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DALLAS,  (Reuters) – Dallas Mavericks mercurial owner  Mark Cuban threatened a player clearout and accused the team of  a lack of effort after defeat to the lowly Oklahoma City  Thunder.

A Man-of-the-Match performance from all rounder Ravindra Dasrat guided Berbice to an eight-wicket victory over Essequibo at the Anna Regina Community Centre ground, yesterday in the Guyana Cricket Board/Castrol-sponsored U-15 tournament.

LAHORE, (Reuters) – Driver Zafar Khan was with the New Zealand cricket team in 2002 when a suicide bomber struck  outside their hotel in Karachi.

CALI, Colombia,  (Reuters) – Colombian soccer  champions America de Cali are first to admit cocaine dollars  had a hand in their sporting heyday.

ORLANDO, Florida,  (Reuters) – The Orlando Magic  rallied for a 111-99 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday,  the home team winning a game highlighted by a physical tussle  between Dwight Howard and former favourite son Shaquille O’Neal.

Richmond Hill and Eastern Leguan Primary Schools are the winners of the Leguan Island Mashramani eight-a-side Windball cricket competition.

Local golfers will be in action on Saturday in the General Equipment Medal Play tournament billed for the Lusignan Golf course.

Smallbore captain of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) Dale Hing won last Sunday’s first Practical Pistol competition organized by the section for 2009 at the Timehri Ranges.

By Rawle Toney It seems as though the Dyna’s Ravens will soon be fighting the battle of their lives when they face the Amelia’s Ward Ballers on the opening night of this year’s Next Level Entertainment (NLE) tournament which bounces off tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

National fullbore captain Mahendra Persaud fired his way to victory in last Sunday’s Record Shoot over 300, 500 and 600 yards as the 2009 rifle shooting season commenced at the Timehri Rifle Ranges.

Led by a fine all-round performance from Vijay Surujpaul, Essequibo sent Berbice crashing to an upset defeat as the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Castrol-sponsored under-15 Inter-county tournament continued at the Anna Regina ground yesterday.

Several local hockey players are fine tuning preparations to compete in an International Indoor tournament next weekend in the United States, president of the Guyana Hockey Board, Philip Fernandes confirmed yesterday.

The Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) has dispatched a message congratulating Ramnaresh Sarwan for his magnificent double century in the just-concluded fourth Digicel test match against England which ended in a draw.

Trenace Lowe staged a fantastic run in this year’s National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Mashramani table tennis tournament, demolishing her opponents in the junior categories and turning in equally impressive performances against her more senior counterparts.

By Rawle Toney Following Guyana’s recent bid to host the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Seniors Championship, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) has until March 9 to send a letter of commitment to the CBC.

By Rawle Toney The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport on Monday bounced off the Linden leg of this year’s Mashramani Inter-Schools basketball competition at the Mackenzie hard-court.

-Jets and Royals continue to dominate By Rawle Toney Amelia’s Ward Jets and Victory Valley Royals continued their dominance of the Pioneer Construction-sponsored Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA) senior club championships last weekend at the Mackenzie Sports Club hard-court.

The last of the quarter-finals was decided on Sunday when BK International Western Tigers and Sunburst Camptown recorded victories in the annual Mayor’s Cup Knockout Competition powered by Digicel at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

By Rawle Toney With just two more days before the start of the country’s biggest basketball tournament, one of the powerhouse teams from Linden is  not bragging and boasting but are simply saying they will be very competitive.

By Tony Cozier At KENSINGTON OVAL As England batted through the last day of the fourth Test for the predictable draw yesterday, the West Indies would have, should have, brooded over one of cricket’s most relevant maxims.