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The inaugural Super Eight Knockout football tournament which is organized by the Western Tigers Football Club was officially launched in the canteen of the club’s sponsor BK International Inc.,

Despite a hat-trick from Deon Carew, Police Hockey team dealt defending second division champions, Western Dragons, a surprising defeat Thursday night in the GT&T National Indoor Hockey Championships at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

ORLANDO, (Reuters) – The Orlando Magic began life in  their new Amway Center home with a dominating 112-83 victory  over the Washington Wizards on Thursday.

-says Ramnarine PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies Players Association (WIPA) chief, Dinanath Ramnarine has defended out-of-favour West Indies batsman Lendl Simmons against claims he arbitrarily failed to attend a scheduled meeting with chairman of selectors Clyde Butts.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Barbados coach Emmerson Trotman says he believes fast bowler Tino Best and batsman Ryan Hinds still have a role to play in West Indies cricket.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – West Indies have assembled here for a preparation camp ahead of the tour of Sri Lanka and are expected to launch their training in earnest today.

Action in the Georgetown Cricket Association’s (GCA) Carib Beer/Friends of Cricket First Division two-day tournament bowls off today with two matches at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC)  and Eve Leary grounds.

CASTRIES, St Lucia,  CMC – Windward Islands batsman Johnson Charles is eyeing a full senior West Indies team selection after being named in a West Indies A squad to play against Pakistan A in two Twenty20 fixtures in Antigua early next month.

– AAG President President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Colin Boyce, is very optimistic about  the performances of the four Guyanese athletes who will represent Guyana this afternoon in Paramaribo, Suriname in the second leg of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) South American 10km Road Race Classic.

– GCF Last Saturday’s canoeing training session at the Coverden Marina was successful and was held in an effort to promote the international sport in Guyana’s hinterland, the Guyana Canoe Federation (GCF) said yesterday in a press release.

Dear Editor When in 1975/76, I endured sleepless nights huddled by a Cathy radio, along with my father, as Australia drubbed the West Indies match after match; there was still a feeling deep within me and millions of West Indians that it was only a matter of time before West Indies would start to win.

Attorney-at-Law Dennis Paul is the new president of the Canmptown Football Club following the staging of the club’s annual general meeting on Monday.

At first glance Trinidadian Leeann Boodram’s soft features and long limbs give you the impression that she may be a model and she has been told this on more than one occasion, or even a school teacher.

The two football teams from Buxton, Bakewell Buxton Stars and Buxton United, were eliminated  from the fourth annual Namilco Football Festival by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and Sunburst Camptown respectively on Wednesday night at the Tucville Playfield.

President of the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) K Juman Yassin on Wednesday affirmed that the GOA has not received any funding from the Government of Guyana for the Commonwealth Games and the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games this year.

Students of the Green Acres Play, Nursery, and Primary School yesterday got in on some of the athletics action when the school held the track events of its annual Athletics Championships at the Carifesta Sports Complex Ground.

Guyana’s most prestigious football event, the annual Kashif and Shanghai Knockout Football Tournament,  officially entered its 21st year with the launching at Duke Lodge which was aired live yesterday.

For the third weekend in a row, softball cricketer Hakim Majeed stroked a century, but this still could not lead the Success Masters Softball Cricket team to a win last Sunday when they played in a series of the General Marine Female and Male Over-40 Softball Competition.

CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – The Cleveland Cavaliers began  the post-LeBron James era with a stunning 95-87 victory over  the heavily favoured Boston Celtics on Wednesday.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Caroline Wozniacki rolled up her  sleeves and battled back from a set down to defeat Francesca  Schiavone of Italy 3-6 6-1 6-1 at the WTA Championships yesterday, sewing up the year-end world number one ranking.