PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Former World Champion sprinter Lauryn Williams, of the USA, has urged Trinidad and Tobago’s juniors to be disciplined and focussed in their pursuit of track and field excellence.
(Daily Telegraph Australia) Australia captain Ricky Ponting will this week tell his players to clean up their act, admitting they “overstepped the mark” and were “embarrassed” by their antics in the WACA Test.
-Australia media heap plaudits on West Indies captain Chris Gayle arrived in Australia in November, his suitability to be reinstated as captain of a West Indies team recently racked, almost wrecked, by a players’ strike in which he was to the forefront, widely questioned.
MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Guyana’s squash ace Nicolette Fernandes has mixed feelings about her comeback year from a career-threatening knee injury.
CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – England survived a batting collapse to draw the first test against South Africa at Centurion yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Left-handed opening batsman Omar Phillips, who made his West Indies debut earlier this year, smashed a fine hundred as UWI secured the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) Division One title on Saturday.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – France-based Caribbean champions Dexter St Louis and Rheann Chung took different paths but emerged individual champions for Trinidad and Tobago at the Reliability Maintenance Services Limited (RMSL) Super Singles table tennis tournament on Saturday.
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey, (Reuters) – Kobe Bryant scored 29 points and had 10 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers came from behind to register a 103-84 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Saturday.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, (Reuters) – Kelly Pavlik stopped challenger Miguel Espino in the fifth round to retain his WBC and WBO middleweight titles in front of a hometown crowd in Youngstown, Ohio late on Saturday.
“He was everything you would want in a person.” That’s how one of his friends remember the late Colin Wiltshire, 74, who passed away at a hospital in Trinidad Friday night of pneumonia.
Perth, Australia: The West Indies are on the verge of losing the third Test at the WACA in Perth and thus losing the series 2-0 but the script is not nearly as depressing as those facts might convey.
—-says Tony CozierAnyone who has followed Sulieman Benn’s career, not least those who play against him in Barbados club cricket know that the beanpole left-arm spinner is no saint.
By Marlon Munroe On a cold Enmore night, Sunburst Camptown and Riddim Squad in their debut Kashif and Shanghai tournament, sizzled in scoring emphatic victories over East Coast teams Ann’s Grove and Buxton United respectively.
The local Lady Jaguars last evening scored a 2-1 win over archrivals Suriname at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden to finish second in the Guyana Football Federation (GFFF) International Women’s Goodwill tournament.
The travelling extravaganza known as the 20th Kashif and Shanghai Football tournament will head to the ancient county of Berbice today with two hometown teams on show at the Blairmont Community Center Ground.
Chief Executive Officer of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Ernest Hilaire will be the guest speaker at the annual awards ceremony of the Guyana Cricket Board later this month.
The national cricketers will take a break for the Christmas holidays on Wednesday afternoon following the conclusion of the first three day practice match organized by the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB).
Cozier on Sunday You can usually get a pretty fair inkling of the way a sporting team is faring from its demeanour in its off duty time, away from the stresses of the battles, on the field and off it.
PERTH, Australia, CMC – Shane Watson’s screaming celebration of Chris Gayle’s wicket yesterday has earned the all-rounder a fine of 15 per cent of his match fee in the current third Test match between West Indies and Australia.
CENTURION, South Africa, (Reuters) – A fine century by Hashim Amla put South Africa in control of the first test against England at the close on the fourth day yesterday.
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