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‘One Guyana’ President’s Cup Squash Jason-Ray Khalil, Nicolette Fernandes, Emily Fung-A-Fat, and Zion Hickerson captured divisional crowns when the ‘One Guyana’ President’s Cup Squash Championship concluded yesterday at the National Racquet Centre, Woolford Avenue.

KFC International Goodwill Football Series The stage is set for the grand finale of the KFC International Under-18 Secondary Schools Goodwill Football Series, as Trinidad and Tobago’s Intercol champions, St.

UDFA Futsal Championship Botofago, Blueberry Hill, and Topp XX secured contrasting wins when the Upper Demerara Futsal Championship continued on Friday evening at the Retrieve Hard-Court, Linden.

Rivers View and Rising Stars secured their berths to the semifinal round following hard-fought wins when the Bartica Super-8 Football Championship commenced on Friday night at the Community Centre ground.

Back Circle A & B as well as Team Cruel earned advanced to the next round in the Kashif and Shanghai National Futsal Championship following contrasting wins last night at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

(Reuters) – Teenage spinner AM Ghazanfar took 5-33 as Afghanistan defeated hosts Zimbabwe by eight wickets in the third and final one-day international yesterday to claim the series 2-0 after the opening game was washed out by rain.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) B and Fruta Conquerors tallied hard-fought wins when the ‘Maid Marian Wheat Up’ Women’s Football Championship continued yesterday at the National Training Centre, Providence.

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk retained his WBA (Super), WBO and WBC world heavyweight titles by unanimous decision against Britain’s Tyson Fury to remain undefeated after an enthralling clash in an electric atmosphere at the Kingdom Arena yesterday Giving up advantages in height, weight and reach to his much bigger opponent, Usyk fought superbly throughout to win 116-112 on all three judges’ scorecards as he again defeated Fury after his success in May made him the undisputed champion.

KFC Goodwill International Series -St Benedict’s holds off Annai 3-1 By Michaelangelo Jacobus The fifth edition of the KFC Goodwill International Football Series will see a new champion crowned tomorrow after local lads Chase’s Academic Foundation (CAF) upstaged last year’s winners Clarendon College (Jamaica) 5-4 in a 9-goal thriller to set up a final against Trinidadian side St.

(Field Level Media) Joel Embiid scored 12 of his game-high 34 points in the fourth quarter to propel the Philadelphia 76ers to a 108-98 home win over the Charlotte Hornets last night.

(Field Level Media) Jalen Williams scored a season-high 33 points and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added 25 as the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder withstood a fourth-quarter rally to beat the Miami Heat 104-97 yesterday.

(Field Level Media) Even without their optimal roster, the New York Knicks could not have fared better Thursday against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first meeting between the teams since their blockbuster trade signaled the Knicks’ shift to a championship-or-bust mentality.

(Trinidad Express) Chloe Fraser and Shemar Britton were crowned champions of the fifth and final major table tennis tournament of the season Wednesday night at National Racquet Centre, Tacarigua.

One talented player competing in the ongoing KFC Goodwill International Football Tournament will earn a fully-funded, three-month training stint at the Academia de Futebol Real Brasil next year.

(ESPN) Sri Lanka Cricket’s internal politics and administration is set for sweeping change after the board announced a drastic reduction in votes, from 147 to 60.

(Reuters) – Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s long standing NBA record for most minutes played in regular season history when he clocked his 57,447th minute in his team’s win over Sacramento Kings on Thursday.

(ESPN) Ian Botham has been elected as honorary president of Durham, after completing a seven-year term as the club chair, with Phil Collins, his vice-chair, stepping into the role with immediate effect.

(SportsMax) West Indies T20I captain Rovman Powell has called on his players to use their upcoming time off to review their approach to the game after suffering a humiliating 80-run defeat to Bangladesh in the third T20I at the Arnos Vale Ground in St.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia have dumped Nathan McSweeney after three tests and rushed uncapped teenager Sam Konstas into the squad for the Boxing Day test against India in the search for more runs from the top order.

(ICC) Akeal Hosein rose to the top of the ICC Men’s Player Rankings for T20I bowlers earlier this week following his exploits in the home series against Bangladesh.