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NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian captain Mahendra Singh  Dhoni has signed a two-year endorsement deal with a talent  management company worth 2 billion rupees ($42 million), local  media reported yesterday.

RCELONA, Spain,  (Reuters) – Spain’s Andres Iniesta  thought he was offside when he collected the ball and scored the  winning goal in the World Cup final, the midfielder said yesterday.

Guyana’s squash juniors stormed to four individual singles titles as the individual event climaxed last night in the Cayman Islands.

-Chanderpaul out, Sarwan to skipper male team Selectors of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) have named a male and a female team for the upcoming Regional Twenty/20 tournament in Barbados and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Women’s tournament in St.

By Tamica Garnett The Enmore Athletics Club has returned with a fresh batch of trophies won in various events at the recently-concluded Hampton Games in Trinidad and Tobago.

–  players geared for tourney in Barbados By Tamica Garnett After starting out with a squad of 30 players, the Guyana Netball Association (GNA) national senior team has finally determined who will be its final 12 players to compete in a commercial competition in Barbados in September.

East Coast Cricket Board (ECCB) convened its ninth cricket academy for aspiring cricketers yesterday morning at the Chetram Singh Centre of Excellence, La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara.

Disappointment was evident on the faces of several youngsters who eagerly turned up yesterday at the tennis courts of the Pegasus Hotel to begin their first day of the P & P Insurance Lawn Tennis Summer Camp, but had to contend with its  postponement after  rain flooded the courts.

– FIDE Development Committee chairman Allan Herbert By Tamica Garnett In the late 1970s Chess in Guyana flourished.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – Jermaine Blackwood dug reigning champions Jamaica out of a deep hole with the third hundred of the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge against leaders Guyana yesterday.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia, CMC – Roston Chase struck his maiden hundred in the TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge to put Barbados in a strong position against Leeward Islands yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England captain Andrew Strauss  struck a brilliant century to lead his team to a crushing  144-run victory over Bangladesh in the third one-day  international in Birmingham yesterday.

PHOENIX, (Reuters) – The Phoenix Suns restored some firepower after losing forward Amar’e Stoudemire to free agency by agreeing trades to acquire Hedo Turkoglu and Josh Childress from the Toronto Raptors and Atlanta Hawks, nba.com

BERLIN, (Reuters Life!) – Paul the oracle octopus was given a replica of the World Cup yesterday as a reward for his perfect eight-for-eight record in picking matches as bettors worldwide collected their winnings based on his selections.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Triple Olympic champion Usain  Bolt said he will not compete at next month’s Diamond League  meeting in London because of Britain’s tax laws.

MORZINE, France, (Reuters) – A day after his dreams  of an eighth Tour de France victory were all but ended, Lance  Armstrong was back on the bike for a training ride as the  peloton enjoyed a rest day yesterday.

-Thomas Mueller awarded `Golden Boot’ JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Uruguay’s Diego Forlan won  the best player of the tournament award yesterday after lighting  up the World Cup with some wonderful goals that helped his team  become South America’s only semi-finalist.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – FIFA president Sepp  Blatter admitted yesterday that he was let down by the behaviour  of the players in Sunday’s World Cup final between Netherlands  and Spain.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Spain stunned the  Netherlands to win their first World Cup yesterday in  sensational fashion with a goal in the last minutes of extra  time.

MORZINE-AVORIAZ, France, (Reuters) – Lance  Armstrong’s hopes of winning an unprecedented eighth Tour de  France were ruined yesterday when the first Alpine stage proved  too much for him to handle.