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A very eventful and exciting second stage of the Digicel Kick Start football Clinic was successfully wrapped up in Haiti last Monday, with local players fiercely going after the six coveted spots to Sunderland AFC’s Academy of Lights.

Leon Cort, a footballer of Guyanese parentage, who plays for Crystal Palace has been signed by Stoke City for a record 1.2m pounds (US$2.4m) Sky Sports website reported yesterday.

Regional long distance sensation Alika Morgan and training partner Janella Jonas, stole the top two spots at the Fatum Wisselbeker Bigi Broki Waka 10 Km last week in Suriname.

Compliments of GT&T, P&P Insurance Brokers, Lifetime Real Estate, Camille’s Enterprise, Trophy Stall, RHTY&SC and Demerara Power Company Barbados romped to their second consecutive outright win in the 2008 regional Carib Beer Series competition by inflicting an innings and 57 runs defeet over Guyana at the Kensington Oval, Barbados, yesterday.

The year 2007 was a challenging one for swimming, but there were also some positive developments, according to the Guyana Amateur Swimming Association (GASA).

Guyana were battling to avoid a second successive defeat in their second round match against Barbados at the Kensington Oval yesterday.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars scored a 1-0 revenge win over St. Vincent and the Grenadines Vincy Heat in their friendly international football match played at the Blarimont ground, West Berbice yesterday.

The venue was the Waterchris Hotel on Wellington Street and the atmosphere was supposed to be jolly as befitting an awards presentation of the long-running and successful football tournament run by the Kashif and Shanghai organization.

Although still beset by general inconsistency and the technical deficiency of their batsmen, the West Indies emerged from their third series in South Africa stronger than when it began.

Like any good doctor, Colin Klass, president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) on Friday attempted to give an ailing football nation a surgery that would make the patient well enough to play in the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.

Guyana’s Golden Jaguars will square off with St. Vincent and the Grenadines Vincy Heat in a friendly international today at Blairmont ground starting at 15:00h as both countries step up preparations for their 2010 World Cup campaign.

ANOTHER heavy loss, another dream, so real only a week earlier, shattered.

Compliments of GT&T, P&P Insurance Brokers, Trophy Stall, Camille’s Enterprise, Demerara Power Company, RHTY&SC, Travel Span and Lifetime Real Estate Barbados maintained their dominance over Guyana at the end of the second day of their second round clash in their 2008 Regional Carib Beer cricket match at the Kensington Oval ground yesterday.

The Guyana Horse Racing Authority will hold its Annual General Meeting today beginning at 10am at the Rising Sun Turf Club.

Ehsan Mani, one-time president of the International Cricket Council (ICC), has been retained by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) as part of its team to consider bids for audio-visual rights to West Indies cricket outside of Britain for the period 2008 – 2010.

Brenton Parchment’s Test debut was twice spoiled yesterday. The West Indies opening batsman, whose contributions were 11 and 20, set out with the team’s defeat by an innings and 100 runs in the third Test and with a fine of 50 per cent of his match fee for intentionally running into South Africa’s fast bowler Dale Steyn during his second innings on the second afternoon.

Colin Klass has a plan for Guyana’s Golden Jaguars, as the national footballers are known, in order for them to reach the finals of the 2010 World Cup football tournament in South Africa.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) World Cup Committee yesterday called for the support of Guyanese everywhere as they attempt to have the national team realize the dream of reaching the 2010 World Cup final.

Barbados were in total control at the end of day one of their second round 2008 Carib Beer Regional four-day match against Guyana at the Kensington Oval yesterday thanks mainly to Ryan Hinds’s 4-14 that helped rout Guyana for 185 to which they were 58-2 in reply at the close.

After their small, but significant, steps forward in the first two matches, the West Indies continued to take giant strides back towards their recent inglorious past on the second day of the third Test at Kingsmead yesterday.