Sports

The annual Mocha Village Cup’ Streetball Championship officially kicks off this evening at the Mocha Tarmac with 10 matches.

For the past five years whenever the calendar flips to February, the nation’s fittest athletes prime their bodies for the gruelling Crossfit-style Fitness Games Challenge.

The Athletic Association of Guyana (AAG) is set to stage the first of three CARIFTA Games trials at the National Track and Field Centre tomorrow.

The 2020 edition of the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) senior national championships got underway last evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

The Guyana Football Federation [GFF] has approved the staging of the ‘East Coast Jubilee Republic Football Tournament’, which is set to get underway tomorrow and end February 28th.

On January 29th 2020, Stabroek Sport published an article headlined ‘UDFA clubs suspended, fined in absentia’, which stated that the Upper Demerara Football Association (UFDA) had suspended and fined Eagles United and Botofago Football Clubs for one year and fined $50,000 each for their non-participation in the year-end competition.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers will pay tribute to Kobe Bryant today when the team plays its first game since the NBA great died, although details of what that will entail remain unclear.

Mocha brushed past Alexander Village 3-1 when the Magnum Tonic Wine Mashramani Cup Futsal Championship continued yesterday at the  National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic once again beat great rival Roger Federer at a Grand Slam yesterday with a 7-6(1) 6-4 6-3 win to reach the Australian Open final and remain on course for a record-extending eighth title at Melbourne Park.

The support of government is necessary if Guyana is to successfully stage the Golden Jubilee edition of the CARIFTA Games next year.

(Reuters) – Three days after Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daugther and seven others perished in a helicopter crash, his wife, Vanessa, broke her silence with an Instagram message saying she was “completely devastated” by their loss.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Cricket West Indies president, Ricky Skerritt, has accepted an invitation to join the Marylebone Cricket Club’s (MCC) World Cricket Committee.

HARARE,  (Reuters) – Brendan Taylor struck a fluent half-century as Zimbabwe moved into a strong position on day four of the second and final test against Sri Lanka, but are in danger of running out of time to force a victory after rain interrupted their charge.

(Field Level Media) Trae Young exploded for 39 points and the Atlanta Hawks stunned the visiting Philadelphia 76ers with a 39-point first quarter en route to a front-running 127-117 victory last night.

(Field Level Media) Bradley Beal scored 34 points and the Washington Wizards put together a strong second half to defeat the visiting Charlotte Hornets 121-107 last night to snap a two-game losing skid.

(Field Level Media) Serge Ibaka scored 26 points and the visiting Toronto Raptors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-109 last night to extend their season-best winning streak to nine games.

LONDON,  CMC – Veteran West Indies opener Chris Gayle has confirmed he will feature in the upcoming Everest Premier League starting next month, raising questions about his availability for West Indies tour of Sri Lanka.

(Field Level Media) New York Knicks forward Marcus Morris created an uproar by saying Memphis Grizzlies forward Jae Crowder has “female tendencies” after a Wednesday game.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Russia’s suspended athletics federation said it would continue to battle to prove its innocence after the Athletics Integrity Unit Board accused it of showing a “total lack of contrition” in its response to anti-doping violations.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Garbine Muguruza continued her stunning revival at the Australian Open yesterday as she fought off Simona Halep 7-6(8) 7-5 in a battle of attrition to reach her first Australian Open final in broiling heat.