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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The out-of-season transfer window has been kind to one Guyanese footballer, and unkind to another.

INNSWOOD, Jamaica, CMC – Defending champions Jamaica were within sight of victory over Windward Islands in the WICB regional first-class competition yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC – The Leeward Islands failed to fully capitalize on a 114-run second-wicket stand between Montcin Hodge and Runako Morton and Barbados fought back against them on the third day of their first-round WICB Regional Four-Day, first class game yesterday.

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC – Persistent rains that started early yesterday and continued throughout the day forced the abandonment of the third day’s play in the WICB regional first-class match between Trinidad & Tobago and Combined Campuses & Colleges.

CABINDA, Angola, (Reuters) – Togo’s soccer team flew  home yesterday after the deadly ambush of their team bus but the  sports minister said they hoped to return to Angola, where  Africa’s biggest sports tournament got underway.

DHAKA, (Reuters) – Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli  smashed half-centuries to guide India to an eight-wicket win  over Sri Lanka yesterday and a place in the Tri-series one-day  tournament final against the same opponents.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The New Orleans Hornets took  control in the fourth quarter to defeat the troubled Washington  Wizards 115-110 and win their sixth consecutive game yesterday.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – American Andy Roddick survived a  determined fightback from defending champion Radek Stepanek to  win the Brisbane International final yesterday.  

PERTH, Australia, CMC – Big-hitting West Indies opener Chris Gayle was missing again with injury but his Western Australia Warriors still romped to an easy 24-run victory over Victoria Bushrangers in Australia’s Twenty20 Big Bash tournament yesterday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Ramnaresh Sarwan has withdrawn from Guyana’s squad with a back injury, further depleting the side ahead of their opening match of the WICB Regional Four-Day, first class season next weekend in Antigua.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Predictably, Olympic and World sprint champions Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser were named Athletes-of-the-Year for 2009.

By Rawle Toney Acting president of the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) David Patterson believes that 2009 was a tragic year laced with unfulfilled promises for the sport.

DOHA, (Reuters) – Nikolay Davydenko saved two match  points as he made a remarkable recovery to beat Rafael Nadal 0-6  7-6 6-4 in the Qatar Open final yesterday.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas,  (Reuters) – The Dallas Mavericks  exploded for 42 points in the fourth quarter to pull away from  divisional rivals the San Antonio Spurs for a 112-103 victory  on Friday.

Says Tony Cozier It’s a strange but significant phenomenon that Test cricket chooses the time when its obituaries are being certainly prepared to confirm the values that have kept it going for 133 years.

As they would be, the West Indies Cricket Board’s top men, Julian Hunte and Ernest Hilaire, are upbeat about the regional first-class season that started on Friday in Jamaica.

INNSWOOD, Jamaica, CMC – Wavell Hinds and Donovan Pagon led solid batting from defending champions Jamaica to lead them to a healthy first innings lead over Windward Islands in the WICB Regional four-day, first-class competition yesterday.

MONTEGO B AY, Jamaica,  CMC – Career-best bowling from Kavesh Kantasingh spun the Combined Campuses & Colleges into a formidable position over Trinidad & Tobago in the WICB Regional four-day, first-class competition yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A dramatic batting collapse by Barbados handed the Leeward Islands first innings points but the encounter remained an open affair at the close of the second day of WICB Regional Four-Day first round matches yesterday.

PERTH, Australia, CMC – A troublesome side injury has kept Jamaican Chris Gayle in doubt for West Australia’s crucial clash with Victoria in today’s Twenty20 Big Bash, and has again raised queries over his fitness ahead of West Indies’ one-day tour of Australia later this month.