Matt Peart of the University of Connecticut was selected with the 99th overall pick in the third round of the 2020 National Football League (NFL) Draft by the New York Giants on Friday night. Peart who was born in Kingston, Jamaica,moved to The Bronx, New York with. his family as a child Through the Oliver […]
ST.JOHNS, Antigua – The three-Test series between West Indies and England, slated to be held in June, has been postponed due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. Both the teams were scheduled to play the first Test from June 4-8 at The Oval,the second Test from June 12-16 at Edgbaston and the third Test from June […]
Devwah Whaley, a 22-year-old Bermudian, has been given the chance to realise his dream of playing in America’s National Football League (NFL) after being signed by the Cincinnati Bengals, a franchise that struggled badly last season. Whaley, a running back at the University of Arkansas, was not selected in the NFL draft at the weekend, […]
CASTRIES, St Lucia – Darren Sammy will return as skipper of the St. Lucia Zouks for the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2020 season, the franchise announced last week, even amid uncertainty over whether the popular T20 tournament will come off as planned. Sammy, who has just finished a coaching stint in Pakistan, will be back […]
This year’s CARIFTA Games which had been scheduled for April 10-13 in Bermuda, are set to be postponed until 2021, The North American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) confirmed that the event would not be held this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Organisers had initially hoped to reschedule the CARIFTA Games for later this […]
The Caribbean Games will be held in 2021 despite the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympiuc Games., Keith Joseph, secretary general of the Caribbean Association of National Olympic Committees (CANOC) has confirmed. The inaugural Caribbean Games are scheduled to take place in Guadeloupe from June 30 to July 4 2021. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Former West Indies captain Sir Richie Richardson has urged Cricket West Indies (CWI) to come up with a comprehensive development plan to channel the region’s “immense talent” and transform West Indies into a competitive side. Any such plan, Sir Richie contended, required the input of all stakeholders, especially if CWI wanted to […]
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Jason Holder is confident of returning to his best one-day form following a recent lean patch, and said he was still adjusting to the transition of being just a player again after being replaced as captain eight months ago. The 28-year-old all-rounder has been one of the Caribbean side’s most reliable players, […]
Tony Fernández , the former Blue Jays shortstop who helped the Toronto team win the 1993 World Series, died on Sunday after battling complications from a kidney disease and had suffered a stroke. He was 57. Fernández was taken off a life support system on Sunday afternoon with his family present at a hospital in […]
The latest rankings of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), published this week, listed Trinidad and Tobago at 105th in the world, its second-lowest in history. The eight-time Caribbean Football Union (CFU) champions have now spent a 10th consecutive month outside the world’s top-100. The last time Trinidad and Tobago ‘s Soca Warriors were […]
