It will be the prover­bial 'do or die' sit­u­a­tion for T&T's So­ca War­riors when the team squares off with host Unit­ed States in a cru­cial CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup Group D match at the First En­er­gy Sta­di­um in Cleve­land Sat­ur­day night from 8 pm lo­cal time.

As Pak­istan left a be­wil­der­ing lot af­ter their first game of the ICC World Cup com­pe­ti­tion against the West In­dies, the lat­ter looked on course to reach the se­mi-fi­nals of the tour­na­ment. Now, both teams seem like­ly to re­turn through im­mi­gra­tion in their re­spec­tive coun­tries a bit ear­li­er than planned.

For­mer top Trinidad and To­ba­go sprint­er and hur­dler Tho­ra An­drews, nee Best, passed away in Beau­mont, Texas, last Sat­ur­day.

West In­dies cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er has de­fend­ed his team's de­ci­sion to go out for some clay tar­get shoot­ing on Fri­day, ahead of his team's cru­cial World Cup clash against New Zealand at Old Traf­ford, in Man­ches­ter, Eng­land, Sat­ur­day.

T&T se­nior women's net­ball goal-shoot Kali­fa Mc Collin has signed with the As­cot Park Ho­tel South­ern Steel for the 2020 ANZ Pre­mier­ship (Trans-Tas­man Net­ball League) sea­son from Celtic Drag­ons of the Vi­tal­i­ty Net­ball League in Eng­land.

For­mer sports jour­nal­ist Mark An­tho­ny Scott was de­scribed as a se­ri­ous and dis­ci­plined man in spite of his in­dul­gence in laugh­ter and hu­mour.

T&T swim­mer Dy­lan Carter has qual­i­fied for Fri­day night's men's 100 me­tres Freestyle Open fi­nal on the sec­ond day of the an­nu­al Fran Crip­pen Meet of Cham­pi­ons at the Mar­guerite Aquat­ics Com­plex in Cali, Cal­i­for­nia.

Vet­er­an pac­er La­sith Ma­lin­ga pro­duced his best bowl­ing at the ICC World Cup as Sri Lan­ka pulled off a stun­ning 20-run up­set of pre-tour­na­ment favourites and hosts Eng­land at Head­in­g­ley, Leeds, Fri­day.

The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion has con­firmed the ap­point­ment of Unit­ed States res­i­dent Stephan De Four as the coun­try's women's foot­ball coach.

MAN­CHES­TER, Eng­land – New Zealand fast bowler Matt Hen­ry says the warm-up de­feat to West In­dies had not dent­ed the side’s con­fi­dence but warned team­mates they would be against “a dan­ger­ous” side when the two teams met on Sat­ur­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies has un­der­scored the val­ue of its Un­der-15 pro­gramme af­ter nam­ing a 14-mem­ber squad to tour Eng­land in Au­gust.

The fu­ner­al ser­vice for for­mer I.95FM, TV 6 and Pow­er 102 Sports Jour­nal­ist Mark An­tho­ny Scott will be held on Fri­day at the Cor­pus Christi RC Church, at the cor­ner of Church Street and the East­ern Main Road in Laven­tille from 9:15 am.