By Emmerson Campbell National welterweight champion Iwan ‘Pure Gold’ Azore says he plans to regroup and return to the ring to fight at the junior welterweight level, after suffering a ninth-round knockout by Simeon ‘Candy Man’ Hardy in their WBC CABOFE welterweight title bout on Friday.
The National Sports Commission (NSC) is up and running and awaiting the passing of the budget before continuing the plans it has set for 2012.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies batsman Kirk Edwards has been crowned Barbados’ Sports Personality for 2011.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia have dropped struggling top order batsman Shaun Marsh and rested wicketkeeper Brad Haddin for the first three matches of the one-day Tri-series against India and Sri Lanka, which starts next week.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Off-spinner Jamie Merchant is the only new face in an experienced Jamaica 13-man squad for their opening match of the Regional Four-Day Championship starting here on Friday.
St John’s, Antigua – The West Indies Cricket Board’s Event Management Internship Programme has commenced with the first intake of two interns.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – An official Guyana team – sanctioned by the Guyana Cricket Board – will play in the Regional Four-Day tournament starting on Friday, but they will spend plenty of time on the road.
A Guyana national cricket team minus its two most experienced players in Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan was expected to depart Guyana at 5.30am for Dominica where they will play the first two rounds of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional four day competition which bowls off Friday.
By Emmerson Campbell Theodore Henry, player/coach of the national rugby Sevens team which is preparing to participate in the Las Vegas Invitational Sevens tournament in the United States of America early next month, says the team is working on correcting one of its weakness which was its offence.
The Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) continues to push for a club house and indoor rRange but plans to have the facility in the city have been met with stiff resistance from authorities.
LONDON, (Reuters) – England should not change their team despite being “embarrassed” by Pakistan in the first two tests, according to former captain Michael Vaughan.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic waged war against Rafa Nadal for almost six hours in the longest grand slam final ever played to claim a third Australian Open title and leave the tortured Spaniard empty-handed yet again.
The second Annual Scotia Bank/Pepsi Schools Football Academy will get cracking today with a three-day coaching course to be conducted by United States-based coach Stanley Harmon at the Ministry of Education Sports Club on Carifesta Avenue.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The very thought of Sachin Tendulkar and his contemporaries being shown the exit door would have been dismissed a year ago, but the majority of the Indian cricket fans are now convinced that the ‘golden generation’ should make way for new blood.
Rain yesterday forced the postponement of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) first event of the year, its annual Cross Country race.
Head of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) set up by the Guyana Government Clive Lloyd last evening said that he was respectful of the West Indies Cricket Board’s latest decision with respect to Guyana’s participation in the annual Regional four-day tournament adding that the IMC was not opposed to the team leaving under the umbrella of the GCB.
KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has attributed his team’s current success to his players’ determination to restore pride in their country after the 2010 corruption scandal.
NEW YORK CITY, CMC – Asafa Powell edged out fellow Jamaica Nesta Carter to win the 50 metres dash on a night when Veronica Campbell-Brown and Trinidadian Renny Quow also shone at the USA Track and Field US Open at Madison Square Garden here Saturday.
By Emmerson Campbell A thundering right hand by Simeon ‘Candy Man’ Hardy brought the crowd at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall to its feet on Friday last at the staging of the 20th edition of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) Guyana Fight Night Pro Am card.
The fifth Fruta Conquerors Football Club’s NAMILCO Football Festival was officially launched on Thursday with Managing Director of the company Bert Sukhai heaping praise on the executive of the club for the continued growth and expansion of the tournament, while representing the good name of the company.
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