Sports

By Emmerson Campbell Lightning is set to strike tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when national light heavyweight champion Kwesi ‘Lightning Struck Assassin’ Jones takes on Kelsey George in a six-round affair in the 24th edition of the Guyana Fight Night Pro Am card.

A 14-member team including seven former Caribbean junior champions has been selected by the Guyana Squash Association to represent Guyana at the 30th Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Caribbean Junior Squash Championships in Jamaica from July 20-26.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC – Australia all-rounder Shane Watson has tipped West Indies as favourites to win the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka later this year.

LONDON, (Reuters) – David Beckham has been omitted from Britain’s Olympic soccer squad in a blow for the former England captain’s dreams of crowning his career in style.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Top seed Maria Sharapova survived a scare to reach the Wimbledon third round where she was joined by her biggest rival for the women’s title Serena Williams yesterday.

(Reuters) – New Zealander Alan Isaac took over as the eighth president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) yesterday on a two-year term before the post becomes titular.

By Iva Wharton Without knowing the fundamentals of playing football, all that the females in Mabaruma, Region One, are doing is ‘kicking ball’ since they lack the technical and tactical knowledge of the game.

Cash prizes, trophies and champion jerseys will be up for grabs when the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) in collaboration with Roraima Bikers Club pedals off the 9th edition of the CARICOM ‘Wheat-Up’ Cycle Road Race on Monday (CARICOM Day).

ANSA McAl yesterday launched their Mackeson 3-on-3 Smooth Moves Basketball competition at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and the live action is expected to tip off in three weeks at venues countrywide.

GRACE ROAD, England,  CMC – Ramnaresh Sarwan top-scored with 39 but Leicestershire’s losing slide in the Twenty20 Championship continued on Wednesday with a narrow four-run defeat to Yorkshire.

NEWARK, New Jersey,  (Reuters) – U.S. college player of the year Anthony Davis was taken with the number one pick of the 2012 NBA Draft by the New Orleans Hornets yesterday at the Prudential Centre.

DONETSK, (Reuters) – Holders Spain needed a stuttering penalty shootout win over Portugal yesterday to reach the Euro 2012 final, a soccer showpiece which is set to be attended by a European leader seen as a pariah by much of the continent.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Richie Richardson said he believes cricket in the United States could be in for “something special” this weekend, when West Indies face New Zealand in the two Digicel Twenty20 Internationals here.

   By Emmerson Campbell Bronze medalist at the 2011 World Masters Championships, John ‘Big John’ Edwards, and 74kg Masters Category Two deadlift record holder, Winston Stoby, will headline the 2012 Guyana Amateur Powerlifting Federation (GAPF) Intermediate and Masters Championships slated for Sunday.

Some members of the Interim  Management Committee (IMC) set up by the Minister of Sport,  Dr.

The inaugural regional Under-17 cricket series was launched yesterday at the Tobago House of Assembly in Scarborough.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles made a rare, if fleeting, visit to Wimbledon yesterday but lingered long enough to see Roger Federer produce another regal performance on Centre Court and move serenely into the third round.

By Iva Wharton St. George’s Secondary moved a step closer to the Georgetown quarter-finals of the Digicel Schools football competition yesterday when they secured 5-2 victory over Houston Secondary at the Georgetown Football Club Ground, Bourda.

(Reuters) – The use of the Decision Review System (DRS) in international cricket will remain at the discretion of teams involved in bilateral series’ after the sport’s governing body yesterday opted against making it mandatory.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada,  CMC – A precious, unbroken 35-run ninth wicket stand between captain Veerasammy Permaul and tail-ender Nikita Miller pulled West Indies A out of a hole and fired them to a tense two-wicket win over India A in the first one-dayer here  yesterday.