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A terrific night of football was unfortunately cut short due to a power failure when the second semifinal match in the Namilco Football Festival between host Fruta Conquerors and Santos ended prematurely at the Tucville Playfield on Saturday night.

– places second in South American 10k in Panama while Horatio runs wrong route Guyana’s leading distance athlete Cleveland Forde once again missed out on sweep of all three races of the annual South American 10K event when he placed second behind Columbian Jason Gurieneer in the third staging of the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF) South American Athletics Confederation 10 km Road Classic, yesterday in Panama.

ABU DHABI, (Reuters) – Germany’s Sebastian Vettel  sobbed with joy at becoming Formula One’s youngest champion and  Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso shook his fist as his title hopes  disappeared into the desert on Sunday.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods provided the  large galleries at the Victoria Golf Club something to remember  as he shot his equal-best round of the year, a six-under-par  65, at the Australian Masters yesterday.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, CMC – Darren Sammy acknowledges that West Indies face an enormous task of trying to topple Sri Lanka in their three-Test series, which begins today.

GRENVILLE, Grenada,  CMC –  West Indies-A failed in their bid for a series-levelling victory, when Aamer Sajjad and Faisal Iqbal hit half-centuries to lead Pakistan-A to a five-wicket win in the rain-affected third and final One-day match yesterday.

GALLE, Sri Lanka, CMC – Rookie West Indies off-spinner Shane Shillingford is chomping at the bit ahead of the opening Test against Sri Lanka starting here today.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – South Africa took a vice-like grip  on the first test after Morne Morkel and Johan Botha skittled  Pakistan for 248 on the third day at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium yesterday.

HYDERABAD, India, (Reuters) – Indian spinner  Harbhajan Singh continued to torment New Zealand with the bat,  hitting an unbeaten 85 to earn the hosts a first-innings lead of  86 on the third day of the second test yesterday.

ARLINGTON, Texas, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao  cemented his place in the pantheon of boxing greats by  recording an unanimous points victory over Antonio Margarito on Saturday to claim the vacant WBC super welterweight title.

ARLINGTON, Texas, (Reuters) – Manny Pacquiao’s  trainer Freddie Roach issued a challenge to Floyd Mayweather on  Saturday, saying the time had come for the undefeated American  to decide if he would face the Filipino in the ring.

SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia announce their squad  for the first Ashes test at a gala event on Sydney harbour today but England may not be closer to knowing the exact team  they are going to face at the Gabba even after the bunting is  packed away.

NEW ORLEANS, (Reuters) – The New Orleans Hornets  remained the only undefeated team in the NBA after a dominant  107-87 win over the visiting Portland Trail Blazers on  Saturday.

-Rose is new three point shooting champ; Hamid retains dunk title After losing to Linden for the past two years in the Junior All-Star game, Georgetown regained the Junior All-Star title when they defeated Linden 83-67 Friday night as the Wildfire Entertainment’s All-Star Basketball Weekend commenced at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – West Indies A will hope to take something from their three-match one-day series against Pakistan A when they clash in the final game today at the National Stadium here.

David Khan and Kriskal Persaud with two wins each, surged into the lead of the Seven Seas-sponsored Closed National Chess Championships, which began yesterday at the Ocean Spray Hotel, Kitty.

-Second to last ICC ranked team the West Indies take on  number three ranked Sri Lanka from tomorrow very much underprepared and with a new look team and a new captain to boot As the skies opened up in Colombo over the past few days, flooding streets and the outfield at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground, the West Indies cricketers would have come to fully appreciate the age-old adage that it never rains but it  pours.

Three members of  Guyana’s champion Twenty20 cricket team will take their skills to the United States of America for the biggest T20 series ever staged in the country scheduled for December 3-5 in Florida.

BK Western Tigers eight-team Football Festival has received support from beverage giants Banks DIH Limited.,

Eight matches, eight winners, eights losers. That was the story of the second night of the Guinness Greatest of de Street, Futsal competition at the East Ruimveldt Community Centre Court  Friday night.