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Reuters) – Former Olympic champions Maurice  Greene, Gail Devers and Vince Matthews have been named to  the National Track & Field Hall of Fame, USA Track & Field  (USATF) said yesterday.

If talks go as planned then the possibility exists that public schools will once again have physical education teachers, according to President of the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) Colin Bynoe, speaking at the launching of the National Schools Swimming, Cycling and Athletics Championships.

The Guyana Football Association and a sponsor, who is to be named later, are currently working out the details for the opening of an academy for young players.

Alexis Williams contributed 40 points to help Natural Sciences run away with the University of Guyana (UG) Inter-faculty Sports championship last Friday at the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sports Ground, Camp Ayanganna.

Dixie Lee has once again thrown their weight behind sports by assisting two riders in  the upcoming Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T), SeaBoard Marines Caribbean Motor Racing Championships slated for November 13 at the South Dakota Circuit.

Seventeen-year-old Akshay Homraj became the second centurion of this year’s New Building Society Second Division 40-Over Cricket Competition in Berbice when he slammed 104 not out for No.70 Young Star.

COLOMBO, (Reuters)- Sri Lanka selectors made seven  changes from the test squad who are trailing Pakistan 1-0 in the  three-test series when they named a 15-man squad on Tuesday for  five one-day internationals.

(Reuters) – The National Basketball Association (NBA)  said yesterday Miami Heat owner Micky Arison has been fined  following reports that he used his Twitter account to comment  on the league’s four-month-old lockout.  

The premiere Guyana Cup Three-Day Twenty20 softball tournament ended with the Regal Masters and Cotton Tree Wild Oats winning their respective categories in Sunday night’s game at the Everest Cricket Club.

MIRPUR, Bangladesh, CMC – Darren Bravo made the breakthrough, collecting his maiden Test hundred to put West Indies in a near impregnable position in the second Test against Bangladesh yesterday.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Chris Gayle was overlooked for the West Indies Test side that will face India in three Tests later this month.

Guyanese Warren ‘40’ McKay of Team Trek pedaled away from defending champion Phillip Clarke in an exciting sprint to the finish to win the Trinidad & Tobago  (T&T) Cycling Federation’s third annual Leslie King Memorial Race, which ended at the BP Sporting Complex in Mayaro on  Sunday.

This year’s Caribbean Karate Championships gold medallist Leah Shariff was promoted from Shodan to Nidan when the third and final grading exam concluded on Sunday at the YMCA Hall at Thomas Lands.

Superbike rider Stephen Vieira is feverishly pushing preparations for the final leg of the Seaboard Marine Caribbean Race of Champions on November 13 at the South Dakota Circuit, with less than two weeks to go.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Demba Ba scored a hat-trick as  Newcastle United continued their impressive start to the season  with a deserved 3-1 win at Stoke City in the Premier League yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) Captain Chris Gayle credited teamwork and good execution as the main ingredients in Jamaica’s triumph in last Saturday’s final of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Super50 tournament in Guyana.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Three foreign teams – The Netherlands, Canada and Sussex – will boost the numbers for the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship next January.

(Reuters) – Arsenal’s on-fire striker Robin van  Persie is the “perfect captain” who owes as much to his team  mates as his own talent for his sizzling run of form, manager  Arsene Wenger said yesterday.

Santos Football Club thrashed Beacon United FC when the Guyana Football Association (GFA) organized Banks DIH President Beer Super League tournament kicked off on Sunday evening at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – Statistically Caroline  Wozniacki remains the best female tennis player in the world but  the controversy over her number one status showed no signs of  abating after her season ended in disappointment at the WTA  Championships.