The Georgetown Football Association (GFA) yesterday denied that it is hosting a tournament simultaneously with that of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and alleged that the staging of the annual Kashif and Shanghai football tournament might be in contravention of the laws of FIFA.
Constant practice was largely responsible for Queen’s College being successful at the recently-concluded National Schools Chess Championships, according to captain of the team Cecil Cox.
SYDNEY, Australia, CMC/IANS – Chris Gayle continued his controversial exile from the West Indies team, embracing the Yuletide season and indulging himself with an explosive, record hundred that catapulted the Sydney Thunder to a comfortable six-wicket victory over the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash Twenty20 League yesterday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Jack Warner accused Caribbean officials of undoing their more than three decades of struggle for respect by caving in to certain demands handed down to them at their Extraordinary Congress staged in Zurich this week.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – A day after breaking into the Australian test side, batsman Ed Cowan had his preparations for the Boxing Day test against India disturbed when a man broke into his parents’ Sydney home and refused to leave when police arrived at the scene.
LONDON, (Reuters) – England captain Andrew Strauss is aiming to complete four successive Ashes series victories over Australia with wins at home in 2013 and again on the return leg in 2013-14.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Tamar Lambert said he harboured no hard feelings following his shocking omission from Jamaica’s 14-member squad for the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship next month.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australia’s callow bowling attack has tantalised with the promise of a brave new era, but faces its stiffest examination against India’s veteran batsmen in the first test in Melbourne starting Monday.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – In a defiant captain’s swansong, Ricky Ponting hit a fighting century in a losing cause as Australia bowed out of the World Cup earlier this year and then spoke of his hopes for a “Tendulkar-like” re-birth.
(Reuters) – Kobe Bryant plans to play in the Los Angeles Lakers’ season opener against the Chicago Bulls tomorrow despite a torn ligament in his right wrist.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Rider Mark Cavendish was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Thursday to cap a memorable 12 months in which the Briton won the road race world title and the Tour de France green jersey.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Disgruntled members of the 2006 Trinidad & Tobago team that played at the FIFA World Cup in Germany have threatened to file bankruptcy proceedings against the T&T Football Federation.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Adrian Barath gave new Trinidad & Tobago captain and West Indies teammate Denesh Ramdin a big vote of confidence ahead of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship next month.
CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Three promising, young players are set to make their Caribbean Twenty20 debuts for the Combined Campuses & Colleges when the tournament is contested next month.
DURBAN, (Reuters) – South Africa have to become more ruthless in their approach as they seek to secure a series-winning victory in the second test against Sri Lanka, captain Graeme Smith said yesterday.
Kwakwani dethroned Linden Technical Institute (LTI) to clinch the 2011 championship title of the Titan’s Bowl Basketball Tournament on Wednesday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Santos FC were the victorious teams in the final two round-of-16 matches in the Banks Beer Knockout Cup at the Georgetown Football Club Ground on Wednesday evening.
ZURICH, Switzerland, CMC – Well-known personalities Horace Burrell, Ronald Jones and Yves Jean-Bart were among nine administrators appointed to restore the Caribbean Football Union to normalcy over the next five months.
HOBART, Australia, CMC – Dwayne Bravo again played a negligible role and Sydney Sixers were undermined by Pakistani fast-medium bowler Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, losing by 42 runs against Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League on Wednesday.
By Emmerson Campbell Guyana men’s rugby team, winners of six consecutive North America Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) Sevens titles, is currently in off season training, preparing to compete on the international stage in the new year.
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