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ADELAIDE, (Reuters) – Pace bowler James Anderson   finally found his footing on Australian soil with a   spellbinding display of pace and movement to put England in   charge of the second Ashes test yesterday.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – It was not a warm homecoming  but it was a spectacular one as LeBron James scored a  season-high 38 points to lead the Miami Heat to a convincing  118-90 triumph over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Thursday.

SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Former West Indian captain   Brian Lara wants to take part in the lucrative Indian Premier   League (IPL) next year after ending his three-year retirement   from cricket recently.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Herschelle Gibbs’s  international career could be over after Cricket South Africa  (CSA) said the 36-year-old batsman’s contract had been cancelled  by mutual consent.

THOUSAND OAKS, California, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods  gave himself extra reason to smile after stretching his lead to  a commanding four shots in the second round of the Chevron  World Challenge yesterday.

SUN CITY, South Africa, (Reuters) – World number one  Lee Westwood gave a golfing masterclass to sprint three shots  clear of the field after the Sun City Challenge second round yesterday.

The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) has named an 18-man senior national Sevens rugby squad to begin training for the upcoming International Rugby Board (IRB) Sevens World Series in Las Vegas, United States on February 12 and 13 next year.

The National Under-17 football squad will depart Guyana tomorrow for the Dominican Republic to compete in the second leg of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Under-17 World Cup qualification series which takes place next week.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Roger Burden, acting chairman of  the Football Association, has withdrawn his application for the  permanent position saying he can no longer trust FIFA members  after the failure of England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.

DHAKA, (Reuters)- Bangladesh’s Abdur Razzak took a   hat-trick and shared nine wickets with fellow left-arm spinner   Shakib Al Hasan to set up a crushing six-wicket victory in the   second one-day international against Zimbabwe yesterday.

The Rose Hall Town Youth & Sports Club (RHTY&SC) continued its assistance to the development of cricket in the ancient county of Berbice with a donation of a Desktop Photocopier/Fax Machine/Phone System valued $120,000 to the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB).

Tain and Skeldon Community Centre Cricket Clubs registered comfortable victories in their respective playoff matches to ease themselves into the quarter-finals of the New Building Society (NBS) Second Division 40-Over Cricket Competition in Berbice.

After confirmation on Wednesday that  Alpha ‘The Hammer’ United will appear after all in the 21st Kashif & Shanghai tournament, the players in the proposed replacement team, Ann’s Grove Football Club are feeling disheartened, according to Club President Trevor Waterman.

ZURICH,  (Reuters) – Awarding the 2018 and 2022 World  Cups to Russia and Qatar sees FIFA continue to expand soccer’s  horizons while tapping into huge financial resources, and the  will to spend them, at a time of global economic uncertainty.

Guyana’s number one seed and defending champion, Philip Squires, lost in straight sets to Jeremy Miller in the men’s singles finals of the Pegasus Open lawn tennis tournament that was played last night at the courts of the Pegasus Hotel.

THOUSAND OAKS, California, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods  put himself in position to end a forgettable year on a  triumphant note by charging one shot clear in the Chevron World  Challenge first round yesterday.

Over two years ago as an active player, two weeks of table tennis work and a stint of weight training was all that table tennis veteran Godfrey Munroe needed to capture the title as Guyana’s table tennis men’s singles champion.

The Annual RRT Enterprises golf tournament will be played tomorrow at the Lusignan Golf Club (LGC) as the curtains draw closer to the end of the LGC’s 2010 season.

FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, CMC – A swaggering Jamaica strolled to a commanding 4-0 win over Guyana on Wednesday night, maintaining their winning run and installing themselves as overwhelming favourites to win the Digicel Caribbean Cup.

KANDY, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka grabbed two West Indies  wickets in the afternoon session before rain washed out play for  the rest of the second day in the third and final test at  Pallakele yesterday.