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KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Marlon Samuels is eyeing a return to West Indies colours once he finishes a two-year ban for links to an Indian bookie.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Joel Garner clean-bowled critics of West Indies cricket with a verbal salvo equivalent to his specialty toe-crushing yorker for which he became famous as part of the feared West Indies fast bowling arsenal of the 1970s and 1980s.

ADELAIDE, Australia,  CMC – Michael Slater urged the current West Indies side to stop trying to live-up to the ghosts of West Indies past and forge a new legacy for themselves.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Brian Lara has delivered a stinging rebuke of the current structure of West Indies cricket.

No one is more painfully aware of the rapid disintegration of West Indies cricket than West Indians themselves.

ADELAIDE, Australia,  CMC – John Buchanan has urged the sport’s World governing body to make West Indies cricket a charity case.

– two weeks and still no word from gov’t By Rawle Toney It’s over two weeks since Guyana’s victorious and heroic men and women’s  rugby teams returned from Mexico where they both retained their North American & Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) Sevens Title but  the Government of Guyana, more so the Ministry of Sport, has not yet even offered congratulations.

The stage is set for the start of the sixth Annual Diamond mineral Water International Indoor Hockey Festival tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) and Hikers veterans to square off in the curtain raiser at 15:00 hours.

The Kashif and Shanghai Organisation is continuing to receive financial support from one of its oldest sponsors Banks DIH Limited.

Fitness Paradise Gym after an absence of over three years has returned and this time, it was promised that they are here to stay and to shape the new you.

ADELAIDE, Australia,  CMC – Joel Garner plans to ask the West Indies Cricket Board to review the way West Indies teams are prepared for international tours.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Disgraced Olympic sprinter  Marion Jones is hoping to make a sporting comeback in women’s  professional basketball, the New York Times reported on Monday.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Tim Nielsen believes West Indies can bounce back in the second Test against Australia, starting on Friday at Adelaide Oval.

ADELAIDE, Australia, CMC – Australian media continued to wage their psychological war with West Indies, when a former national captain called for the Caribbean side to be barred from playing Test matches.

ORLANDO, Fla., (Reuters) – Tiger Woods, the world’s top golfer, was slapped with a traffic ticket for careless  driving yesterday, four days after driving his Cadillac SUV  into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – An unbeaten 61 from Gordon Greenidge was trumped by Graeme Hick’s 77 not out which helped England upset West Indies by seven wickets in the International Masters Cup Twenty20 competition on Monday.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – FIFA dashed any lingering Irish hopes of playing in next year’s World Cup finals  yesterday by declaring it would be impossible to add a 33rd team to the tournament.

MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India will reach the top of the ICC Test rankings for the first time if they win the third and final Test against Sri Lanka starting today.

DALLAS, (Reuters) – Jason Terry sank a 17-foot jump  shot with a second remaining to lift the Dallas Mavericks to a  104-102 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn could miss the fifth and final One-dayer against England on Friday due to a hamstring injury.