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Tridents win rain-marred CPL final

Sports Page -- In a final plagued with rain interruptions, Barbados Tridents won the Caribbean Premier League 2014 by a slender margin of eight runs on Duckworth-Lewis, leaving Guyana Amazon Warriors with yet another disappointment at the…

Tigers roar to warm-up win vs Grenada

Grenville, Grenada, CMC -- Tamim Iqbal and Mahmudullah warmed up for the higher intensity battles with West Indies, when they set the Bangladeshis up for a 95-run victory over Grenada with purposeful batting in a 50 overs-a-side tour match…

India befuddled as England complete humiliation

Sports Page -- India might have been transported to another world, a world so unfamiliar that their senses were befuddled, their physical prowess lost, their lifetime's knowledge entirely inadequate. One by one their batsmen came and went…

Serena Williams wins Cincinnati open

CNN -- World number one Serena Williams won her first ever Cincinnati Open, and her 62nd career WTA title, by brushing aside Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-1. Williams needed just 62 minutes to dispatch her Serbian rival and win her second title in a…

Manchester City win as Liverpool begin life without Suarez

CNN -- Reigning English Premier League champions Manchester City began the new season as they ended the last, at the top of the table. But City was made to work hard for their 2-0 victory against a lively Newcastle United side. The match…

English Premier League season starts today, the top five

LONDON, England (AFP) - With the new Premier League season kicking off on Saturday, here are fact files on the five leading contenders to win the English title. MANCHESTER CITY Manager: Manuel Pellegrini (CHI) 2013-14 position: 1st; FA…

Sponsors persuade Bolt to run until 2017

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) - Sprint superstar Usain Bolt revealed Friday that he will put back his planned retirement until 2017 at the request of his sponsors. The six-time Olympic gold medallist and 100m and 200m world record holder…

Tage is MVP of U-19 three-day tourney

Georgetown, Guyana - Guyana’s opening batsman Tagenarine Chanderpaul was crowned Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the three-day version of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional Under-19 competition on Wednesday evening when the…

Amazon Warriors storm into CPL final

Basseterre, St. Kitts (CUOPM) – Huge crowds at St. Kitts’ Warner Park witnessed Thursday Guyana’s Amazon Warriors storming into a second consecutive CPL final with a thumping ten-wicket win over defending champions Jamaica Tallawahs.…

Spectators get a bellyfull of laughs at CPL charity match

(Sports Page)— A sell out crowd was on hand to witness a charity match played as part of the Caribbean Premier league (CPL) St. Kitts leg. The match was played on the evening of Tuesday 12th August. One of the highlights of the evening,…

Russell scripts dramatic turnaround for Tallawahs

(Sports Page)— Jamaica Tallawahs were out for the count. Chasing 159 in the first semi-final against Trinidad & Tobago Red Steel, Tallawahs were 76 for 6 in 13.3 overs - they had just lost their top-scorer and were going at less than a…

Five Star Jamaica are Super50 Champions

Roseau, Dominica - The invincible women of Caribbean Women's cricket, Jamaica, nailed their fifth Regional Women's Super50 title by blowing Guyana by 218 runs in the final of the tournament at Windsor Park today. While Guyana finished as…