The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) has inked a historic agreement to be a member of the inaugural ‘Caribe 3×3 Under 19 League Championship’, which is tentatively scheduled to be staged in Barbados in January 2021.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA), now over the initial shock of being taken over by the world governing body for the sport, is challenging the move in court.
TOKYO (Reuters) – A plane carrying the Olympic torch from Greece will arrive today on Japan’s northwestern coast ravaged by a 2011 tsunami, but the welcome ceremony will have no spectators, amid worries that the Games could be cancelled over a coronavirus pandemic.
(Reuters) – World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe said yesterday that moving the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to September or October due to the coronavirus outbreak was a possibility but it was too soon to take a decision on whether to cancel the Games.
SOFIA (Reuters) – Briton Anthony Joshua’s world heavyweight title defence against Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev will be postponed by several months due to the coronavirus outbreak, the IBF’s mandatory challenger said yesterday.
LONDON (Reuters) – Monaco cancelled its showcase Formula One Grand Prix, the sport’s most famous and glamorous race, in another high-profile casualty of the coronavirus epidemic yesterday.
(Reuters) – United States backstroke specialist Jacob Pebley has called on USA Swimming to postpone June’s Olympic trials and lobby for the Tokyo Games to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica Scorpions batsman Jermaine Blackwood is angling to get back into the West Indies squad and believes his performance in the Regional Four-Day Championship thus far could get him there.
BELGRADE (Reuters) – The Serbian government is set to press charges against the country’s Real Madrid striker Luka Jovic for breaking his mandatory 28-day coronavirus quarantine, the state Tanjug news agency said yesterday.
BERN (Reuters) – Swiss club FC Sion have dismissed nine players, including captain Xavier Kouassi and former Arsenal and Barcelona midfielder Alex Song, after the country’s league was halted indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic.
(Reuters) – Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart, three members of the Philadelphia 76ers organisation and two Los Angeles Lakers players have tested positive for COVID-19, Smart and the teams announced yesterday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) on Wednesday announced the suspension of its 2020 domestic season, which will see its highly anticipated inaugural T20 franchise competition being postponed until next year.
(Field Level Media) The NBA is instructing its teams to close their training and practice facilities effective today and until further notice, ESPN reported yesterday.
(Reuters) – Brazilian soccer clubs have joined the fight against coronavirus by offering their stadiums and training grounds to authorities.
(Reuters) – Manchester United will keep paying their casual staff even if the season’s remaining Premier League games are cancelled or played in empty stadiums because of the coronavirus pandemic, the club said yesterday.
(Reuters) – English soccer will be suspended until at least April 30 due to the coronavirus crisis, but the current season can be extended indefinitely, the English game’s governing bodies said in a joint statement yesterday.
(Field Level Media) Three members of the Philadelphia 76ers organisation have tested positive for coronavirus, the team announced yesterday.
(Reuters) – The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) said in a statement it has asked FIFA for permission to begin the qualifying rounds for the 2022 World Cup in September.
It is apparent that the outbreak of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) is continuing to serve up a number of global challenges in the world’s financial and healthcare economy.
West Indies Under – 19 player Joshua Persaud continues to prove his worth in the 2020 TT Cricket Board (TTCB) National Premiership competition at the weekend.
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