“Be as fit as the play­ers or even fit­ter.” These are the words of ad­vice from for­mer FI­FA ref­er­ee Os­mond Down­er to ref­er­ees ply­ing their trade in the lo­cal foot­ball leagues but are as­pir­ing to be el­e­vat­ed to FI­FA of­fi­cials.

San Juan North Sec­ondary made his­to­ry at the In­ter-Col Nos­tal­gia Foot­ball Fes­ti­val when they won all four ti­tles at stake among the three di­vi­sions con­test­ed at the St George's Col­lege Ground, Sixth Av­enue, Barataria on Sat­ur­day.

T&T women’s vol­ley­baller Des­tiny Leon and her Gi­gantes de Aguas­calientes had their cam­paign in the in­au­gur­al Mex­i­co Pro­fes­sion­al Vol­ley­ball League (LVP MX) sus­pend­ed due to the vi­o­lent events in the state of Guadala­jara on Sun­day.

For­mer T&T in­ter­na­tion­al women’s vol­ley­baller Sinead Jack-Kisal and Ecza­cıbaşı Dy­nav­it se­cured a much-need­ed straight-sets win over Be­sik­tas 25-11, 25-18, 25-20 to stay in the hunt to reach the Turk­ish Voda­fone Sul­tan Women’s Vol­ley­ball League semi­fi­nals at the Ecza­cıbaşı Sports Hall on Sat­ur­day.

PALLEKELE – Bar­ba­di­an Jofra Archer snared two wick­ets as Eng­land booked their spot in the last four of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup with a two-wick­et vic­to­ry over Pak­istan in Sri Lan­ka on Tues­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – The Ja­maican trio of Rov­man Pow­ell, An­dre Rus­sell and Bran­don King are among the key tar­gets for Kings­men Sports En­ter­prise, who are hop­ing to as­sem­ble a ti­tle-con­tend­ing fran­chise in this year’s Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL).

MUM­BAI – Fol­low­ing his im­pres­sive per­for­mance against Zim­bab­we on Mon­day, leg­endary Aus­tralian bats­man Ricky Ponting has de­scribed Shim­ron Het­my­er as one of “the most dan­ger­ous play­ers” at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

T&T’s Un­der-20 foot­ballers and Bermu­da shared the points in a 2-2 tie in Group E of their open­ing match of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-20 Cham­pi­onships at the Cos­ta Ri­can Fed­er­a­tion Field in Cos­ta Ri­ca, Tues­day (Feb­ru­ary 24).

ST GEORGE’S – Vet­er­an play­er Stafanie Tay­lor has ad­mit­ted that West In­dies Women have un­der­per­formed with the bat in their on­go­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against Sri Lan­ka Women.

It is es­ti­mat­ed that over 12,000 Colom­bian foot­ball fans vis­it­ed the Cor­fe­rias Ex­hi­bi­tion Cen­tre, Bo­gotá, Colom­bia, be­tween Feb­ru­ary 15 and 16 to catch a glimpse of the 18-karat gold and se­mi-pre­cious mala­chite Orig­i­nal FI­FA World Cup Tro­phy.

MUM­BAI, In­dia – West In­dies cap­tain Shai Hope hailed his team’s most com­plete per­for­mance of the tour­na­ment af­ter they crushed Zim­bab­we by 107 runs in their Su­per 8 clash at the Wankhede Sta­di­um on Mon­day, with Shim­ron Het­my­er’s ex­plo­sive 85 steal­ing the show.

CAS­TRIES, Saint Lu­cia—Julien Al­fred’s his­toric achieve­ments at the 2024 Olympics will be ho­n­oured on a com­mem­o­ra­tive stamp as part of Saint Lu­cia’s In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tions on Sun­day (Feb­ru­ary 22).