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Canadian High Commissioner Francois Montour showed great application to the tough conditions at the Lusignan Golf Course over the weekend when he won the RRT Enterprises  Golf Tournament.

DETROIT, (Reuters) – The National Basketball  Association could not sit idly by while the New Orleans  Hornets’ losses mounted and risk a fire sale that would weigh  on the values of all its teams.

MILWAUKEE, (Reuters) – The Miami Heat are starting   to look more like the elite team many envisioned in the   off-season as they defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 88-78 on   Monday for their fifth straight win.

PARIS, (Reuters) – France players involved in this  year’s World Cup farce should get lifetime bans, UEFA president  Michel Platini said yesterday.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former heavyweight champion  Mike Tyson and three-division winner Julio Cesar Chavez of  Mexico were named yesterday to the International Boxing Hall of  Fame.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Captain Andrew Strauss said   England would savour their win over Australia yesterday but   the reverse in the corresponding Ashes four years ago had   taught them not to take anything for granted in the rest of   the series.

BANGALORE, (Reuters) – Yusuf Pathan’s maiden one-day  international century lifted India to a five-wicket victory over  New Zealand as runs flowed in the fourth match of the series yesterday.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Organisers of this year’s New  Delhi Commonwealth Games were accused yesterday of owing  companies millions of dollars and blocking equipment used for  the opening and closing ceremonies from leaving India.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The Renault Formula One team  apologised unreservedly to triple world champion Nelson Piquet  and his son yesterday and agreed to pay them substantial  damages for libel resulting from 2009 race-fixing allegations.

Chelsea Edghill ended  with a whopping eight of the titles when the junior division of the Vitamalt National Table Tennis Championships concluded on Sunday night at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique, CMC – Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz kept their nerve in a nerve-wracking penalty shoot-out to beat Guadeloupe 5-4 on penalties and retain the coveted Digicel Caribbean Cup here Sunday night.

A newly-formed committee which is to seek better conditions for athletes from hinterland communities, as well as other aspects of youth development, held its second meeting on Saturday and several issues concerning the treatment of indigenous athletes at the recent National Schools Championships were discussed.

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport’s Inter-Block Football Tournament for Grove and Timehri ended last week and organisers of the sub-associations are calling on the business community for support.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – England won the second Ashes test by an innings and 71 runs to take a 1-0 lead in the   five-match series after dismissing Australia’s last six   batsmen for 66 runs in the first session of the final day last night.

PARIS, (Reuters) – FIFA is not considering reforms of  the voting system for choosing World Cup hosts despite the  controversy which surrounded the decision on the 2018 and 2022  tournaments, general secretary Jerome Valcke said yesterday.

ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – England fast bowler Stuart   Broad was “devastated” after being ruled out yesterday of the   rest of the Ashes series against Australia with a torn   abdominal muscle.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – International Olympic Committee  (IOC) president Jacques Rogge hopes the new U.S.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak and  paceman Shafiul Islam grabbed four wickets each yesterday to  give Bangladesh a 65-run win over Zimbabwe in the third one-day  international and a 2-1 lead in the five-match series.

MANCHESTER, England,  (Reuters) – Manchester United are  running out of optimism that midfielder Owen Hargreaves will  ever fulfil the potential he showed before two years of injury  misery.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Mark Webber raced the  last four grands prix of the Formula One season with a broken   shoulder after falling off a mountain bike in Australia in  October, his partner said yesterday.