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The Guyana Squash Association (GSA) has named its training squad for the Caribbean Area Squash Association (CASA) Junior Championships in July .

Trinidad and Tobago’s Defence Force football team which will oppose top Linden club Milerock in the Caribbean Football Union second round club championships says that they are here to win the first game of the home and away tie.

Pele Football Club which has as its motto “All for one, one for all” will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a week of activities from the 24-29th of April, and the first four days are scheduled for the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda and the final day at the Umana Yana.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack  has broken with tradition and named only four cricketers of the  year for its 2011 edition because of the Pakistan spot-fixing  scandal, editor Scyld Berry said yesterday.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – The Chicago Bulls beat the  Boston Celtics 97-81 on Thursday to open a four-game lead at the  top of the Eastern Conference and move to within one victory of  clinching home-court advantage throughout the NBA playoffs.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – New Trinidad and Tobago coach Otto Pfister is scheduled to leave for London next week to meet with England-born players eligible to represent the national team.

The recent decision by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) not to approve voting rights to the Linden and Georgetown Sub-Associations before the upcoming  congress is cause for concern and must be denounced in the strongest possible terms.

Continental Foods Incorporated, a member of the Continental Group of Companies, who are the manufacturers and distributors of Sunburst Orange Juice in Guyana, last Saturday made a significant contribution to the Len’s Craft/Sunburst OJ U-15 team.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s last ditch bid for a spot in the Regional First Class Championship final ended in disappointment Thursday when they failed to obtain a court injunction to stop the match from proceeding.

The elections for three positions of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) will go ahead as planned on April 16 despite Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) president Vernon Burnett voicing his displeasure at the outcome of yesterday’s meeting between the governing body and its 11 affiliates.

President of Alpha United Football Club, Odinga Lumumba, yesterday said that his team has been steadily preparing for the second leg of the Caribbean Football Union’s (CFU) Champions Cup tournament.

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Fit-again West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo has been named in a 14-man UWI Vice-Chancellor squad to face Pakistan in a one-day tour match in St Lucia later this month.

Christopher Barnwell’s lone objective at this time is to make the best of his West Indies selection for the upcoming Twenty20 International against Pakistan later this month.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Surprise finalists Combined Campuses and Colleges will seek to make history while denying powerful Jamaica their fourth straight title, in the final of the Regional First Class Championship starting here today.

Trophy Stall XI is set to defend their title as the second edition of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) 10/10 Softball Cricket Competition enters into its quarterfinal stage tomorrow at the Everest Cricket Ground from 09:30hrs Ramish Sunich, manager of both the Trophy Stall XI and the Trophy Stall Angels who also have a spot in the female version of the quarterfinals weighed in on the performance of his male troops.

AUGUSTA, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods, straining to  remain upbeat as he struggles to regain form, said he was  pleased after posting a 71 that put him six strokes off the  pace after yesterday’s opening round of the Masters.

Linden’s Milerock Football Club is readying itself for its second round Caribbean Football Union’s clash with Trinidad and Tobago’s defence Force side.

The Rigby/Nedd Games which was scheduled for this Sunday at the Blairmont Sports Club Ground, Berbice will once again be postponed by the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) to a date yet to be announced by the association.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  CMC – Emerging shot-maker Kyle Corbin has credited the West Indies High Performance Centre for his exciting form this season in the Regional First Class Championship.