Inadvertent breach by Trist

Basketball: Fringe New Zealand Breakers centre Dan Trist will need to be isolated from the team for 14 days after inadvertently breaching the Australian NBL’s Covid19 protocols.

A family member of Trist’s was given permission by the team to visit him in Adelaide. The club approved the visit without first seeking the consent of the ANBL, which is in breach of the league’s Covid protocols.

As a consequence of that visit, Trist is regarded by the Western Australian Government as having been in close contact with a person who has been in a restricted zone (Victoria) in the past 14 days. It means Trist is unable to enter Western Australia for the Breakers’ game against the Perth Wildcats in round three on January 31. — AAP governing body Uefa and the other five continental confederations, Fifa yesterday said it would not recognise any such breakaway.

The idea of a breakaway league, as an alternative to Uefa’s flagship Champions League, has been floated for many years but speculation has intensified in the past two years. — Reuters play in the NRL and to do it with my little bro [Dallin] will always be something special,’’ he posted on Instagram.— AAP