Tasseog­ra­phy: "A div­ina­tion prac­tice or for­tune-telling method that in­ter­prets pat­terns in tea leaves at the bot­tom of a cup."

The trio of Pleas­antville Sec­ondary School (South), Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas (Cen­tral) and East Mu­cu­rapo Sec­ondary School (North) cap­tured their re­spec­tive Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League Boys Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion zon­als crown on Tues­day to stay in con­tention for pro­mo­tion to next year’s Pre­mier Di­vi­sion.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) team, Club San­do FC, suf­fered a 2-0 de­feat to Ja­maica Pre­mier League (JPL) club Mount Pleas­ant Foot­ball Acad­e­my on Thurs­day night in their Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup semi­fi­nal sec­ond leg at Sabi­na Park, Kingston, Ja­maica.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Dr Kishore Shal­low has come out in de­fense of his chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Chris Dehring, who re­cent­ly called for a re­vamp of the ICC’s rev­enue mod­el.

A few days ago, a fel­low crick­et head pulled me aside and posed a straight­for­ward ques­tion: “How would you rate the West In­dies’ white-ball tour to In­dia?” Af­ter mulling it over for a few sec­onds and work­ing on a scale from one to ten (where a one is an ab­solute, un­mit­i­gat­ed dis­as­ter and a ten is pure, flaw­less per­fec­tion), I set­tled firm­ly on a nine out of ten. A ten would have re­quired a clean sweep of every sin­gle match, but a rat­ing of nine places this cam­paign square­ly in the “Very Good” cat­e­go­ry.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Club San­do will be chas­ing his­to­ry when they face Ja­maica's Mount Pleas­ant Foot­ball Acad­e­my in the sec­ond leg of their Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup semi­fi­nal at Sabi­na Park, Kingston, Ja­maica, on Thurs­day night from 7 pm.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent Dr. Kishore Shal­low be­lieves the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil’s (ICC) fi­nan­cial dis­tri­b­u­tion and bi­lat­er­al broad­cast­ing rev­enue mod­els should be re­viewed to pro­vide greater ben­e­fits for small­er crick­et­ing na­tions but in­sists the re­gion­al gov­ern­ing body re­mains com­fort­able with its cur­rent arrange­ments.

Trinidad and To­ba­go's 'Ca­lyp­so Girls' breezed to a 73-41 win over St. Vin­cent and the Grenadines to im­prove to 2-0 in the Amer­i­c­as Net­ball World Cup Qual­i­fiers at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Com­plex, Bridgetown, St. Michael, Bar­ba­dos, on Tues­day.

DHA­KA, Bangladesh — West In­dies bat­ting coach Floyd Reifer has de­clared the team’s two-week Test prepa­ra­tion camp in Chen­nai a re­sound­ing suc­cess, rat­ing it a per­fect 10 out of 10 as the Caribbean side pre­pares to face a Bangladesh Crick­et Board XI in a two-day warm-up match start­ing Thurs­day.

Goal-shoot Maikea Bram­ble and goal-at­tack Ki­ra Roth­well helped Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­nior net­ball team open their Amer­i­c­as Net­ball World Cup Qual­i­fiers with a com­fort­able 61-45 win over the Grena­da Spice Girls at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Com­plex, Bar­ba­dos on Mon­day.

“Own­ing our sto­ry and lov­ing our­selves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do.” — Brené Brown

The theme for this year’s World Men­tal Health Day (Oc­to­ber 10) was “Lived ex­pe­ri­ences heard: re­al voic­es, re­al change,” fo­cus­ing on lis­ten­ing to in­di­vid­ual sto­ries for pos­i­tive ac­tion and sup­port.