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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Filipino southpaw Manny Pacquiao is expected to return to the ring on December 8 for a fourth fight against long-time rival Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico, according to several media reports.

(ICC) New Zealand batsman Brendon McCullum and Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal have taken over as the leading batsman and bowler in the latest Reliance ICC Twenty20 Player Rankings.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Schoolboy pranks, over-inflated egos, a lack of team unity and unrealistic expectations filtered into the public domain yesterday as reasons for Australia’s poor showing in the Olympic swimming pool.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia can win the Twenty20 World Cup this month, test captain Michael Clarke said yesterday, even if they are ranked ninth in the world and will have to do it without him.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Nobody said it to his face but when All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Praful Patel said last week India’s goal was to qualify for the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar, his sunny optimism bordered on grim absurdity.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, once notorious for his bad boy antics, has a new goal: he’d like to dance and act in musicals.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – French Open winner Maria Sharapova will join US Open champions Serena Williams and Andy Murray in warming up for next year’s Australian Open at the Brisbane International, organizers said yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – World road race champion Mark Cavendish lost the overall lead of the Tour of Britain yesterday as Marc de Maar recovered from a crash near the end to win the fifth stage in Stoke.

National senior sprint champion Rupert Perry had his first run on home soil yesterday since returning from a High Performance Training Centre in Jamaica and  easily qualified for the men’s 200 metres finals of the Guyana Defence Force annual athletics championships.

By Emmerson Campbell A 2-3 defeat by El Salvador Tuesday night at the Providence National Stadium put paid to the Golden Jaguars hopes of qualifying past the third round of the 2014 football World Cup Qualifiers.

Pepsi Sonics basketball Club will lather this month stage a first and third division tournaments at the outdoor Burnham Basketball Court.

The Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) donated an International Volleyball Federation (IVF) net and other gear to the Mibicuri Primary School in keeping with its mandate to promote the sport in that county.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka,  CMC – Talismanic opener Chris Gayle has backed West Indies to reach the final of the World Twenty20 Champion-ship.

Six coaches – Michael Hyles-Franco, Renwick Batson, Delbert Hicks, Winston Smith, Julian Moore and Adrian Amsterdam – were last weekend honored in the annual Tribute to Coaches Programme held by the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) at the board’s office, Cheddi Jagan Street, New Amsterdam.

St John’s, Antigua – In light of a statement reported in the media as being attributed to the West Indies Players Association relating to the Ramnaresh Sarwan arbitration matter, the WICB deems it necessary to allow the public the benefit of the full facts.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-The Jamaica Government has announced plans to stage ‘scaled down’ celebrations for members of the team which participated in the London Olympics last month.

Experienced golfer Carlos Adams found his rhythm to cart off his first major tournament for 2012 with victory in the Annual El Dorado Medal Play Golf tournament played over the weekend at the Lusignan Golf Course.

Rupert Perry has admitted that in  posting the fastest time in the 200m preliminary on his return to track after a six-month hiatus yesterday at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Inter Unit Championships held at the GDF ground Camp Ayanganna, his only intention was to test his peed.

By Iva Wharton The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) continues to face an uphill battle to attract females in large numbers to the sport.

(Reuters) – England will depart for their Twenty20 World Cup defence in Sri Lanka in good heart after squaring the three-match series against South Africa with an emphatic 28-run win at Edgbaston yesterday.