The National Association of Women’s Football (NAWF) is looking to push its development mandate when Mineral Promotion in collaboration with the NAWF and Solid Gold kicks off a female knockout tournament at the Bartica Community Centre ground from today until September 3.
President of Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) Peter Abdool yesterday said that the 17th edition of the Pro Am Friday night fights card will be highly entertaining and urged the public to come out in their numbers and support the event.
KINGSTON, St Vincent, CMC – West Indies women’s head coach Sherwin Campbell believes the two night Twenty20 Internationals in Guyana during the upcoming series against Pakistan, will serve the regional side well in their preparation for important upcoming international assignments.
DAEGU, South Korea, CMC – He enters the World Championships without a major title but Jamaican Asafa Powell has still installed himself as the favourite to win the marquee 100 metres title here next week.
Courts Furniture Store Guyana Inc. will reintroduce its Courts 10 kilometers road race in collaboration with the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) on September 18, starting in front of the furniture store’s main office on Main Street from 06:00hrs.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Chairman of selectors Clyde Butts says combative left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn has not yet shown that he is serious about playing for West Indies.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Jamaica jumped one place in the world to continue as the top team in the Caribbean Football Union, in the latest FIFA rankings released yesterday.
Stefan Corlette won the Under-18 male category at a specially arranged Goodwill table tennis tournament involving local players and players from Trinidad and Tobago Monday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Ramnarine Chattergoon had a fine all-round performance on Saturday for Albion at the Area H ground while Essequibo’s Young Warriors edged past Brushie’s XI by two runs on Sunday as action in the Kares Engineering/Bushy Park Sawmills 10/10 tapeball competition continued.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – Angry fans wielded broom-sticks at the Bangladesh cricket team on their return to Dhaka from the disappointing tour of Zimbabwe yesterday.
Recalled national coach of Guyana Jamaal Shabazz yesterday referred to former Caribbean Football Union (CFU) president and FIFA vice president Austin ‘Jack’ Warner’s contribution to football as yeoman but said since he was no longer in football now was not the time for emerging leaders to cower.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Four uncapped players have been called up to a new-look West Indies 14-man squad for the Twenty20 doubleheader against England next month, with selectors also including the enigmatic Dwayne Smith for the trip.
Attorney-at-Law Anil Nandalall questioned yesterday why lawyers in the past had never reviewed the legality of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), a day after Chief Justice Ian Chang ruled that the organisation was not a legal entity.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Darren Sammy was yesterday re-appointed West Indies captain until year end, ending speculation over the 27-year-old St Lucian’s role in the regional side.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Estranged West Indies opener Chris Gayle met with West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Ernest Hilaire in Antigua yesterday, in yet another attempt to thrash out lingering issues that have kept the Jamaican opener out of the regional squad.
As the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday announced its squad for the hastily arranged Twenty20s versus England next month, the rationale behind the selection of some players, just as it was during the 2011 home season versus Pakistan and India, continues to baffle.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Yaroslav Rybakov will not defend his world high jump title because of a foot injury, the Russian said yesterday.
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Sports performance psychologist Jocelyne Brooks will work with the West Indies women’s side during a training camp here in the build-up to the Pakistan series.
LONDON, (Reuters) – India’s Sachin Tendulkar and Jacques Kallis of South Africa are the only players to have amassed 40 test centuries and former England opener John Edrich believes Alastair Cook has all the tools to join the pair at the top of the batting tree.
SIERRA NEVADA, Spain, (Reuters) – British sprinter Mark Cavendish pulled out of the Tour of Spain with around 60 kms remaining in yesterday’s fourth stage.
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