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Free agent guard Alex Caruso, formerly of the Los Angeles Lakers, was arrested Tuesday in College Station, Texas, on two misdemeanor drug charges.

Two-tenths of a second was all the Phoenix Suns needed to pull off an escape Tuesday in a 104-103 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers that has them closer to a place they haven’t been in 28 years.

West Indies have slipped one place down the Test rankings after their 2-0 series defeat at the hands of South Africa while Jason Holder has relinquished his place as the number one ranked Test all-rounder.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) – Two spectators were ejected from the ground on Tuesday’s fifth day of the World Test Championship (WTC) final between India and New Zealand after shouting abuse at the New Zealanders.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) – New Zealand won the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) title, beating India by eight wickets in a tense final at the Ageas Bowl today.

The West Indies cricket team has lost the two-Test series to South Africa but the defeats, the fielding has stood out and skipper, Kraigg Brathwaite, has praised fielding coach, Rayon Griffith for his hard work.

Olympic Games bound boxer, Keevin Allicock, is scheduled to depart for Russia on June 30 for a three-week, high-level training camp ahead of the Games scheduled from July 23 to August 8 in Tokyo, Japan.

The South Turkeyen Sports Committee and ‘Bannas Foundation’, Father’s-Day three-a-side small-goal football competition has been officially rescheduled for Sunday from 8:00am at the Durban Park, Tarmac, Homestretch Avenue, the committee announced in a release yesterday.

The Golden Jaguars, the senior men’s football team, will depart local shores today to compete in the first round of the 2021 Gold Cup playoffs against Guatemala July 3 at the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida This was disclosed by a source close to the federation who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

With the team scheduled to depart local shores today, the Guyana Hockey Board (GHB), the local governing body, officially announced their 11 member women’s squad which will compete at the Indoor Pan Am Cup (IPAC) from June 25th-27th in Pennsylvania, USA.

Top ranked all-rounder Jason Holder has become just the third West Indian to complete the triple of 2000 runs, 100 wickets and 50 catches.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Grenada has followed St Lucia’s lead and will allow fully vaccinated fans to attend the five-match Twenty20 International series between West Indies and South Africa starting Saturday.

SOUTHAMPTON, England, (Reuters) – New Zealand claimed a handy first-innings lead of 32 and restricted India to 64-2 to maintain their slight advantage after an absorbing fifth day’s play in the final of the inaugural World Test Championship (WTC) yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England delivered an efficient but hardly scintillating display to beat Czech Republic 1-0 with an early Raheem Sterling header yesterday to advance to Euro 2020’s last 16 as Group D winners, with the Czechs through as one of the best third-placed teams.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Two-time T20 World Cup-winning captain, Daren Sammy, has been appointed an independent non-member director of Cricket West Indies.

GLASGOW, (Reuters) – An inspired Luka Modric curled home a magnificent finish as Croatia shrugged off a slow start to Euro 2020 to beat Scotland 3-1 yesterday and reach the last 16 in style, leaving their opponents again on the tournament scrap-heap.

LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Former captain Younis Khan has stepped down as Pakistan’s batting coach before their coming tours of England and the West Indies, the country’s cricket board said yesterday.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Kraigg Brathwaite has defended changes to the West Indies side in the wake of their heavy drubbing at the hands of South Africa, arguing they had no impact on the home side’s abject performance in the two-Test series.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia, CMC – Phil Simmons has pointed to flaws in technique, as well as situational awareness, as the principal factors behind West Indies’ batting fiasco in the recent two-Test series against South Africa.

The West Indies cricket team has been fined 60 per cent of its match fee and penalised six International Cricket Council (ICC) World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow over-rate against South Africa in the second Test in St Lucia.