The most cov­et­ed prize on any rac­ing cal­en­dar, the Der­by will be run off on Re­pub­lic Day (Sep­tem­ber 24) at the Ari­ma Race Club.

For­mer West In­dies cap­tain and World Record Hold­er for the high­est in­di­vid­ual Test and First Class scores, Bri­an Charles Lara, has re­moved con­tro­ver­sial parts of his book – Lara The Eng­land  Chron­i­cles.  The book orig­i­nal­ly stat­ed that for­mer cap­tain Sir Vi­vian Richards made “Carl Hoop­er cry once a week,”  demon­strat­ing how tough the for­mer cap­tain was as a leader.

AC Port-of-Spain (AC PoS) gave a much-im­proved per­for­mance but was held to a 1-1 tie by An­tigua and Bar­bu­da’s Jen­nings Grenades in Tues­day’s (Sep­tem­ber 17) Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup match at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

A T&T box­ing team of Tian­na Guy and An­gel George will leave lo­cal shores on Fri­day at about 4 pm for the Fe­liks Simm In­ter­na­tion­al Box­ing Tour­na­ment in Poland from Sep­tem­ber 20-29. 

The 2024 CPL has been a roller­coast­er ride, filled with nail-bit­ing fin­ish­es, un­ex­pect­ed up­sets, and a few teams that seem to be stuck in a loop of dis­ap­point­ment. The tour­na­ment has lived up to its rep­u­ta­tion for dra­ma, twists, and the oc­ca­sion­al comedic blun­der. With the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) tak­ing on the Guyana Ama­zon War­riors (GAW) lat­er to­day, the game promis­es to be a thrilling en­counter, and it should come as no sur­prise that the Queen’s Park Oval is sold out. As the tour­na­ment nears its cli­max, let’s dive in­to the high­lights and low­lights of this year’s CPL thus far and ‘cov­er’ each team in the tour­na­ment. 

Caribs RFC suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed their league ti­tle in the T&T Rug­by League with­out even step­ping on­to the field at the week­end (Sep­tem­ber 14-15). 

T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League cham­pi­ons AC Port-of-Spain FC (AC PoS) will en­ter their penul­ti­mate match in Group B of the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup against An­tigua and Bar­bu­da’s Jen­nings Grenades at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, from 6 pm Tues­day (Sep­tem­ber 17) evening in a must-win sit­u­a­tion.

Na­tion­al cy­clist Tariq Woods wrote his name in­to the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion’s his­to­ry book as the top Elite rid­er af­ter five Road Chal­lenge Se­ries events for 2024. 

GROS ISLET – The An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Fal­cons con­tin­ued their hor­rid de­but in the Caribbean Pre­mier League, go­ing down by 26 runs to the St Lu­cia Kings here at the Daren Sam­my Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in St Lu­cia on Sun­day.

The spec­u­la­tion is over. It’s now of­fi­cial who are the can­di­dates to re­place Thomas Bach as the In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC) pres­i­dent.

An­oth­er sol­id per­for­mance saw T&T seal its fourth straight win in the Amer­i­c­as Net­ball Men’s Cham­pi­onships at the Ci­ce­ly Grell-Hull Do­ra Steven Net­ball Com­plex, St Kitts, on Sun­day night.

With six days to the pres­ti­gious Grade One Trinidad Der­by at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma, cham­pi­on train­er John O’Brien holds all the aces.