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Brazil will be without some of their top stars at the World Cup, with coach Dunga betting on players that are not too well known, but who achieved successful results with the team.

United States sprinter, Sanya Richards, says the prospect of losing the first of her two Olympic gold medals, because of a teammate\'s doping, is heartbreaking.

HUMBLED by MARK MY WORD in the 2000 Guineas on April 5, champion trainer Wayne DaCosta's LIFEISJUSFORLIVING returns fitted with a figure-eight for what should be a routine win at six furlongs in today's third race....

ARIMA, Trinidad, (CMC): Classy Jamaica-bred colt Bruceontheloose turned Saturday's feature Santa Rosa Dash into a romp when he dismissed his opposition in record time to win by 3-1/2 lengths at Santa Rosa Park.Going 1200 metres, four-year-old roan colt...

Western Bureau: The 2009-10 St James Football Association (STJFA) Guardian Life Division Two Football competition, which kicks off this afternoon, will be sponsored to the tune of a record $600,000, a $50,000 increase on last year's sponsorship tag of $550,000.

SAO PAULO (AP): Ronaldinho, Adriano and Neymar have been left out of Brazil's preliminary World Cup squad.Coach Dunga announced 23 players and was expected to announce seven more to complete the squad.

Hosts West Indies, needing to beat Australia by 24 runs to snatch the last semi-final spot in the 20/20 World Cup, were struggling on 86 for nine after 15 overs in the final Super Eight match at the Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia.

Midweek racing continues at Caymanas Park tomorrow with an eleven-race programme featuring the W. ‘Billy’ Pick Memorial Cup over 2,000 metres for $450,000 to $400,000 claimers.

Ronaldinho, Adriano and Neymar have been left out of Brazil\'s preliminary World Cup squad.

The annual Board of Directors and Planning Committee Meeting of the Pan American Hockey Federation (PAHF) will take place in Jamaica later this week.

Kobe Bryant scored 32 points, and Pau Gasol added 33 points and 14 rebounds as the Los Angeles Lakers completed a four-game sweep of the Utah Jazz with a 111-96 victory last night to advance to the Western Conference finals for the third straight year.

The sports world\'s highest court is now hearing an appeal by seven U.S. sprinters seeking to regain the Olympic relay medals stripped from them because of doping by Marion Jones.