T&T suf­fered its sec­ond de­feat at the Net­ball World Un­der-21 Cup, cur­rent­ly un­der­way in Gibral­tar.

In sport, pres­sure nev­er re­al­ly goes away. It shifts, it builds, it cools, but it’s al­ways there. Play­ers feel it on the pitch, coach­es feel it on the bench, and every­body else out­side has an opin­ion on how it should be han­dled. Af­ter a dip in per­for­mance, the voic­es get loud­er — fans, past play­ers, crit­ics, even the “wan­na-be coach­es” who dis­sect every kick from the safe­ty of their key­board.

T&T Eng­land-born in­ter­na­tion­al strik­er Justin Obik­wu came off the bench to score and set up an­oth­er goal as Lin­coln City de­feat­ed Lu­ton Town 3-1 in the Eng­lish Foot­ball League One at the LNER Sta­di­um on Sat­ur­day.

TOKYO – A botched han­dover on the fi­nal leg of Ja­maica’s men’s 4×100 me­tres re­lay summed up a most­ly dis­ap­point­ing day for Caribbean ath­letes on the penul­ti­mate day of the 2025 World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Japan on Sat­ur­day.

PROV­I­DENCE – Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers are through to yet an­oth­er Caribbean Pre­mier League fi­nal af­ter crush­ing de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Saint Lu­cia Kings by 56 runs in the sec­ond Qual­i­fi­er in Guyana on Fri­day.

Bliss and Se­cu­ri­ty An­a­lyst Ser­vices (SAS) made it six wins on the trot in their re­spec­tive 35 and un­der, and 54-60 Di­vi­sions when the Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) 8-A-Side Foot­ball Tour­na­ment con­tin­ued at the Queen’s Park Oval, Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night.

T&T's Un­der-21 net­ballers were beat­en by Fi­ji, 53-40, in the team's open­ing Pool D match at the Youth World Net­ball Cup at the Ter­cente­nary Sports Hall in Gibral­tar, Sat­ur­day.

There’s on­ly one way to kick off this col­umn, and that's by rais­ing a glass to the re­mark­able achieve­ments of Keshorn Wal­cott and Jereem Richards. Their re­cent tri­umphs have not mere­ly put this coun­try on the world map; they have paint­ed it in bold, vi­brant colours for all to see. Once again, the sheer, unadul­ter­at­ed pow­er of sport has been un­leashed, re­mind­ing us all of its ca­pac­i­ty to in­spire and unite.

A vol­un­teer is “an in­di­vid­ual who works out of free will or rel­a­tive­ly un­co­erced and re­ceives no re­mu­ner­a­tion at all or on­ly a rel­a­tive­ly small re­im­burse­ment or pay,” (Cnaan, Handy & Wadsworth, 1996). Vol­un­teers serve as tech­ni­cal of­fi­cials and gen­er­al sup­port staff in the ex­e­cu­tion of any sport­ing event, whether at the com­mu­ni­ty, school, na­tion­al, re­gion­al, or in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el.

A 2025 study pub­lished in the jour­nal Health­care (Basel), ti­tled “Phys­i­cal Ac­tiv­i­ty, BMI, and Their Ef­fects on Uni­ver­si­ty Stu­dents’ Qual­i­ty of Life” by Lju­bi­ca Lalović, Dani­jela Živković, and col­leagues, ex­am­ined how ex­er­cise and body weight in­flu­ence stu­dents’ over­all well-be­ing. The re­search fo­cused on qual­i­ty of life as a broad con­cept, in­clud­ing phys­i­cal health, men­tal well-be­ing, so­cial con­nec­tions, and en­vi­ron­men­tal fac­tors.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies will still have a pres­ence at the up­com­ing ICC Women’s World Cup, with um­pires Can­dace La Bor­de and Jacque­line Williams hav­ing been named to the Emi­rates ICC Pan­el of Match Of­fi­cials.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has heaped praise on her for­mer par­lia­men­tary col­league and for­mer Min­is­ter of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis, for her role in main­tain­ing and ad­min­is­ter­ing the Elite Ath­letes As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (EAAP).