Un­less you had re­cent­ly trav­elled to Mars, you are like­ly to know that the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) crick­et tour­na­ment was con­duct­ed in a se­ries of bio-se­cure bub­bles. Play­ers and of­fi­cials were housed in a bio-se­cure bub­ble at the Hilton Trinidad ho­tel and the games were played in the bio-se­cure bub­bles of the Queen’s Park Oval and the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my, de­void of sup­port­ers. There was a third bub­ble that, for good rea­sons, was not wide­ly pub­li­cised.

DER­BY, Eng­land – West In­dies Women will wear the Black Lives Mat­ter lo­go on their play­ing shirts when they face Eng­land Women through­out the up­com­ing Vi­tal­i­ty T20 In­ter­na­tion­al (T20I) se­ries, start­ing Mon­day, as part of the San­dals West In­dies Tour of Eng­land 2020. The de­ci­sion was tak­en by the play­ers and team man­age­ment with the full sup­port of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI).

ABU DHABI– Kieron Pol­lard tast­ed de­feat for the first time in 13 match­es as reign­ing In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) cham­pi­ons, Mum­bai In­di­ans, crashed to a five-wick­et de­feat to Chen­nai Su­per Kings in the tour­na­ment cur­tain-rais­er in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, on Sat­ur­day.

T&T's Saman­tha Wal­lace be­came on­ly the third play­er in the Sun­corp Su­per Net­ball League his­to­ry and the sec­ond this sea­son to sur­pass the 2,000 goals mile­stone when she led de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons New South Wales Swifts to a nar­row 57-54 tri­umph over Ade­laide Thun­der­birds in the penul­ti­mate round of reg­u­lar-sea­son match­es at Cairns Pop Up Are­na in Aus­tralia, on Sat­ur­day.

Lo­cal foot­ball has been mis­man­aged for decades and the fi­nan­cial woes of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) did not start un­der the David John-Williams ad­min­is­tra­tion. The cur­rent as­so­ci­a­tion mem­bers al­so no longer sup­port the Unit­ed TTFA ex­ec­u­tive led by William Wal­lace.

Bar­ba­dos, this time of year is per­fect to va­ca­tion but for pro­fes­sion­al net­ballers, Kali­fa Mc­Collin and Daystar Swift, it’s nowhere close to that as they long to be home.

Mys­tery spin­ner Sunil Nar­ine is the high­est paid West In­dies play­er at the 2020 Dream 11 In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL), col­lect­ing a whop­ping US$1.2M.

Over the years and across the globe many ath­letes have tran­si­tioned from sportsper­son to politi­cian, ef­fec­tive­ly and seam­less­ly, some more than oth­ers. Then there are those who haven’t been able to get a pass­ing grade.

William Wal­lace, pres­i­dent of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, which has found it­self in a heat­ed court bat­tle with the FI­FA over the ap­point­ment of a Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee that has re­placed he and his ex­ec­u­tive on March 27, as the ad­min­is­tra­tors of foot­ball in T&T, for the first time, hint­ed at pos­si­bly drop­ping the court mat­ter, as was re­quest­ed by the FI­FA on Au­gust 26.

The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion was to­day, giv­en a re­vised dead­line of Sep­tem­ber 23 to drop all mat­ters in the court against the sport's world gov­ern­ing body-FI­FA, or face sus­pen­sion.

William Wal­lace, the oust­ed pres­i­dent of the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), has sought to clear the air on con­cerns of his group’s al­leged fi­nan­cial deals, which would have led to the in­stal­la­tion of the Robert Hadad-led Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee by FI­FA on March 17.

De­spite the threat of a FI­FA ban hang­ing over its head due to cir­cum­stance ful­ly out of their con­trol T&T se­nior men's foot­ball team has been list­ed as one of six Pre-seed­ed teams along with Haiti, Guatemala, Cu­ba, Guade­loupe and Bermu­da for the 2021 Con­ca­caf Gold Cup pre­lim­i­nary draw which will in­volve 12 coun­tries.