An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Fal­cons coach Paul Nixon has ac­cused Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) of be­ing "dis­re­spect­ful" and "un­pro­fes­sion­al".

T&T Bad­minton As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­BA) pres­i­dent, Chan­dri­ka Ram­sub­hag, was full of praise for the T&T play­ers who re­cent­ly re­turned home with a bulging bag of medals at the con­clu­sion of the Caribbean Re­gion­al Bad­minton Con­fed­er­a­tion (CARE­BA­CO) Ju­nior Cham­pi­onships in Bar­ba­dos.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies Un­der-19 cap­tain Joshua Dorne be­lieves his side will emerge vic­to­ri­ous when they take on Sri Lan­ka in their up­com­ing Youth ODI se­ries.

Hosts T&T, Bar­ba­dos and Lee­ward Is­lands all reg­is­tered suc­ces­sive vic­to­ries when the CWI Ris­ing Stars Un­der-17 Men’s 50-over Cham­pi­onship con­tin­ued on Thurs­day.

Reign­ing World In­door Mas­ters (Over-35) cham­pi­ons Gwen­dolyn Smith and Geral­dine George led the way by cap­tur­ing mul­ti­ple ti­tles at this year’s T&T As­so­ci­a­tion of Mas­ters Ath­let­ics (TTA­MA) Track and Field Cham­pi­onships at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, on the week­end (Au­gust 23-24).

LEON – An­tigua & Bar­bu­da’s se­nior men’s vol­ley­ball team faced a for­mi­da­ble chal­lenge to open their XVI­II Pan-Amer­i­can Cup cam­paign, falling in straight sets to a dom­i­nant Cuban squad in Group A ac­tion in Mex­i­co on Tues­day.

ST GEORGE’S – In a stun­ning up­set that has sent shock­waves through the tour­na­ment, Saint Lu­cia hand­ed the pre­vi­ous­ly un­beat­en An­tigua and Bar­bu­da their first de­feat of the fifth EC­CB In­ter­na­tion­al Net­ball Se­ries with a com­mand­ing 45-33 vic­to­ry at the Tan­teen Net­ball Court in Grena­da.

Team cap­tain Luke Phillip was the hero for Guapo Up­ris­ing Youths as he fired in a hat-trick to in­spire Guapo Up­ris­ing Youths to an en­ter­tain­ing come-from-be­hind 4-3 tri­umph over Gas­par­il­lo Youths ‘Y’ in this year’s fi­nal of the West Penn Is­land­wide Com­mu­ni­ty Youth (Un­der-21) Foot­ball Tour­na­ment at the Diego Mar­tin Sport­ing Com­plex, Sa­van­nah Road, Diego Mar­tin, on Au­gust 23. The tour­na­ment was host­ed by the West Penn Cen­tre for Sports and Cul­ture in con­junc­tion with RBC Roy­al Bank of T&T.

Buck­le up, sports fans, as we are once again blessed with a boun­ty of im­por­tant sport­ing events over the next few weeks. Let us start with the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), which bowled off on Au­gust 14 in Bas­seterre, St Kitts.

CAS­TRIES – In a ma­jor move set to rev­o­lu­tionise the busi­ness of sports in Saint Lu­cia, the World In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WIPO) is part­ner­ing with the gov­ern­ment to host a land­mark con­fer­ence aimed at em­pow­er­ing lo­cal ath­letes, sports fed­er­a­tions, and en­tre­pre­neurs.

GROS ISLET – The Saint Lu­cia Kings sent a thun­der­ous mes­sage to the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League, an­nounc­ing their ti­tle de­fence is well and tru­ly alive with a stun­ning four-wick­et vic­to­ry over the pre­vi­ous­ly un­beat­en Guyana Ama­zon War­riors in St Lu­cia on Tues­day night.

The Sports Com­pa­ny of T&T (SporTT) of­fi­cial­ly opened its new, elite gym at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre, Or­ange Grove Road, Tacarigua on Mon­day.