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– in USL Second Division National forward Randolph ‘Black Head’ Jerome is once again in the spotlight as he helped his side, the Pittsburg Riverhounds end their three games drought netting once in their 3-1 win over the Wilmington Hammerheads in the United States second division Soccer League.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Reuters) – LeBron James insists the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Eastern Conference finals defeat has not affected his commitment to the team but the league MVP stopped short of revealing his long-term plans.

Floodlights XI proved too bright for the GCC team when they competed last Friday in the DDL Ivanoff Vodka sponsored softball match.

The spectators in the mining town of Linden were left calling for ‘Moore’ after witnessing Guyana’s WBC Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) and NABA bantamweight champion Leon ‘Hurry-up’ Moore, put on a tactical display of boxing to beat Mark Murray with a third round TKO when Holland’s Entertainment staged their Foreign Invasion 2 card at the McKenzie Sports Club ground on Saturday.

By Donald Duff in Nassau, Bahamas The venue was the Conference Room of the Atlantis Hotel, with a total of 7000 rooms, the biggest and most unique hotel in the Caribbean.

-President Brazilian Football Confederation President of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) Ricardo Terra Teixeira said yesterday that hosting the World Cup competition in 2014 will be a tall order and that his country would have to pass several tests along the way.

Chris Gayle and his West Indies team are confident of winning the International Cricket Council’s World Twenty20 2009 and they will be going all out to achieve this goal.

Smith, Simmons, Van Lange, Roberts shatter recordsNoelle Smith, Soroya Simmons, Britany Van Lange and Nial Roberts continued their record-breaking pace on the final day of the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA), Independence swim meet which was held at the Castellani swimming pool.

Guyana’s senior national team (Golden Jaguars) leaves today for Suriname, where they will compete in the biennial Parbo Bier Cup against the host, French Guiana and Antigua.

Anthony claims best boxer awardAtwell defeats all odds Port Kaituma’s Mark Anthony walked away with the title of best boxer after remaining undefeated at the conclusion of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association’s (GABA) National Intermediate Box Off at the National Gymnasium.

-Guyana’s Mahendra Nagamootoo also shines with the ball PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Exciting young left-hander Darren Bravo smashed a superb unbeaten hundred to give Queen’s Park CC control against Moosai Sports in their Trinidad and Tobago Premier Division match on Saturday.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Off-spinner Ryan Austin, who picked up the Courtney Walsh as the top bowler in the recent WICB Regional first-class season, snared a five-wicket haul for UWI against Bristol in the Barbados Division One on Saturday.

PARIS (Reuters) – Roland Garros witnessed one of its biggest upsets ever on Sunday when four-times champion Rafael Nadal was brought to his knees in a 6-2 6-7 6-4 7-6 defeat by Sweden’s Robin Soderling in the fourth round.

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – The Orlando Magic crushed the Cleveland Cavaliers 103-90 on Saturday to claim the Eastern Conference championship and set up an NBA Finals showdown with the Los Angeles Lakers.

KARACHI, Pakistan, CMC – Pakistan’s captain Younis Khan has listed West Indies among the most potent teams in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament starting this coming weekend in England.

Richardson’s five drowns Pele Five fiery goals from Thomas United’s Leon Richardson scorched the opposition when another round of matches in the Georgetown Football Association’s (GFA) Courts Pee Wee Under-11 Competition were contested at the Banks DIH Ground, Thirst Park yesterday.

Collins holds slim lead over Gafoor heading into final day Defending champion Fred Collins has moved into first place heading into the final day of the Guyana Association of Scrabble players (GASP) National Championships after finishing yesterday with 13 games and amassing a spread of 1777.

NEW YORK, United States, CMC – Track and field’s world governing body, the IAAF, say they are willing to consider altering the athletics schedule at the London Olympics to enable sprint phenomenon Usain Bolt to chase three individual gold medals.

Led by an unbeaten century from Derick Ramoutar, Floodlights XI defeated the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) on home turf on Friday when the two sides collided in the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Ivanoff Vodka sponsored softball match.

PARIS (Reuters) – Serena Williams accused her  Spanish opponent of cheating on a controversial point in a 4-6  6-3 6-4 third round defeat of Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez at the  French Open yesterday.