Four teams will Sat­ur­day (Oc­to­ber 24), at the Trinidad Coun­try Club in Mar­aval, be­gin a test-run for next year's Na­tion­al Ju­nior Team Ten­nis League, an ini­tia­tive of the Ten­nis Pa­trons Acad­e­my.

This af­ter the Court of Ap­peal judges, Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie and Ap­pel­late Judge Nolan Bereaux on Fri­day over­turned the rul­ing by High Court Judge Car­ol Gob­in last Tues­day, there­by throw­ing the fu­ture of Unit­ed T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) pres­i­dent William Wal­lace and his vice pres­i­dents Clynt Tay­lor and Joseph Sam Phillip in­to lim­bo.

T&T's na­tion­al taek­won­do ace Bran­don Joseph has signed an agree­ment with Team I fight, un­der the train­ing of Mas­ter Mo­hamed Ali Mel­ghagh in the Unit­ed States.

USA-based T&T swim­mer Dy­lan Carter and his LA Cur­rent team-mates will re­turn to ac­tion when the sec­ond week of the 2020 In­ter­na­tion­al Swim­ming League (ISL) splash­es off at the Duna Are­na in Bu­dapest, Hun­gary Sat­ur­day (Oc­to­ber 24).

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies Women bat­ting star, De­an­dra Dot­tin, says she is hop­ing to ex­tend her re­cent rich vein of form when she turns out in the Women’sT20 Chal­lenge start­ing next month in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates.

William Wal­lace, the em­bat­tled pres­i­dent of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), is be­ing asked to equip him­self to an­swer sev­er­al ques­tions at Sun­day's Ex­tra­or­di­nary Gen­er­al Meet­ing (EGM) which was called to de­cide on a way for­ward for lo­cal foot­ball.

DUBAI – West In­dies Test cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er made an in­stant im­pact in his first game of the In­di­an Pre­mier League sea­son, snatch­ing three wick­ets to help fire Sun­ris­ers Hy­der­abad to a com­fort­able eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over Jofra Archer’s Ra­jasthan Roy­als in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, Thurs­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Ex-West In­dies fast bowler Tony Gray has crit­i­cised the se­lec­tion of Keemo Paul in the Test squad for New Zealand, con­tend­ing the all-rounder should have been re­placed by stroke-mak­er Shai Hope whom he has la­belled a “great tal­ent”.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – For­mer West In­dies open­er, Phi­lo Wal­lace, has brand­ed as “weak” the Test team cho­sen for the New Zealand tour, and has es­pe­cial­ly blast­ed the in­clu­sion of fail­ing open­er John Camp­bell in the 15-man squad.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – Test cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er has urged au­thor­i­ties to keep the is­sues sur­round­ing racial jus­tice at the fore­front of sports af­ter he and West In­dies were this week ho­n­oured with the Pe­ter Smith Award by the Crick­et Writ­ers Club for their “trail­blaz­ing” tour of Eng­land last Ju­ly.

I won­der if Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) lead se­lec­tor, Roger Harp­er, thinks West In­dies sup­port­ers are ig­no­rant when it comes to West In­dies crick­et?

T&T Power­boat icon Ken Charles has achieved al­most every­thing there is to achieve in power­boat rac­ing.