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KARACHI, (Reuters) – A small cabal of Pakistan’s  cricketers had interfered in the team’s management, leaked  confidential information and contributed to a divisive culture,  the team’s long-term manager has said.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – Three times  world 200 metres champion Allyson Felix could run in as many as  four events at August’s world championships, according to the  relay pools released by USA Track & Field (USATF) yesterday.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia have omitted Cameron  White from their one-day squad for next month’s tour of Sri  Lanka but retained the 27-year-old batsman as captain of their  Twenty20 side.

The Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) will be staging its Goodwill Games time trials from July 15-17 at Castellani Swimming Pool, Homestretch Avenue.

Guyanese fighters Stephan Gouveia and Bert Braithwaite lost their quarterfinal matches yesterday in the American Boxing Confederation’s (ABC) third and final qualifiers in Panama City, Panama.

East Coast recorded a comfortable 36-run victory over their West Bank Demerara counterparts in the opening game of the 2011 Female Inter-Association Cricket 50-overs Tournament at the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) Ground yesterday.

Treasurer of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Sheikh Ahmad believes that a new executive is needed to bring about a solution to the problems that have plagued the organisation.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Fallen power Australia are not  even thinking about a return to the top of the test rankings,  according to coach Tim Nielsen, as the team seek to rebuild  following their humiliating Ashes defeat to England.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The Indian sports ministry has  sacked a Ukrainian track and field coach and ordered a thorough  investigation into an embarrassing doping scandal after eight  athletes tested positive for banned anabolic steroids.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A British Government inquiry into  corruption allegations surrounding World Cup bids has accused  FIFA of trying to brush aside the evidence and has questioned  president Sepp Blatter’s commitment to reforming the  organisation.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s sports minister has  ordered a probe into former captain Kumar Sangakkara’s comments  about the island nation’s cricket administrators and political  meddling during his speech to Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)  members at Lord’s on Monday.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – World athletics has suffered from  a lack of high-profile rivalries due to the growing influence of  money on the sport, long jump world record holder Mike Powell  has told Reuters.

KARACHI, (Reuters) –  Pakistan  cricket’s endless parade of controversies and scandal has made  playing for the national team akin to ‘mental torture’,  according to captain   Misbah-ul-Haq.

Linden Technical Institute (LTI) registered the highest team score last Monday when they dropped 106 points on President’s College (PC) in the Division One quarterfinal of the National Schools Basketball Festival at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

Veteran batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul is well poised to tory when he takes the field against India today for the third and final test match for the Digicel home series.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Prolific 18-year-old Kraigg Brathwaite will lead a 14-man West Indies Under-19 squad on their tour of the United States starting Friday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods has pulled out of  next week’s British Open because of ongoing problems with his  left leg, the former world number one said yesterday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Multiple flyweight world champion Ria Ramnarine will now face Russian Anastasia Toktaulova, after the original challenger Mayerli Altamar of Colombia pulled out.

MUR DE BRETAGNE, France, (Reuters) – Australia’s  Cadel Evans just denied Spain’s Alberto Contador to win stage  four of the Tour de France, a 172.5-km trek from Lorient yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, CMC – CARICOM Heads of Government have heeded Chris Gayle’s call, and will seek to intervene in the impasse between the former West Indies captain and the West Indies Cricket Board.