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(Reuters) – The late Kobe Bryant was selected yesterday as a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

Guyana’s top muscleman, Kerwin Clarke is imploring on his fellow Guyanese to take all necessary steps to flex their muscles against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Former national Under-19 quick, Joshua Jones has benefited extensively since being part of the Guyana Jaguars training contingent.

THERE is no need, just yet, to shift the dates for the 2021 Commonwealth Youth Games, which is scheduled from August 1-7 here in TT, according to TT Olympic Committee (TTOC) and TT Commonwealth Games Association president Brian Lewis.

(Trinidad Guardian) It’s now official. Former president of the T&T Football Association (TTFA) William Wallace will challenge FIFA’s decision to remove him and his three vice president from elected office.

(Reuters) – The world heavyweight title fight between Briton Anthony Joshua and the IBF’s mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev of Bulgaria originally scheduled for June 20 has been postponed, promoters Matchroom Boxing said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Premier League has said its clubs will consult with their players over a proposed 30% reduction in wages and the suspended season would only resume when it was “safe and appropriate”.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, Apr 3, CMC – The West Indies Under-19 tour of England has been scrapped due to “scheduling clashes”, Cricket West Indies said Friday.

NEW DELHI, April 3 (Reuters) – The International Cricket Council (ICC) is considering separating media and broadcasting rights of the women’s events following the success of the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia earlier this year.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, CMC – New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White says the Black Caps tour of West Indies in July is now “most unlikely” especially with the country currently into day eight of a four-week lockdown, and the deadly coronavirus pandemic continuing to engulf the globe.

MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins expects the 2020 Indian Premier League (IPL) to be merely delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic and is optimistic the home Twenty20 World Cup will go ahead as scheduled later this year.

WELLINGTON, (Reuters) – New Zealand’s winter tours to Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland and West Indies are in “serious doubt” due to the coronavirus and there are “obvious question marks” looming over the tour to Bangladesh in August, the national cricket board said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Allowing the Tour de France to go ahead as scheduled despite the COVID-19 pandemic would be “madness” and a “crime against humanity”, former French sports minister David Douillet has said.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Athletes already qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will need to be picked again by their respective National Olympic Committees to compete at the postponed Games in 2021, the International Olympic Committee said yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Tony Lewis, co-inventor of the Duckworth-Lewis method for settling weather-affected cricket matches, has died aged 78.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Cricket West Indies president Ricky Skerritt has painted a challenging portrait of the governing body’s finances, pointing to a shortage of working capital as a continued problem while underscoring the need to secure sustainable revenue streams.

ROME (Reuters) – Football will be totally different when it eventually resumes after the coronavirus outbreak, the head of global soccer body FIFA Gianni Infantino said yesterday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Tennis may not return until 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic caused the cancellation of the entire grasscourt season and most of the claycourt campaign, All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) chief executive Richard Lewis said yesterday.

MUMBAI, India, CMC – West Indies’ Twenty20 stars could find themselves excluded from this year’s Indian Premier League, if a plan by some stakeholders goes forward which would allow the lucrative tournament to come off in spite of the growing threat from the deadly coronavirus pandemic.