​How­ev­er, so­cial me­dia is here to stay. One ought not to be an im­ped­i­ment to progress. In this re­gard, I have al­ways adopt­ed the po­si­tion that, when dis­cussing so­cial me­dia, one should fo­cus on the pos­i­tives rather than the neg­a­tives. How­ev­er, it’s al­so im­por­tant to iden­ti­fy the neg­a­tive as­pects.

Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior men’s vol­ley­baller dropped to a 0-2 record in Pool A of the 19th Men’s Pan Amer­i­can Vol­ley­ball Cup af­ter a straight sets loss to Cos­ta Ri­ca at Po­lifo­rum 2 de la Uni­ver­si­dad Autóno­ma del Es­ta­do de More­los in More­los, Mex­i­co on Mon­day (Au­gust 10).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Darts As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­DA) Na­tion­al 501 League con­clud­ed in thrilling fash­ion Tues­day (Au­gust 4) night at the Kos­mos Club in Port-of-Spain, bring­ing an end to an­oth­er high­ly com­pet­i­tive sea­son across the A, B and C Di­vi­sions.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – West In­dies all-rounder Justin Greaves is among three play­ers nom­i­nat­ed for the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) Men’s Play­er of the Month award for Ju­ly.

Cheque­da De Boulet was the lone play­er to win her match as Trinidad and To­ba­go got off to a los­ing start in the Se­nior Caribbean Re­gion­al Bad­minton Con­fed­er­a­tion (CARE­BA­CO) Cham­pi­onship team events host­ed by the Ja­maica Bad­minton As­so­ci­a­tion (JBA) at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy (UTECH) Au­di­to­ri­um in Kingston, Ja­maica, on Mon­day night.

ORE­GON, Unit­ed States – Tian­na Springer cre­at­ed his­to­ry over the week­end when she se­cured a bronze medal in the women’s 400 me­tres at the World Un­der-20 Cham­pi­onships to cap­ture Guyana’s first medal at the event in 14 years.

Al­ix Pan­tin and Lily Tang were crowned over­all cham­pi­ons of the Girls Un­der-18 Di­vi­sion of the T&T Vol­ley­ball Fed­er­a­tion Trin­ba­go Beach Vol­ley­ball Tour at the Sand Courts in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Sun­day (Au­gust 9).

Trinidad and To­ba­go's Makae­len Woods was edged out on the line for the bronze medal in the men’s 200m fi­nal on the penul­ti­mate day of com­pe­ti­tion at the World Ath­let­ics Un­der-20 Cham­pi­onships at Hay­ward Field at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon, in Ore­gon, USA, on Sat­ur­day night.

ARNOS VALE – In a pul­sat­ing Caribbean Pre­mier League con­test that swung like a pen­du­lum un­til the very last ball, the St Lu­cia Kings held their nerve to de­feat the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Fal­cons by four runs in a high-oc­tane fin­ish at the Arnos Vale Ground in St Vin­cent on Sun­day night.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Trinidad and To­ba­go con­tin­ued their im­pres­sive start to the CWI Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Women’s Cham­pi­onship by se­cur­ing back-to-back vic­to­ries with a tense three-wick­et tri­umph over Guyana at the Lib­er­ta Sports Club on Sun­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies will of­fi­cial­ly have to go through next year’s Qual­i­fiers if they are to book their spot in the ICC Men’s Crick­et World Cup.

It is easy to con­clude that ‘sport for all’ is an au­to­mat­ic panacea for so­cial is­sues, es­pe­cial­ly those that are nau­se­at­ing and vex­a­tious. Sport for De­vel­op­ment (SfD) has gained mo­men­tum since 2003, when the Unit­ed Na­tions (UN) Gen­er­al As­sem­bly adopt­ed key res­o­lu­tions of the UN In­ter-Agency Task Force for Sport for De­vel­op­ment and Peace, es­tab­lished in 2002. SfD draws up­on the pop­u­lar ap­peal across so­cio-eco­nom­ic de­mo­graph­ics of sport as a pos­si­ble so­cial trans­for­ma­tion­al tool. How­ev­er, achiev­ing con­sis­tent short-, medi­um-, and long-term sus­tain­able so­cial out­comes is root­ed in wider his­tor­i­cal so­cial and eco­nom­ic fac­tors that must al­so be ad­dressed for sport to pro­duce de­sired re­sults.