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LONDON, England,  CMC – Somerset County have decided not to take legal action against West Indies batsman Chris Gayle over his aborted Twenty20 contract.

HOVE, England,  CMC – West Indies were still waiting on three players to join their touring party, even as the first tour match of the series was set to bowl off here yesterday.

By Iva Wharton Distance athletes Alika Morgan and Samuel Kaitan returned from Suriname recently where they finished first and second respectively in the Telesur 10K championship.

HOVE, Sussex,  CMC – West Indies had their first full practice session under bleak skies here yesterday, weather that is likely to be a foretaste of conditions during the upcoming three-Test series starting later this month.

By Iva Wharton Acting General Secretary of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Damien Hughes has described the contents of a letter written by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) in relation to their objection to the process by which Guyana’s Alpha United were eliminated from the CFU Club Championships as “unfortunate and inappropriate.”

By Cosmo Hamilton As seasons go in continents such as North America and Europe winters are cold and austere.

The Lusignan Golf Course will come alive today in a specially arranged Farewell tournament for former Vice President of the Club Esan Shamshudin.

Twenty seven teams will compete in today’s `Jumbie and Pumpkin’ dominoes tournament which takes place at the Bluebirds headquarters, 1222 Gaulding Place, South Ruimveldt.

By Neil Barry Jr., Demerara Cricket Club’s `A’ team showed why they are rated ahead of their `B’ side when they defeated them comfortably by 53 runs in the seventh round game of the Brainstreet U-15 competition which was played last weekend.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – LeBron James woke from a third-quarter slumber to lead the visiting Miami Heat to an 87-70 thumping of the New York Knicks on Thursday and a commanding 3-0 lead in their best-of-seven playoff series.

The Malteenoes Sports Club ground will see a return of first division cricket in almost two years when the home team clash with Transports Sports Club in a match of the Georgetown Cricket Association Heroes Cup competition.

The curtain will come down on the Hadi’s City Mall softball competition today with the staging of the semi-finals and finals at the Ministry of Education (formerly Guyana Softball Cricket Association) ground.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Estranged West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has turned down the Somerset Twenty20 contract in order to make himself available for the limited overs phase of West Indies’ tour of England next month.

HOVE, England, CMC – Captain Darren Sammy was at pains yesterday to point out the importance of team work, as a West Indies team missing its major stars held its first training session since arriving here Wednesday for a three-Test tour.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Stand-in captain Stafanie Taylor has praised West Indies Women for what she has described as perhaps their best day ever in the field.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Pakistani pace bowler Mohammad Asif was released from prison in Britain yesterday after serving half of a one-year term for involvement in a match-fixing scam that shook the world of cricket.

KINGSTON,  (Reuters) – Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt could have an unexpected challenger when the Jamaican world record holder runs his first 100 metres tomorrow.

Second half goals by Alpha United duo Anthony “Awo” Abrams who was the captain on the night and winger Dwight Peters earned the youthful Jaguars a hard fought 2-2 draw against Martinique at the Stade Georges on Wednesday evening in the city of St.

LONDON, England, CMC – Experienced batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan has brushed aside suggestions of a late call-up to the West Indies team for the current tour of England.

By Emmerson Campbell National amateur welterweight champion, Laured Stewart, suffered a setback to his budding career after he sustained a fractured jaw at the hands of an assailant who is still at large following an argument at a cricket game in Sophia last Sunday.