The Bahamas national cricketers are back home after a relatively successful tour of South Florida that helped them prepare for the rich Stanford Twenty20 tournament starting next month in Antigua.

The Bahamians won two of three games on the short tour that included two appearances under lights - conditions they will experience at the Stanford Twenty/20 starting July 11 at the Stanford Cricket Ground.

They lost their opening game to an All-Star team but rebounded to defeat a South Florida Cricket Association (SFCA) XI and the Lauderhill All-Stars.

At the Lauderhill Sports Complex under lights, the South Florida All-Stars smashed an imposing 214 off just 20 overs, and the Bahamians could only muster 129 in their reply.

Dhillon Mandeep stroked a century (111) and Allan Dennis (66) for the All-Stars in their 85-run victory.

Touring Bahamas won their second game against the SFCA XI in a 35-overs per side (day) fixture at the Brian Picolo Park.

Avery Johnson led the NCAA in assists as a junior and senior and was named

Southern Athletic Conference Player of the Year and the MVP of the Conference Tournament for the both seasons. From his career as a professional in the NBA, Johnson showed that he is clearly a player who is a winner. On October 2004, He announced his retirement as a player and assumed full-time duties as an assistant coach. Then on March 19, 2005 he began his duties as Head Coach

This is Avery Johnson’s first full season as head coach and was named NBA Coach of the Year.

This is indeed an honor since he clearly had other worthy candidates, such as Mike D’Antoni, who got the Suns into the Western Finals without one of the Leagues finest players in Amaire Stoudamire, Phil Jackson of the Lakers who  had to work hard with a young team and wunderkind Kobe Bryant, and Pat Riley who carved  a team using hungry older players, a young superstar and Shaq, arguably  the jost dominant player in the game.

SACRAMENTO, California, June 12, CMC - Jamaican Melaine Walker had victory taken away from her after sizzling victory in the women's 400-metre hurdles at the USA's 2006 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division One championship on Saturday.

Representing the University of Texas (UT), Walker was first home in a superb career-best time 53.84 seconds but she was controversially disqualified for a lead leg violation for hooking a hurdle, leaving Texas officials furious.

The disqualification left the Caribbean with only one victory on the last day at the Hornet Stadium and uncharacteristically, with only two gold medals at the four-day meet - Jamaican Clora Williams in the women's 400 metres and Jovanee Jarrett, also Jamaican, in the long jump last Thursday.

Jamaican Asafa Powell equaled the 100-metre world record once more when he clocked 9.77 seconds to win the event at the Norwich Union British Grand Prix last Sunday evening.

Powell, who shares the world record with American Justin Gatlin, easily won the event ahead of fellow Jamaican and training partner Michael Frater (10.06).

"I told them I would do my best, and that was my best," Powell said after the race.

Powell ran his previous world record 9.77 clocking on June 14 last year in Athens, Greece, a time that Gatlin matched on May 12 this year in Doha, Qatar.