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Marica Dick, centre, receives the cycling equipment from Wilbert Benjamin, left, while her coach Randolph Roberts looks on.
Marica Dick, centre, receives the cycling equipment from Wilbert Benjamin, left, while her coach Randolph Roberts looks on.

Female cycling champion receives much needed equipment

National schools female cycling champion and Flying Aces Cycling Club (FACC) member, Marica Dick has received much needed cycling equipment, compliments of Canada-based Guyanese Wilbert Benjamin who is a former national cyclist and FACC member.

Djokovic floored by Ferrer, Berdych hangs on

LONDON, (Reuters) – David Ferrer, the lesser known Spaniard in the ATP World Tour Finals, burst out of Rafa Nadal’s shadow to reach the last four yesterday with a demolition job on world number one Novak Djokovic at the O2 Arena.

Kirk Edwards salutes the crowd on reaching his half century. (WindiesCricket.com)

Batsmen flourish!

MUMBAI, India, IANS/CMC – All four West Indies top order batsmen stroked half-centuries as the Caribbean side flourished on the opening day of the third and final Test here yesterday.

Kraigg Brathwaite cuts for four during his test best innings of 68. (WindiesCricket.com)

Brathwaite says Windies focusing on big total

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Teenaged West Indies batsman Kraigg Brathwaite says the Caribbean side will be looking to bat deep into the second day in the third and final Test here, in order to put pressure on India and force a win.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Sublime Federer thrashes Nadal in London

LONDON, (Reuters) – Holder Roger Federer produced an hour of sublime quality to crush Rafa Nadal 6-3 6-0 at the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday and clinch a place in the last four with a match to spare.

Franklin Wilson

TTFF says Shabazz loan arrangement with GFF at an end

Trinidadian football coach Jamaal Shabazz seems to be caught up in a tug-of-war between two countries desperate to secure his services just weeks after he sent his country’s national team crashing out of the 2014 World Cup qualifying competition.

Welterweight boxer Jose Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico flexes on the scale during an official weigh-in at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada April 8, 2011.  Credit: Reuters/Steve Marcus

Margarito cleared for NY rematch against Cotto

(Reuters) – The eagerly-awaited rematch between Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico and Mexico’s Antonio Margarito will go ahead as planned in New York next month after officials finally gave the go ahead for the world title fight to proceed.

The West Indies team going through a net session at the Wankhede Stadium ahead of the start of today’s third and final test. (WindiesCricket.com)

India eye clean sweep but wary of dangerous Windies

MUMBAI, India, IANS/CMC – Veteran middle-order batsman VVS Laxman says India are fired up to make a clean sweep of the series against West Indies but said the hosts remained wary of a dangerous Caribbean side that played better than results had reflected.

Totaram Bishun

Carib/Pepsi Twenty20 Big Smash Super Eight

A six-wicket haul from left-arm wrist spinner Totaram Bishun guided Gizmos and Gadgets Georgetown Pitbulls to a 79-run victory over Noble House Young Conquerors in the rescheduled penultimate Super Eight match of the 2011 Carib/Pepsi Twenty20 Competition at the Everest Cricket Club yesterday.

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