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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida,  (Reuters) – Tiger Woods’s  woes continued yesterday when he pulled out of the Players  Championship after completing six holes of his final round,  citing a painful neck.

OSAKA, Japan, CMC – Double Olympic gold medalist Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown dismissed a challenge from Japanese sprint queen Chisato Fukushima to win the 100 metres at the Osaka Grand Prix on Saturday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Chelsea secured the Premier League  title in magnificent fashion by destroying 10-man Wigan Athletic  8-0 in a party atmosphere at Stamford Bridge yesterday.

Defending champions Alpha United remained unbeaten in the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) Super League competition following a 3-0 victory over Bakewell Topp XX in the lone encounter of a scheduled doubleheader on Friday.

– World Champion Shondell Alfred raps with Tamica Garnett on the joys of motherhood and boxing even as she prepares for her rematch with Corinne Van Ryck De Groot While most persons see the tough side of female boxer Shondell Alfred when she battles in the ring beneath that tough exterior lies a caring heart.

By Floyd Christie The Pepsi Hornets Rugby Club dominated the day’s events yesterday as the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) league got on its way at the National Park.

By Tamica Garnett Not many of Guyana’s sporting associations know with certainty their strategies for next year, but the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA) can boast of a well-laid plan for not only the upcoming year but for the next five years.

National opening batsman Rajindra Chandrika continued his impressive form in Trinidad striking 88 for Cosmos in their South Zone Senior division match against Clarke Rochard recently.

BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – England all but ensured  progress to the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup when they  beat South Africa by 39 runs in sparkling style at Kensington  Oval yesterday.

BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – New Zealand won a thrilling  last ball battle with defending champions Pakistan in the  Twenty20 World Cup yesterday, edging the dramatic Super Eight  contest by a single run.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – India resoundingly thumped Pakistan by nine wickets yesterday to keep alive their hopes of reaching the semi-finals of the Women’s World Twenty20 Championship.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, CMC – Fast bowler Nelon Pascal and off-spinner Shane Shillingford produced devastating spells to undermine Bangladesh A and fire West Indies A to their second straight win in the Tri Nation Limited Overs series yesterday.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – LeBron James shook off a painful elbow strain to score 38 points and lift the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 124-95 road win over Boston on Friday, the Celtics worst ever home loss in the playoffs.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts,  CMC – New Zealand charged into the semi-finals of the Women’s World Twenty20 Championship yesterday when they whipped Sri Lanka with ease at Warner Park here.

BRIDGETOWN, (Reuters) – England batsman Kevin  Pietersen is flying home from the Twenty20 World Cup to be with  his wife for the birth of their first child and is planning to  jet back to the Caribbean in time for the semi-finals.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Awful fielding, terrible bowling, and disastrous batting epitomised a 57-run defeat for West Indies at the hands of Sri Lanka in the Twenty20 World Cup yesterday.

Some of the best basketball players out of Georgetown and Linden will go head to head when Albouystown-Charlestown clash with Central Mackenzie in the finals of the Mackeson National Super Ward Basketball Championship, which begin tonight at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

– Toolsie Persaud assists The Enmore Athletics Club has formed an alliance with the Birth Athletic Club of Trinidad & Tobago for local sprint ace Kenneth Semple to spend a two-month training stint there.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) named a 24-man training squad yesterday for the upcoming regional under-19 tournament in St Vincent and the Grenadines in late July.

With both finals going down to the wire, the Hikers men and National ladies managed to secure success when Guyana Hockey Board (GHB) opened its 2010 season with a warm-up one-day tournament at Thirst Park on Sunday last.