City overtakes Manchester United atop EPL
LONDON – Manchester City went top of the Premier League table yesterday as it beat Aston Villa, 4-1, while Manchester United needed a late equalizer to force a 1-1 draw at Liverpool.
LONDON – Manchester City went top of the Premier League table yesterday as it beat Aston Villa, 4-1, while Manchester United needed a late equalizer to force a 1-1 draw at Liverpool.
Just as too much can be made of the West Indies’ successive ODI wins on Thursday and yesterday in Dhaka, it is impossible to downgrade them, as they inevitably and widely will be, as “only” over Bangladesh.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is an international body set up in 1984 to settle sport-related disputes.
By Emmerson Campbell Godfrey Pollydore sped off with the feature 35-lap Schoolboys and Novices race in record time yesterday when national cycling coach Hassan Mohammed and the Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Company staged a 11-race cycling meet at the National Park circuit, Thomas Lands.
By Iva Wharton A three-day exhibition of basketball paraphernalia was held recently at the National Library and organiser of the event, Julian Haynes, said its purpose was to preserve the history of the sport in Guyana.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Exciting stroke-maker Marlon Samuels has pointed to his new found maturity as the reason behind his form, since returning to international cricket following a two-year ban.
(Reuters) While Indian cricket has been plagued with unfit players in recent times, this 38-year-old still remains captain’s best bet to hold the fort.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Cricket South Africa (CSA) dismissed their president, Mtutuzeli Nyoka, yesterday after a vote of no-confidence at a board meeting.
Renovation works continue at the Norman Singh Race Track with the double-decker grand stand getting a facelift for next Sunday’s Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club/Shariff Racing Stable horse race meet at the club’s facility at No.
Suhai Feng was still in the lead after the sixth and seventh rounds of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) Closed National Junior Chess Championships which ended at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) building on High Street, yesterday.
Progressive partnerships and a solid half century from Windward Islands’ Johnson Charles helped the team to comfortably defeat the Leeward Islands in a practice match at the Demerara Cricket Club yesterday, mere days before the commencement of the Regional Super50 tournament on October 19.
YEONGAM, South Korea, CMC – At the stage of the season when it mattered least, McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton finally managed to grab pole ahead of today’s Korean Grand Prix.
SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) – Andy Murray pummeled Japan’s Kei Nishikori 6-3 6-0 to reach the final of the Shanghai Masters yesterday and will complete a stunning Asian hat-trick if he beats David Ferrer today.
Zone Two came from behind to win the track segment of the 2011 North Zone Championships that concluded yesterday at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.
ZURICH, Switzerland, CMC – Football’s world governing body, FIFA, yesterday slapped a six-month ban on Jamaica Football Federation president, Captain Horace Burrell for his role in the cash-for-vote scandal and also imposed a series of sanctions on several other Caribbean officials.
By Iva Wharton Robert Cadogan, coach of the female Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) basketball team said the team he is currently working with will be the strongest ever to compete at the games.
An intense two days of golf is anticipated when Guyana’s mobile telecommunications provider Digicel and the Lusignan Golf Club team up for the third Annual Digicel Golf Classic at Lusignan Course today and tomorrow.
Travis Dowlin is back in national colours to replace the injured Ramnaresh Sarwan for the upcoming Regional Super50 tournament scheduled to begin next Wednesday here, according a statement from the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) last evening.
HYDERABAD, India, IANS-CMC – West Indies’ international Twenty20 stars could find themselves having to choose between the maroon colours and playing in the Indian Premier League, after the new dates for the lucrative T20 championship were announced yesterday.
Mercy Wing’s Shiekelle Scott was this year’s standout thrower while Tutorial High School’s (THS) Maurice Gibson maintained his dominance in the high and long jump events when East Georgetown schools clashed yesterday at the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) ground.
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