"What's the sense of fight­ing against FI­FA when it leads to one out­come, a ban for the coun­try's foot­ball from all com­pe­ti­tions,” sev­er­al of this coun­try's top coach­es have asked.

When it comes to hock­ey de­vel­op­ment in the Pan Amer­i­can re­gion there are peo­ple who have been in­volved in the sport for so many years and at so many lev­els that they have de­vel­oped a for­mi­da­ble moun­tain of knowl­edge and ex­pe­ri­ence about what works and what doesn’t.

If sports were just about what's on pa­per, then the own­ers of the Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) might have con­sid­ered just hand­ing over the 2020 tro­phy to the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) giv­en the host of tal­ent they have re­tained for the tour­na­ment this year.

The oust­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) team of William Wal­lace, Clynt Tay­lor, Joseph Sam Phillip, Su­san Joseph-War­rick, An­tho­ny Har­ford and Kei­th Look Loy has tak­en its fight against the FI­FA, foot­ball's gov­ern­ing body, to the High Court of T&T.

A de­ci­sion by the chair­man of the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee, Robert Hadad, to reach out on Mon­day to At­tor­ney Kei­th Scot­land, who is rep­re­sent­ing for­mer na­tion­al foot­ball coach Stephen Hart, to deal with monies owed to his client, is set to al­ter a po­si­tion to have the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) levied on.

ROSEAU, Do­mini­ca – For­mer Crick­et West In­dies vice-pres­i­dent, Em­manuel Nan­than, has said there was no fi­nan­cial im­pro­pri­ety re­gard­ing a US$134, 200 trans­fer to Crick­et West In­dies from a spon­sor two years ago, which had been tar­get­ed for crick­et de­vel­op­ment.

For­mer T&T in­ter­na­tion­al hock­ey stand­out, Eng­land-based Kwand­wane Browne and his Hamp­stead & West­min­ster, will have to set­tle for earn­ing the run­ner-up spot in the Eng­land Hock­ey League Pre­mier Di­vi­sion as well as the sec­ond seed­ing for the Eu­ro Hock­ey League.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board (TTCB) has put on pause its in­ter­view process for a head coach, amidst fears Crick­et West In­dies’ fund­ing for the Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League could fall through.

Michael Jor­dan’s daugh­ter Jas­mine said the for­mer Chica­go Bulls great was deeply con­cerned about what the pub­lic would think of his ac­tions when they saw The Last Dance. Mat­ter of fact, he even con­sid­ered against re­leas­ing the se­ries.

Well-re­spect­ed tele­vi­sion broad­cast­er, Ian Bish­op, be­lieves it would be in the best fi­nan­cial in­ter­ests of Crick­et West In­dies and re­gion­al play­ers, to take up the Eng­land and Wales Crick­et Board’s of­fer of the three-Test se­ries in the Unit­ed King­dom this Ju­ly.

T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) led by the FI­FA Nor­mal­iza­tion Com­mit­tee (NC) sprung in­to ac­tion to as­sist three na­tion­al foot­ballers, who Guardian Me­dia Sports re­port­ed on Thurs­day, were left strand­ed in El Sal­vador.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Vet­er­an Twen­ty20 su­per­star Chris Gayle has es­caped pun­ish­ment from the Caribbean Pre­mier League over his ver­bal at­tack on Ramnaresh Sar­wan de­spite re­fus­ing to back down from the con­tro­ver­sial com­ments made in a caus­tic Youtube video.