One of the high points last week at the OTP IJF 2025 World Ju­do Cham­pi­onships held in Bu­dapest, Hun­gary was meet­ing Ted­dy Riner con­sid­ered by many to be the great­est Ju­do­ka in his­to­ry. He was at one time un­de­feat­ed for ten straight years.

Cham­pi­on train­er John O'Brien con­tin­ued his win­ning ways on Fri­day (ob­served as Labour Day) when he sad­dled three of the six win­ners on the Ari­ma Race Club's six-race card at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma.

Clint Bachan be­came the toast of the cue sports fra­ter­ni­ty in T&T ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing when he sealed vic­to­ry in the in­au­gur­al Men’s Na­tion­al 9 ball Sin­gles Cham­pi­onships. Bachan, who played Zu­bir Sankar in the fi­nal, came away a com­fort­able win­ner, eleven frames to one.

BRIDGETOWN – Cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews and her deputy She­maine Camp­belle played cru­cial knocks to lead West In­dies Women to their first T20I se­ries win over South Africa Women in 12 years in thrilling fash­ion at the 3W’s Oval in Bar­ba­dos on Mon­day.

Po­lice FC moved to the top of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) Tier II Group One stand­ings via a 1-0 win over the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) at the Ken Cooke Ground, Po­lice Train­ing Bar­rack, Long Cir­cu­lar Road, St James on Sat­ur­day (June 21).

Thanks to the pow­ers that be for re­open­ing the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um perime­ter to every­day walk­ers and jog­gers af­ter it was abrupt­ly closed off to the pub­lic. As a reg­u­lar user, like many oth­ers, I had to switch to the road­way out­side the sta­di­um and along the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre (NCC) in Bal­main, Cou­va.

Samp Army Cocrico Cav­a­liers won the sev­enth edi­tion of the Dream XI Trinidad T10 Blast on Sun­day (June 22) when they de­feat­ed Bess Mo­tors Blue Dev­ils by five runs via the Duck­worth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) Method at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do.

"Paul, Paul, Paul" rang out loud­ly when the cur­tains came down on the UCI-ap­proved Class 1 ‘Speed Par­adise’ and ‘Car­ni­val of Speed’ DPS-or­gan­ised events, which were de­signed to af­ford UCI points to­ward the World Cham­pi­onships lat­er this year in Chile.

ROSEAU, Do­mini­ca – Crick­et West In­dies’ (CWI) Di­rec­tor of Crick­et, Miles Bas­combe has re­vealed that vet­er­an pac­er Ke­mar Roach is not in the West In­dies’ plans for the fu­ture.

T&T’s So­ca War­riors just missed out on a spot in the quar­ter­fi­nal round of the Con­ca­caf Gold Cup Sun­day night (June 22) when they were held to a 1-1 tie by Sau­di Ara­bia in an en­thralling con­test at the Al­le­giant Sta­di­um in Las Ve­gas, USA.

BRIDGETOWN – West In­dies Women’s in­spi­ra­tional cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews played yet an­oth­er match-win­ning in­nings to lead her side to a six-wick­et win over South Africa Women in the sec­ond T20I in Bar­ba­dos on Sun­day.

T&T's Chloe Fras­er just missed out on a place in the fi­nal of the Women’s Sin­gles at the Caribbean re­gion­al Ta­ble Ten­nis Fed­er­a­tion (CRT­TF) Se­nior Cham­pi­onships at the Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Gym­na­si­um in Wildey, St Michael Sun­day (June 22).