CAL­I­FOR­NIA – Bar­ba­di­an train­er Saffie Joseph Jr was on cloud nine over the week­end fol­low­ing Soul of an An­gel’s cap­ture of the US$1 mil­lion Breed­ers’ Cup Fil­ly & Mare Sprint in the Unit­ed States at Del Mar Sat­ur­day.

Justin Greaves be­came the first West In­di­an to score three con­sec­u­tive List A cen­turies and his his­toric per­for­mance helped the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes to an im­pres­sive sev­en-wick­et win over the Trinidad & To­ba­go Red Force in the Re­gion­al Su­per50 tour­na­ment in Tarou­ba on Sun­day.

Christo­pher Jack­son Charles re­turns as na­tion­al coach for the up­com­ing FI­BA 3x3 Amer­iCup in San Juan, Puer­to Ri­co, from De­cem­ber 13-15.

The ap­point­ment of for­mer na­tion­al strik­er Dwight Yorke as head coach of the coun­try’s se­nior na­tion­al foot­ball team, which will spring in­to World Cup qual­i­fy­ing ac­tion next year, was re­ceived with thun­der­ous cheers of sup­port from the foot­ball fra­ter­ni­ty.

Sports has long been recog­nised as a tool for ad­dress­ing so­cial de­viance. It pro­motes val­ues such as team­work, dis­ci­pline, re­spect and re­silience, which can pos­i­tive­ly in­flu­ence be­hav­iour and so­cial in­te­gra­tion.

T&T cy­clists failed to medal as Ak­il Camp­bell was ninth and En­rique De Co­mar­mond, 15th in the Elite Men's cat­e­go­ry when the Caribbean Road Cy­cling Cham­pi­onship took place along the He­roes High­way, East Bank De­mer­ara in Guyana, Sun­day.

Amer­i­can-based crick­et fran­chise Samp Army has had and con­tin­ues to have a mas­sive in­flu­ence on both West In­di­an and Amer­i­can crick­eters pro­vid­ing them with op­por­tu­ni­ties across the globe.

East Zone cham­pi­ons Five Rivers Sec­ondary se­cured a 2-1 win over North Zone cham­pi­on, St Joseph’s Con­vent (Port-of-Spain) in their Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League Girls “Big Five” semi­fi­nal at St Mary’s Col­lege Ground, Ser­pen­tine Road, St Clair, Sunday (No­vem­ber 3).

Demetrius Richards scored a pa­tient, un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry to en­sure Bar­ba­dos Pride re­mained at the top of the ta­ble of the Re­gion­al Su­per50 with a tense one-wick­et vic­to­ry over the Guyana Harpy Ea­gles on Sun­day at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

T&T in­ter­na­tion­al Levi Gar­cia scored the lone goal as AEK Athens edged Atro­mis 1-0 in Round Ten of the Greece Stoix­i­man Su­per League at the Peri­s­teri Sta­di­um, Peri­s­teri, Greece, Sun­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – De­spite a dis­ap­point­ing loss to Eng­land in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al on Sat­ur­day, West In­dies white ball head coach Daren Sam­my says he is see­ing some im­prove­ments in the re­gion­al side’s play.

T&T’s Dy­lan Carter had to set­tle for fifth spot in the men's 50-me­tre but­ter­fly when the third and fi­nal leg of the World Aquat­ics Swim­ming World Cup con­clud­ed at the OCBC Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Sin­ga­pore on Sat­ur­day.