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Newly-elected secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Anand Sanasie visited the nearly completed Essequibo Cricket Board (ECB) hostel in Anna Regina last Saturday.

– as boxers sign contracts for S&S Promotions Heat Wave boxing extravaganza National middleweight champion Howard `The Battersea Bomber’ Eastman says he is looking forward to a rematch with William Joppy on home turf.

With the Coach of the Year award going to former Alpha United coach Wayne Dover, 2008 Senior and Junior Sportswoman,  Alika Morgan is questioning why her coach has not been recognized for his yeoman services to athletics in Guyana.

-says Chetram Singh President of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Chetram Singh says that the GCB would not be able to allow a Georgetown-representative team to play in the annual Inter-County competition.

– replaces annual relay fair President’s College, through its Physical Education Department,  will run off an eight schools basketball tournament over the next three days, starting today.

The Richard Latiff organized six-overs, seven-a-side tapeball competition  which was scheduled to start last Sunday has been pushed forward to March 8 at the National Park Tarmac, Thomas Lands, Georgetown.

A seven-a-side six-over softball knock-out competition will be played at the Cullen Beach, Essequibo Coast on February 15 with the winning team set to take home a beautiful trophy and $20, 000.

– Burnett, Pompey upstaged by Hargrove at Madison Square garden in special 600-yard event by Gary Tim New York (SMS) — For Guyanese in metro New York, it was billed as a showcase of their two foremost athletes and the first head-to-head clash for compatriots with nearly 34 years track experience.

By Eion Jardine (The first in a series of articles which looks at Guyana’s involvement in boxing at the Commonwealth level and the champions spawned as a result) The Commonwealth of Nations or the British Commonwealth comprises an association of some 53 independent sovereign states.

Noel Adonis was yesterday re-elected president of the Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) when that organization held its annual general meeting (AGM) in the annex of the Guyana Motor Racing &Sports Club (GMR&SC) building.

Good news has been in short supply of late, as much for West Indies cricket as for their nervous finance ministers, central bank governors and insurance moguls.

Former umpire Compton Vyphuis was laid to rest Friday afternoon, following a simple ceremony held at the Church of God in John Street.

Intent on continuing and completing their first and third division competitions which were started last year, the Georgetown Amateur Basketball Association (GABA) is hoping that the present weather conditions hold.

-S&S promotions plan three boxing cards which will culminate with a middleweight fight against William Joppy Lennox Allen is all set to clash with Howard Eastman for the national middleweight title of Guyana with the winner guaranteed a fight against  former World Boxing association middleweight champion William Joppy.

The National Rifle Shooting championships will now take place in March as Guyana’s shooters sharpen preparations for the West Indies Full-bore tournament in Trinidad and Tobago in the same month.

Buxton’s Nykasie Liverpool is one of Guyana’s leading assistant referees. Liverpool recently officiated at the International Football Federation (FIFA) Women’s Under-20 World Cup competition which was held in Chile from November 16-December 7 last year .

Top national cycle club, Roraima Bikers will roll off its calendar of events for 2009 with back-to-back races on February 7 and 8 at the National Park and on the East Bank Public road respectively.

The entire executive of the Guyana National Rifle Association (GNRA) was returned unopposed when that body held its annual general meeting Wednesday evening at the Bank of Guyana Roof Garden.

Defending champions Prospect Jammers will start as favourites when the inter-village knock-out basketball tournament sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport gets cracking on February 15.

An Interim Management Committee (IMC) has been set up to run the affairs of the proposed Guyana Masters Football Association following a meeting at the Georgetown Football Club’s pavilion on Sunday.