Na­tion­al se­nior women’s net­baller, Saman­tha “Sniper” Wal­lace missed on­ly four of 50 at­tempts on goal, which proved the dif­fer­ence as her New South Wales fell to a 63-60 de­feat at the hands of Mel­bourne Vix­ens in their top-of-the-ta­ble Round Eight clash in the Aus­tralia Sun­corp Su­per Net­ball League at Nis­san Are­na, Bris­bane on Sat­ur­day.

Skip­per Ke­iron Pol­lard 72 played one of the great­est in­nings in the his­to­ry of the Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) to give his team an amaz­ing come from be­hind vic­to­ry against de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents in their clash at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day.

Less than 48 hours af­ter the NBA an­nounced the sus­pen­sion of the rest of the 2019/2020 sea­son back in March, Kevin Love, a for­ward for the Cleve­land Cav­a­liers an­nounced that he would be do­nat­ing US$100,000 to the staff mem­bers at the team’s are­na who would oth­er­wise go un­paid dur­ing the pe­ri­od. Soon af­ter a clus­ter of NBA play­ers fol­lowed Love’s lead, pitch­ing in hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars to their re­spec­tive teams’ are­na and sup­port staff, which at that point had not yet re­ceived word from their em­ploy­ers on their work sta­tus.

Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Sham­fa Cud­joe in an emer­gency vir­tu­al meet­ing of all ma­jor stake­hold­ers of foot­ball on Thurs­day clear­ly ar­tic­u­lat­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s ex­pressed con­cern on im­pli­ca­tions of the de­ba­cle be­tween the T&T oust­ed ex­ec­u­tive of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) and FI­FA, the gov­ern­ing body for the sport.

A last-ditch at­tempt to get mem­bers of the Unit­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) to drop its le­gal bat­tle against foot­ball’s world gov­ern­ing body FI­FA, to re­move a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee that was ap­point­ed to gov­ern the af­fairs of lo­cal foot­ball on March 27, seems to be gain­ing trac­tion.

It was a show of to­tal sup­port for the fu­ture of T&T foot­ball yes­ter­day at a Zoom meet­ing called by Min­is­ter of Sports and Youth Af­fairs Sham­fa Cud­joe, as the sport's en­tire mem­ber­ship, with the ex­cep­tion of Unit­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) mem­bers William Wal­lace, Clynt Tay­lor, Su­san Joseph-War­rick and Joseph Sam Philip, said they were not in sup­port of the coun­try be­ing sanc­tioned by FI­FA, the sport's gov­ern­ing body.

Mo­ham­mad Nabi grabbed wick­ets to hum­ble the St Kitts/Nevis Pa­tri­ots and lead his team the St Lu­cia Zouks to a re­sound­ing six-wick­et vic­to­ry in their Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) match at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) con­tin­ued their mer­ry way on Thurs­day as they de­feat­ed the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors by sev­en wick­ets to record their fifth suc­ces­sive vic­to­ry as the 2020 Hero Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) un­fold­ed at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain.

Crick­et Coun­cil USA (CCUSA) has sent out con­grat­u­la­tions to West In­dies and Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) play­er Dwayne Bra­vo on his feat of be­com­ing the first play­er to take 500 wick­ets in T20 crick­et.

Kei­th Look Loy, the dri­ving force be­hind the for­ma­tion of the Unit­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), is call­ing on the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU), be­ing led by Bar­ba­di­an Ran­dolph Har­ris, to seek the post­pone­ment of the CON­CA­CAF World Cup Qual­i­fiers which are sched­uled to be­gin in Oc­to­ber.

The T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) has con­grat­u­lat­ed Dwayne Bra­vo on his mo­men­tous achieve­ment of be­com­ing the first-ever crick­eter to take 500 wick­ets in T20 crick­et.

Icon­ic for­mer T&T play­er and "Strike Squad" head coach Ever­ald “Gal­ly” Cum­mings says he is ex­cit­ed about his ap­point­ment as head coach of the TnT "So­ca Ri­vals", the lo­cal fran­chise club for the in­au­gur­al Is­lands Open Cup (IS­CO) Tour­na­ment card­ed to take place in the Caribbean next sum­mer.