John of net­ball, ten­nis and bas­ket­ball fame, hav­ing rep­re­sent­ed T&T at all sports, but not lim­it­ed to those as she played crick­et, ta­ble ten­nis, hock­ey, com­pet­ed in ri­fle shoot­ing and cy­cling.

Justin Jages­sar’s 128 runs proved not enough to help South pre­vail in the Price Club Su­per­mar­ket T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) North/South Un­der-17 Clas­sic tro­phy 50 Overs match which was won by North by four wick­ets at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va on Sun­day.

PORT OF SPAIN – Bar­ba­dos Pride are hold­ing on to a slim lead – less than a point – in the stand­ings of the Re­gion­al First Class Cham­pi­onship fol­low­ing a third-round shock de­feat to Guyana Harpy Ea­gles on Sat­ur­day.

A dou­ble from for­ward Jameel Boatswain led De­fence Force to a 3-0 vic­to­ry over Re­al West Fort Unit­ed in the sec­ond match of a dou­ble-head­er at the Ari­ma Velo­drome in the As­cen­sion Foot­ball League on Sat­ur­day.

CAS­TRIES, St Lu­cia – For­mer T&T strik­er Stern John has been ap­point­ed head coach of the St Lu­cia se­nior men’s na­tion­al foot­ball team. This was con­firmed by the St Lu­cia Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion on Sunday.

Open­ing bats­man Nicholas Sookdeosingh earned the “Man-of-the-Match” award for his ex­plo­sive run-a-ball 75 as the Scar­let Ibis Se­nior team crushed Hum­ming­birds on Sat­ur­day by 116 runs in round two of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) Se­nior 50 Overs Cup at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va.

It’s not just about be­ing on the court prepar­ing for the up­com­ing Caribbean Games in Guade­loupe for the mem­bers of the na­tion­al Un­der-23 net­ball squad and its tech­ni­cal staff but al­so about ex­pand­ing their minds.

Ath­letes, coach­es and match of­fi­cials aren’t the on­ly oc­cu­pa­tions sup­port­ed by the sports in­dus­try. There are much more op­por­tu­ni­ties and ca­reers in the world of sport.

Tage­nar­ine Chan­der­paul pro­duced an un­char­ac­ter­is­tic un­beat­en cameo as Guyana Harpy Ea­gles stunned lead­ers Bar­ba­dos Pride by five wick­ets in a thrilling fin­ish to their third round con­test at the Queen’s Park Oval, on Sat­urday.

MUM­BAI, In­dia – West In­dies bats­man Rov­man Pow­ell suf­fered heart­break on Sat­ur­day de­spite his en­ter­tain­ing knock, as Ra­jasthan Roy­als crashed to a five-wick­et de­feat to Mum­bai In­di­ans to miss out on the fi­nal spot in the In­di­an Pre­mier League play­offs.

DIEGO MAR­TIN COM­PLEX – Hosts T&T Red Force are fac­ing a heavy de­feat af­ter suf­fer­ing a sec­ond bat­ting melt­down against Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes on the third day of the third round of the Re­gion­al First Class Cham­pi­onship on Fri­day.

Swim­ming ace Nikoli Black­man has guar­an­teed him­self a place on the T&T team for the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Am­a­teur Swim­ming Con­fed­er­a­tion (CC­CAN) Meet in Bar­ba­dos, Ju­ly 8-12, fol­low­ing Thurs­day's open­ing-day vic­to­ry in the Boys' 11 and Over 800-me­tre freestyle fi­nal of the Na­tion­al Open Long Course Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre (NAC) in Bal­main, Cou­va.