A systematic attack to the body and head snapping uppercuts by the new light heavyweight champion Kwesi ‘Lightning Struck Assassin’ Jones resulted in a fifth round TKO over Leon ‘The Lion’ Gilkes on Friday Night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has been given the green light to stage this year’s senior Caribbean Regional Table Tennis Federation (CRTTF) championships and president of the association Henry Greene wants it to be the biggest ever staged locally.
Written off by fickle fans following their 0-1 defeat at home to Linden’s Intermoengotapoe at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in the first game of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) club championships, Milerock are today basking in their historic win in Suriname which advances them to the second round.
Guyana’s Jessica Stephenson yesterday qualified for the final of the 200m breast stroke event at the CONSANAT Youth championships in Lima, Peru.
Captain Eon Murray and the rest of his executive are expected to be installed into office today when the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) Annual General Meeting (AGM) and election of office bearers for the 2011/12 term takes place.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – A drained Tillakaratne Dilshan was helped out of the park but not before his all-round show had taken Sri Lanka closer to their second World Cup title while prolonging England’s agonising wait for their first yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies A batsman Jonathan Carter agonisingly missed out on a maiden first class century yesterday as the clash between Barbados and Combined Campuses and Colleges remained tantalisingly poised heading into today’s third day.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Lendl Simmons gave West Indies selectors plenty food for thought ahead of the Pakistan series next month when he pummelled a remarkable, unbeaten double century against Guyana yesterday.
The Pepsi Hornets Rugby Club ran through the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rugby team to win the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) season opener 27-0 when the two teams bumped heads yesterday at the National Park.
Defending champion Randolph Morgan and Dawn Barker struck gold for Guyana on the opening day of the fifth IPF/NAPF Caribbean Powerlifting Championships in Cayman Islands on Friday.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Red Bull’s world champion Sebastian Vettel blew away his rivals in a dominant qualifying performance to claim pole position for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix yesterday.
President of the Guyana Football Referees Council (GFRC) Alfred King has challenged the participants of the just-concluded Scotia Bank/Pepsi Schools Referees Course to seriously pursue refereeing as great opportunities await them.
Incumbent Dr. Julien Hunte will be returned un-opposed as president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), when the directors meet at the annual general meeting in Antigua tomorrow.
An irate president of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB), Azim Bassarath is calling for the heads of the senior West Indies players in light of the region’s poor showing at the cricket World Cup.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – New Zealand yesterday powered into the semi-finals for the second successive World Cup, shocking favourites South Africa by 49 runs and extending the Proteas’ dismal run in the knock out stage of the showpiece.
Lendl Simmons continued his fondness for Guyana’s bowling attack by slamming a century yesterday, his ninth first class ton, to put Trinidad and Tobago in control against Guyana in their seventh round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Four-Day Competition at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence.
The games are over for West Indies cricket team at the World Cup and so too should be the ones the West Indies Cricket Board has been playing with respect to development of the regional team and the regional standard on the whole.
AHMEDABAD, India, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka will bank on their home advantage against an English side grappling with inconsistency and injuries in today’s World Cup quarter-final in Colombo.
CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – Windward Islands made early inroads into the Leeward Islands batting line-up on a rain-hit first day of their final round match in the Regional Four Day Championship here yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Twenty-two wickets tumbled as fortunes lurched this way and that on a dramatic opening day of the final round Regional First Class Championship match between Combined Campuses and Colleges and Barbados here yesterday.
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