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By Emmerson Campbell Brothers Richard and Joel Williamson were adjudged the best boxers of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) National Trials Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on Saturday night.

Recently re-elected President of the Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Roger Harper says the association simply plans to build on what they accomplished in 2011, for the new cricket calendar year.

ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Spin duo Devendra Bishoo and Veerasammy Permaul bowled Guyana to a 234-run victory over Leeward Islands in the Regional 4-Day Tournament yesterday.

By Iva Wharton National senior champion Taffin Khan will today try to maintain his unbeaten streak when the annual Trophy Stall-sponsored  chess tournament continues at the Kei Shar’s Sports Club.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Combined Campuses & Colleges staged a fight-back, after a typically mesmering spell from off-spinner Sunil Narine undermined their batting in the Regional 4-Day tournament on Saturday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Anisa Mohammed said she was planning to use the forthcoming home series against India Women to move up the World rankings.

A list of players who were bought, transferred, retained and went unsold for IPL 2012   Bought Brendon McCullum          – $900,000 to Kolkata Knight Riders (base price $400,000) Ravindra Jadeja                 – Maximum purse of $2 million bid by Chennai Super Kings and Deccan Chargers.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Anisa Mohammed said she was planning to use the forthcoming home series against India Women to move up the World rankings.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Officials of the Guyana Football Association are probably breathing a little easier, following news that Jamal Shabazz worked out a deal with the Trinidad & Tobago Football Federation that allows him to remain their national team coach.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – A half-century by debutant Matt Wade and some middle-order slogging by the Hussey brothers propelled Australia to a 65-run thrashing of hapless India in the rain-shortened first one-day international  yesterday.

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – England’s opening batsmen safely negotiated the final hour’s play to close the third day of the third test with Pakistan on 36 without loss, chasing 324 to win, after Azhar Ali’s mammoth innings of 157 put the hosts in a dominant position in Dubai.

(Reuters) – Tony Parker scored a season-high 42 points to propel the San Antonio Spurs past the league-leading Oklahoma City Thunder 107-96 on Saturday night.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Devon Smith’s 19th first class century was not enough to prevent Windward Islands from crashing to an 81-run, defeat inside three days as Jamaica emphatically started the defence of their Regional Four-Day Championship title here yesterday.

By Emmerson Campbell Dawani Lampkin of the Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF) gym and Five Star’s Matthew Hollingsworth highlighted the first night of boxing at the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) National Trials Championships Friday last at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.The

ROSEAU, Dominica,  CMC – Twenty-two wickets tumbled as the first round contest of the Regional Four-Day Championship between Guyana and Leewards Islands swung this way and that, on the second day at Windsor Park here yesterday.

As the life is gradually squeezed out of West Indies cricket by supposedly responsible bodies scrapping for its control, it was inevitable that its first-class tournament that started on Friday (still unsponsored and known simply as the “Regional Four-Day”) should be as surreal at it is.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – An unbeaten century by Younus Khan, the first of the series, took Pakistan to a superb position as they piled on a 180-run lead at the close of the second day of the third test against England yesterday.

The Guyana Floodlight Softball Cricket Association (GFCSA) has donated over half a million dollars to journalist and international cricket commentator Sean Devers to assist him to undergo an operation.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – Estranged West Indies opener Chris Gayle sent perhaps his strongest message yet to the West Indies Cricket Board ahead of the upcoming Australia series as he pummelled an up tempo hundred against Windward Islands to give Jamaica the upper hand here yesterday.

By Carwyn Holland As millions around the world affix their eyes to their television sets today to catch a glimpse of the American football spectacle known as the Super Bowl final, Guyanese at home and abroad will be hoping to one day to see one of their own in the final after Clay Nurse was cut from the New England Patriots.