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Alabama Trading donated several team and referee benches to the Petra Organization on Thursday which will be utilised for the respective football tournaments at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue The donation occurred at the Ministry of Education ground where Alabama Trading Proprietor, Wooed Phillips, during brief remarks said, “Alabama is pleased to be associated with the enhancement of football.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Tokyo has no Plan B for this year’s Summer Olympics despite alarm over the spread of the coronavirus in Japan and elsewhere with under five months before the event, a senior official said yesterday.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Two luxury hotels in Abu Dhabi were in lockdown yesterday to isolate guests including scores of professional cyclists after two Italian members of the tour the riders were participating in were suspected of contracting the coronavirus.

SYDNEY, Australia,  CMC – Head coach Gus Logie has urged his senior players to lift their performances, as West Indies find themselves facing a tricky path to the semi-finals of the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, Feb 28, CMC – Trinidadian Amir Jangoo defied his countrymen with a compact, unbeaten half-century to lead a Leeward Islands Hurricanes fightback against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (Reuters) – China’s top swimmer Sun Yang said he was shocked and would appeal after being handed an eight-year ban yesterday for a dope test violation that rules him out of the Tokyo Games.

(Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has cancelled next month’s annual symposium, the main event on the annual global anti-doping calendar, and related athlete session in Switzerland because of the coronavirus, it said yesterday.

Tobias Harris scored 34 points to go with seven rebounds and seven assists to lift the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers past the visiting New York Knicks, 115-106, on Thursday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados Pride, leading by 159 runs on first innings, were six without loss in their second innings at the close on the second day of their sixth round match in the Regional Four-Day Championship at Kensington Oval here  yesterday.

Sports Extra Promotions in collaboration with the East Bank Football Association (EBFA) will stage an inter-village tournament during the month of March.

The Lady Jaguars suffered their first loss in the CONCACAF Women’s U20 Championship, losing to defending champion Mexico 3-0 yesterday at the Felix Sanchez Stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Demerara thrashed Berbice by eight wickets while Essequibo defeated Select Under-15 by two wickets yesterday in the second round of the Guyana Cricket Board/Bel Air Rubis Under-17 inter-county tournament.

(Reuters) – Arsenal suffered a shock Europa League exit to Olympiakos Piraeus on away goals after a 2-1 extra-time home defeat, while Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers cruised into the last 16 with emphatic aggregate wins yesterday.

The local boxers preparing for the Olympic Qualifiers next month in Argentina can now train with less stress after their airfare and accommodation expenses were finally covered, albeit after the deadline.

FLORENCE HALL, Jamaica, CMC – Veerasammy Permaul’s 28th five-wicket haul in first class cricket helped cripple Jamaica Scorpions on the opening day of the sixth round encounter here yesterday.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – The only selection issue facing New Zealand as they head into the second match against India at Christchurch is likely to be whether pace bowler Kyle Jamieson, so impressive on his test debut at the Basin Reserve, bats higher in the order.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Kyle Mayers closed in on 500 runs for the season with his second hundred of the campaign to lift leaders Barbados Pride out of trouble and help them dominate yesterday’s day one of their sixth round match against Windward Islands Volcanoes.

(Reuters) – Novak Djokovic used a dizzying array of drop shots to make short work of Karen Khachanov at the Dubai Open yesterday, reaching the semi-finals with a dominant 6-2 6-2 win over the Russian seventh seed.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Beleaguered Trinidad and Tobago Red Force struggled with the bat on the opening day of their sixth round contest against Leeward Islands Hurricanes here yesterday.

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka, CMC – Captain Kieron Pollard has slammed West Indies’ performance in Wednesday’s second One Day International as “pretty, pretty poor” and has taken full responsibility for the manner of defeat which saw them concede yet another series on Sri Lankan soil.