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The Mayor’s Cup Football Tournament quarter-final games are expected to kick off tomorrow at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground with a potentially exciting double-header.

Guyanese ‘Deadly’ Denny Dalton will headline the Briso Promotions card at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut, USA on May 7 against Puerto Rico’s Hector Camacho Jr for the vacant World Boxing Federation Intercontinental middleweight title.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – South Africa signalled their title challenging intent as they disposed of last tournament’s runners up Sri Lanka by five wickets in their World Twenty20 Champion-ship warm-up game at Kensington Oval yesterday.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Sir Vivian Richards Stadium will make its comeback to international cricket after the West Indies Cricket Board on Tuesday announced the venue would host matches switched from Trinidad and Tobago for next month’s South Africa tour.

-Medal to be awarded to the US DUBAI, (Reuters) China have been stripped of their women’s gymnastics team bronze medal from the Sydney 2000 Olympics after one of the athletes falsified her age, the International Olympic Committee said yesterday.

– Celtics advance, Mavs rebound, Lakers take 3-2 lead CLEVELAND,(Reuters) – The top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers advanced to the second round of the playoffs with a tightly-contested 96-94 win over the Chicago Bulls on Tuesday, but the victory was overshadowed by an injury scare to LeBron James.

ROME, (Reuters) – A ruthless Rafael Nadal demonstrated that he was primed to win back the French Open crown from Roger Federer when he whipped Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-1 6-3 in his opening match at the Rome Masters.

-Dottin shines with dazzling all-round performance MOLYNEAUX, St Kitts, CMC – Teenager Deandra Dottin produced a telling all-round performance to fire West Indies women to an exciting six-wicket win over Pakistan in the second Twenty20 International yesterday, and to an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

– Guyana’s Adam Harris shines in 200 metres DES MOINES, Iowa, CMC – Shereefa Lloyd had the best performance from among the Caribbean athletes that took part in the Drake Relays on Saturday.

New Zealand batsmen Jesse Ryder and Martin Guptill blasted speedy half centuries to help their team secure an easy 40- run win over Ireland in the first warm-up match of the ICC World Twenty20 at the Providence Stadium yesterday.

GROS ISLET, St Lucia,  CMC – Three crucial run outs off wide deliveries helped propel Zimbabwe to an exciting one-run win over Australia in their World Twenty20 Championship warm-up game at the Beausejour Cricket Ground last evening.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Bangladesh had an easy work out in effecting a 36-run victory over Barbados in their first warm-up match for the ICC World Twenty20 Championship yesterday at the Kensington Oval.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Double world champion Fernando Alonso gave a 10 million euro ($13.33 million) thumbs-up to future Formula One success with Ferrari on Monday.

NEW YORK,(Reuters) – A bus carrying the Atlanta Hawks basketball team was hit by a car on Monday following a practice in Milwaukee but no injuries were reported, a team spokesman said.

(Cricinfo) Pakistan breezed to a 68-run win over Windward Islands in the first of their warm-up games at Gros Islet.

(Cricinfo) Daniel Vettori is confident New Zealand can continue to improve after easily defeated Ireland in their first warm-up match at the ICC World Twenty20.

LONDON, (Reuters) – U.S. Masters champion Phil Mickelson is returning to the Scottish Open this year after missing the 2009 edition.

(Cricinfo) Indian captain MS Dhoni is confident that his team will be fresh and ready to compete in the ICC World Twenty20 despite the tournament starting just days after the conclusion of the IPL.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – The 28 Summer Olympic sports federations, feeling the squeeze from the global economic downturn, decided yesterday to review the way broadcast revenue from the Games are distributed.

ROME, (Reuters) Roger Federer’s 2009 claycourt season ended in a blaze of glory, capturing an elusive French Open crown on an unforgettable Paris afternoon last June.