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To the multitude of troubles that undermine West Indies cricket on an almost daily basis, Joel Garner highlighted another last week.

(Reuters) – Jeremy Lin coughed up nine turnovers in his first defeat as a New York Knicks starter with the lowly New Orleans Hornets claiming a surprise 89-85 victory at a sold-out Madison Square Garden on Friday.

By Iva Wharton As the controversy between the Georgetown Football Association (GFA) and the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) rages on, evidence is being unearthed by the GFA in its bid to prove its suspension was unjustified, that the suspension was a direct result of the GFA’s criticism of now banned GFF president Colin Klass.

(Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen hit his first ODI century for more than three years to steer England to a nine-wicket win over Pakistan yesterday to help them secure an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Thirteen wickets tumbled on a dramatic third day but Barbados were left scenting a win over arch-rivals Trinidad and Tobago in their Regional First Class Championship contest here yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Arsenal’s miserable week got worse yesterday when they were knocked out of the FA Cup in a 2-0 fifth round defeat at Sunderland while beleaguered Chelsea fared only slightly better by scraping a 1-1 draw against second tier Birmingham City.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Luckless Leeward Islands plunged to another embarrassing defeat yesterday, going down to rampant defending champions Jamaica by an innings and 201 runs at Sabina Park.

COLOMBO,  (Reuters) – A Sri Lankan bank has agreed to release 600 million Sri Lanka rupees ($5.07 million) to the country’s cash-strapped cricket board to pay its salary-starved players, according to the sports ministry.

 (Reuters) – Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger urged his players to fight on and salvage something from the season after their hopes of ending a seven-year trophy drought were effectively wrecked by FA Cup elimination yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Assad Fudadin stroked his maiden first class century to put Guyana in charge against Combined Campuses and Colleges on the second day of their third round Regional Four-Day clash here yesterday.

General Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Anand Sanasie was yesterday arrested by the Fraud Department of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) before being released later yesterday afternoon.

The organisers of this year’s NAMILCO Football Festival is now combining sport and education as they seek to get the best of both worlds for the players competing in the tournament.

Kayson Ninvalle had an impressive start to the 2012 Mashramani table tennis tournament by winning the under-eight category yesterday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

The Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) will bounce off their calendar year with their Georgetown Basketball League which is scheduled to tip off tonight with two games at the Burnham Hard Courts, from 18:00hrs.

Triple Carifta Games gold medallist Jessica Stephenson arrived at the new 50m pool at Pattenson an immediately made her present felt.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Kumar Sangakkara hit his 10,000th run in one-day internationals to help Sri Lanka hammer Australia by eight wickets in a rain-shortened Tri-series match yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Miami Heat, led by LeBron James, torched the Cleveland Cavaliers 111-87 on Friday to record their fifth consecutive road win in front of an unforgiving crowd in Cleveland  yesterday.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Newly elected athletics chief Cedric Harris says he will be focusing on the overall development of the sport here during his two-year tenure, and believes he has the right people around him to accomplish the job.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) on Wednesday presented cheques to local clubs involved in the Regional Super50 competition which Guyana hosted from October 19-29 last year.

(Reuters) – Brazil Open men’s singles quarter-final results on Friday (prefix denotes seeding): 4-Thomaz Bellucci (Brazil) beat Leonardo Mayer (Argentina) 3-6 6-2 7-5 Filippo Volandri (Italy) beat David Nalbandian (Argentina) 3-6 6-3 7-5 8- Albert Ramos (Spain) beat 3-Fernando Verdasco (Spain) 7-6(5) 6-3 1- Nicolas Almagro (Spain) beat 5-Carlos Berlocq (Argentina) 6-3 6-2