Sports

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday announced two changes to the Digicel Home Series 2008 itineraries.

Contrary to a report published on Sunday, the Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GA-BBFF) will not be sanctioning the Hugh Ross Classics scheduled for April 20 at the National Cultural Centre.

The cream of the country’s top cyclists are expected to face the starter in Saturday’s second annual George “Boy Blue” Cumberbatch Memorial Cycling race programme at the National Park circuit.

Western Tigers hammered a lethargic Thomas United side 5-0 while Pele stormed past University of Guyana (UG) 4-0 in the latest matches of the Banks Premium Beer Cup 16-team knockout football tournament Sunday evening at the Tucville Playfield in La Penitence.

Everest Cricket Club and Guyana National Industrial Corporation (GNIC) created upsets when the Lifetime Realty sponsored George-town Cricket Association (GCA) Under-15 50-overs cricket competition got underway on Saturday.

Floodlights XI easily defeated Trophy Stall XI by six wickets in their final practice game at the Everest Cricket Club ground Friday night before departing these shores.

At least two foreign teams are expected to take part in this year’s Inter-Market football tournament billed for later this year, organizers disclosed in an interview with Stabroek Sport at the weekend.

Blow-outs were the order of the days. In three matches of the Guyana Secondary School Basketball Association (GSSBA) league tournament played on Friday and Saturday at the National Gymnasium, each victorious team won by more than 15 points and the margin of victory for one game was over 50 points.

Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony on Friday night pledged to have the Olympic-sized swimming pool completed in less than a year’s time.

Fruta Conquerors floored Northern Rangers while Santos struggled in their 1-0 win over Black Pearl in Friday evening’s opening double header card of the Banks Premium Beer Cup 16-team knockout football tournament at Tucville playfield in La Penitence.

The Guyana Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (GABBFF) yesterday launched the Hugh Ross Classic for local bodybuilders at the Ocean View International Hotel.

Alonzo Greaves continued from where he left off on the local circuit, when he won the feature event for schoolboys and novices in the National Sports Commission (NSC) sponsored Mashramani cycle race programme around the inner circuit of the National Park yesterday.

Today’s Super Bowl event will be used to revive the sport of American football in Guyana.

While he was just barely able to open his eyes, he looked up and beheld a miniature badminton shuttlecock among the assortment of toys hanging from a musical mobile at the top of his cradle.

Four legends of West Indies cricket have been dropped from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) cricket committee and are at a loss to know why.

An unbeaten 109 from Travis Dowlin propelled the Guyana Stanford Twenty20 team to a 104-run whipping of a select XI in a specially arranged practice match yesterday at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Bourda ground yesterday.

Former Guyana captain Damodar Daesrath continued his fine form in Trinidad, with his latest efforts giving his team Rahamut’s Evergreen a massive 113-run victory.

First it was Austin ‘Jack’ Warner, on Wednesday, it was Chinese coach Cheng Jian Hua.

The number two, might turn out to be Clyde Butts’s unlucky number.

Georgetown football fans are in for a treat when the inaugural Banks Premium Beer 16-team knockout tournament gets cracking with a feature double header card at Tucville ground in La Penitence this evening.