Coach of the Junior National Basketball team, Mark Agard is currently preparing the basketball squad that will represent Guyana at the basketball events of the upcoming Inter-Guiana Games (IGG) and he says the team is definitely ready for the November 19-21 event.
-Miami slips to defeat against Celtics in LeBron’s debut BOSTON, (Reuters) – The Boston Celtics spoiled the opening act of LeBron James’s latest quest for a NBA title by defeating the Miami Heat 88-80 on Tuesday in a highly anticipated match-up of Eastern Conference powerhouses.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers were indebted to bench players Shannon Brown and Steve Blake as they launched their NBA championship defense with a nail-biting 112-110 win over the Houston Rockets on Tuesday.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – It will take little time to get accustomed to all of the talent on the Miami Heat, LeBron James said after his side were beaten 88-80 by the Boston Celtics in their highly anticipated season-opener on Tuesday.
“It was the coming together of two champions,” according to Public Relations Officer of the Berbice Cricket Board(BCB) Hilbert Foster yesterday at the canteen of the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph (GT&T) company yesterday.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Usain Bolt has passed himself as fully fit again, and is looking forward to the challenges of the coming year.
(BBC) England’s 2018 World Cup bid team has lodged a complaint with Fifa against the head of Russia’s rival campaign over comments he made about London.
The national under-19 rugby team returned home on Monday from their stint in Trinidad and Tobago where they suffered a 18-22 points defeat at the hands of the home team in a 15’s rugby match-up last Sunday at the Queen’s Park Savannah.
ZURICH, (Reuters) – Switzerland is considering closing a loophole for sporting bodies in its anti-corruption law following allegations of bribery among FIFA officials for World Cup bids.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – West Indies Women’s all rounder Pearl Etienne has described her first stint with the team as a rewarding experience.
(Cricinfo) Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Johan Botha restricted Pakistan to 119 before Colin Ingram and JP Duminy revived the chase from a wobbly 26 for 3 with a 66-run partnership to push South Africa to victory in the first of the two Twenty20 games in Abu Dhabi.
BERLIN, (Reuters Life!) – Paul, the oracle octopus who shot to fame in the World Cup this summer for his uncanny ability to predict the results of Germany’s soccer matches, has died at his home in Oberhausen at the age of two.
DOHA, (Reuters) – Vera Zvonareva powered past a lethargic Jelena Jankovic in the opening game of the WTA Championships yesterday, keeping her hopes alive of grabbing the world number one spot from Caroline Wozniacki.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad & Tobago will be coming harder than ever next year to regain some of the prestige they have lost, following a year in which they promised much, but delivered very little.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Red Bull and the ever-cheeky Sebastian Vettel presented Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone with a walking frame, equipped with steering wheel and front wing, as an 80th birthday gift last weekend.
AUSTIN, Texas, CMC – Marion Jones has written a book that hit the stores yesterday, and in it she is contrite about the lies that sent her to prison for six months two years ago.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Organisers of the World Masters Tournament have postponed the event out of respect for the passing of late Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Russell Latapy has fortified Trinidad & Tobago’s men’s national team with the selection of four overseas-based players for the second round of the Digicel Caribbean Cup to be staged from November 2 to 6 at the Hasely Crawford Stadium here.
Kenwin Small of Carenage Blasters grabbed the first Cecil James Open Singles Tournament title on Sunday night, turning back Arima Hawks player Anson Wellington 4-1 at the Maloney Indoor Sport Arena.
NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Trent Bridge will be one of the stops on West Indies’ tour of England in two years time.
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