ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies se­lec­tors have axed bats­man Shai Hope for the Test tour of New Zealand.

Cham­pi­on train­er John O'Brien is ex­pect­ed to walk in­to the Win­ner's en­clo­sure at win bod the fea­ture and co-fea­ture races on Sat­ur­day at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma.

Four days af­ter the em­bat­tled T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) pres­i­dent William Wal­lace and his Unit­ed TTFA ex­ec­u­tive team won their con­tro­ver­sial law­suit against FI­FA in the T&T High Court when Judge Car­ol Gob­in ruled that FI­FA's move to ap­point a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee led by busi­ness­man Robert Hadad to re­place Wal­lace and his team was il­le­gal, null and void and of no ef­fect, Kei­th Look Loy, a for­mer na­tion­al youth play­er, who was in­stru­men­tal in the Unit­ed TTFA team bat­tle in every as­pect and at every stage, has re­signed.

The sport, be­ing man­aged by Hay­den Mitchell, was award­ed the Bronze Lev­el Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of its Coach­es Ed­u­ca­tion Sys­tem from the In­ter­na­tion­al Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion (ITF).

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Play­er fit­ness has cre­at­ed headaches for West In­dies se­lec­tors and have forced a de­lay in the an­nounce­ment of the Twen­ty20 squad for the tour of New Zealand.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Con­venor of se­lec­tors, Roger Harp­er, has point­ed to West In­dies’ er­rat­ic bat­ting as the key to any hopes the Caribbean side har­bour of win­ning their first Test se­ries in New Zealand for quar­ter of a cen­tu­ry.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Bar­ba­dos Pride have fi­nal­ly got­ten their hands on the Headley/Weekes Tro­phy for cap­tur­ing this year’s Crick­et West In­dies first class tour­na­ment.

Pro­fes­sion­al bas­ket­baller John­ny Hamil­ton's Fener­bahce Beko fell to its first de­feat of the sea­son on Wednes­day in the Turk­ish Eu­roleague af­ter be­ing edged by CS­KA, 78-77 in over­time af­ter the scores were tied, 69-69, at the end of reg­u­la­tion time.

It is a bit­ter-sweet mo­ment for T&T foot­ball where sup­port seems to be split un­equal­ly in two. Now, how­ev­er, the sport's mem­ber­ship will have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to make things right, if this say­ing can be a re­al­i­ty at this point in time.

Be­lieve it or not, I was about to start my col­umn on the stun­ning vic­to­ry of the Los An­ge­les Lak­ers over the Mi­a­mi Heat in the NBA fi­nals. Since the vis­it of the leg­endary Ka­reem Ab­dul-Jab­bar to T&T’s shores, I have al­ways been a fan of the Lak­ers.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Jofra Archer’s bril­liance went in vain as Ra­jasthan Roy­als were let down by their bats­men to slump to a 13-run de­feat to Del­hi Cap­i­tals in the In­di­an Pre­mier League on Wednes­day.

Cham­pi­on train­er John O'Brien sad­dles four hors­es in Sat­ur­day's fea­ture event the Nurs­ery Stakes for West In­dies-bred two-year-olds over a dis­tance of 1,000 me­tres on the main track at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma. O'Brien, who has won this event many times in the past years, will be look­ing to his quar­tet of With Hon­ors, Pas­sion­ate, Game Chang­er and Zan­za.