Kenyan long-dis­tance run­ner Alex Eke­sa pro­duced an­oth­er bril­liant per­for­mance on Sun­day morn­ing, suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ing his ti­tle and shav­ing sec­onds off his own course record at the Bafas­ports Mid­night Marathon.

Am­a­teur sport ad­min­is­tra­tors—man­ag­ing a com­mu­ni­ty foot­ball club, swim team, a fledg­ling women's crick­et team, or a net­ball team—of­ten face the tough re­al­i­ty of lim­it­ed re­sources, such as lack of fund­ing and or hav­ing to share fields, courts, tracks, and pools with oth­er clubs and, some­times, with na­tion­al teams.

FUL­HAM – Khadi­ja ‘Bun­ny’ Shaw scored two late goals to help Man­ches­ter City snatch vic­to­ry from the jaws of de­feat against Chelsea and book their spot in the Women’s FA Cup fi­nal in Eng­land on Sun­day.

For­mer St Au­gus­tine mid­field­er Randy Ram­cha­ran played the fi­nal min­utes of the sport he loved dear­ly be­fore trag­i­cal­ly pass­ing away in the pres­ence of his team­mates on May 9.

​Queen’s Park shot to the top of the stand­ings in the men’s open di­vi­sion of the T&T Hock­ey Board Out­door Tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Hock­ey Cen­tre in Tacarigua on Fri­day night, dis­pos­ing of Malvern with a con­vinc­ing 4-0 vic­to­ry.

A meet­ing de­signed to bring clar­i­ty to the process by which Na­tion­al Gov­ern­ing Bod­ies (NG­Bs) re­ceive fund­ing through the Sports Com­pa­ny of T&T (SporTT) will pro­ceed with­out two key de­ci­sion-mak­ers - Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts and Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary (PS) Pene­lope Brad­shaw-Niles.

A goal on each side of the half en­sured that Ath­let­ics Club Port-of-Spain (AC PoS) main­tained the top spot in the Trinidad Group of the T&T Women’s Foot­ball League (TTWoLF) when they de­feat­ed Point Pi­o­neers 2-0 at the train­ing ground of the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um in Mara­bel­la Sat­ur­day (May 9) af­ter­noon.

ST JOHN’S – Bar­ba­dos Pride cap­tured two wick­ets late in the day to wres­tle the ini­tia­tive away from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force at the close of play on the open­ing day of their play­off in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship in An­tigua on Sun­day (May 10).

​Preysal Sports Club rode a tide of pow­er hit­ting to a thrilling 21-run vic­to­ry over Fi­al Un­der-19 in a high-scor­ing con­test at Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port of Spain, dur­ing the Trinidad T20 Fes­ti­val Sat­ur­day (May 9).

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Fol­low­ing a dis­ap­point­ing show­ing in the 2026 West In­dies Cham­pi­onship, head coach of the Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons Robert Haynes has ad­mit­ted that the team needs to im­prove in sev­er­al ar­eas if they are to chal­lenge for the ti­tle.

For­mer T&T net­baller Kali­fa Mc­Collin and Kedah Sun­shine will face KL Wild­cats in the third place match of the Malaysian Net­ball Su­per League (NSL), or­gan­ised by the Malaysian Net­ball As­so­ci­a­tion in col­lab­o­ra­tion with As­tro Are­na, at the Juara Sta­di­um, Buk­it Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, Sun­day from 5 am.

T&T goal-shoot­er Saman­tha Wal­lace-Joseph was a dom­i­nant fac­tor as she re­turned from a one-match pre­cau­tion­ary lay-off due to sore­ness to lead Lough­bor­ough Light­ning back to win­ning ways, 76-60, over Birm­ing­ham Pan­thers in the Eng­land Net­ball Su­per League (NSL) at the Coven­try Sky­Dome Are­na on Fri­day (May 8).