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(Reuters) – Undisputed heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk and British heavyweight Tyson Fury will meet on Dec.

The Minnesota Timberwolves stayed alive in the Western Conference finals Tuesday night, riding Anthony Edwards’ game-high 29 points and Karl-Anthony Towns’ recalibrated long-range shooting form to a 105-100 victory over the host Dallas Mavericks in Game 4.

 (Reuters) – Australia will be aiming to become the first team to possess all three of cricket’s global titles at the same time, but a bigger success will be if the T20 World Cup next month can help the game crack a lucrative market in the United States.

Newcomer Back Circle B won the ‘Settlement of All Arguments’ street-ball championship, defeating Taliban 2-1 on penalty kicks in the final on Sunday evening at the Mocha Community’s Centre ground tarmac.

Linden Technical Institute (LTI), the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA), and the University of Guyana (UG) registered hard-fought wins when the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Tertiary League continued at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.

Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden Zone – Bullets seal final’s berth before cancellation Persistent rainfall forced the cancellation of the second semifinal, third place playoff, and final in the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Linden edition on Monday evening at the Retrieve Tarmac, as Silver Bullets earned a berth to the final which is now set for Saturday prior to the abandonment.

The Golden Jaguars fell to their second defeat in as many matches on their two-week training camp in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, as they lost to Caixas FC 0-2 yesterday during a practice match.

Guyana’s Keevin ‘Lightning’ Allicock’s push for qualification to a second Olympic Games was dashed by Turkey’s Batuhan Ciftci in their five-round 57kg encounter yesterday in the Road to Paris Qualifier in Bangkok, Thailand.

Demetri Love and Safirah Sumner got off to perfect starts when the Kraft Mac and Cheese Junior Squash Championship commenced last night at the Georgetown Club Squash Courts on Camp Street.

(Reuters) – Defending champion Novak Djokovic shrugged off doubts about the state of his game with a confident 6-4 7-6(3) 6-4 defeat of Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the French Open first round yesterday.

ExxonMobil U14 Schools Football  By Michaelangelo Jacobus When the highly anticipated ExxonMobil Schools U14 Football got underway yesterday at the Ministry of Education ground on Carifesta Avenue, Georgetown, the defending champions of the male category, Bartica Secondary, launched their title defence with a flawless 3-0 win over L’Aventure Secondary. 

(Trinidad Express) The runs flowed in the just-concluded Indian Premier League tournament.

(ESPN) Major League Cricket (MLC), the season-old T20 tournament in the USA, has become the second Associate-run franchise competition to acquire List A status from the ICC, following on from the UAE’s ILT20 earlier this year.

LONDON,  CMC – West Indies fast bowler Jayden Seales endured a long, hard grind with Sussex after they were made to toil against Middlesex in Division 2 of the English County Championship in a draw match that ended yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has suspended sprinter Issamade Asinga for four years for a doping violation, stripping him of two South American Championship gold medals as well as his Under-20 100 metres world record.

(Reuters) – Al Nasr’s Cristiano Ronaldo capped his first full Saudi Pro League season in style as he broke the record for the most goals scored in one campaign yesterday.

MONTE CARLO,  CMC – Seven-time world champion, Lewis Hamilton was in a dejected mood after he finished seventh in the Formula 1 Grand Prix on Sunday in Monaco.

MONTE CARLO,  CMC – Barbadian race car driver Zane Maloney came way from the Monaco Formula 2 Grand Prix weekend practically empty-handed and dropped out of the lead in the drivers’ standings.Maloney,

MADRID, (Reuters) – A Spanish judge ordered soccer ruling bodies FIFA and UEFA to halt their opposition to a parallel European competition known as the European Super League (ESL), ruling they were practising anticompetitive behaviour and abusing their dominant position.

-Allicock steps into round of 32 action today Guyana’s heavyweight boxer Emmanuel Pompey had his dream of qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games crushed yesterday at the second and final Olympic Boxing Qualifier in Bangkok, Thailand.