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The Golden Jaguars have selected a 23-member roster for their impending fixture against Puerto Rico tomorrow at 15:00hrs in St.

Pele and Fruta Conquerors secured hard-fought wins when the Gregory ‘Jackie Chan’ Richardson Benefit Football Series commenced on Wednesday evening at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground in Bourda.

In excess of 50 local and international gladiators have signed on to compete in the Kares CrossFit Caribbean Championship ‘October Showdown’ scheduled for Sunday at the National Aquatic Centre and the National Park.

By Michaelangelo Jacobus Photos by Michaelangelo Jacobus The resurfacing of the synthetic track at the National Track and Field Centre (NTFC) at Leonora, West Coast Demerara, is complete.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF)/KFC Elite League Cup, which will commence on Sunday, was officially launched yesterday at the latter’s Vlissingen Road headquarters, with the competing 10 teams battling for more than $3,000,000 in prizes.

Yam Chan Chu, Jude Thompson and Chelsea Benjamin were among the winners when the Guyana National Karate Federation staged its Senior National Championship Sunday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

Shrugging off his indifferent form for the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the recent Caribbean Premier League competition, national player Chandrapaul Hemraj, was among the runs in the first practice match against the GCB ‘Select XI’.

MIAMI, Florida, CMC – Opportunity knocks for several Caribbean Football Union teams when the Concacaf Nations League resumes today around the confederation.

(Reuters) – Women boxers should have the choice of 12-round title fights like men, undisputed featherweight world champion Amanda Serrano, along with two dozen other current and former female fighters said in a statement yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – World Cup hosts India cantered to their second successive win of the tournament after captain Rohit Sharma’s incendiary century set up their eight-wicket thrashing of Afghanistan yesterday.

(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal will play at the Australian Open in January, tournament director Craig Tiley said yesterday, as the 37-year-old former world number one returns to the sport after undergoing hip surgery earlier this year.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Cricket West Indies will be hoping a group of emerging women’s players “grow and improve” when the West Indies Women’s “A” Team tour Pakistan from October 17 to November 8.

MELBOURNE, Australia, CMC – Leading players from the Caribbean such as Jhaniele Fowler, Romelda Aiken-George, Shamera Sterling, and Sam Wallace could be in limbo if the current pay dispute in the Super Netball League in Australia rumbles on.

Veteran Guyanese powerlifters, Nadina Taharally and Roger Rogers both shattered FESUPO (South American Powerlifting Federation) records enroute to winning silver medals in their respective weight classes at the World Classic and Equipped Masters Powerlifting Championships in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, yesterday.

(Reuters) – Pakistan made it two wins from two World Cup matches as batsmen Mohammad Rizwan and Abdullah Shafique hit centuries in a record run-chase to set up a six-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in Hyderabad yesterday.

DHARAMSALA, India, (Reuters) – England revived their 50-overs World Cup title defence as Dawid Malan smashed a career-best 140 and Reece Topley wreaked havoc with the ball in a 137-run hammering of Bangladesh yesterday.

Lusignan Golf Course (LGC) President, Patanjilee Persaud, won the B Flight category of the Suriname Open golf competition last weekend.

Following the conclusion of the group stage section, the elimination segment in the 10th edition of the Courts Pee Wee Football Championship, which will commence on Saturday at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue, was officially confirmed yesterday.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The West Indies Academy players assembled in Antigua Monday for a High Performance camp ahead of their participation in the upcoming CG United Super50 Cup.

GFF boss Wayne Forde yesterday confirmed that the Golden Jaguars and Lady Jaguars home matches in the CONCACAF Nations League and Road to Gold W Cup Qualifiers, respectively will be staged in St.