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(Reuters) – Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag urged fans to stay unified ahead of Monday’s Premier League clash with Liverpool as some supporters plan to protest against the club’s American owners, the Glazer family, before the game.

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s defending world champion Oleksandr Usyk and British challenger Anthony Joshua hit the scales heavier than before ahead of their heavyweight title rematch in Saudi Arabia today.

(Reuters) – Emma Raducanu will head into her U.S. Open title defence in just over a week relieved that she is swinging freely again and playing the same brand of attacking tennis that took her to a maiden Grand Slam title last year.

(Reuters) – A fit-again Deepak Chahar marked his return to India’s Twenty20 side with a match-winning spell in the first one-day international against Zimbabwe on Thursday but the 30-year-old is not taking his place in the World Cup squad for granted.

Shimron Hetmyer has been promoted to captain of the Guyana Amazon Warriors for the upcoming Caribbean Premier League (CPL).

Contrasting wins were recorded by Melanie and Victoria Kings when the East Demerara Football Association Stag Beer Senior League continued on Wednesday.

Following a thorough analysis of the new Guyana Football 2022 Constitution which could be ratified at the entity’s August 27th congress, it is evident that the proposed amendments are certainly skewed in favour of the Executive Committee, weakening the authority of the Congress.

Den Amstel downed Eagles by a 2-0 scoreline when the West Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League continued on Wednesday evening at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora, West Coast Demerara.

(Reuters) – Madison Keys shocked Iga Swiatek 6-3 6-4 yesterday to move into the Cincinnati Open quarter-finals, further disrupting the world number one’s preparations for the U.S.

(Reuters) – Spinner Jack Leach says England will continue to play their positive brand of cricket despite a late flurry of runs from South Africa that moved the touring side into a commanding position on the second day of the first test at Lord’s.

(Reuters) – World number one Daniil Medvedev wore down Canadian Denis Shapovalov 7-5 7-5 yesterday to reach the Cincinnati quarter-finals ahead of his U.S.

High Commissioner of India to Guyana, Dr K J Srinivasa, was full of praise for the stakeholders during the opening of the Nexgen Golf Academy Junior GolFun Camp which teed off recently at the Scout’s Association Ground on Woolford Avenue, Georgetown.

Veteran boxing administrator and assistant secretary treasurer of the Guyana Boxing Association, Seon Bristol, has been named manager of the national team selected to participate in the Winfield Braithwaite Caribbean Schoolboys and Juniors tournament. 

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s defending champion Oleksandr Usyk is attracting the money ahead of his “Rage on the Red Sea” heavyweight world title rematch with Britain’s Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia tomorrow.

(CMC) – Joshua Da Silva’s half-century went in vain as West Indies A plunged to a 44-run defeat to Bangladesh A, in their second 50-over match at Daren Sammy Cricket Ground yesterday.

(ESPN Cricinfo) – Shamarh Brooks scored 79 and shared a 75-run partnership with Captain Nicholas Pooran which guided the West Indies to a five-wicket win over top-ranked New Zealand yesterday in the series-opening ODI in Barbados.

League leader and undefeated outfit, Slingerz FC, crushed Wales 5-0, when the West Demerara Football Association Senior Men’s League continued last evening at the National Track and Field Centre, Leonora.

Seventeen boxers will be encamped from tomorrow ahead of the School Boys and Girls Junior Championships scheduled to be staged next week at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH).

Fresh off representing Guyana at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, the ace paddler took his talents to Trinidad and served and slammed his way to the Silver Bowl title.

Despite failing to qualify for the elimination round in 3×3 basketball at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey, National 3×3 Coordinator, Junior Hercules, affirmed that the team gave a credible performance in the competition.