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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Under-20s booked their berth in the CONCACAF final round qualifiers on Monday when they beat Suriname 2-1 in the return leg of their Caribbean  Football Union Group D tie at the Marvin Lee Stadium.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Two new players have been named in a 14-man Combined Campuses and Colleges squad to contest next month’s Caribbean Twenty20 Championship in Antigua and Barbados.

Two intriguing games unravelled at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground last night with Pele and Sunburst Camptown Football clubs recording wins to reach the quarterfinal round of the 21st Kashif and Shanghai Football Tournament.

The Kennard Memorial Turf Club yesterday received tangible support from telecommunications giant Digicel for their upcoming Boxing Day horse race meet.

President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Colin Boyce, says he is satisfied “to a point” with how the year has been for the AAG given some of the superior achievements that Guyanese athletes have attained for the year.

 President of the Guyana Volleyball Federation (GVF) Lennox Shuffler yesterday described the year 2010 as “interesting with a ray of hope.”

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Powerful FIFA vice-president Jack Warner has been nominated unopposed for his eighth successive term in charge of the Caribbean Football Union.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Jason Terry scored all 19 of his  points in the fourth quarter to help the Dallas Mavericks end  Miami’s 12-game winning streak with a 98-96 victory over the  Heat on Monday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board has thrown its full support behind embattled off-spinner Shane Shillingford who was yesterday banned by the International Cricket Council from bowling after his action was deemed illegal.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Embattled Trinidad and Tobago head coach Russell Latapy has submitted his technical report on his side’s failed Digicel Caribbean Cup campaign to football authorities here.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar returned to   the Indian one-day squad for January’s five-match series   against South Africa, 11 months after scoring an unbeaten   double century against the same opponents.  

 The Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) has completed its calendar of events for 2011 that starts on January 16 with the annual National Cross Country Championships set for Kuru Kuru on the Linden Highway.  

The International Cricket Council (ICC)  yesterday confirmed that an independent test had found the bowling action of West Indies’ off-spinner Shane Shillingford to be illegal and, as such, the player has been suspended from bowling in international cricket.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – American Shane Mosley’s  adviser met the promoter of boxing’s number one fighter   Manny Pacquiao yesterday to finalise terms on a May 7 bout in   Las Vegas, the former welterweight champion said.   

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa all-rounder  Jacques Kallis escaped unhurt after being involved in a car  crash on Tuesday.  

ROME, (Reuters) – Enzo Bearzot, the coach who led  Italy to victory in the final of the 1982 World Cup against the  odds, has died at the age of 83.  

Berbice teams, New Amsterdam United and Rosignol United were beaten but not disgraced as Santos and Guyana Defence Force (GDF) marched into the next round of the Kashif and Shanghai Football Festival following matches Sunday evening at Blairmont Community Centre ground.

The winner of Sunday’s New Building Society (NBS) limited overs cricket competition will be either Tamran Root or Young Warriors after the latter team  completed a comfortable eight wicket win over Hopetown United in the second semi-final recently.

DUBLIN, Ireland, CMC – The Phil Simmons-coached Ireland have named their 22-man preliminary squad for next year’s Cricket World Cup, retaining a large chunk of the players who campaigned in the Caribbean showpiece three years ago.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Prolific Indian batsman Sachin  Tendulkar has closed in on Kumar Sangakkara at the top of the  ICC test rankings and can overtake the Sri Lankan captain with  a good showing in the remaining two tests against South Africa.