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ONTARIO, Canada, CMC – Jamaican world record holder Usain Bolt easily won the men’s 100 metres at the Festival of Excellence track and field meeting last night.

By Tiadi Blair The Guyana Lawn Tennis Association, yesterday said it was unaware of the selection of six lawn tennis players for the inaugural Caribbean Games billed for Trinidad and Tobago next month.

‘Fantasy Nails’ scrabble competition ‘Fantasy Nails’ scrabble competition New champ Abigail: I’m definitely not overconfident By Tiadi Blair New scrabble champion Abigail McDonald says she is geared up for this Sunday’s ‘Fantasy Nails’ scrabble competition as she currently has two liens on the trophy.

  Wind Jammers International Hotel has come on board to support former national point guard Lugard Mohan and Aubrey Young on their venture to the Colorado Springs, USA where they will be taking part in a FIBA referees certification course from June 19-22.

Neil Reece rode away with the Flying Ace Cycle Club of Berbice, George Watts’s 40 mile Memorial road race on Sunday last.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Aaron Redmond scored 63 from 30 balls to earn the Man-of-the-Match award, and set New Zealand up for a commanding 83-run victory over Ireland as the Super Eight stage of the ICC World Twenty20 Championship opened yesterday.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Jacques Kallis stroked his first T20 fifty and guided efficient South Africa to an easy seven-wicket victory over England in their ICC World Twenty20 Super 8 match yesterday.

J O H A N N E S B U R G, (Reuters) – Africa waited decades to host its first soccer World Cup and when it comes, it’s during an unprecedented global economic crisis.

  The Victory Royals and Wismar Pistons are the latest teams to record victories when second round action in the Pioneer Construction-sponsored Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) first-division tournament continued at the Mackenzie Sports Club hardcourt.

ROME, (Reuters) – Turning tennis courts into swimming pools is the least of Rome’s worries ahead of the World Aquatics Championships next month.

The Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC)  ground  will come alive this evening under floodlights as Floodlight XI and Yellow Mines Hydraulics XI battle head to head in a 25 overs softball match-up from 6:30pm.

– Kayode Mc Kinnon Former national midfield player Kayode McKinnon says he is disillusioned with the Golden Jaguars’ recent outing in Suriname where they competed in the 2009 Parbo Bier Cup tournament.

By Tiadi Blair Manager of Leon “Hurry Up” Moore Carwyn Holland is calling on the private sector and the government to lend a hand in supporting amateur and professional boxing in Guyana.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) yesterday announced a 28-member contingent for the 2009 Caribbean Games and, according to GOA president, K.

Die Hard XI and El Dorado XI were the latest teams to record victories in the Essequibo zone of the Guyana Softball League (GSL) organized Trophy Stall 15-Overs Countrywide Round Hand Softball Competition at the Perseverance ground.

Organizers of the recently-concluded Georgetown Inter-Ward Basketball Tournament say that next year they are looking to make the tournament bigger by inviting some wards out of Linden and Berbice and also increasing the tournament’s first prize to $1M.

Former President of  Fruta Conquerors Football Club, Sheldon Braithwaite donated a set of football equipment and gears to the club when he paid them a visit on Tuesday at the Tucville Playfield.

The Sunburst Camptown Football Club was in a state of shock at the passing of their junior football player Royell Ramsey last Sunday following a brief illness.

LONDON, England, CMC – On the back of Zaheer Khan’s four-wicket haul and a half-century by Rohit Sharma, defending champions India predictably cruised past Ireland by eight wickets in their ICC World Twenty20 Group A match yesterday.

NOTTINGHAM, England, CMC – Sloppiness in the field undermined spirited batting and conspired to send West Indies sliding to a 15-run defeat against Sri Lanka in the final Group-C match in the ICC World Twenty20 Championship yesterday.