T&T se­nior men's foot­ball team de­fend­er Jesse Williams was one of two new sign­ings an­nounced by Unit­ed Soc­cer League Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion out­fit Pitts­burgh River­hounds on Tues­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard has de­scribed Sun­day’s se­ries de­feat to Ire­land as a “bit­ter pill to swal­low” and has warned there will be no quick fix to the is­sues plagu­ing the em­bat­tled one-day side.

It will be a dif­fi­cult but much-need­ed chal­lenge for this coun­try's se­nior na­tion­al foot­ballers against Bo­livia on Fri­day's at the Es­ta­dio Olimpi­co Pa­trio in Su­cre.

BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – Shi­va Sankar’s new-ball burst rat­tled Scot­land Un­der-19s and laid the foun­da­tion for West In­dies Un­der-19s’ cru­cial sev­en-wick­et win in their sec­ond match of the ICC Un­der-19 World Cup on Mon­day.

Na­tion­al ath­lete Por­tious War­ren's first meet of the sea­son is sched­uled for the week­end of Feb­ru­ary 10-11 but at present, she has a slim chance of throw­ing the iron ball at her sea­son open­er, the Tyson Re­lays in Fayet­teville, Arkansas, USA, as fi­nan­cial sup­port re­mains non-ex­is­tent for the T&T shot put­ter.

KINGSTON – Min­nows Ire­land sur­vived a low­er or­der wob­ble to beat West In­dies for on­ly the third time in a One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al when they stunned them by two wick­ets in Ja­maica on Sun­day, to al­so claim their first-ever se­ries win over the Caribbean side.

The re­tire­ment of Vi­rat Kohli as In­dia’s Test cap­tain at the con­clu­sion of the re­cent Test se­ries against South Africa (SA) which In­dia (Ind) lost 1-2 has so­licit­ed mixed re­ac­tions from past and present crick­eters across the crick­et­ing world. The re­spons­es have re­flect­ed both shock and at the same time have been fraught with plau­dits and ac­co­lades.

T&T se­nior men's and women's hock­ey teams are ex­pect­ed to be­gin their de­par­ture on Sun­day for their re­spec­tive 2022 Pan Amer­i­can Hock­ey Cup in San­ti­a­go, Chile. The tour­na­ments which run from Jan­u­ary 19 – 30 will serve as qual­i­fiers to their re­spec­tive FIH World Cup.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Three un­capped play­ers and ex­pe­ri­enced leg-spin­ner and right-hand­ed bat­ter Afy Fletch­er have been in­clud­ed in the 18-mem­ber squad for the One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against South Africa Women lat­er this month.

Ju­di­cious plan­ning and trans­paren­cy have been a ma­jor hin­drance to suc­cess to sport in T&T. It is there­fore im­per­a­tive that the Am­a­teur Swim­ming As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) es­tab­lish­es se­lec­tion pol­i­cy and cri­te­ria which is based on a de­ter­mined se­lec­tion phi­los­o­phy, with the fi­nal prod­uct be­ing a fair trans­par­ent process of na­tion­al team se­lec­tion.

Imag­ine start­ing yet an­oth­er year not know­ing if you are go­ing to have a sea­son to look for­ward to with your team.

In­dia bat­tled to a hard-fought heavy­weight tri­umph over South Africa as the ICC Un­der-19 Men’s Crick­et World Cup en­tered full swing on Sat­ur­day.