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(Reuters) – Gianni Infantino was re-elected as FIFA president during the 73rd Congress in Kigali yesterday, promising record revenues in the next four-year cycle of $11 billion as he called for more football to be played around the world.

AK Galaxy and Rising Stars secured lopsided wins, when the Bartica leg of the Namilco Boys U17 Football League continued on Wednesday evening at the Bartica Community Centre ground.

The Guyana Harpy Eagles are comfortably in control of their third-round clash in the West Indies four-day championships against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force after establishing a healthy 260-run lead at the end of day two at Tarouba.

Former France national team star Thierry Henry, who has ties to MLS as a coach and player, has expressed interest in the United States Men’s National Team coaching vacancy, ESPN reported yesterday.

(Reuters) – Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina survived a stern test from Czech Karolina Muchova before advancing to the Indian Wells semi-finals with a 7-6(4) 2-6 6-4 win yesterday.

Alvin Kallicharran will be returning to Port Mourant Berbice, his birthplace and the spawning ground for his eventual career as one of the most outstanding batsmen Guyana and the West Indies has ever produced, for the official launching of an illustrated children’s storybook celebrating his cricketing journey.

While the staggering sums of cash being tossed around by LIV Golf the past couple of years have drawn some of the biggest names on the PGA Tour to make the leap, veteran golfer Fred Couples said this week that it couldn’t turn the head of rising star Will Zalatoris.

Veteran forward Draymond Green will miss the Golden State Warriors’ next game after being suspended by the NBA for exceeding the league’s technical foul limit.

(Reuters) – Prize money for the 2023 Women’s World Cup will be $150 million, 10 times what it was in 2015 and three times the amount of 2019, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced in his closing remarks to the 73rd FIFA Congress yesterday.

(CMC) – Teenagers Trishan Holder, Zaida James, and Djenaba Joseph are among 15 players that Cricket West Indies have invited for a West Indies Women’s Emerging Players high-performance camp from March 16 to 30 at the Coolidge Cricket Ground (CCG) .

(Reuters) – Former South Africa captain Dane van Niekerk has announced her retirement from all forms of international cricket, the end of a sterling career for one of the country’s best ever female players.

The Kashif and Shanghai Organization officially launched their ‘One Guyana’ National Futsal Championship yesterday at the Ministry of Education boardroom, Main Street.

EAST LONDON, CMC – West Indies start another “new era” in One-day Internationals when Shai Hope leads them into battle for the first time against hosts South Africa today at Buffalo Park.

Half centuries from Kevin Sinclair, Leon Johnson and Anthony Bramble propelled Guyana Harpy Eagles to 324 all out in 86.3 overs on the first day of their third-round clash against Trinidad and Tobago Red Force yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Shane Dowrich defied a destructive spell from fellow West Indies Test discard Rahkeem Cornwall and collected his eighth first-class hundred to rescue defending champions Barbados Pride in the West Indies Championship yesterday in Trinidad.

The Select XI yesterday won their second match in the Guyana Cricket Board’s Inter-County U15 tournament while Berbice gained their first win as round two of the tournament continued yesterday at Enmore and the Everest Cricket Club venues.

With just a few more days to go before the Rawle Toney 3×3 Classic tips off, Ballin4Peace, a US-based team, is hoping to leave the Land of Many Waters with all of the accolades and prizes up for grabs in the tournament’s third edition.

The NBA suspended Memphis Grizzlies star guard Ja Morant for three more games without pay, citing conduct detrimental to the league.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – In an attempt to energise the flagging fortunes of its marquee men’s team, Cricket West Indies announced yesterday that it will adopt the modern international trend of appointing separate coaches for the side’s red-ball and white-ball teams.