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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – President of Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board Azim Bassarath and Minister of Sport Anil Roberts seem to give proof that success can breed togetherness.

THE VALLEY, Anguilla, CMC – All-rounder Omari Banks, Anguilla’s first and only Test player, has announced his retirement from the professional game.

Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) Boxer-of-the- Year 2011 Imran ‘Magic’ Khan said that he is rapidly recovering from the stab wound he sustained on his left arm last Thursday that required six stitches.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, CMC – One of the arbitrators hearing Mohamed Bin Hammam’s case to prevent the Asian Football Confederation from removing him as president said both sides have presented good arguments.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – All-rounder Kenroy Williams, along with openers Rashidi Boucher and Martin Nurse were the outstanding performers in the rain-affected second Barbados three-day trial match which ended on Sunday.

By Emmerson Campbell Proud owner of South America’s fastest knockout Simeon ‘Candy Man’ Hardy has reiterated his intent to knockout Iwan ‘Pure Gold’ Azore when they match gloves Friday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) is expected to open its season on Sunday with the annual cross country event at the National Park.

Former three-time national table tennis champion and `ball player extraordinaire’ Maurice Montague Moore, who died on January 8, had his cremated body laid to rest on Sunday in Canada following a moving ceremony attended by family members, close friends, and sportsmen and women of yesteryear.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Five-times champion Serena Williams lost for the first time in four years at the Australian Open yesterday but Novak Djokovic moved into the quarter-finals despite picking up a few battle scars against Lleyton Hewitt.

Junior’s Jewellery and Pawn Shop for the sixth consecutive year will be donating a gold chain to the highest goal scorer in this year’s NAMILCO Football Festival.

If anything, the fact that the Amazon Conquerors failed to reach at least the semi-finals of the just-concluded Caribbean T20 cricket tournament must be a huge disappointment to local cricket fans.

ADELAIDE,  (Reuters) – India are considering playing two spinners in the fourth and final test against Australia and have brought leftarmer Pragyan Ojha into the squad for the match, stand-in captain Virender Sehwag said yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Denesh Ramdin said winning the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament was a testimony to the strength and the depth of the Trinidad & Tobago side.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan has resigned from the captaincy and former skipper Mahela Jayawardene has been reappointed to the role, the island nation’s sports minister said yesterday.

Come tomorrow, the eagerly awaited 27-team dominoes competition organized by Mark `Jumbie’ Wiltshire and Orin Joseph will commence at Joseph’s residence, Gaulding Place South Ruimveldt Park, According to a press release, first place finishers will walk away $150,000 richer while second and third placed teams will receive $75,000 and $40,000 respectively and trophies to boot.

(Reuters) – NBA results for  Sunday (home team in CAPS) Boston 100             WASHINGTON 94 LA CLIPPERS 103         Toronto 91 NEW JERSEY 97         Charlotte 87 Milwaukee 91             MIAMI 82 Indiana 98             LA LAKERS 96

By Colin Benjamin in Barbados Pre-tournament favourites Trinidad and Tobago known as the “Red Fury” continued their dominance in Regional twenty20 cricket, defeating Jamaica by 63 runs in the final of the 2012 Caribbean Twenty20 tournament at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados last night.

A brilliant, undefeated century from Naeem Yacoob was the backbone of No.70 Young Star’s easy victory over No.69’s Red Rose as the round of 16 list was completed yesterday for the 2011 New Building Society Second Division 40-Over Cricket Competition in Berbice.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., (Reuters) – Legendary former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, fired in November after 46 years as head coach in the wake of a child sex abuse scandal involving an assistant, died yesterday, his family said in a statement.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A record spell from Delorn Johnson undermined Barbados’ anaemic batting and set Windward Islands up for an emphatic, seven-wicket victory to finish third in the Caribbean Twenty20 tournament yesterday.