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Come Sunday all roads will lead to the South Dakota Circuit as the Guyana Motor racing and Sports Club stages its Race of Champions meet.

Allan Downes managed to pull off a stunning win against Caribbean Under-13 champion Benjamin Meckdeci on the opening night of the Digicel National Senior Squash Championship at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts last night.

The local hockey fraternity is in a state of mourning following the passing of its long serving Secretary Elton Gregory Sills yesterday after a prolonged illness.

It was name and nature for Dennis DeRoop of the Simply Royal Stables whose bay mare Who So Ever was simply royal in winning the feature event at the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club and Sports Facility in association with Banks DIH Limited CARICOM Day Horse Race meet on Monday.

EUGENE, Oregon,  (Reuters) – Soft-spoken and humble, American Tyson Gay seems so different from most modern-day sprinters.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Back-to-back defeats for Usain Bolt has left tongues wagging about a changing of the guard at the upcoming London Olympics but the sprint double World record holder hardly seems worried by the chatter.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies vice-captain Dwayne Bravo says the regional side needs to break its worrying trend of slow starts to series if it is to beat New Zealand in the upcoming five One-Day Internationals.

ROUEN, France, (Reuters) – German Andre Greipel won the fourth stage of the Tour de France yesterday after world champion Mark Cavendish crashed close to the finish and was unable to contest the final sprint.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Opening batsman Virender Sehwag and pace spearhead Zaheer Khan returned to India’s limited overs squad for the Sri Lanka tour but Sachin Tendulkar made himself unavailable, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – After an extended period out of Test cricket, energetic all-rounder Dwayne Bravo says he is keen on regaining his spot in the West Indies side for the game longest version.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Brick by brick, Andy Murray chiselled his way through a Spanish wall to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals while Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic simply demolished outclassed opponents yesterday to set up a mouth-watering first meeting on grass.

Michael `Pimsy’ Vieira on Monday looped and smashed his way to  titles when the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) staged its multi-category Veterans tournament at the National Gymnasium.

By Iva Wharton As expected, frontrunners the Guyana Defence Force Sunday night clinched the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) Banks DIH Limited-sponsored President’s Beer football league when the defeated hosts Georgetown Football Club (GFC) 3-1 at the GFC ground.

If Kadecia Baird and Sheniece Daphness had been running for elected office, they surely would’ve been buoyed by the lobbying of a diplomat who knows a bit about running a government office.

By Yonalla Dalrymple Queen’s College carted off two titles to be the most outstanding school when the Business School sponsored tournament ended on Monday at the National Gymnasium.

By Emmerson Campbell Most sportsmen and women the world over are rewarded for their record-breaking feats and other outstanding performances whenever the represent the land of their birth.

Even though she has nothing to prove and has already won several national titles over the years, world ranked squash star Nicolette Fernandes is pumped and ready to take on the local competition at the Digicel National Senior Squash Championships which serves off this evening.

By Iva Wharton It went down to the wire, but Tutorial High School nevertheless prevailed and were crowned Regional 6 Champions.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida,  CMC – Dr. Ernest Hilare, the outspoken and often controversial Chief Executive Officer of West Indies cricket, is leaving the job.

By Treiston Joseph It was not to be third time lucky for the Brooklyn Bulldogs who went under without a whimper 60-84 to the Washington DC jammers basketball team at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Monday night.