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Telephone giant, Digicel, yesterday threw its support behind local horse racing with sponsorship of the Guyana Cup.

(Reuters) – Tiger Woods overshadowed playing partner Rory McIlroy while Padraig Harrington stole the limelight by taking overall command in yesterday’s opening round of the Barclays tournament in Farmingdale, New York.

PORTLAND, Oregon,  CMC – Barbadian jockey Rocco Bowen landed his second added-money race of the month when he captured the first leg of the US$ 4 300 McFadden Memorial Spring Claiming Series at Portland Meadows here Wednesday.

Trinidad and Tobago-based starting forwards for the national men’s rugby team, Richard Staglon and Ronald Mayers, have now acquired their visas following successful talks between the Consular Officer for the Canadian High Commission in Trinidad and Tobago and Director of Rugby in Guyana, Mike McCormack.

With the Linden pact sealed and the return of some normalcy to the town, it will take at least a month for the National Community Basketball League (NCBL)  to resume and conclude.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Australia are ready for a trial by spin during their tour of the United Arab Emirates, opening batsman David Warner said yesterday.

HYDERABAD, India,  (Reuters) – Cheteshwar Pujara, brought in as a replacement for Rahul Dravid, struck his maiden test century to put India in command on the opening day of the first test against New Zealand yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Andy Murray’s hopes for a maiden grand slam at the U.S.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Torrential rain forced the abandonment of the fourth round of matches in the Regional Under-19 one-day Championship here yesterday.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Uncapped opening batsman Dilshan Munaweera and schoolboy off-spinner Akila Dananjaya were named in Sri Lanka’s 15-man squad yesterday for the Twenty20 World Cup on home soil next month.

The Sunrise Cricket Club (SCC) of New York will return here on a cricket tour from September 26th to October 3rd after a four-year sabbatical.

Guyana’s highest rated squash player Nicolette Fernandes topped  her competitors in Trinidad and Tobago by claiming the female individual title fairly easily in the senior Caribbean Squash championships last Tuesday.

By Emmerson Campbell The National Men’s Sevens Rugby team currently in Canada suffered a speed bump along the road on their quest to secure their seventh consecutive NACRA Sevens Caribbean title.

TOWNSVILLE, Australia, CMC – West Indies Under-19s compensated for their heart-breaking quarter-final loss by getting past Pakistan Under-19s by 16 runs, in their fifth place playoff in the ICC Youth World Cup here yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Left-handed stroke-maker Darren Bravo has made a return in an otherwise predictable 15-man squad announced  yesterday to contest next month’s Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Heavy rain associated with the passage of Tropical Storm Isaac wrecked the third round of matches in the Regional Under-19 one-day Championship here yesterday.

By Neil Barry Skipper Shaquille Williams gave his home ground a welcome return to club cricket as he smashed 158 against Transport `A’ playing for Malteenoes Sports Club in the Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) David Persaud Investments Cup match yesterday which ended in a draw.

The inform Troy Cadogan,  Ansa Mc Al Trading Marketing Director, will attempt to add the Carib Beer Medal Play Golf title to his collection when the tournament is played Saturday at the Lusignan Golf Course.

(Reuters) – India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has no doubts the team will miss the experience of Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman but expects young players to step up and fill the void created by the retirement of the batting stalwarts.

LINZ, Austria, CMC– World and Olympic 400 metre champion Kirani James continued his winning ways when he outpaced the field in the Gugl games in the Austrian City of Linz  on Monday.