CEN­TU­RI­ON, South Africa – Quin­ton de Kock warmed up for the T20 World Cup by smash­ing a bound­ary-stud­ded cen­tu­ry to lead South Africa’s su­perb run chase in a sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry over the West In­dies on Thurs­day.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – Wind­ward Is­lands Women put them­selves in prime po­si­tion to cap­ture this year’s CG Unit­ed Women’s Su­per50 Cup ti­tle by de­feat­ing Lee­ward Is­lands Women by three wick­ets in the sec­ond and penul­ti­mate round on Thurs­day.

PAARL – Aiden Markram’s com­mand­ing, un­beat­en 86 guid­ed South Africa to a com­pre­hen­sive nine-wick­et vic­to­ry over the West In­dies, se­cur­ing a 1-0 lead in their three-match T20I se­ries in South Africa on Tues­day.

KINGSTOWN – De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Trinidad & To­ba­go Women be­gan the de­fence of their CG Unit­ed Women’s Su­per 50 cup ti­tle on a los­ing note, af­ter go­ing down by 91 runs to the Wind­ward Is­lands Women in their op­ne­ing round fix­ture at Sion Hill in St Vin­cent on Tues­day.

A few changes have been made to the T&T Un­der-17 Women’s team, fol­low­ing last week­end’s 2-2 tie with host Cu­ra­cao in their open­ing match of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Women’s World Cup Qual­i­fiers.

The trio of Nicholas Paul, Njisane Phillips, and Makaira Wal­lace will lead a large T&T cy­cling team to the com­ing Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile, from Feb­ru­ary 16-22.

CAS­TRIES, Saint Lu­cia – In a glit­ter­ing cer­e­mo­ny that cel­e­brat­ed past glo­ry and fu­ture promise, the Saint Lu­cia Ath­let­ics As­so­ci­a­tion (SLAA) once again be­stowed its high­est ho­n­our up­on sprint sen­sa­tion Julien Al­fred, nam­ing her the Fe­male Ath­lete of the Year for 2025. She shares the spot­light with quar­ter-mil­er Mar­vric Pam­phile, who claimed the male ti­tle.

MI­A­MI, Flori­da – The open­ing round of the 2026 Con­ca­caf Women’s Un­der-17 Cham­pi­onship qual­i­fiers saw com­mand­ing per­for­mances from Cos­ta Ri­ca and Haiti on Sun­day, as ac­tion un­fold­ed across Groups C, D, and E.

A num­ber of pos­i­tive things hap­pened in the lead-up to, dur­ing, and af­ter the 12th T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) Gold Foun­da­tion Marathon Chal­lenge last week. In fact, there were far more pos­i­tives than neg­a­tives, things that mat­ter and pro­vide the im­pe­tus for plan­ning next year’s 13th edi­tion. But that is a dis­cus­sion for an­oth­er day.

Jan­u­ary trans­fer win­dow sign­ings Jo­evin Jones and Nicholas Dil­lon both scored hat-tricks to lead de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons. De­fence Force Elite to an em­phat­ic 9-0 ham­mer­ing of Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers in the sec­ond match of a dou­ble-head­er at Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 25) night.

The T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion is putting in the work and hopes to see the ben­e­fits of their labour.

Ross Ramkissoon turned the ta­bles on a com­pet­i­tive men’s field on the fi­nal day of the Pointe-a-Pierre Golf Club Three-Day Golf Cham­pi­onship Open in San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 25), bring­ing the cur­tain down on a high­ly com­pet­i­tive tour­na­ment that of­fered play­ers the op­por­tu­ni­ty to earn valu­able World Am­a­teur Golf Rank­ing (WA­GR) points.