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Pakistan recently axed one-day captain Shahid Afridi has announced his ‘conditional’ retirement from the international.

MIAMI (AP):Scottie Pippen said LeBron James may be basketball's greatest player ever.Among those who disagree: LeBron James.The Miami Heat forward provided his reaction to Pippen's comparison between James and Michael Jordan on Saturday, essentially...

Members of the Tivoli Wizards basketball team are celebrating their victory over Majesty Legends, following their victory in Game Two of the Flow National Basketball League Southern Conference Championship final, on Saturday...

PARIS (AP): Rafael Nadal improved his record at Roland Garros to 42-1, beating Ivan Ljubicic 7-5, 6-3, 6-3 yesterday to reach the quarter-finals of the French Open.The five-time champion was not troubled on Court Philippe Chatrier and the win kept him ...

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Barbadian Lisle Austin assumed temporary control of CONCACAF yesterday by giving general secretary Chuck Blazer 48 hours to explain his decision to investigate members of the continental governing body for misconduct...

Jamaica's little sprint darling, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, has brushed aside the challenges she endured last year and is ready to prove once again that she is among the best athletes on the planet....

DALLAS (AP):The biggest party of Dirk Nowitzki's career was going strong.Teammates, friends and the rest of the 20,000 people who had been screaming "M! V! P!'' since the first quarter were on their feet in appreciation of him and the Dallas Mavericks.

2007 World Championships in Athletics Decathlon silver-medallist Maurice Smith walked away with top honours at the two-day NACAC Combined Events Championships, which ended at the Usain Bolt/UWI Stadium on Saturday.

Veteran players Warren Burrowes and Joey Levy defeated Michael Fennell, Jr and Noel McKrieth to win the inaugural Xsomo Doubles Squash Tournament which was held at the Liguanea Club in New Kingston on Saturday....

Peter Horrobin recovered on Saturday's day two of the Professional Golf Association of Jamaica's (PGAJ) inaugural PGAJ Players Championship, which is being played at Tryall in Sandy Bay, Hanover...

PARIS (AP):Roger Federer set yet another record by reaching the French Open quarter-finals yesterday and Novak Djokovic closed in on a pair of his own.Federer extended his quarter-final streak at major tournaments to 28 with a 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 victory over...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP): Street parties in Barcelona celebrating the victory of the city's football team in the UEFA Champions League final turned violent early yesterday and at least 18 people were hospitalised, according to local media reports....