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East Coast Demerara won the Tiger Rentals League Cup defeating Bartica 1-0 in the final yesterday at the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) National Training Centre, Providence.

Victory Valley Royals won the inaugural Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) U23 3×3 Championship, defeating Kid Rock Blazers on Saturday evening at the Retrieve hardcourt.

Buxton Stars and Haslington secured hard-fought victories when the East Coast Demerara leg of the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) U17 Boys Football League continued on Saturday evening at the Buxton Community Centre ground.

AHMEDABAD, India, CMC – Kyle Mayers narrowly missed out on his fifth half-century of the Indian Premier League campaign but his Lucknow Super Giants crashed to a 56-run defeat at the hands of Alzarri Joseph’s Gujarat Titans here yesterday.

Anthony Davis scored 25 points with 13 rebounds and LeBron James added 21 points as the Los Angeles Lakers rebounded for a 127-97 blowout Saturday over the visiting Golden State Warriors in Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals.

(Reuters) – Mage won the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky Saturday to capture the first leg of U.S.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Carlos Alcaraz is raring to get to Italy next week to compete in the Rome Masters for the first time in his career and reclaim the world number one spot from Novak Djokovic.

(Reuters) – Paris St Germain moved a step closer to retaining the Ligue 1 title with a 3-1 win at second-bottom Troyes thanks to goals from Kylian Mbappe, Vitinha and Fabian Ruiz yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Batting great Sunil Gavaskar has advised India captain Rohit Sharma to take a break from the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) to keep himself fit and fresh for the World Test Championship (WTC) final against Australia next month.

MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Retired West Indies superstar Deandra Dottin failed for the first time as Thunder pulled off a dramatic tie with Central Sparks in a rain-marred contest in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy here Saturday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni believes Matheesha Pathirana could become a limited-overs asset for Sri Lanka with a light workload that does not include any test cricket.

Shaquan James and the Vergenoegen Boxing Gym earned the marquee accolades when the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) staged its Pepsi/Mike Parris schoolboys/juniors championships at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Gym yesterday.

Former Caribbean men’s singles table tennis champion and ITTF Level Three coach Guyana’s Sydney Chrsitophe was recently honoured by the American Youth Table Tennis Organisation (AYTTO) and the  PongSpace organisation for his contribution to the sport.

Jayson Tatum collected 27 points and 10 rebounds to fuel the visiting Boston Celtics to a 114-102 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series.

Dynamic FC defeated Melanie 2-0 when the East Coast Demerara leg of the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) U17 Football championships continued  Friday evening at the Buxton Community Centre ground.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The best women’s cricketers in the West Indies assembled yesterday in St.

Abiola Jackman, the International Boxing Association (IBA) world-ranked female pugilist, will take on Trinidad and Tobago’s Leeann Boodram on May 21st when the Guyana Boxing Association and the Guyana Boxing Board stages their ProAm boxing card at the National Gymnasium.

ST JOHN’S, CMC – Cricketers in the Caribbean have given a huge vote of confidence to the leadership of the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), returning them all unchallenged to their posts at the annual general meeting on Friday in Antigua.

ST GEORGE’S, CMC – Cricket administrators in the Windward Islands have given their full support to Grenada Cricket Board president Dwain Gill to lead their affairs for the next two years.

(Reuters) – Mage won the 149th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky yesterday to capture the first leg of U.S.