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TAUNTON, England, CMC – Stafanie Taylor carried her bat for an unbeaten 58 from 56 balls, but West Indies Women lost, when New Zealand Women romped to a 52-run victory in the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Championship yesterday.

Overseas-based Guyanese Charles ‘Wheels’ Henry in collaboration with the Flying Aces Cycling club of New Amsterdam, former Mayor Errol Alphonso and the Guinness Bar of Main and Lad Lane Streets, New Amsterdam has organised a 40-mile cycle road in Berbice today.

The first ever seminar for practicing Public Relations Officers (PROs) of the various sporting organizations, organized by the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) in collaboration with the Reds Perreira Sports Foundation held at the Guyana Olympic House yesterday was rated a success owing to the fact that it attracted ninety five percent (95%) of the invited PROs.

ORLANDO, Florida, (Reuters) – The Orlando Magic will  perform a quick vanishing act from the NBA Finals if they do not  believe they can still win the title, coach Stan Van Gundy said  Saturday.

LONDON, England, CMC – Dwayne Bravo delivered a superb match-winning performance and engineered a stylish seven-wicket win for West Indies over defending champions in their ICC World Twenty20 Championship match yesterday at Lord’s.

-GFFPresident of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Colin Klass and national coach Paul James believe that disgruntled former members of the Golden Jaguars still stand a chance of coming back and representing their country.

-Magic Superman succumbs  to free throw kryptonite  ORLANDO, Florida, (Reuters) – Dwight Howard is  known to Orlando Magic fans as “Superman”, but on Thursday the  All-Star centre was undone by his own personal kryptonite —  free throws.

The match-up between the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GT&T) sponsored North Ruimveldt and the Giftland Office Max All-Star team is certainly the talk of the town and tonight, the two teams will put those words to the test when they clash in an All-Star game dubbed ‘The settlement of all confrontations.’

LONDON, CMC – Sri Lanka bowled purposefully to secure a remarkable 19-run victory over Pakistan in their Group-F match of the Super Eights in the ICC World Twenty20 Championship yesterday.

Former coach of the Golden Jaguars team Wayne `Wiggy’ Dover says he is relishing working in his new professional environment.

HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – The Bermuda Track and Field Association (BTFA) has named an eight-member team for the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Age Group Track and Field championship in The Bahamas next week.

TORONTO, Canada, CMC – American track and field great Michael Johnson has embraced Jamaican sprint marvel Usain Bolt as deserving of the prestigious Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award he landed on Wednesday.

-Lakers on the brink of 15th title as Orlando sinks to gut-wrenching loss ORLANDO, Florida, (Reuters) – The Los Angeles Lakers moved to the brink of their 15th NBA Championship on Thursday, capitalising on the long-range shooting of Derek Fisher to defeat the Orlando Magic 99-91 in overtime.

By Tiadi Blair Third Dan black belt Ganesh Babulall and green belt Victor Burnett copped a total of five awards at the Karate Champion-of-Champions tournament in Trinidad and Tobago last weekend.

By Tiadi Blair Winners of the Grove Inter-block programme yesterday received an undisclosed amount of money following their performance at the final match between North and South Grove with a presentation from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

Veteran race walker Maurice Fagundes and his son Jonathan copped the top two positions in the Cavaliers Sports and  Tour Club (CSTC) organized New Building Society (NBS) race-walk in the National Park last Sunday.

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s international golfer Stephen Ames who shot a second-round even-par 70 yesterday missed the cut at the St Jude Classic.

TAUNTON, England, CMC – Their batting, led by opener Stafanie Taylor, set them up before their bowling helped West Indies Women launch the inaugural ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Championship in exciting fashion with a four-run victory over South Africa Women yesterday.

LONDON, England, CMC – West Indies are set to enter the ICC World Twenty20 Super Eights with their big-hitting captain Chris Gayle and full of confidence when they face India at Lord’s this evening.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Manchester United have accepted a world record bid of 80 million pounds ($131.7 million) from Real Madrid for Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo, the English champions said yesterday.