Cur­rent World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onship sil­ver medal­list in the men’s 400 me­tres, Jereem Richards is one of a long list of lo­cal ath­letes left shell-shocked by news of the sud­den pass­ing of ath­lete man­ag­er and renowned busi­ness­man, Sean Roach.

“I got a soft spot for Haiti and its peo­ple. They are my cousins. I pray for Haiti they go thru soo much. God, please cov­er that land and its peo­ple.” (Car­di B, Do­mini­can-Amer­i­can rap icon, Au­gust 2021)

In­dia’s mas­sive to­tal, built on San­ju Sam­son’s 82 and a fe­ro­cious fin­ish from Shreyas Iy­er and Tilak Var­ma, proved too lit­tle on a dewy sur­face high­way in Ranchi.

There was a dis­tinct Trinidad and To­ba­go flavour to the Toron­to Six­ers’ suc­cess in the just-con­clud­ed sec­ond sea­son of the Cana­da Su­per60. The Six­ers tast­ed unique dou­ble suc­cess by win­ning both the men’s and women’s ti­tles at BC Place in Van­cou­ver, Cana­da.

The T&T Un­der-18 men’s hand­ball team had their hopes of con­test­ing the gold medal play­offs in the 2026/2027 Youth (Un­der-18) Men’s IHF Tro­phy North Amer­i­ca and The Caribbean (Youth) Cham­pi­onship end­ed af­ter a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive heavy de­feat in Puer­to Ri­co Wednes­day (Oc­to­ber 7).

Af­ter the re­cent fall­out be­tween the lo­cal wa­ter po­lo com­mu­ni­ty and the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (ASATT), Ryan Smith, a for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tor of the sport, is lead­ing a call for wa­ter po­lo to have its own au­ton­o­my.

One Jabb/Ktreadz was crowned cham­pi­ons of the 46-53 Di­vi­sion of this year’s Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) Eight-A-Side Foot­ball League with­out kick­ing a ball af­ter their clos­est ri­vals dropped cru­cial points in their penul­ti­mate match in the five-team round-robin league at the Queen’s Park Oval, Tra­garete Road, Port-of-Spain, on Tues­day (Oc­to­ber 6) night.

Four cat­e­gories of peo­ple name­ly the elite ath­letes, in­di­vid­u­als, Na­tion­al Gov­ern­ing Bod­ies (NG­Bs) and Sport Sup­port Bod­ies were the re­cip­i­ents of TT$10.7 mil­lion dol­lars in fund­ing.

T&T Un­der-18 men’s hand­ball team suf­fered a heavy 17-62 de­feat to Cana­da in their open­ing match in Group A of the 2026/2027 Youth (Un­der-18) Men’s IHF Tro­phy North Amer­i­ca and The Caribbean (Youth) Cham­pi­onship at the Puer­to Ri­co Olympic Train­ing Cen­tre in Toa Ba­ja, Puer­to Ri­co on Tues­day (Oc­to­ber 6).

The Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NAAATT) re­cent­ly grad­u­at­ed 29 new Lev­el 2 track coach­es af­ter two five-day train­ing cours­es held si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va.

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my ca­reer; I’ve lost al­most 300 games. Twen­ty-six times I’ve been trust­ed to take the game-win­ning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And this is why I suc­ceed.” — Michael Jor­dan

HARARE — West In­dies vet­er­an Stafanie Tay­lor etched her name in­to the his­to­ry books on Wednes­day, be­com­ing on­ly the fourth woman to com­plete the dou­ble of 3,000 T20I runs and 100 wick­ets, as the re­gion­al women crushed Zim­bab­we by eight wick­ets to com­plete a clean 3-0 se­ries sweep in Zim­bab­we on Wednes­day.