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DELHI, India,  CMC – Kieron Pollard’s enterprising batting for Trinidad & Tobago has earned him a place in the All Star XI of the Champions League Twenty20.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Ramnaresh Sarwan is looking forward to taking to the field of play again.

By Kizan Brumell The third annual Fruta Conquerors Football Club organized Namilco Football Festival was officially launched in the boardroom of the National Milling Company (NAMILCO) yesterday and will kick off with a double header at the Tucville playfield on Friday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Holders Barcelona suffered a  stunning 2-1 home defeat by Russia’s Rubin Kazan while Liverpool  lost by the same score to Olympique Lyon at Anfield on a night  of high drama and late goals in the Champions League yesterday.  

BERLIN, (Reuters) – WBC heavyweight champion Vitali  Klitschko will go up against American Kevin Johnson in Berne,  Switzerland on Dec.

MELBOURNE, Australia,  CMC – Brian Lara expects West Indies to be swept, when they visit Australia later this year for three Tests against the former World No.1 side.

Mel Sankies was returned as President of Lusignan Golf Club at its Annual General Meeting held recently at the Club House at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.

QUITO, Ecuador,  CMC – Barbadian squash players struggled at the 2009 Pan American Championship this past weekend and Karen Meakins was their only player escaping first-round elimination.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, CMC – Former world-rated Guyanese boxer Andre Purlett returns to the ring from almost 19 months of inactivity this weekend when he faces American Harold Sconiers in a non-title bout.

The Mackenzie High School (MHS) kept its banner flying high at this year’s Linden Inter-Secondary and Inter-Primary School championships which ended on Friday.

Local rugby players are due to undergo four days of rigorous training under the direction of Technical Director and West Indies Captain Joe Whipple as they gear-up for the Caribbean championships in Mexico next month.

The Ansa McAl sponsored 2009 Mackeson East Coast Demerara Premier League Football Tournament continues today at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground, Bourda with a double header.

-GTI’s Triston Joseph cops sprint double at North Georgetown’s Inter-Schools track and field meet Marlon Munroe National youth sprint champion Triston Joseph enhanced his growing reputation by comfortably capturing the sprint double yesterday to set the tone for Friday’s inter-zone championships and next month’s national championships during the  North Georgetown (District 11) inter-school track event at Camp Ayanganna ground.

DELHI, India,  CMC – Cape Cobras collapsed to a 30-run loss to Delhi Daredevils  yesterday but still finished second in League B and will now clash with red hot Trinidad & Tobago in the second semi-final of the Twenty20 Champions League on Thursday.

Kingston, Jamaica: In front of an enthusiastic crowd of over 10,000 fans at the Kaiser Sports Ground in St.

-says Akeem Kanhai By Rawle Toney in Suriname Akeem Kanhai could have been living ‘the dream’ of taking his country to victory in his first outing as national youth captain.

KARACHI, (Reuters) – Pakistan captain Younus Khan  withdrew his resignation yesterday after the Pakistan Cricket  Board (PCB) said they wanted him to continue leading the  national side at least until 2011.  

Alpha United continues unbeaten march The marauding Alpha “the Hammer” United football team  received a scare from Rosignol United but continued its unbeaten march while the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) humbled Linden’s Bakewell Topp XX in two important matches of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Super League played Sunday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Two defeats in three league  matches have cut short Carlo Ancelotti’s honeymoon period as  Chelsea coach but his concerns pale into insignificance  alongside those of Atletico Madrid counterpart Abel Resino.  

-Daren and Sherwin Ganga have wanted to visit the land of their ancestors for years, and now they finally have, as a family (Cricinfo)  “Amitabh Bachchan, Jeetendra, Dharmendra, Shashi Kapoor…“ Daren Ganga reels off the names, in that lovely Trinidad accent, of actors from Indian movies he and his family used to watch every Sunday afternoon when he was young.