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High Rollers, Silver Bullets, DC Ballers and YMCA recorded contrasting wins when the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Championship commenced Friday evening at the Silver City hardcourt. 

LIVERPOOL, England, (Reuters) – Liverpool maintained their slender hopes of a top-four finish in the Premier League with a 3-2 victory over Nottingham Forest whose relegation fears deepened yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, CMC – West Indies Academy captain Nyeem Young said hard work paid off for his side in their seven-wicket win against Team Headley, a side that included no less than eight West Indies internationals, in their opening match of the Headley-Weekes Tri-Series in Antigua.

Nikola Jokic amassed 20 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds while leading the Denver Nuggets to a 120-111 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 3 of their first-round Western Conference playoff series on Friday in Minneapolis.

LONDON, CMC – West Indies One-day International captain Shai Hope was unbeaten on 53 and put Yorkshire on the path for a possible first win of the season after Sussex endured a dramatic batting collapse in their English County Championship Division 2 match yesterday.

(Reuters) – Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku will play in the Coppa Italia semi-final second leg against Juventus on Wednesday after his one-match ban was overturned yesterday by the president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) as a measure to fight racism.

BARCELONA, Spain, (Reuters) – World number two Carlos Alcaraz reached the final of the Barcelona Open after beating Briton Daniel Evans 6-2 6-2 yesterday to set up a showdown with fellow top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas who defeated Italian Lorenzo Musetti 6-4 5-7 6-3.

(Reuters) – The publishers of a German magazine that ran an ‘interview’ with Michael Schumacher generated by artificial intelligence have sacked the editor and apologised to the Formula One great’s family.

 WREXHAM, Wales, (Reuters) – Wrexham secured a fairytale return to the English Football League after a 15-year absence with their Hollywood owners watching on as they beat Boreham Wood 3-1 to win the National League with a game to spare yesterday.

  NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Chennai Super Kings all-rounder Ben Stokes will be on the sidelines for at least another week after his latest injury setback, coach Stephen Fleming said.

LUCKNOW, CMC – West Indies left-handed pair of Kyle Mayers and Nicholas Pooran failed to catch afire for Lucknow Super Giants, and Gujarat Titans got back to winning ways in the Indian Premier League yesterday, with a memorable seven-run win.

Two boxing contingents departed yesterday for Barbados and Uzbekistan on a quest to finish on the podium in their respective tournaments.

Competitive cycling action will return to the outer circuit of the National Park tomorrow.

Weather permitting, the Chung’s Global Inc., Medal Play Golf tournament is set to tee off today at the Lusignan Golf Club, East Coast Demerara.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Arsenal struck two late goals to escape with a point in a pulsating 3-3 home draw with bottom club Southampton but their Premier League title hopes suffered another setback last night of frazzled nerves in north London.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The best female cricketers in the West Indies will be back in action as Cricket West Indies (CWI) hosts the CG United Super50 Cup and the T20 Blaze regional tournaments in St.

(IPL) The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) continued their impressive winning run in the TATA Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 with a seven-wicket victory over the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) yesterday at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.

ST JOHN’S, CMC – Destructive bursts from their captain Nyeem Young and hometown, pace bowling prospect Kelvin Pitman set up West Indies Academy for a seven-wicket win against Team Headley in the opening match of the Headley-Weekes Tri-Series yesterday in Antigua.

(Reuters) – Ahmedabad will host the Indian Premier League (IPL) final for a second year running while Chennai will stage two playoff matches, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday.

GENEVA/PARIS, (Reuters) – The play of chess grandmasters Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, battling it out for the world title, has oscillated between touches of brilliance and uncharacteristic mistakes which their peers have attributed to flaws in their psychological stamina.