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KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – While football is on hold throughout the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jamaica international Kemar Lawrence will be working to ensure he maintains his top form for when he makes his debut with topflight Belgian club RSC Anderlecht.

MADRID, (Reuters) – Real Madrid’s playing and coaching staff have voluntarily agreed to take a wage cut of between 10 and 20 percent this year to help the club deal with the stoppage caused by the coronavirus outbreak, the La Liga side said in a statement yesterday.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italy’s football federation (FIGC) has begun to draw up medical guidelines for a possible re-start of Serie A, which has been suspended since March 9 because of the coronavirus outbreak.

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Bundesliga club Schalke 04 have asked season ticket holders to waive their right to a rebate and help the cash-strapped club through the lockdown due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Jameis Winston wants to beat Tom Brady and win Super Bowls one day, but for now he’s taking the high road after the “G.O.A.T”

A bat used by New York Yankees great Lou Gehrig has sold for more than $1 million.

(Reuters) – Wales’ top rugby players will take a 25% pay cut after the Professional Rugby Board (PRB) said yesterday it had reached an agreement with the Welsh Rugby Players’ Association (WRPA) to reduce salaries during the coronavirus crisis.

Guyana’s fittest man, Dillon Mahadeo, still has his hard hat on in preparation for the Reebok CrossFit Games even as there is some speculation that the event may not take place because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The uniqueness of siblings representing a team has often captivated spectators.

If you were going to tell the history of cricket in a handful of objects, the purple, wide-brimmed hat would be one of them There’s solace in the old clips, especially of cricket.

In what has become a tradition over the past few years, the annual Canada-based Tranzac Cricket Academy tour to Guyana has been cancelled for 2020.

The recently formed Guyana Golf Association (GGA) intends to tee off a golf academy in the coming months.

Members of the sacked executive of the TTFA (TT Football Association) – president William Wallace and his deputies Clynt Taylor, Susan Joseph-Warrick and Joseph Sam Phillip – will be filing their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), as they try to thwart FIFA’s running of the local governing body.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has issued its first in a series of monthly bulletins featuring the work of the organization; the first edition captured highlights of the January – February 2020 period. 

NEW YORK, CMC – Former international football strongman, Trinidadian Jack Warner, has again found himself at the centre of corruption charges after being implicated in another elaborate million-dollar scheme in a 53-count indictment unsealed Monday in the US District Court in Brooklyn.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Former captain Michael Clarke believes Australia went soft against India during the 2018-19 home series fearing sledging the likes of Virat Kohli would cost them lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) contracts.

Former FIFA vice-president Jack Austin Warner has expressed “no comment” to claims in an Associated Press report last evening that he received US$5 million in bribes for votes for Qatar to be awarded host nation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Formula One has put almost half its staff on furlough until the end of May due to the novel coronavirus with chairman Chase Carey and senior management also taking a pay cut, an F1 spokesman said yesterday.

CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa’s Sunshine Tour has created a fund for players and caddies to provide financial assistance for the next two months, but commissioner Selwyn Nathan said the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic could take the game back 20 years.

LONDON, (Reuters) – England could field two different teams on the same day at separate venues if the COVID-19 pandemic leads to a compressed home season, wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler has said.