Ac­cord­ing to the dic­tio­nary, an ide­al­ist is some­one who en­vi­sions an ide­al world rather than the re­al one. Some peo­ple con­sid­er ide­al­ists to be naive, im­prac­ti­cal and out of touch with re­al­i­ty. Ide­al­ists think that striv­ing for per­fec­tion makes the world a bet­ter place.

Ca­den Tre­strail scored the lone goal to lead Fa­ti­ma Col­lege to a 1-0 win over Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School in the Sec­ondary School Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Na­tion­al Un­der-16 Boys’ fi­nal at Fa­ti­ma Col­lege Ground, Mu­cu­rapo Road, on Monday. 

T&T Hock­ey Board club Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) won the Men’s Open and Over-35 di­vi­sions, while George Unit­ed and Hik­ers clinched the Women’s and Men’s Over-45 crowns when the Di­a­mond Min­er­al Wa­ter In­ter­na­tion­al Hock­ey Fes­ti­val con­clud­ed at the Na­tion­al Gym­na­si­um on Man­dela Av­enue in Guyana on Sun­day. In the men’s open sec­tion, Queen’s Park squeaked past the Toron­to Li­ons 7-6. 

Top-lev­el in­struc­tors Hi­roshi Ishikawa and Ale­jan­dro Cas­tro fea­tured at the 12th In­ter­na­tion­al Sem­i­nar host­ed by the Shotokan Karate-do In­ter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion Kanaza­wa Group T&T (SKIF KG TT) over the week­end (No­vem­ber 30 - De­cem­ber 1).

E-Z Lines have been de­clared the Mick­ey Mouse League of Darts cham­pi­ons fol­low­ing a chal­leng­ing sea­son, end­ing with sev­en wins, one loss, and two draws.

Though en­gulfed by the ex­cite­ment of be­ing ap­point­ed the coun­try’s na­tion­al coach, for­mer na­tion­al and Man­ches­ter Unit­ed strik­er Dwight Yorke is not naive to his dif­fi­cul­ty in tak­ing the coun­try to its sec­ond FI­FA World Cup in his­to­ry.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) an­nounced two changes to the 15-man squad which de­feat­ed Eng­land 2-1 in “The Ri­val­ry” se­ries for the West In­dies Men’s CG Unit­ed One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) home se­ries against Bangladesh.

Kingston, Ja­maica— First rain, then open­er Shad­man Is­lam with an un­beat­en, pa­tient half cen­tu­ry added to the West In­dies’ frus­tra­tions on the open­ing day of the sec­ond Test at Sabi­na Park on Sat­ur­day.

For­mer pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ic Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NAAATT) Ephraim Ser­rette made a tri­umphant re­turn to the head of or­gan­i­sa­tion af­ter beat­ing in­cum­bent George Comis­siong 56 to 21 votes at the NAAATT elec­tion held at the Five Rivers Sec­ondary School in Arou­ca on Sat­ur­day.

Ask any­one about the ad­van­tages of hav­ing a cam­era phone read­i­ly avail­able in their hands to shoot al­most any­thing at any­time and on any day, and they can an­swer you al­most im­me­di­ate­ly.

Kingston, Ja­maica Jay­den Seales de­liv­ered a mas­ter­class in pace bowl­ing with sen­sa­tion­al fig­ures of 15.5-10-5-4 as the West In­dies skit­tled out Bangladesh for 164 on the sec­ond day of the sec­ond Test here at Sabi­na Park on Sun­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low has de­fend­ed the re­cent two-match sus­pen­sion giv­en to fast bowler Alzarri Joseph for mis­con­duct, while re­fut­ing sug­ges­tions that he should have been giv­en a length­i­er ban for his ac­tions.