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Top Class proved to be in a class of their own playing unbeaten on the opening night of the Guinness Greatest of the Streets football tournament at the Mackenzie Municipal tarmac in Linden Sunday evening.

After two nights of basketball on the opening weekend of the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) National Club Championships last Saturday and Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, the semi-finalists for the tournament have emerged.

Three more teams found themselves in winners’ row on the second day of the inaugural Len’s Craft Optical/Sunburst Orange Juice Under-15 League Saturday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground.

Some 79 students were tested last Saturday in the first grading exercise for 2011 by the Japan Karate Association/World Federation at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – Only 10 teams will contest the next two World Cups, after the International Cricket Council confirmed yesterday it had cut the quota for the cricket’s largest showpiece.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Champions League debutants  Tottenham Hotspur will not be intimidated by Real Madrid or their  imposing Bernabeu stadium when they square up in today’s  quarter-final first leg, manager Harry Redknapp said.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Michael Clarke got an idea of  the sort of scrutiny he will be subject to as Australia captain  over the weekend but said yesterday his appointment to the post  had not yet properly sunk in.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester United striker Wayne  Rooney has been charged with using foul language while  celebrating a goal in Saturday’s 4-2 win at West Ham United, the  Football Association said in a statement yesterday.

-Graham goes out with a bang Motor racing fans and dignitaries occupying some of the country’s highest offices, including President Bharrat Jagdeo came out to witness this year’s first edition of the Guyana Motor Racing and Sports Club (GMR&SC) season opener yesterday at the South Dakota Circuit.

Ronald Bulkan is the winner of the 2011 Scotia Bank Medal Play golf tournament played Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Club.

Wolf Warriors and Trophy Stall Anglels Saturday stormed into the quarter finals of the lucrative Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited 10/10 softball tournament at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground.

The Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) has identified 16 boxers to prepare for possible selection on the Guyana team for the 2012 Olympic Games which will take place in London, United Kingdom from July 27 to August 12.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Ryan Austin and Kavesh Kantasingh continued to weave their web around regional batsmen, when they bowled Combined Campuses & Colleges to a 157-run victory over Windward Islands yesterday.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, CMC – Jason Dawes and Andre Russell enhanced Jamaica’s chances of reaching the Final of the WICB Regional first-class championship, after their batsmen, led by Wavell Hinds, piled-up the runs against Trinidad & Tobago yesterday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni celebrated  India’s World Cup triumph by shaving off his famous dark locks  while his team mates spent yesterday morning plastering a “thousand  kisses” on the silver and gilt trophy that was finally in their  possession.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – India completed an epic journey beginning in Dhaka 43 days ago and culminating in a six-wicket victory over Sri Lanka yesterday after they had appeared to be down and out in the World Cup final.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Muttiah Muralitharan raised his left arm, acknowledged the applause and vanished behind the dressing room door at Wankhede Stadium, quietly ending a fascinating international career yesterday.

All roads will lead to the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground tonight for what is expected to be one of the most intriguing nights of the Mayor’s Cup Football tournament.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former Formula One champion Kimi Raikkonen has teamed up with Kyle Busch Motorsports to make his NASCAR debut in the truck series in May, both sides announced yesterday.

After witnessing the showdown between ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson and James ‘Bonecrusher’ Smith for the World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Association (WBA) heavyweight titles in 1987, a then 11-year-old Troy Wilson found his calling.