The T&T se­nior na­tion­al foot­ball team will head in­to the fi­nal round of the World Cup qual­i­fiers or pos­si­bly the FI­FA World Cup next year with a new name.

MONA­CO – T&T’s sprint star Jereem ‘the Drem’ Richards will face a stern test in the men’s 200 me­tres at the Mona­co Di­a­mond League on Fri­day, squar­ing off against Amer­i­can sprint sen­sa­tion Noah Lyles in his first half-lap race of the 2025 sea­son.

France-based Chloe Fras­er and Ma­lik Gopaul, both of Cru­saders were crowned cham­pi­ons of their re­spec­tive Un­der-19 Girls and Boys Sin­gles Di­vi­sion when the T&T Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion Arawak-spon­sored Ju­nior Sil­ver Bowl Ta­ble Ten­nis Tour­na­ment end­ed on Sun­day.

HAL­LAN­DALE BEACH – Fresh off a dom­i­nant per­for­mance in the Smile Sprint at Gulf­stream Park in Flori­da over the week­end, the tal­ent­ed sprint­er ‘Im­ple­men­ta­tion’ is set­ting his sights on an even big­ger prize, the $2 mil­lion Ken­tucky Downs Turf Sprint lat­er this sum­mer.

All ath­letes need to be fit; this is as true for the equine ath­lete as it is for the hu­man ath­lete. In T&T, it seems that our sport­ing ad­min­is­tra­tors be­lieve that fit­ness is all rel­a­tive and while that might clear­ly suf­fice for in­ter­nal com­pe­ti­tion, time and time again, the fal­la­cy of that be­lief is proven on the in­ter­na­tion­al land­scape.

Ju­ly 4, there was an Op/Ed in a dai­ly news­pa­per head­line “Dirty Old Men”. The is­sue ad­dressed by the colum­nist (Vaneisa Baksh) was valid and re­al. The writer high­light­ed the preva­lence of in­cest, rape, mo­lesta­tion of every kind per­pe­trat­ed on boys and girls.

In part one, the first five West In­dies ‘twin cen­tu­ri­ons’—George Headley [twice], Ever­ton Weekes, Clyde Wal­cott [twice], Garfield Sobers, and Ro­han Kan­hai—were rec­og­nized. In part II, the next five West In­di­an ‘twin cen­tu­ri­ons’ are ac­knowl­edged.

Cougars track and field club put on a spec­tac­u­lar per­for­mance on Sun­day (Ju­ly 6) to reg­is­ter their sec­ond con­sec­u­tive suc­cess in the Ma­son Hall Po­lice Youth Club (PYC) Ju­ve­nile Track Clas­sic which was held at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, in­stead of the tra­di­tion­al venue at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in To­ba­go.

T&T’s Jahreef Miguel and Jerome Mor­ri­son fin­ished in eighth spot at the NORCE­CA Un­der-21 Beach Vol­ley­ball Cham­pi­onships, the of­fi­cial qual­i­fi­ca­tion tour­na­ments on the road to the 2025 FIVB Age-Group World Cham­pi­onships, which end­ed in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Sun­day (Ju­ly 6).

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – In­ter­na­tion­al League T20 (ILT20) de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons, Dubai Cap­i­tals have re­tained the ser­vices of West In­dies T20 cap­tain Shai Hope and Rov­man Pow­ell ahead of the 2025 sea­son.

Ti­tle-hold­er Club San­do and De­fence Force will meet in a high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed fi­nal of the T&T Women’s League Foot­ball (WoLF) at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Sun­day (June 6) from 6 pm.

ST GEORGE’S – De­scrib­ing the West In­dies’ bat­ting ef­fort as “not good enough”, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my has sug­gest­ed that there might be some changes to the bat­ting line­up for the third and fi­nal Test match against Aus­tralia.