Sports

Georgetown Football Club (GFC) and Santos FC were the victorious teams in the final two round-of-16 matches in the Banks Beer Knockout Cup at the Georgetown Football Club Ground on Wednesday evening.

ZURICH, Switzerland, CMC – Well-known personalities Horace Burrell, Ronald Jones and Yves Jean-Bart were among nine administrators appointed to restore the Caribbean Football Union to normalcy over the next five months.

HOBART, Australia, CMC – Dwayne Bravo again played a negligible role and Sydney Sixers were undermined by Pakistani fast-medium bowler Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, losing by 42 runs against Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League on Wednesday.

By Emmerson Campbell Guyana men’s rugby team, winners of six consecutive North America Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) Sevens titles, is currently in off season training, preparing to compete on the international stage in the new year.

National table tennis players Nigel Bryan and Trenace Lowe were named the most outstanding players at  the 2011 Table Tennis Nationals at the award ceremony on Wednesday evening at the Police Officers Mess Hall.

Cuban national coach, Eduardo Medina, has expressed  confidence that water polo will become  an acclaimed  sport in Guyana in time with continued efforts, following the FINA (World Swimming Federation) Beginner’s Level Water Polo Clinic that concluded on Tuesday at the National Aquatic Centre.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England captain Andrew  Strauss is aiming to complete four successive Ashes series  victories over Australia with wins at home in 2013 and again on  the return leg in 2013-14.

Victoria Kings and Bakewell Buxton Stars were the latest teams to record victories when action in the 22nd annual Kashif and Shanghai tournament continued  on Wednesday evening at the Beterverwagting (BV) ground.

National cycling captain, Robin Persaud, is currently in off-season training in order to continue his high level of riding in the year ahead.

LISBON,  (Reuters) – Former Benfica and Portugal striker Eusebio  will spend Christmas in hospital after being diagnosed with pneumonia, the  hospital treating him said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has been blasted by a top local sporting official over the poor quality of pitches which are prepared for regional junior tournaments.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Live in the moment, keep it  simple and work hard.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Shane Warne cuts a svelte  figure these days but his time as a more rotund player were  recalled when a bronze statue of the spin-bowling great was  unveiled at Melbourne Cricket Ground yesterday.

With the elimination of the Trinidad Soca Warriors football team by Guyana’s Golden Jaguars from the 2014 World Cup Qualifying campaign still fresh in their minds, a Trinidad Club team is here to avenge that team’s elimination while hoping to strike gold to boot, a pound of gold that is.

A grand countrywide two day dominoes competition will take place  on Monday and Tuesday at two different venues in the city.

By Iva Wharton Nigel Hinds a former national hockey and basketball player Nigel Hinds is back home and has stated his intention of doing his part to aid the development of sport.

Kwakwani secured a spot in the final of the 2011 Titan’s Bowl basketball tournament yesterday when they defeated Plaisance Academy in the semifinal at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Chelsea and England captain John Terry will be prosecuted for the alleged racial abuse of Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand in a Premier League match in October, British authorities said  yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados defied conventional wisdom and chose Kirk Edwards to lead the national team in the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship next month.

(Reuters) – A Las Vegas judge sentenced boxer Floyd Mayweather yesterday to six months behind bars for a 2010 attack on the mother of his children, but half of that jail term was suspended, officials said.