Even af­ter a land­mark year that took him from Greece to Rus­sia in a record-break­ing move, Levi Gar­cia has not for­got­ten where his jour­ney be­gan.

GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – Af­ter a year de­fined by Olympic glo­ry and un­time­ly in­jury, sprint­ing sen­sa­tion Julien Al­fred is shift­ing gears.

​In a dis­play of pure class and dom­i­nance, cham­pi­on horse Hel­lo World etched his name deep­er in­to the his­to­ry books of T&T horse rac­ing on Box­ing Day, yes­ter­day, se­cur­ing an his­toric third con­sec­u­tive vic­to­ry in the pres­ti­gious Grade I Gold Cup at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma. The win came even as the field was nar­rowed when main con­tender Head­lin­er, the Triple Crown cham­pi­on, was scratched from the race.

I re­cent­ly went down a lin­guis­tic rab­bit hole to see if “cat­a­stroph­ic” is a stronger word than “dis­as­ter”. Turns out, it is.

Trinidad and To­ba­go cen­tre back Ko­bi Hen­ry has signed a two-year deal to play with Ma­jor League Soc­cer (MLS) team, Re­al Salt Lake.

The lo­cal bas­ket­ball fra­ter­ni­ty is in mourn­ing fol­low­ing the pass­ing of Earl Skeete, a dec­o­rat­ed for­mer play­er, coach and Team man­ag­er who ded­i­cat­ed over four decades to the de­vel­op­ment of the sport in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

ABU DHABI – Nicholas Pooran ham­mered an un­beat­en half cen­tu­ry and to­geth­er with Muham­mad Waseem car­ried MI Emi­rates to a con­vinc­ing eight-wick­et vic­to­ry over the strug­gling Gulf Gi­ants when the In­ter­na­tion­al League T20 con­tin­ued in the Unit­ed Aram Emi­rates on Tues­day.

SAN JUAN – Nia Snow Clarke and Woman FIDE Mas­ter Han­nah Wil­son spear­head­ed a record-break­ing per­for­mance by Bar­ba­dos at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Youth Chess Fes­ti­val in Puer­to Ri­co.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI, New Zealand – New Zealand fast bowler Ja­cob Duffy grabbed a sen­sa­tion­al 23 wick­ets in the just con­clud­ed three-Test se­ries against West In­dies to be­come his coun­try’s high­est-ever wick­et tak­er in a cal­en­dar year.

MEL­BOURNE, Aus­tralia – Eng­land has been dealt a sig­nif­i­cant blow in an al­ready dis­ap­point­ing Ash­es se­ries, with fast bowler Jofra Archer now set to miss the fi­nal two match­es due to a side strain.

The cur­tain comes down on the 2025 rac­ing sea­son with two fea­ture races–the Gold Cup and the Ju­ve­nile Cham­pi­onship. While both races are a shad­ow of their for­mer selves, rac­ing fans can still look for­ward to a pleas­ant Fri­day out. It is hoped that many will come out to ex­pe­ri­ence the six races sched­uled to be run off.

Ty Humphrey pro­duced a stand­out per­for­mance for Trinidad and To­ba­go as Team TTO de­liv­ered a strong show­ing at the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and Caribbean (CAC) Youth Chess Fes­ti­val, held in Puer­to Ri­co from De­cem­ber 15-20.