Sports

Hundreds of mourners packed the St. Theresa’s RC Church in Woodbrook yesterday to pay final respects to the late West Indies cricket legend Michael Joey Carew.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Windward Islands produced a limp batting effort as Somerset whipped them by 17 runs to clinch their first win of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship yesterday.

The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) is making efforts to stage this year’s annual senior Caribbean TT championships.

The Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) launched its $5M Pro-education Programme at the Port Mourant Secondary School on Tuesday.

The national under-20 football team preparing for next week’s Caribbean Football Union (CFU) qualifiers will tonight take on the Western Tigers senior team at the Georgetown Football Club ground in their final warm-up game before leaving for the January 19-23.

Guyana’s Rifle shooters won an unprecedented fourth West Indies fullbore title at the regional championship in Barbados but it was the fifth place finish in the pairs competition at this year’s Commonwealth Games in India that threw the spotlight on the sport locally.

OKLAHOMA CITY,  (Reuters) – The Oklahoma City   Thunder led from start to finish but had to withstand a late   push from the Orlando Magic before closing out a 125-124   victory.

The Flying Ace Cycle Club’s 2011 season gets cracking tomorrow with the staging of the annual Franco Crawford 46-mile road race.

The first domino competition for the year for Persons with Disabilities will be contested today from 15:00hrs at the Guyana Deaf Mission, Vlissengen Road and D’Andrade Street, Newtown.

Mark Persaud teamed up with Colin France to play unbeaten in the `501’ league tournament held recently at Mark’s Darts Club, 72 Brummell Place, Stabroek.

The saga of the Dr Noel Blackman birthday anniversary seven-a-side football tournament is set to end tonight at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) appointed five executives and reconstructed several committees at its recent planning meeting for 2011/2012.

The Berbice Cricket Board (BCB) started its 2011 Charity Programme on Thursday with a donation of clothing and sport gear valued $130,000 to the Alpha Children Home, East Bank Berbice.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport remembers former West Indies cricketer Michael “Joey” Carew’s prowess on the field and counts his nurturing of Brian Lara’s talent as a lasting legacy to the sport. 

The stage is set for the Mark `Jumbie’ Wiltshire 56th birth anniversary countrywide dominoes competition.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez’s government has urged a private TV station to pull the  plug on a Colombian soap opera that features a dog named  “Little Hugo” and it says is an insult to national pride.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Hampshire stunned last year’s losing finalists Barbados in a dramatic one-over eliminator to win their first match of the Caribbean Twenty20 Championship here last evening.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago defeated Leeward Islands by 56 runs in their Caribbean Twenty20 Championship, Group B contest at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground last night.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Pro Football Hall of Famer  Lawrence Taylor pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges he paid  an underage girl for sex and must register as a sex offender,  prosecutors said yesterday.

Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) Ramesh Dookhoo believes that the next president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) should deliver good governance and be a servant of the board and not vice versa.