Yes­ter­day, Mon­day, Au­gust 11, was World Steel­pan Day. It’s a day that has sig­nif­i­cance for T&T. That sig­nif­i­cance is one of the rea­sons I choose to re­flect, in par­tic­u­lar, on “Pan on De Podi­um” and the jour­ney to get­ting the steel­pan ver­sion of the na­tion­al an­them played on the podi­um.

The Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) has part­nered with the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) for the 2025 sea­son of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL T20). The part­ner­ship was ce­ment­ed with a for­mal con­tract sign­ing re­cent­ly.

T&T De­fence Force women went one bet­ter than last year when they out­classed Grena­da 3-0 to take home the ti­tle in the six-team 3W’s Tour­na­ment host­ed by the T&T De­fence Force FC at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, on Sun­day.

Crick­et West In­dies’ (CWI) chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Chris Dehring has re­vealed that while “around 100” is­sues had been iden­ti­fied as the rea­sons be­hind the de­cline in West In­dies crick­et, in­suf­fi­cient fa­cil­i­ties, skill de­fi­cien­cies in play­ers and the qual­i­ty of do­mes­tic com­pe­ti­tions were among some of the main caus­es.

Ce­cil Forde, pres­i­dent of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­BA), is mak­ing an­oth­er plea to Min­is­ter of Sports and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts to make ur­gent rep­re­sen­ta­tion for the T&T Box­ing Board to be ap­point­ed very soon.

T&T swim­mers Nikoli Black­man and Zuri Fer­gu­son both missed out on adding to this coun­try’s lone medal when they placed fourth in their re­spec­tive fi­nals at the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games at the Olympic Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Asun­cion, Paraguay, Mon­day night.

De­spite en­ter­ing the bi­lat­er­al se­ries against the USA (Ju­ly 26-Au­gust 3at the Sir Frank Wor­rell Crick­et Ground, the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, Trinidad) with home ad­van­tage and hav­ing just com­plet­ed the Ris­ing Stars Re­gion­al Un­der-19 tour­na­ment, the West In­dies U-19 Women's per­for­mance fell short of ex­pec­ta­tions.

Led by stand­out per­for­mances from Jay­den Seales, Ros­ton Chase and Sher­fane Ruther­ford, the West In­dies claimed a cru­cial five-wick­et win via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern method over Pak­istan in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al to lev­el the three-match se­ries 1-1 in TArou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day.

T&T De­fence Force Elite cap­tain Kevin Moli­no and for­mer head coach Den­sill Theobald walked away with two of the night’s most pres­ti­gious ac­co­lades — Tier I "Play­er of the Sea­son" and Tier I "Coach of the Sea­son", re­spec­tive­ly, when the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) held its awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day night.

Easy go­ing for E-Z Lines as ti­tle glo­ry is on­ly two game weeks away. Match-day 13 of the Na­tion­al Mixed For­mat league of Darts was host­ed by the T&T Darts As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­DA) at No 36 New Street, Port-of-Spain, on Au­gust 4.

Jahiem Har­ry, William Fran­cis and Hec­tor Sam were the "Most Valu­able Play­ers" of the Kelvin Roberts North Zone Bas­ket­ball Com­mis­sion's All Stars Day, which cel­e­brat­ed the play­ers of the past, recog­nis­ing their con­tri­bu­tions to the sport.

Ed­mund Homer scored his sec­ond hat-trick of the sea­son to lead Or­gans to a 3-0 dis­man­tling of Kings of Kings in the Over-45 Di­vi­sion of the Ty­ro Sports Club Open and Over-45 Di­vi­sion Sev­en-A-Side Foot­ball League on Tues­day.