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At nine minutes past eleven on Friday April 5th, 2013, a freezing morning at The Parks, Varun Chopra was late on an inswinger from Oxford MCCU seamer Ben Kemp and out lbw for five.
This apparently anonymous dismissal at the start of the season in fact secured a small footnote in Bears history. It was the first wicket to be recorded by Mel Smith as Warwickshire scorer.

NBA Star Ogugua ‘O.G.’ Anunoby Jr. has become a part-owner of the London Lions Basketball Club. The 25-year-old Toronto Raptors player joins majority owners 777 Partners after purchasing a minority stake in the club. London-born Anunoby has played over 250 games for Toronto and became the first-ever British basketball player to win an NBA Championship with the team in 2019.

Former Crawley Town manager John Yems has had his suspension from football for making racist comments to players extended until 2026 after a successful appeal by the Football Association. He was found guilty of 11 charges of racist abuse, admitted one and given a 17-month ban.

The 63-year-old's extended suspension is the longest ban issued to someone in English football for discrimination. The FA appealed against the sanction on the basis it was "insufficient".

The winners of the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards, the most prestigious honours in sport, are to be presented in Paris on May 8. The event will mark a return to a physical Awards format, following two years of 'virtual' presentations as a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic.

The guest list for this year’s event will be announced in due course and will include many of the sensational sporting figures nominated by the world’s sporting media for the Laureus Award categories.

The Guam Ko’ko’ Road Race, a Guam Visitors Bureau signature event returned after a long six-year hiatus for its 13th edition.

The Guam Visitors Bureau (GVB) and the Guam Running Club (GRC) finished with an epic Ko’ko’ Weekend as 587 runners descended into Governor Joseph Flores Memorial Park (Ypao Beach) this morning for the 13th Guam Ko’ko’ Road Race. The GVB signature event has returned after a long six-year hiatus.

Great Britain's Jessica Gadirova won her third gold medal at the European Gymnastics Championships with victory in the women's floor final. The 18-year-old scored a combined total of 14.000 for the routine to secure her third consecutive European floor title.

British champion Alice Kinsella claimed silver and Romania's Sabrina Maneca-Voinea sealed bronze. Gadirova said described her floor success as "crazy", while Kinsella called her medal "surreal".

A group of children who receive support from Acorns Children’s Hospice were treated to an Edgbaston cricket experience and stadium tour.

The seven youngsters – who access the Sibling Support service at Acorns – took part in the fun session under the expert eye of Warwickshire Cricket Board coaches. The group, including Acorns Sibling Workers Jen Bridle and Sarah Childs, then got a chance to peer behind the scenes at Edgbaston, including the players’ dressing rooms and gym, and take some pitch-side selfies.

Green fees are complimentary for all Sandals Emerald Bay guests at the world-class golf course in Great Exuma in The Bahamas.

Designed by golf legend Greg Norman, the award-winning Sandals Emerald Bay Golf Course is recognized as one of the most scenic 18-hole ocean-side golf courses in the Caribbean and renowned for its challenging fairways. A golfer’s paradise, 6 signature holes hug the coastline of a scenic peninsula, and prevailing trade winds promise new experiences with each game.

A Spanish extreme athlete has emerged from a cave after spending 500 days with no human contact, in what could be a world record.

When Beatriz Flamini entered the cave in Granada, Russia had not invaded Ukraine and the world was still in the grip of the Covid pandemic. It was part of an experiment closely monitored by scientists.

Great Britain won their first-ever women's team gold at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Ondine Achampong, Jessica Gadirova, Becky Downie, Alice Kinsella and Georgia-Mae Fenton combined to score 164.428 points over the four apparatus. Italy claimed silver with 161.629 points, while the Netherlands came third with 158.896 points.

The Asian Tour is set to make history by staging an event for the first time in Scotland at the much-acclaimed Fairmont St Andrews on 24-27 August 2023.

The inaugural St Andrews Bay Championship will take place at the venue’s Torrance Course, a 7,320-yard layout set among 520 acres of stunning Scottish coastline with views of St Andrews Bay. Designed by former Ryder Cup and golfing legend Sam Torrance, the course is marked by its deep riveted bunkers, large greens and links design.

Jamaica’s Roshawn Clarke, who retained his Boys Under 20 400m hurdles title, was named the Austin Sealy Award winner as the most outstanding athlete at the 50th Carifta Games that ended in Nassau, Bahamas on Monday. Clarke won the event in a season’s best and World Under 20 leading 49.92 seconds, 11th best in the world and second only to Jehue Gordon’s championship record of 49.72 seconds set in 2010 in Guyana.

Playing on The International Series has brought the best out of Travis Smyth, following recent qualification for The Open at Royal Liverpool and he is hoping his recent consistent form can continue in Vietnam this week.

The Australian has had a blistering start to the 2023 season on the Asian Tour, recording three top 10 finishes at the Saudi International, International Series Qatar and most recently at the World City Championship in Hong Kong.

The British Open – one of the most prestigious and historic tournaments in professional squash – is being held in Birmingham for the first time in over two decades as the world’s best players are competing at the Birmingham Rep and Edgbaston Priory Club.

Considered the ‘Wimbledon of squash’, the British Open is squash’s longest-running tournament and has become the most distinguished event on the PSA World Tour calendar and is second only to the PSA World Championships in renown.

The league-leading London Lions went unbeaten in March and ended the month by lifting the Betty Codona WBBL Trophy, resulting in a Molten WBBL Coach of the Month award for Head Coach Stella Kaltsidou.

The former Greek international star took over the reins at Lions in February, joining from posts as Assistant Coach at powerhouse Olympiacos and with the Slovenian National Team, after a more than two decade playing career at the highest levels of the European game.

The experienced Head Coach of the B. Braun Sheffield Sharks, Atiba Lyons, has won the Kevin Cadle Molten BBL Coach of the Month award for March after leading his team to an unbeaten run in the BBL Championship.

The month had started on a disappointing note as Sharks were knocked out of the BBL Trophy at the semi-final stage in a narrow road defeat at Cheshire Phoenix, but it was all up from there as they bounced back with five straight wins in league play to currently sit on a 14-17 record.