Sports

Three overseas coaches will begin a two-day coaches course today ahead of the start of the tournament phase of the Scotia/Pepsi Schools football Academy this weekend.

By Cosmo Hamilton At the dawn of a new year a hopeful populace is entitled to not just mundane resolutions to lose weight, exercise, and shed myriad bad habits like smoking and drinking in the interest of becoming more wholesome, healthy human beings.

Later this month the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) will conduct a referees/judges seminar, a boxing competition, and will also send a team of seven  boxers to Trinidad and Tobago for a box off.

With the inclement weather seemingly over after forcing the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) to postpone its annual Carifta trials to tomorrow, the meet is expected to be a fiery one when it runs off from 10am  at the Police Sports Club ground, Eve Leary.

The Rose Hall Youth and Sports Club (RHYSC) has stepped forward to open its cricket developmental programmes to females despite a number of challenges facing female cricketers in Guyana.

THE chiseled physique of the heavyweight champion who gave him the early nickname of “Smokin’ Joe” remained unmistakable.

For the first time in two decades Guyana will host a 20 kilometres race in honour of esteemed Mexican athlete Jose Macias Luna on Sunday at 05:30hrs from Coldingen, East Coast Demerara, to finish in front of the Mexican Embassy on Brickdam.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – Women’s batting star Deandra Dottin has praised the team spirit in the West Indies side after they beat India by three wickets here Sunday to win the three-match One-Day International series.

Approximately one month since leaving the shores of Guyana for a training stint in Jamaica to improve their Olympics hopes, Winston George, Rupert Perry and Quinse Clarke are making some progress, according to President of the Athletics Association of Guyana, Colin Boyce.

Director of Sports Neil Kumar will meet with members of the national Sevens rugby team on Saturday at the Providence National Stadium where the team will hold its final practice game prior to its departure for Hong Kong.

Like true marksmen, the strikers of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Football Club found their range Sunday night.

The sudden death of anyone in the prime of life is sad and shocking, more especially an international sportsman constantly in the public eye.

By Emmerson Campbell After hosting a successful and historic all-pro card last month that featured five World Boxing Council (WBC) Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) title fights, the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) will now return to the Pro Am initiative.

Guyana’s penultimate round clash of the West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) four-day tournament against Barbados yesterday remained in doubt for two reasons.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) has partnered with Hand-in-Hand Group of Companies to stage a 40-over Inter-Club tournament for teams in the West Berbice district.

UPSIDE DOWN WITH JOY

(Reuters) – Rory McIlroy was proclaimed as golf’s next truly great player after winning the Honda Classic on Sunday and taking over as the world’s number one ranked player.

(Reuters) – Rory McIlroy was proclaimed as golf’s next truly great player after winning the Honda Classic on Sunday and taking over as the world’s number one ranked player.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – The jury weighing evidence against Allen Stanford said yesterday it was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of the former Texas financier.

DURBAN, South Africa,  CMC – Former West Indies captain Chris Gayle says he will remember late teammate Runako Morton as having “a heart of a lion” and said he always wanted the Nevisian in any team he led.