ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Bar­ba­dos de­fend­ed their CWI Ris­ing Stars Men’s Un­der-19 50-over Cham­pi­onship ti­tle in em­phat­ic fash­ion by de­feat­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go in the fourth and penul­ti­mate round on Sat­ur­day.

If you fol­low glob­al foot­ball, you would have seen some of it com­ing, some not. I re­fer to the un­fold­ing of the cur­rent World Cup. Af­ter weeks of com­pe­ti­tion (this is writ­ten af­ter the semi­fi­nal match­es), we had un­fore­seen de­vel­op­ments like “the Ba­lo­gun af­fair”.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana—West In­dies bat­ting coach Floyd Reifer is con­fi­dent that the re­gion­al side will put up a much-im­proved bat­ting show­ing against New Zealand in the re­main­ing two One Day In­ter­na­tion­als at Kens­ing­ton Oval.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos—The crick­et­ing fra­ter­ni­ty has been thrown in­to mourn­ing fol­low­ing the death of Bar­ba­dos’ Na­tion­al Hero, Sir Gar­ry Sobers on Fri­day.

Akim Bushe of BIG South East Port-of-Spain (BIG SE­PoS) club has been ap­point­ed cap­tain of T&T's 12-mem­ber se­nior men's vol­ley­ball team, which de­parts Fri­day (Ju­ly 17) from 3 pm for Willem­stad, Cu­ra­cao, to con­test the in­au­gur­al Caribbean Zon­al Vol­ley­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (CA­ZO­VA) Men’s Fi­nal-Four Cham­pi­onship at the Sala Er­rol Rooi Sen­tro De­porti­vo Ko­r­soul in Brie­ven­gat.

To­bag­on­ian Make­da Bain was the lone play­er to cap­ture three ti­tles when the cur­tain came down on the Sagi­cor Ju­nior Ten­nis Tour­na­ment at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua, Thurs­day (Ju­ly 16).

BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts — In a stun­ning and abrupt re­ver­sal, St. Kitts and Nevis has of­fi­cial­ly with­drawn its bid to host the 2027 CARIF­TA Games, dash­ing the hopes of a na­tion that had ea­ger­ly await­ed the re­turn of the re­gion’s pre­mier ju­nior ath­let­ics cham­pi­onships.

BREADY – Stafanie Tay­lor cracked a sec­ond suc­ces­sive cen­tu­ry and West In­dies’ spin­ners dis­man­tled Ire­land Women’s bat­ting line­up to see them com­plete a clean sweep of their One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries via a com­fort­able 64-run vic­to­ry in Ire­land on Wednes­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Bar­ba­dos took a big step to­wards re­tain­ing their ti­tle in the CWI Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Men’s 50-over Cham­pi­onship when they romped to their third suc­ces­sive win, Wednes­day (Ju­ly 15).

Roy­alians Rug­by Foot­ball Club got a dou­ble try from At­i­ba Rod­ney that steered them to a nar­row 25-24 tri­umph over Har­vard in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Rug­by Foot­ball Union (TTR­FU) League on Sat­ur­day at Har­vard Pitch of the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

For many avid foot­ball fans, noth­ing com­pares to the brag­ging rights that come with cor­rect­ly pre­dict­ing the out­come of a match. That is the con­cept be­hind the new so­cial foot­ball pre­dic­tion app, Bantryx.

Goal-shoot­er Maikea Bram­ble of Soul City was recog­nised as the “Most Valu­able Play­er” (MVP) for her team and the top shoot­er in the A Di­vi­sion of the Lystra Lewis Port-of-Spain Net­ball League (LL­POSNL), which con­clud­ed on Mon­day fol­low­ing an ex­cit­ing Men’s Di­vi­sion fi­nal at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty.