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 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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ARNOS VALE, St Vin­cent, Aug 8, CMC – Sunil Nar­ine and Ter­rance Hinds be­fud­dled the St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots bats­men on their way to bowl­ing the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers to a 19-run vic­to­ry via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern method on Sat­ur­day night.

Trinidad and To­ba­go will be in the hunt for the gold medals in both the women’s and men’s 4x100m re­lay fi­nals on Sun­day from 4.05 pm and 4.19 pm, re­spec­tive­ly, when the cur­tain comes down on the World Ath­let­ics Un­der-20 Cham­pi­onships at Hay­ward Field at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon, in Ore­gon, USA.

Ever­ton Al­fred, Pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TFA), views the re­cent de­ci­sion by the ex­ec­u­tive of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) to omit the To­ba­go schools, name­ly, Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary and Spey­side Sec­ondary, from the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion as an­oth­er dark day in the his­to­ry of foot­ball and has called on the league to with­draw its plans.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Trinidad and To­ba­go Women and Lee­ward Is­lands Women be­gan their cam­paigns in the Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Women’s Cham­pi­onship in win­ning fash­ion when the com­pe­ti­tion bowled off on Sat­ur­day.

For much of the past cou­ple months, the at­ten­tion of the foot­ball world was un­der­stand­ably fixed on the World Cup.