Mon­key and go­ril­la chants, and ba­nana emo­jis di­rect­ed at Black ath­letes are preva­lent in Eu­rope. Black and brown foot­ballers face racist mi­croag­gres­sions in­tend­ed to hurt and sub­ju­gate.

“We’re go­ing to give it every­thing we have.” This is the as­sur­ance giv­en by na­tion­al un­der-20 foot­ball coach Mar­vin Gor­don ahead of Wednes­day's af­ter­noon’s clash with host Cos­ta Ri­ca in Group E of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-20 Cham­pi­onships at the Cos­ta Ri­can Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion Field in Ala­juela.

ST GEORGE’S – West In­dies Women’s open­er Qiana Joseph has called for a bet­ter bat­ting per­for­mance from the team ahead of their fi­nal T20I against Sri Lan­ka Women in Grena­da on Wednes­day.

T&T’s se­nior women’s foot­ball team will go af­ter its sec­ond win of the Con­ca­caf Women’s Qual­i­fiers when they take on Hon­duras at the Es­ta­dio Chela­to Ucles in Tegu­ci­gal­pa, Hon­duras, this evening from 9 pm.

MAN­AGUA – In a thrilling Group B en­counter of the 2025/26 Con­ca­caf W Qual­i­fiers, Ja­maica ral­lied from an ear­ly deficit to se­cure a hard-fought 3-2 vic­to­ry over Nicaragua at the Es­ta­dio Na­cional in Nicaragua on Tues­day.

KINGSTON – Ja­maica slumped to their sec­ond con­sec­u­tive loss at home in the FI­BA Amer­i­c­as World Cup Qual­i­fiers when they went down 97-81 to Cana­da on Sun­day.

ST. GEORGE’S, Grena­da – An un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry from open­er Hasi­ni Per­era guid­ed Sri Lan­ka Women to a com­fort­able nine-wick­et vic­to­ry over the West In­dies in the third and fi­nal T20 In­ter­na­tion­al here at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um on Tues­day.

West In­dies se­nior men’s team's de­par­ture from In­dia, fol­low­ing their ex­it from the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, has been de­layed due to in­ter­na­tion­al air­space re­stric­tions.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low is show­er­ing praise on the West In­dies af­ter their ex­it from the ICC T20 Crick­et World Cup in In­dia on Sun­day.

ST GEORGE’S – Sri Lan­ka Women’s cap­tain Chamari Atha­p­aththu starred with bat and ball to guide her side to a four-wick­et vic­to­ry over West In­dies Women in the sec­ond match of their T20 se­ries in Grena­da on Sun­day.

KOLKATA, In­dia – San­ju Sam­son pro­duced one of In­dia’s great­est ever bat­ting per­for­mances at a T20 World Cup to pow­er his side to a clin­i­cal five-wick­et vic­to­ry over West In­dies on Sun­day and keep their hopes of de­fend­ing their ti­tle alive.

A gen­er­a­tion that ig­nores his­to­ry has no past and no fu­ture, as for­get­ting the strug­gles ren­ders the present dis­placed and the fu­ture un­cer­tain. Worse yet, fail­ing to cap­ture the past amounts to eras­ing his­to­ry. As such, a sport with­out a his­tor­i­cal iden­ti­ty is not on­ly sub­ject­ed to the capri­cious­ness of the present, but al­so its fol­low­ers are ren­dered in­ca­pable of tru­ly valu­ing the gi­ants on whose shoul­ders they stand.