Sports

Christopher Barnwell’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) performance led the Celebrity Athletes to a marginal victory over the Celebrity Entertainers of the annual Celebrity Athletes versus Entertainers Basketball showdown at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last Sunday.

LONDON, CMC – Lord Sebastien Coe has expressed shock to have learned that his ancestor sexually abused slaves in Jamaica and fathered a child as a result.

DAEGU, South Korea, (Reuters) – Usain Bolt, the  world’s fastest man, predicted yesterday he would retain his  world 100 metres title in Daegu, South Korea, easily this month  provided he gets a decent start.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Lendl Simmons made a small contribution, helping Carlton reach the Final of the Super Cup One-day competition with three-wicket victory over highly-favoured Empire in the semi-finals  yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – In a repeat of the official World Cup staged earlier this year in their homeland, India overturned Sri Lanka to win the Lawyers’ World Cup by 22 runs on Saturday here.

MASON, Ohio, (Reuters) – Britain’s Andy Murray won the Cincinnati Open yesterday when  his opponent in the final, Serbia’s world number one Novak Djokovic, retired injured.

GREENSBORO, North Carolina, (Reuters) – American  Webb Simpson won the Wyndham Championship by three strokes yesterday to capture his first PGA title.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Omar Khan is confident that Trinidad & Tobago can represent the Caribbean’s interest in a major way at the Champions League Twenty20 in India.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Another monumental performance  from Rahul Dravid on the fourth day of the fourth test at the  Oval yesterday delayed England’s progress towards a series  whitewash over India.

Captain Shakib Al-Hasan and Mahmudullah starred with bat and ball as Bangladesh finished their tour of Zimbabwe with a 93-run win in the final One Day International in Bulawayo yesterday.

BIRMINGHAM, England, CMC – Veteran West Indies left-hander Shiv Chanderpaul completed a wretched County Championship debut for Warwickshire, falling for a “duck” as his side plunged to a 209-run loss to Hampshire inside three days on Saturday.

The Knights Basketball Club held its second edition of its celebrity charity game at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall last night.

As England have not so much leap-frogged as kangaroo-hopped their way to the No.1 position in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings, the inevitable question arises.

Lindener Mark Lewis won the School Boys and Invitational feature 35-lap race at yesterday’s 8th Annual Seven Seas/Geddes Grant Limited  sponsored 10-race cycling programme at the inner circuit of the National Park.

Over $20M is up for the taking today at the fifth annual Guyana Cup horse race meet at the Port Mourant Turf Club and according to word coming out of Jumbo Jet Auto Sales, organizers of the meet, nothing has been left to chance for the 11:00 hours start .

The Police Sports Club (PSC) will stage an 18 team knockout dominoes competition this Sunday outside its Robb Street quarters.

A dominoes team, led by Edmund Sammy and including former Guyana Chronicle Sports Reporter, Frederick Halley, ran out winners on Wednesday when the final of the Manniram Shew, three-team tournament was held.

Gandhi Youth Organization (GYO) and Police Sports Club recorded victories in the latest round of matches in the Queensway-sponsored 2011 Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) Open 50 overs knockout competition yesterday, at the Demerara Cricket Club Ground and Police Sports Club Ground Ever Leary respectively.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Waqar Younis will quit  as Pakistan coach for medical reasons after next month’s tour of  Zimbabwe, he said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England overcame the loss of the  afternoon session to rain yesterday to put India on the rack  again and set themselves up for a series whitewash on the third  day of the fourth and final test at the Oval.