April 11, 2011
Wayne Rooney deserved ban, says Sir Trevor Brooking
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney deserved his two-match ban for his "venomous" outburst of bad language, according to Sir Trevor Brooking. Rooney was punished for swearing into a TV camera after scoring at West Ham. Brooking, the Football…
April 11, 2011
Eight debutants for Carifta swim
Eight new faces will represent T&T in the 11-12 age group at the Carifta Swimming Championships in Barbados from April 23-26. They are among ten representatives in this age group who will be anxious to contribute to T&T’s medal haul as the team…
April 11, 2011
Sarwan blasts unbeaten double
Test batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan shrugged off his omission from the West Indies Twenty20 squad to stroke an unbeaten double century for Georgetown Cricket Club in the Division One championship on Saturday. The right-hander, one of several changes…
April 11, 2011
Ganga hosts golf April 23
The Daren Ganga Foundation (DGF) is hosting its second annual fundraising golf tournament on April 23 at the Millennium Lakes Golf & Country Club in Trincity. The tournament will host 60 teams of two golfers from throughout the Caribbean who will…
April 8, 2011
Gunman kills 11 students in Brazil school
Eleven students were killed and 22 others injured when a gunman opened fire in a school classroom in this Brazilian city Thursday, Xinhua reported. The gunman opened fire on some 40 students in an eighth grade classroom, witnesses said. One of…
April 8, 2011
Golf no longer Tiger and everybody else
Golf used to be Tiger Woods and everybody else.
About the only thing they had in common was how they described…
April 8, 2011
Bulls charge past Celtics, close in on home-court advantage
The Chicago Bulls beat Boston 97-81 on Thursday to open up a four-game lead atop the Eastern Conference and move within a victory of clinching home-court advantage throughout the playoffs. Chicago (58-20), winners of 17 of their last 19 games,…
April 8, 2011
Portuguese trio, Villarreal shine in Europa League
Spanish side Villarreal and Portuguese giants FC Porto put their Europa League-winning credentials on show with 5-1 wins apiece in the first leg of the quarter-finals on Thursday. Three Portuguese sides -- Porto, Benfica and Sporting Braga -- are…
April 8, 2011
Before deliberating, Bonds’ jurors get an earful
The eight women and four men sat in the jury box for more than 4 1/2 hours, listening to angry arguments from federal prosecutors and Barry Bonds' attorneys at the end of a 12-day trial that exposed the dark world of baseball's Steroids Era. Now,…
April 8, 2011
NFL, players disagree on who should oversee talks
A day after the judge handling the NFL lockout lawsuit urged the sides to go "back to the table," the players and owners both expressed a willingness to do so. The hitch: Each offered to meet for talks in a setting the other finds unpalatable. A…