the Universal DVD Club Titans team defeat the Hits and Jams Superstars on home soil at the Albion Community Centre Ground early Sunday morning.

By Iva Wharton Central American and Caribbean gold medalist, Devon Davis was crowned Mr.

Western Tigers won the inaugural Karibee Rice knockout football competition when they defeated Rosignol United in the final on Sunday at the GFC Ground, Bourda.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-World and Olympic 400m champion Grenada’s Kirani James and Trinidad and Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott, the Olympic javelin champion, shared the spotlight at the 30th Commonwealth sports awards here over the weekend.

UG track and field C/ships… The Faculty of Social Sciences reclaimed the Inter-Faculty Track and Field Championships last Friday after three years by dethroning the Faculty of Natural Sciences last Friday at the University of Guyana ground, Turkeyen.

By Iva Wharton Former WBC title holder Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Braithwaite said he has a lot riding on his fight against Shawn Corbin on the Redemption Card on Saturday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

It is said that a bad beginning leads to a good ending.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said  yesterday that a US 20 million dollar claim made by the West Indies players Association in a lawsuit against the WICB has been overstated.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC-West Indies hero Marlon Samuels, still riding the waves of a sensational rebirth of his international career, has signed with Melbourne Renegades for the second season of the Big Bash League.

Mohammed “Nanko” Shariff’s California Strike romped to victory in Sunday’s feature C class event when the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club in collaboration with the Jumbo Jet Stable held a one-day race meet at No 6, Bel Air West Coast Berbice.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- Guadeloupe’s leading cyclist, Boris Carene, raced to back-to back-victories in the Caribbean Cycling Championships (CCC) staged in St.John’s

From Emmerson Campbell in St Lucia Guyana’s Golden Jaguars opened their Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Cup campaign yesterday with 1-2 defeat to Group Two foe St.

— bests star-studded field to win Flying Stars 75-mile event Berbician Neil Reece yesterday recorded the biggest victory of his career when he shocked a star-studded field to win the Flying Stars Cycle Club Kader Mohamed 75-mile cycle road race yesterday.

Defending champion Cleveland Forde completed a successful title defence of the first stage of the 10th annual IAAF CONSUDATLE South American 10km Classic Road with a last gasp sprint to the finish at the Police Sports Club ground Eve Leary yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Ronaldinho’s Atletico Mineiro snatched a 3-2 home victory over leaders Fluminense in the dying minutes of a thriller in Belo Horizonte yesterday to keep their Brazilian championship dream alive.

By Neil Barry Jr., The short-lived nature of the two Georgetown Cricket Association’s Queensway semi finals was a reflection of the strength of the two sides the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) who bullied their opposition into submission on their way to setting up a rematch of last year’s final.

PARIS, (Reuters) – The Lance Armstrong doping scandal reaches a decisive day today when cycling’s governing body announces whether it has ratified the U.S.