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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Barbados’ senior cricket side is to take part in a four-team Twenty20 Festival at Guaracara Park in Pointe-a-Pierre at the end of December, an official of the Trinidad &Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) said.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – A thrilled West Indies Women’s captain Merissa Aguilleira said Saturday she was pleased with the way her side had executed in playing unbeaten to win the ICC Women’s World Cup qualifying tournament.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton ended a long-running Formula One feud with Felipe Massa yesterday by walking up to the Ferrari driver after the Brazilian Grand Prix and giving him a hug.

(Reuters) – New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder gave himself some valuable batting practice ahead of Thursday’s first test against Australia with a blistering 175 yesterday, but walked off Allan Border Field in Brisbane slightly disappointed.

(Reuters) – Roger Federer became the first player to win the ATP World Tour Finals six times but had to weather a storming fightback by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before retaining his title with a 6-3 6-7 6-3 victory at the O2 yesterday.

(Reuters) – National Basket-ball Association (NBA) owners and players were busy putting the finishing touches to a new labour deal  yesterday as details of the tentative agreement began to emerge.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – West Indies ‘A’ were confirmed as 2-0 winners of the three-match ‘One-Day International” series against Bangladesh A yesterday after the final match was abandoned without a ball bowled because of torrential rain.

DHAKA, Bangladesh,  CMC – Deandra Dottin’s whirlwind 95, followed up by off-spinner Anisa Mohammed’s seven-wicket haul, propelled West Indies to a crushing 130-run win over Pakistan in the final of the ICC Women’s World Cup qualifying tournament here yesterday.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies snatched a fortuitous draw in dramatic circumstances after another dreadful batting collapse had put them on the verse of losing the third and final Test against India here yesterday.

The Bakewell nationwide softball tournament is entering its final stage. Last week at the Ministry of Education Ground, Floodlights def.

St. Lucia’s general elections are tomorrow. So what does that have to do with West Indies cricket or, more precisely, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB)?

(Reuters) – Former prizefighter Ron Lyle, a convict-turned-contender who once fought Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight title, died  yesterday at age 70 in Denver.

The Wild Bunch Dominoes Organisation will today stage an 18 team 20/20 dominoes tournament at its headquarters Campbell and Da Silva Streets, Newtown Kitty.

(Reuters) – The National Basketball Association (NBA) and its players have reached a tentative deal on a new collective bargaining agreement which paves the way for a 66-game season starting on Christmas Day.

Mokeisha Archer played unbeaten to capture the female version of the University of Guyana’s inaugural scrabble competition which ended on Friday.

The 22nd Kashif and Shanghai tournament on Thursday received further support from the government ahead of the annual local football tournament scheduled to commence on December 10.

Due to sporadic rain for most of week, organizers of the Guyana Cricket Board’s ( GCB) Carib/ Pepsi Twenty/ 20 tournament have decided to reschedule both semifinal matches for Wednesday at

MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies seamer Ravi Rampaul said yesterday he and head coach Ottis Gibson had carefully plotted the demise of batting legend Sachin Tendulkar.

(reprinted from the FIFA website) “We came from all over the world,” enthused Leon Cort about Guyana’s Golden Jaguars, the national team he has helped captain to unprecedented success in recent months.

By Emmerson Campbell After 18 months of creating awareness and raising the sport of boxing out of the doldrums by live television coverage of each Pro Am Friday night card,  the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) will no longer broadcast the event live.