BOSTON, (Reuters) – Point guard Rajon Rondo stepped up to save the day in the final minutes as the Boston Celtics held off the Philadelphia 76ers 85-75 in their decisive Game Seven on Saturday and advanced to the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals against the Miami Heat.
NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Fast bowler Ravi Rampaul said yesterday West Indies had placed their confidence again in the pair of captain Darren Sammy and Marlon Samuels to bail the Caribbean side out of their latest crisis.
JACKSONVILLE, Florida, (Reuters) – When German Juergen Klinsmann took charge of the United States national team 10 months ago he promised to bring a change of style as well as results and if Saturday’s 5-1 win over Scotland is any measure his influence is bearing fruit.
MONACO, (Reuters) – Australian Mark Webber won the showcase Monaco Grand Prix for champions Red Bull yesterday as Formula One celebrated an unprecedented six different winners from six races.
VIRGINIA WATER, England, (Reuters) – Briton Luke Donald went to the top of the world rankings for the fourth time in 12 months after strolling to a seemingly effortless four-stroke victory in the PGA Championship at Wentworth yesterday.
(Reuters) – Former 10,000 metre s world record holder Haile Gebrselassie failed to qualify for the London Olympics after finishing seventh at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in Hengelo, Netherlands yesterday.
CHICAGO, Illinois, CMC – Jamaican Shaun Bridgmohan won the US$125 000 Arlington Classic Stakes when he carried the favourite Silver Max to victory by two lengths in the co-feature at Arlington Park here Saturday.
(Cricinfo) If Andrew Strauss’s hundred in the first Test against West Indies on his beloved home ground at Lord’s provided personal regeneration, another hundred in the second Test at Trent Bridge was an exercise in pampering.
By Emmerson Campbell The national 15s rugby team held its final simulation game yesterday at the Providence National Stadium ahead of its all-important game against Trinidad and Tobago in the Southern Zone of the NACRA Regional Qualifiers for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) – “Luke, Luke” cried the fans after Luke Donald took a two-shot lead in the PGA Championship third round with a masterful display under a scorching sun and swirling winds yesterday.
Travis Fraser and Damien Ross will match gloves in the headline bout of the amateur segment of the 23rd edition of the Guyana Fight Night Pro Am which boxes off at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on June 1.
PASSO DELLO STELVIO, Italy (Reuters) – Belgian Thomas De Gendt climbed to a solo stage win and fourth place overall behind leader Joaquim Rodriguez thanks to a spectacular 57-kilometre mountain breakaway yesterday.
The National Sports Commission sponsored junior badminton tournament continued on Friday at the Queen’s College Court with Narayan Ramdhani and Greer Jackson walking away with the boys and girls singles titles.
Chris Gayle has scored 2591 runs in this format in the last 17 months, at an average of 57 and a strike rate of 170.
Even a careful, if non-scientific, trawl through West Indies cricket history could not unearth two simultaneous performances as crucial to the players involved, quite apart from the immediate position of the team, as those by Marlon Samuels and Darren Sammy with their individual hundreds and their record 204-run partnership over the first two days of the second Test.
Eight street football teams including Guyana’s representative for the inaugural Guinness Caribbean Street Football Challenge, Back Circle, will vie for $200,000 and a trophy when the Guinness Greatest of the Streets Exhibition Competition kicks off tonight at the new Albouystown Basketball Court.
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland beat a dogged Bosnia side 1-0 yesterday in their last home game before the European Championship, Shane Long heading a late winner and promising youngster James McClean pushing his claims for a place in the starting line-up.
MADRID (Reuters) – Tito Vilanova’s step up from assistant to Barcelona coach for next season is a sign of continuity rather than the end of an era, the outgoing Pep Guardiola said after Friday’s 3-0 King’s Cup final triumph.
MONACO (Reuters) – Michael Schumacher’s chances of racing on in Formula One next year looked a lot more likely yesterday after a pole-worthy performance by the 43-year-old Mercedes driver in Monaco Grand Prix qualifying.
(BBC) – The Indian Premier League’s (IPL) ongoing fifth season has turned out to be the most closely fought one so far.
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