HAL­LAN­DALE BEACH – Ja­maican jock­ey Shaun Bridg­mo­han earned suc­cess in the US$75 000 Sun­shine Turf Stakes when he took 7-1 choice Roar­ing For­ties gate-to-wire to win the fea­ture at Gulf­stream Park in Flori­da, USA on Sat­ur­day.

When was the last time you sat down and had a heart-to-heart with your­self and re­al­ly, ex­am­ined your heart? This may mean ad­mit­ting we have made a mis­take, an er­ror, a poor choice or a bad de­ci­sion. We make mis­takes be­cause we are hu­man. Ac­cord­ing to Iyan­la Van­zant, when we ac­knowl­edge our er­rors and face up to our short­com­ings, no one can use them against us.

Ailan An­drew Pan­ton, the son of for­mer Miss Uni­verse Wendy Fitzwilliams, is among na­tion­al coach Shawn Coop­er’s 41-man squad for the 2023 CON­CA­CAF Men’s Un­der-17 cham­pi­onship sched­uled for Guatemala next month.

DHA­KA – John­son Charles’s top score played a key role as Comil­la Vic­to­ri­ans brushed aside Dha­ka Dom­i­na­tors by 60 runs, and climb to third in the Bangladesh Pre­mier League stand­ings on Mon­day.

Ker­ne­sha Shel­bourne and reig­in­ing Carif­ta Games girls' Un­der-20 hep­tathlon bronze medal­list Gi­an­na Paul, each met the stan­dard for the up­com­ing Games in two events at the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) track and field Se­ries No 2 held on Sun­day at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

EAST LON­DON – West In­dies Women buck­led un­der the pres­sure of un­beat­en half-cen­turies from Sm­ri­ti Mand­hana and Har­man­preet Kaur, to crash to a 56-run de­feat in their sec­ond game of the Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al Tri-Se­ries in South Africa on Mon­day.

DUBAI – Shim­ron Het­my­er helped mas­ter­mind Gulf Gi­ants’ fourth win of the In­ter­na­tion­al League T20, the lead­ers pro­duc­ing a clin­i­cal run chase to beat Sher­fane Ruther­ford’s Desert Vipers by five wick­ets and keep in­tact their un­beat­en sta­tus.

The fight against cer­vi­cal can­cer con­tin­ued on Sat­ur­day with the Dyette’s Feel The Teal 5k Walk and Run Road Race which took place around the Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain.

ABU DHABI – Rov­man Pow­ell out-gunned his for­mer West In­dies cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard in a high-scor­ing block­buster in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates on Sun­day, both play­ers un­leash­ing stun­ning half-cen­turies be­fore Dubai Cap­i­tals emerged with a thrilling 16-run vic­to­ry over MI Emi­rates.

Bat­ting has been West In­dies’ Achilles heel in women’s T20 In­ter­na­tion­als for some time now. Their mid­dle-or­der woes have been ham­per­ing them for over the last cou­ple of years. Since Jan­u­ary 2021, West In­dies’ mid­dle or­der (Nos. 4 to 7) av­er­ages 12.12, the low­est among the Full Mem­ber teams in T20Is. In their first match of the women’s T20I tri-se­ries against South Africa, She­maine Camp­belle, bat­ting at No. 4, made 11 of the 24 that the mid­dle or­der scored.

POTCHEF­STROOM, South Africa – West In­dies Women slumped a sur­prise four-wick­et de­feat to African na­tion Rwan­da Women in their open­ing game of the ICC Un­der-19 Women’s Twen­ty20 World Cup on Sun­day, to suf­fer a mas­sive set­back in their quest for a se­mi-fi­nal berth.

“Leave the pro­posed New Elite Foot­ball League (NE­FL) alone and fo­cus on the man­date giv­en to you,” says Sel­by Browne, pres­i­dent of the Vet­er­ans Foot­ball Foun­da­tion of T&T to the FI­FA-ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee, which is be­ing led by chair­man Robert Hadad on Sun­day.