Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) con­tin­ued their mag­nif­i­cent run at the 2020 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) with a re­sound­ing nine-wick­et vic­to­ry over the St Kitts/Nevis Pa­tri­ots in their fi­nal pre­lim­i­nary round match at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day, mak­ing it 10 straight wins.

As the pe­ti­tions for the Sep­tem­ber 15 Emer­gency Gen­er­al Meet­ing (EGM) gains mo­men­tum, ques­tions are be­ing asked about the sta­tus of some of the as­so­ci­a­tions who have signed as mem­bers and as del­e­gates.

For­mer T&T se­nior men’s na­tion­al foot­ball team coach Stephen Hart and the HFX Wan­der­ers FC, fea­tur­ing T&T trio, Akeem Gar­cia, An­dre Ram­per­sad and ex-na­tion­al goal­keep­er Jan-Michael Williams kept their chance of qual­i­fy­ing to the Cana­di­an Pre­mier Soc­cer League play­offs via hard-fought 2-0 win over Val­our FC on Wednes­day, or you’ll be pun­ished for it.

The con­tro­ver­sy and con­cerns are grow­ing in the lo­cal foot­ball fra­ter­ni­ty as FI­FA's dead­line of Sep­tem­ber 16 draws clos­er, the pe­ti­tions gain mo­men­tum and the Oc­to­ber 19 court date al­so nears, all re­lat­ing to the Unit­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) team le­gal bat­tle with FI­FA, the world's gov­ern­ing body for the sport.

As a man­ag­er of any kind, charis­ma can get you a long way. Be­ing charis­mat­ic along with oth­er in­gre­di­ents are com­po­nents of ef­fec­tive lead­ers and man­agers. Sim­i­lar­ly, ath­letes or play­ers pos­sess tal­ent which is a ma­jor in­gre­di­ent but there are more char­ac­ter­is­tics or fac­tors that are nec­es­sary to make up the to­tal pack­age.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons, the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents, left their best per­for­mance for last as they de­feat­ed the Ja­maica Tallawahs in their fi­nal match of the Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, on Sat­ur­day.

A meet­ing of the Rac­ing Com­mit­tee of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion will de­ter­mine how the sport will move for­ward, in the midst of the cur­rent sec­ond wave of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Skip­per Kieron Pol­lard turned in a won­der­ful all-round per­for­mance on Sat­ur­day to give his team, the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR), their ninth suc­ces­sive win at the Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) tour­na­ment at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do.

It seems the Fed­er­a­tion In­ter­na­tionale de Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (FI­FA) will have its way no mat­ter what.

T&T's Saman­tha "Sniper" Wal­lace and de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons New South Wales Swifts suf­fered a shock 64-77 de­feat at the hands of Queens­land Fire­birds when Round Ten of the Sun­corp Su­per Net­ball (SSN) League con­tin­ued at Nis­san Are­na, Bris­bane, Aus­tralia on Sat­ur­day.

West In­dies will be look­ing to bounce back from a dis­ap­point­ing Women’s T20 World Cup cam­paign when they take on Eng­land in five T20Is lat­er this month.

Sev­er­al hours af­ter news broke on Wednes­day evening that for­mer FI­FA Vice-Pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er had test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19 and was hos­pi­talised, a post to his of­fi­cial Face­book page yes­ter­day morn­ing sought to con­firm the re­ports, adding Warn­er was in good spir­its.