The following article was penned for the TTOC Tokyo 2020 Olympic Magazine, prior to the ongoing competition: With no spectators likely to be in the stands, for the athletes the Tokyo 2020 experience promises to be unique. For regional televiewers, says LASANA LIBURD, it will be, if not unique, certainly …
Read More »CWI announces five year ESPN+ deal, as West Indies games head to US viewers
Cricket West Indies (CWI) president Ricky Skerritt announced a five year deal today with ESPN+ that will take West Indies cricket to ‘millions of households and viewers across the United States’ through the sports network’s streaming service. The ESPN+ partnership, which starts with the all-format Sri Lanka cricket tour of …
Read More »Media Monitor: Reporting quality the genesis of enduring WI woes? Writers needed to right cricket ship
Asked to name his best-ever West Indies squad, Lloyd Best named as his very first selectee the dean of West Indian cricket writers, Tony Cozier. This was in the late 1990s; we did not yet know that, like the Israelites in the Old Testament, we West Indians would be condemned …
Read More »ESPN allegedly seeks legal advice as DJW’s TTFA braces for more tv rights claims
Trinidad and Tobago Football Association (TTFA) president David John-Williams and his board of directors, apparently, do not know when they are behind. Wired868 understands that the TTFA, in an extraordinary show of chutzpah, is sticking to its guns and refusing to allow broadcast rights holders to operate inside the Hasely Crawford …
Read More »Raucous in Rio: Machel motors but Wayde and Bolt leave Rio bazodee
Twenty-year-old Trinidad and Tobago rising star Machel Cedenio broke a national 400 metre record last night that was set, four years before he was born, by Ian Morris at the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games. But it was not enough to get him on the podium after an extraordinary race in which …
Read More »Some of Marisa’s critics would make Trump blush; Shaka joins gymnastics debate
I see, in Trinidad and Tobago, the discrimination against foreign-born athletes is alive and kicking. Full disclosure: I was born in the UK and represented T&T with all of my pride. I also have more than a passing interest in gymnastics. So I have followed the personalities, issues and discussion …
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