BOSTON, Reuters) – Point guard Rajon Rondo, the NBA’s assist leader, turned into a scorer yesterday and paced the Boston Celtics to a 91-80 triumph over their Eastern Conference rivals, the Orlando Magic.
CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Combined Campuses & Colleges’ spinners, led by Nkrumah Bonner, bowled their side to a 33-run, come-from-behind victory over Windward Islands in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.
POINTE-A-PIERRE, Trinidad, CMC – Consistent batting down the order led by Denesh Ramdin, Runako Morton, and Rayad Emrit put Trinidad & Tobago on the brink of first innings points against Barbados in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.
Former Guyana and West Indies leg-spinner Mahendra Nagamootoo took two wickets but his efforts were not enough to lead Moosai Sports to victory over Clico Preysal in the Sunday League limited overs series on Saturday in Trinidad & Tobago (T&T).
International Tennis Feder-ation (ITF) Development Officer for the English speaking Caribbean, Anthony Jeremiah has lamented the state of Guyana’s lawn tennis facilities especially in light of the talent he is seeing on his visit.
NEW ORLEANS, (Reuters) – All-Stars Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol combined to score 66 points and lead the twice defending NBA champions Los Angeles Lakers to a 101-95 win against the New Orleans Hornets on Saturday.
CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – The Cleveland Cavaliers plunged new depths when they set an NBA record for the most consecutive losses in a single season at 24 after losing 111-105 to the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday.
DOHA, (Reuters) – The bans given to Pakistan trio Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir for spot-fixing “will act as a strong deterrent” to others from corrupting the sport, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday.
AUCKLAND, (Reuters) – New Zealand head to the World Cup having capped their one-day series loss to Pakistan with a face-saving victory, but face an uphill battle to repeat punch-above-their-weight heroics of past editions of the tournament.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova replaced Maria Sharapova on Sunday and led Russia to the semi-finals of the Fed Cup with a dramatic 3-2 comeback win over France.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka eased to a 26-run victory in the third one-dayer against West Indies to wrap up the series 2-0 yesterday.
PERTH, (Reuters) – Australia paceman Mitchell Johnson again found the WACA a happy hunting ground as he inspired the hosts to a 57-run victory and a 6-1 series hammering of England in the seventh and final one-day international yesterday.
DOHA, (Reuters) – Thomas Bjorn became the first Danish-born player to capture the Qatar Masters yesterday when he recorded a bogey-free final-round 69 in windy conditions to win by four strokes.
TALLINN, (Reuters) – American Ashton Eaton broke his own world record for the heptathlon yesterday at an indoor meeting in Estonia.
Newly-appointed technical director of the National Rugby Sevens team, Spencer Robinson, is pleased with the progress the team has made in preparing for the International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens World Series in Las Vegas, United States.
CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Windward Islands bowlers upstaged a half-century from Kyle Corbin to put their side in a favourable position over Combined Campuses & Colleges in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.
NAIN, Jamaica, CMC – A gutsy batting effort earned Guyana first innings points but Marlon Samuels stroked a confident, unbeaten half-century to keep Jamaica in the hunt, on the second day of the first round of the Regional First Class Championship yesterday.
Three wickets in one over by Georgetown Cricket Club’s (GCC) Joshua Wade and a commanding 93 from Gavin Singh have Police facing an uphill task to take first innings points against the home team in the Heroes Cup first division two-day tournament.
(Cricinfo) Hot Spot will not be part of the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) that will be used during the 2011 ICC World Cup, reducing the system to its basic requirements: a ball-tracker (in this case Hawk-Eye), a super slow-motion camera and a ‘clear’ stump microphone.
AUCKLAND (Reuters) – Jesse Ryder scored his second one day international century to help New Zealand earn a face-saving 57-run victory over Pakistan at Eden Park yesterday in the sixth and final match of their series.
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