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LONDON (Reuters) – Newcastle United produced an astonishing fightback to draw 4-4 at home to Arsenal yesterday after trailing 4-0 as a record 38 goals were scored in the Premier League yesterday.

Team GDF snatched the male and female titles at the conclusion of the Inter-Services Cross Country Championships on January 29, the GDF said in a release on Friday.

The Stag Beer Inter-Ward Seven-a-Side Street Football tournament is geared to create waves among competing teams from the various areas in Linden when it kicks off on February 14.

Junior cyclist Paul DeNobrega pulled off a stunning victory yesterday at the National Park when he out-sprinted a number of senior cyclists to win the 18th Annual Ricks and Sari Agro Industries Limited youth race programme.

Of all the many mysteries surrounding the Indian Premier League (IPL), the most mystifying, on the face of it, has been Chris Gayle’s inability to attract a bid at the auction for the 2011 edition from the multi-millionaire industrialists and Bollywood stars who own the franchise teams.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, CMC – With their eyes already firmly fixed on their pending World Cup campaign, West Indies will search for a confidence-boosting win when they face Sri Lanka in the final One-Day International of their three-match series today.

DOHA (Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were banned for at least five years yesterday after they were found guilty of corruption by an International Cricket Council (ICC) tribunal.

Guyana’s world class bodybuilder Hugh Ross and female boxing champion Shondel Alfred have been voted as the 2010 Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year, respectively.

NAIN, St Elizabeth, CMC – Guyana fast bowler Brandon Bess grabbed a five-wicket haul to send Jamaica tumbling on the opening day of their first round Regional First Class Championship match here yesterday.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Fernando Alonso may have singled  out Michael Schumacher as a big Formula One title rival this  season but McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was having none of that  after calling his own team’s new car a “masterpiece” yesterday.

POINTE-A-PIERRE, Trinidad, CMC – Kirk Edwards anchored Barbados’ batting, and was within sight of a second first-class hundred in the WICB Regional first-class championship against Trinidad & Tobago yesterday.

CARDIFF, (Reuters) – Two tries from winger Chris  Ashton got England off to a flying start in the Six Nations  championship yesterday with a 26-19 victory over Wales.

CAVE HILL, Barbados, CMC – Nkrumah Bonner and Ryan Austin shared four wickets to lead a fight-back for Combined Campuses & Colleges, after Windward Islands collected first innings points in the WICB Regional first-class championship yesterday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – James Hildreth stroked the first century of the Regional First Class Championship as England Lions dominated Leeward Islands on the opening day of their first round clash at Warner Park yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson has been fined $25,000  for improper conduct towards an official during a game against the Philadelphia 76ers, the NBA  said yesterday.

DOHA, (Reuters) – World number one Lee Westwood and  sixth-ranked Paul Casey missed the cut while number two Martin  Kaymer and seventh-ranked Steve Stricker scraped through by the  skin of their teeth at the Qatar Masters yesterday.

Former national men’s singles champion Sydney Christophe who recently received the ITTF/IPC Level One Coaching Certification will be in Guyana later this month to conduct a course for local table tennis coaches.

Public Relations Officer of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) and Secretary/CEO of the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sport Club, Hilbert Foster is appealing to cricket administrators in Guyana to stop the current infighting, which he describes as “profound madness”.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Antonio McDyess beat the  buzzer by tipping in Tim Duncan’s missed shot to lift the San  Antonio Spurs to an 89-88 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on  Thursday.

ORLANDO, Florida, Reuters) – LeBron James scored  an NBA season-high 51 points on Thursday as the Miami Heat  topped the Orlando Magic 104-100 and closed in on the Boston  Celtics for first place in the Eastern Conference.