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The Guyana Karate Federation is ready to stage its all-styles national junior championships on Sunday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall at 10am, Chief Instructor, Amir Khouri, said.

BUDAPEST, Hungary,  CMC – Newly elected CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb has been appointed to powerful executive committee of football’s world governing body, FIFA.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former West Indies team manager Omar Khan has called on authorities to attach a full-time sports psychologist to the regional side.

(Reuters) – Novak Djokovic will arrive at Roland Garros seven wins away from becoming the first man for 43 years to hold all four grand slam titles concurrently – the only trouble is one of his victims will probably have to be claycourt king Rafa Nadal.

Executives of the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Local Organizing Committee (LOC) which is responsible for the upcoming home games for the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers for the Golden Jaguars gave the media an update yesterday about its recent activities in the boardroom of the Providence National Stadium.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England’s home friendly against Belgium at Wembley next month will be used to test the Hawk-Eye goalline technology system, world governing body FIFA said yesterday.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Luxembourg’s sports minister has stripped the country’s boxing federation of government subsidies after it chose to sanction July’s proposed heavyweight contest between unlicensed British fighters David Haye and Dereck Chisora in London.

(Reuters) – The Philadelphia 76ers ground out an 82-75 win over the Boston Celtics on Wednesday to force a deciding Game Seven in their Eastern Conference second-round playoff series.

(Reuters) – Based on form alone, Maria Sharapova enters the French Open as favourite to complete her career grand slam, a surprising turn of events for the Miami-based Russian whose relationship with the red dust has not always been a happy one.

BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Sepp Blatter’s reform of FIFA will continue today when delegates at the 62nd FIFA Congress review a set of proposals aimed at modernising the way world soccer’s governing body is run.

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) – Jack Warner and Chuck Blazer, the former president and general secretary of the CONCACAF confederation, were guilty of financial mismanagement on a grand scale during their years in office, delegates were told at their congress yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell The national 15s rugby team has returned to the drawing board in order to be victorious in their all-important game against Trinidad and Tobago in the Southern Zone of the NACRA Regional Qualifiers for the 2015 Rugby World Cup after playing to a 10-10 stalemate against Barbados last weekend in that country.

BANGALORE, India,  CMC – Dwayne Bravo outshone West Indies teammates Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Smith as he produced a solid all-round performance to help propel Chennai Super Kings into the qualifying final of the Indian Premier League yesterday.

NOTTINGHAM, England,  CMC – West Indies wicketkeeper/batsman Denesh Ramdin has stressed the need for consistency if the Caribbean side are to get the better of England in the second Test starting tomorrow at Trent Bridge.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky,  CMC – Jamaican jockey Shaun Bridgmohan logged impressive weekend doubles to remain on top the standings at the celebrated Churchill Downs.

MONACO, (Reuters) – Formula One will chalk up a notable first if Lewis Hamilton finishes first in Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix.

LONDON, (Reuters) – New York’s police chief said yesterday he was impressed with security planning for this summer’s London Olympics, rejecting suggestions that U.S.

Martial arts, boxing, physical displays by the Guyana Police Force and a parachute jump by the Guyana Defence Force yesterday highlighted this country’s  observance of World Challenge Day at the Guyana National Stadium, focusing on a new attitude towards active living.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Former England striker Emile Heskey has been released by Aston Villa, bringing to an end his three-and-a-half-year stay at the club.

BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – CONCACAF had regained credibility, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said, after Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Island Football Association was elected president of the troubled confederation yesterday.