History was made in local football yesterday, at the VIP Lounge of the Hasely Crawford Stadium when the T&T Pro League and cable providers Flow, signed a three-year partnership that will provide financial assistance for the Youth Pro League for the 2015/2016 season.

Architect Dame Zaha Hadid, whose designs include the London Olympic Aquatic Centre, has died aged 65. Iraqi-born, this year she was the first woman to receive the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) Gold Medal in recognition of her work.

Less than a fortnight ago the world of sport waited with baited breath and crossed fingers as Britain’s Olympic cycling heroine Victoria Pendleton swapped saddles to negotiate Cheltenham racecourse on horseback without falling off, breaking a limb - or worse.

What are the barriers to new thinking and innovation and how do they impact on sports’ growth? I believe there has been an absence of self-belief and clear thinking which has left local sport in no-man’s land in respect of policy makers and those who influence policy.

Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) president Brian Lewis has urged National Sporting Organisations (NSOs) to broaden their outlook for talent identification in an effort to increase the number of sporting disciplines we compete in on a global scale.

Former Honduran president, Rafael Callejas, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges, admitting he solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in connection with a Fifa corruption scandal.