While ath­letes have pro­vid­ed sports fans with con­tin­u­ous ever­last­ing ex­cite­ment and hap­pi­ness through the demon­stra­tion of their skills and tal­ent across all sport­ing dis­ci­plines, they have al­so used the sport­ing are­na to ex­press tren­chant and pur­pose­ful sup­port for so­cial jus­tice and equal­i­ty in so­ci­ety through­out 2020 which was more than even than be­fore in the most vivid fash­ion.

T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) chair­man of se­lec­tors Ra­jen­dra Man­galie has de­fend­ed the se­lec­tion of the Red Force’s Su­per50 squad as sev­er­al star per­form­ers from the prac­tice match­es failed to make the 15-man squad for the tour­na­ment.

“Whether we win the se­ries, we draw the se­ries or we lose the se­ries, I just want the guys to do well, re­al­ly, re­al­ly com­pete so when they do get back to the Caribbean the se­lec­tors will have a tough job of who to se­lect for the next se­ries.” That’s the ad­vice of West In­dies leg­end Sir Curt­ly Am­brose to an in­ex­pe­ri­enced crop of West In­dies crick­eters who are cur­rent­ly in Bangladesh ahead of a five-match se­ries.

T&T's Tyra Git­tens had a huge sea­son-open­er on the week­end win­ning dou­ble gold medals at the Ted Nel­son In­vi­ta­tion­al at the Texas A&M-Gilliam In­door Track Sta­di­um in Col­lege Sta­tion, Texas in the Unit­ed States.

Zi­co Cor­reia won the 2021 Brechin Cas­tle Golf Open af­ter he main­tained a two-shot lead go­ing in­to the fi­nal day's play and that helped him to get the bet­ter of de­fend­ing cham­pi­on Sol Joan­ni at the Sevil­la Golf course in Brechin Cas­tle, Cou­va on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

The bat­tle for the po­si­tion of pres­i­dent at the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion's Elec­tions on Jan­u­ary 30, has be­gun to heat up, with in­cum­bent Joseph Roberts seek­ing to clear the air on a pur­port­ed $2 mil­lion debt the fed­er­a­tion has had since 2015.

Gen­der ide­ol­o­gy is a set of in­ter­re­lat­ed ideas about mas­culin­i­ty and fem­i­nin­i­ty and re­la­tion­ships be­tween men and women and gen­der ide­ol­o­gy sup­ports the phi­los­o­phy that sport is a male-es­tab­lished con­ven­tion that pro­motes tra­di­tion­al gen­der roles and ad­vances male su­prema­cy and dom­i­nance.

Amiel Mo­hammed, a for­mer free­lance foot­ball writer with Wired868 and Pro League Club Cen­tral FC, has been ap­point­ed the act­ing gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA).

Doubt sur­rounds the stag­ing of this year's Carif­ta Games which is sched­uled to be held in Bar­ba­dos.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Dr Ak­shai Mans­ingh, a mem­ber of Crick­et West In­dies’ med­ical ad­vi­so­ry com­mit­tee, be­lieves leg-spin­ning all-rounder, Hay­den Walsh Jr, con­tract­ed COVID-19 be­fore he left the Caribbean.

A group of se­lect­ed per­sons with a man­date to put the Na­tion­al Foot­ball League ini­tia­tive in­to op­er­a­tion is ex­pect­ed to be ap­point­ed soon.

His­to­ry al­lows us the op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­flect, learn and adapt. Trinidad and To­ba­go, and by ex­ten­sion West In­dies Crick­et have of­fi­cial­ly just tak­en ten steps back­wards. We are not learn­ing.