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.

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

For­mer Caribbean cy­cling one kilo­me­tre time tri­al cham­pi­on Tariq Woods rode to vic­to­ry in the men’s Elite 1, 2, 3 and Un­der-23 Di­vi­sion of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion Road Race Chal­lenge #4 Cri­teri­um “Keep Mov­ing Sun­days” on the Diego Mar­tin High­way, Diego Mar­tin on Sun­day, Au­gust 24.

Phillip Watts, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs has pledged his con­tin­ued sup­port to the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion and its na­tion­al teams in their quest for suc­cess.

With so much hap­pen­ing that can be seen as neg­a­tive, even in say­ing that these aren’t easy times and it’s an ex­treme­ly chal­leng­ing pe­ri­od, I re­main un­wa­ver­ing in my be­lief that “this too shall pass”.

Cham­pi­on train­er John O’Brien and cham­pi­on jock­ey Dil­lon Khelawan both will be seek­ing to con­tin­ue their win­ning ways when the Ari­ma Race Club bring rac­ing to the ta­ble on Mon­day (Sep­tem­ber 1).

The Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Un­der-16 Girls Hub pro­gramme, Au­gust 15 to Sep­tem­ber 3, in part­ner­ship with the T&T Women’s Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (TTWCA), is ex­pos­ing young girls to the fun­da­men­tals of crick­et as part of a long-term strate­gic plan to de­vel­op the next gen­er­a­tion of high­ly skilled West In­dies women's crick­eters.

GROS ISLET – The Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers se­cured a cru­cial 18-run vic­to­ry over the Saint Lu­cia Kings in a hard-fought Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League en­counter at the Daren Sam­my Crick­et Grounds in St Lu­cia on Sat­ur­day night, a re­sult that dra­mat­i­cal­ly reshuf­fles the ear­ly-sea­son stand­ings.

T&T's Chan­non Thomp­son was named the "Most Valu­able Play­er" (MVP) of the tour­na­ment among her three in­di­vid­ual awards af­ter the "Ca­lyp­so Spik­ers" record­ed a ninth women's ti­tle when the Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Se­nior Cham­pi­onship end­ed at the Kendal GL Isaacs Na­tion­al Gym­na­si­um in New Prov­i­dence, Nas­sau, Ba­hamas on Sat­ur­day night.

Imag­ine the mood and the at­mos­phere in­side the Trinidad & To­ba­go lock­er room in Dort­mund on June 10, 2006—min­utes be­fore our World Cup de­but against Swe­den.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – In a sig­nif­i­cant move that sig­nals a po­ten­tial chang­ing of the guard, long-serv­ing open­er and for­mer Test cap­tain Kraigg Brath­waite is set to be dropped from Crick­et West In­dies’ cen­tral con­tract list for the 2025-2026 sea­son.

T&T "Ca­lyp­so Spik­ers" re­claimed their ti­tle as cham­pi­ons of Caribbean women's vol­ley­ball when they came from be­hind to beat long-time ri­val Bar­ba­dos in four sets in the 19th Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Se­nior Cham­pi­onship fi­nal at the Kendal GL Isaacs Na­tion­al Gym­na­si­um in New Prov­i­dence, Nas­sau, Ba­hamas Sat­ur­day night.