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(Reuters) – While the coronavirus wreaks havoc on the global sporting calendar, the NFL said yesterday it planned to have a full season, including games in London and Mexico City, and to kick off on time in September.

(Reuters) – The global players’ union FIFPRO has said the completion of the current season must be the priority when football is finally able to resume following the coronavirus outbreak.

Guyana under-15 coach, Ryan Hercules believes Cricket West Indies (CWI) made the right call in cancelling the Regional boys’ under-15 championship 2020.

Eon Hooper has played only a single first-class game for the Guyana Jaguars but the 29-year-old off-spinning all-rounder is hungry to make a comeback.

Cricket West Indies (CWI) president Ricky Skerritt lamented the startling impact of the global pandemic Coronavirus in his latest interview with a Trinidadian Morning talk show. 

This year’s Regional U – 19 cricket tournament was cancelled by Cricket West Indies (CWI) because of the growing concerns surrounding the global COVID-19 pandemic.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Cricket West Indies chief, Ricky Skerritt, has assured the region that presidential term limits are still on the cards and will be addressed once the Wehby Governance report is submitted within the next month.

The Olympic Solidarity Scholarships that Guyanese and other athletes around the world benefit from was set to expire following the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, however due to the postponement of the Games as result of the pandemic, COVID-19, the scholarships will continue.

BARCELONA, (Reuters) – Barcelona players will make an extra contribution on top of the 70% pay cut they have agreed to take during the enforced La Liga break so that the club’s other employees can earn their full salaries during the coronavirus crisis, captain Lionel Messi said.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Eliud Kipchoge, the world’s greatest marathon man, reckoned his first reaction was shock when he heard at home in Kenya that the 2020 Olympic Games had been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – The postponed Olympic Games will now begin on July 23 next year and run until Aug.

(Reuters) – Athletics’ world championships have been postponed until the summer of 2022 and the global governing body is seeking new dates for the event in Eugene, Oregon that was originally scheduled for 2021.

Former president of the T&T Football Association (TTFA) William Wallace will have to find an estimated TT$300,000 to $500,000 for legal costs if he and his three vice presidents are to challenge the world governing body for football (FIFA) in their efforts to overturn FIFA’s decision to remove them from office and implement a Normalisation Committee to manage the affairs of T&T football.

President of the St Ann Football Association (St. A. FA), Danny Beckford says that the large number of administrative mishandlings that dogged the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) over the last two years is the main reason FIFA has restricted funding to the federation and demanded changes.

RAYAD Emrit is keeping focus during the Covid19 break as he returned to the lower tier of national cricket after two decades to propel Police Cricket Club to the highest level locally.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Robert Hadad, chairman of the FIFA normalisation committee controversially set up to run Trinidad and Tobago’s football, has shot down suggestions there was any sinister intent to use the body to target certain administration officials.

With airports across the world shut down due to the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, several Guyanese cricketers are left stranded in Trinidad and Tobago.

With the spread of the Covid-19 virus increasing locally, Adrian Giddings, secretary of the West Demerara Football Association (WDFA), has confirmed that the current situation has thwarted all the entity’s developmental plans.

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The WBO super middleweight world champion Billy Joe Saunders apologised yesterday for a video in which he advised men how to hit their female partners during the coronavirus lockdown.

(Reuters) – Four years after being inspired by watching compatriot Justin Rose claim gold at the Rio Olympics, Bronte Law had all but secured a spot on the British golf team before the 2020 Tokyo Games were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.