Sports

The ninth Milo Secondary Schools U18 football competition will resume today at the Ministry of Education ground,  Carifesta Avenue.

The NBA fined Memphis Grizzlies guard-forward Dillon Brooks $35,000 yesterday for shoving a camera operator.

Guyana’s Abiola Jackman suffered a unanimous decision loss yesterday to Nupur Sheoran in her opening round-of-16 bout at the ongoing International Boxing Association (IBA) Women’s World Boxing Championships in India.

(CMC) – West Indies will have to wait a bit longer to start a “new era” of leadership under Shai Hope when persistent rain forced the first One-day International against hosts South Africa to be abandoned without a ball being bowled yesterday.

With the Golden Jaguars penciled to depart local shores on Sunday to resume their CONCACAF Nations League campaign, the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) officially released its 23 member roster for the matches against Bermuda and Montserrat, with 12 foreign born players making the final cut.

German’s Restaurant became the latest entity to throw its financial support behind the annual Rawle Toney 3×3 Basketball Classic, which is slated to commence tomorrow at the Burnham Court on Parade ground by donating an undisclosed sum.

Cougars FC defeated Vryman’s Erven Secondary 2-0 on Wednesday, when the Berbice leg of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Blue Water U15 Girls’ Development League kicked off at the Scott’s School ground, New Amsterdam.

(Reuters) – Gianni Infantino was re-elected as FIFA president during the 73rd Congress in Kigali yesterday, promising record revenues in the next four-year cycle of $11 billion as he called for more football to be played around the world.

AK Galaxy and Rising Stars secured lopsided wins, when the Bartica leg of the Namilco Boys U17 Football League continued on Wednesday evening at the Bartica Community Centre ground.

The Guyana Harpy Eagles are comfortably in control of their third-round clash in the West Indies four-day championships against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force after establishing a healthy 260-run lead at the end of day two at Tarouba.

Former France national team star Thierry Henry, who has ties to MLS as a coach and player, has expressed interest in the United States Men’s National Team coaching vacancy, ESPN reported yesterday.

(Reuters) – Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina survived a stern test from Czech Karolina Muchova before advancing to the Indian Wells semi-finals with a 7-6(4) 2-6 6-4 win yesterday.

Alvin Kallicharran will be returning to Port Mourant Berbice, his birthplace and the spawning ground for his eventual career as one of the most outstanding batsmen Guyana and the West Indies has ever produced, for the official launching of an illustrated children’s storybook celebrating his cricketing journey.

While the staggering sums of cash being tossed around by LIV Golf the past couple of years have drawn some of the biggest names on the PGA Tour to make the leap, veteran golfer Fred Couples said this week that it couldn’t turn the head of rising star Will Zalatoris.

Veteran forward Draymond Green will miss the Golden State Warriors’ next game after being suspended by the NBA for exceeding the league’s technical foul limit.

(Reuters) – Prize money for the 2023 Women’s World Cup will be $150 million, 10 times what it was in 2015 and three times the amount of 2019, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced in his closing remarks to the 73rd FIFA Congress yesterday.

(CMC) – Teenagers Trishan Holder, Zaida James, and Djenaba Joseph are among 15 players that Cricket West Indies have invited for a West Indies Women’s Emerging Players high-performance camp from March 16 to 30 at the Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG) .

(Reuters) – Former South Africa captain Dane van Niekerk has announced her retirement from all forms of international cricket, the end of a sterling career for one of the country’s best ever female players.

The Kashif and Shanghai Organization officially launched their ‘One Guyana’ National Futsal Championship yesterday at the Ministry of Education boardroom, Main Street.