Trinidad and To­ba­go (T&T) will fea­ture in Mon­day night’s draw for the pre­lim­i­nar­ies of the CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup de­spite be­ing slapped with an un­lim­it­ed sus­pen­sion by foot­ball’s world gov­ern­ing body, FI­FA on Thurs­day, T&T Re­pub­lic Day, with im­me­di­ate ef­fect and un­til fur­ther no­tice.

It is said that a good coach and good coach­ing can build will, skill, knowl­edge and ca­pac­i­ty be­cause it can go where no oth­er pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment has gone be­fore: in­to the in­tel­lect, be­hav­iours, prac­tices, be­liefs, val­ues and feel­ings of an ed­u­ca­tor and his or her stu­dents. You think I’m mak­ing this up? Ask any young stu­dent or foot­baller who passed through St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege un­der the guid­ance of Nigel Grosvenor for just over the past two decades and they’ll tell you.

T&T top woman cy­clist Te­niel Camp­bell pro­duced a de­cent per­for­mance that land­ed her in 47th po­si­tion dur­ing Sat­ur­day's elite Women’s Road Race at the 2020 UCI Road World Cham­pi­onships in Imo­la.

DER­BY, Eng­land– De­an­dra Dot­tin’s sec­ond half-cen­tu­ry in three in­nings proved fu­tile as West In­dies Women pro­duced an­oth­er hap­haz­ard run chase in a 20-run de­feat to Eng­land Women, to slip to an­oth­er se­ries de­feat on Sat­ur­day.

'Self­ish' is how some coach­es and man­agers have de­scribed the Unit­ed T&T team, the elect­ed ad­min­is­tra­tors of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, say­ing they do not care about the coun­try and the sport of foot­ball, on­ly them­selves.

Mo­bil Out­law shook off a fu­el-tank scare on Fri­day night to sur­prise the field at yes­ter­day's 52nd run­ning of the T&T Great Race by not on­ly be­ing the first boat to reach the sis­ter-isle of To­ba­go, but by win­ning the ti­tle in the 80MPH Class.

Chief Op­er­at­ing Of­fi­cer (COO) of the Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) Pe­te Rus­sell has heaped prais­es on SporTT and the lo­cal or­gan­is­ing com­mit­tee (LOC) for the suc­cess­ful stag­ing of the tour­na­ment dur­ing COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, this year.

DER­BY – West In­dies head coach, An­dre Co­ley, has giv­en the as­sur­ance that all-rounder De­an­dra Dot­tin’s re­turn to bowl­ing will be care­ful­ly man­aged in an at­tempt to en­sure she is at peak fit­ness, be­fore re­sum­ing her usu­al work rate.

T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion’s (TTFA) fight with foot­ball’s world gov­ern­ing body-FI­FA, is far from over.

Su­san Joseph-War­rick, the sec­ond vice pres­i­dent of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) and pres­i­dent of the Women's Foot­ball League (Wolf), has an­nounced her res­ig­na­tion from all foot­ball in T&T and has be­come the first ca­su­al­ty of the le­gal bat­tle be­tween the TTFA and FI­FA on Fri­day. Joseph-War­rick's an­nounce­ment to her ex­ec­u­tive comes less than 24 hours af­ter FI­FA of­fi­cial­ly sus­pend­ed the T&TFA as a mem­ber of the world gov­ern­ing body FI­FA with im­me­di­ate ef­fect and un­til fur­ther no­tice.

The foot­ball fra­ter­ni­ty was plunged in­to mourn­ing yes­ter­day fol­low­ing the ear­ly-morn­ing death of for­mer na­tion­al, St An­tho­ny's Col­lege and Queen's Roy­al Col­lege foot­ball coach Nigel Grosvenor. He was 63.

Cham­pi­on Train­er John O'Brien was the hero at San­ta Rosa Park, in Ari­ma on Thurs­day when he sad­dled the win­ner of the two fea­ture events on the Re­pub­lic Day Card of the Ari­ma Race Club.