Gladiators played undefeated to be the only team to qualify for Bartica in the Super 16 stage when the Mackeson Smooth Moves 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament continued last weekend in Bartica and Berbice.
A really confident Guyanese contingent will depart this morning at 03:00hrs from the National Gymnasium to take part in the 2011 Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) scheduled for October 19-23 in Suriname.
By Emmerson Campbell “Cycling comes first in our lives” – more or less that sums up the focus of the hugely successful California-based five-man team that competed here for the first time in the recent five-stage 266-mile Ride for Life cycle road race in Guyana.
Plans are on stream for next month’s Guyana Teachers’ Union/Ministry of Education National Schools Track & Field, Cycling and Swimming Championships, according to union president Colin Bynoe.
(BBC) Fifa president Sepp Blatter is preparing to perform an extraordinary U-turn by calling for the release of court documents which could reveal that senior officials at the world governing body took bribes.
(BBC) Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt has told a court he was betrayed by an ex-friend and agent who claimed he was part of a match-fixing scam.
CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – Australia cricket captain Michael Clarke is expecting great things from his predecessor Ricky Ponting in the one-day series against South Africa that starts today.
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – Bangladesh axed former captain Mohammad Ashraful and left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak in naming a 14-man squad yesterday for the upcoming test series against West Indies.
(Reuters) – Left-arm paceman Junaid Khan took his maiden five-wicket haul as Pakistan bundled out Sri Lanka for 197 in the first innings of the first test in Abu Dhabi yesterday.
Guyana’s World ranked squash player Nicolette Fernandes has reached the semi-finals of the women’s individual singles competition at the XVI Pan Am Games currently underway in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Former FIFA vice-president and current Minister of Works in the Trinidad government Jack Warner on Monday said the Caribbean was paying the price for standing up to FIFA president Sepp Blatter.
Guyana Captain Assad Fudadin said yesterday that stylish former-West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan, who was ruled out of Guyana’s squad for the Regional Super50 tournament will be missed.
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, CMC – Darren Sammy said the West Indies dressing room has been a happier place to be following their two victories over Bangladesh in their One-day International series.
By Emmerson Campbell The national men’s Rugby Sevens team left Guyana yesterday in quest for the Pan American Games Rugby title at the championships currently underway in Guadalajara, Mexico.
A Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) official yesterday said that the executive had not yet received the terms of reference for the proposed Interim Management Committee (IMC) which is expected to temporarily run cricket in Guyana.
A confident Trinidad and Tobago cricket team just back from the Nokia Champions League will leave the twin island republic this morning for Guyana where they will compete for the Clive Lloyd Trophy in the regional limited overs cricket tournament.
BRASILIA, (Reuters)- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff faces another corruption scandal in her cabinet over accusations the sports minister arranged for millions in kickbacks, raising questions about the country’s credentials to host the World Cup and Olympics.
Gros Islet, St Lucia – “It’s a great honour,” is how Clive Hubert Lloyd describes his feeling about the West Indies Cricket Board decision to name the Regional Super50 winner’s trophy after him.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former Test cricket captain found himself accused of spot-fixing only after a former agent and friend “grossly abused” his trust, a court heard yesterday.
Former West Indies wicket-keeper/batsman Andre Fletcher and medium-pacer Lionel Baker helped the Windwards Islands defeat the Leeward Islands by 151 runs in their final practice game before the start of the Regional Super50 tournament at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground yesterday.
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