With the elimination of the Trinidad Soca Warriors football team by Guyana’s Golden Jaguars from the 2014 World Cup Qualifying campaign still fresh in their minds, a Trinidad Club team is here to avenge that team’s elimination while hoping to strike gold to boot, a pound of gold that is.
By Iva Wharton
Nigel Hinds a former national hockey and basketball player Nigel Hinds is back home and has stated his intention of doing his part to aid the development of sport.
Kwakwani secured a spot in the final of the 2011 Titan’s Bowl basketball tournament yesterday when they defeated Plaisance Academy in the semifinal at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea and England captain John Terry will be prosecuted for the alleged racial abuse of Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in a Premier League match in October, British authorities said yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados defied conventional wisdom and chose Kirk Edwards to lead the national team in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship next month.
(Reuters) – A Las Vegas judge sentenced boxer Floyd Mayweather yesterday to six months behind bars for a 2010 attack on the mother of his children, but half of that jail term was suspended, officials said.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Long jumpers Tyrone Smith and Arantxa King have been named Bermuda’s men’s and women’s Athletes-of-the-Year after “exceptional” performances.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Jamaal Shabazz said he is working on a deal with the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation that would also allow him to stay with Guyana.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Premier League leaders Manchester City and champions Manchester United switched attention back to the action and away from controversies surrounding racism with easy wins yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Barcelona’s Lionel Messi was named as Argentina’s sports personality of the year yesterday, winning the Olimpia de Oro (gold) for the first time.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australian batsman Shaun Marsh will test his fitness in a Twenty20 match this evening and is confident he will be ready to go for next week’s opening test against India.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – Left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman broke through Bangladesh’s resistance before Pakistan raced against fading light to complete a seven-wicket win on the final day of the second test yesterday.
(Reuters) – Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant tore a ligament in his right wrist in Monday’s preseason game against the Los Angeles Clippers and is considered day-to-day, the National Basketball Association club said yesterday.
By Emerson Campbell
Winners never quit and quitters never win – that’s the mantra of Guyana’s current cruiserweight and heavyweight champion Kurt ‘Sledgehammer’ Bess along with his management team as they look to resurrect his career in order to achieve his goals for the year ahead and beyond.
The Georgetown Cricket Association named the Georgetown squad to play their Berbice Under-21 counterparts in the first match of the Basil Butcher Under-21 tribute double header today at the Cumberland Ground, Canje, Berbice.
Kwakwani Secondary School appears to be the team to beat in the ongoing Titan’s Bowl basketball tournament as they racked up another stroke in the win column last Monday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall by defeating the University of Guyana (UG).