Yes­ter­day, Mon­day, Au­gust 11, was World Steel­pan Day. It’s a day that has sig­nif­i­cance for T&T. That sig­nif­i­cance is one of the rea­sons I choose to re­flect, in par­tic­u­lar, on “Pan on De Podi­um” and the jour­ney to get­ting the steel­pan ver­sion of the na­tion­al an­them played on the podi­um.

T&T’s Davis Cup cap­tain Dun­stan De­noon says he was pos­i­tive about the progress made by his team dur­ing the 2025 Davis Cup Amer­i­c­as Zone Group IV Tour­na­ment, which end­ed at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua, on Sat­ur­day.

T&T swim­mers Nikoli Black­man and Zuri Fer­gu­son both missed out on adding to this coun­try’s lone medal when they placed fourth in their re­spec­tive fi­nals at the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games at the Olympic Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Asun­cion, Paraguay, Mon­day night.

T&T De­fence Force women went one bet­ter than last year when they out­classed Grena­da 3-0 to take home the ti­tle in the six-team 3W’s Tour­na­ment host­ed by the T&T De­fence Force FC at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, on Sun­day.

Ce­cil Forde, pres­i­dent of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­BA), is mak­ing an­oth­er plea to Min­is­ter of Sports and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts to make ur­gent rep­re­sen­ta­tion for the T&T Box­ing Board to be ap­point­ed very soon.

With not on­ly their se­ries against Pak­istan on the line but au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the 2027 World Cup, West In­dies all-rounder Ros­ton Chase says it’s im­por­tant that they get max­i­mum points from every One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) they play go­ing for­ward.

The Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) has part­nered with the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) for the 2025 sea­son of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL T20). The part­ner­ship was ce­ment­ed with a for­mal con­tract sign­ing re­cent­ly.

Ed­mund Homer scored his sec­ond hat-trick of the sea­son to lead Or­gans to a 3-0 dis­man­tling of Kings of Kings in the Over-45 Di­vi­sion of the Ty­ro Sports Club Open and Over-45 Di­vi­sion Sev­en-A-Side Foot­ball League on Tues­day.

Easy go­ing for E-Z Lines as ti­tle glo­ry is on­ly two game weeks away. Match-day 13 of the Na­tion­al Mixed For­mat league of Darts was host­ed by the T&T Darts As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­DA) at No 36 New Street, Port-of-Spain, on Au­gust 4.

The T&T men’s 4x100m freestyle re­lay quar­tet of Nikoli Black­man, Zarek Wil­son, Zachary An­tho­ny and Jo­hannn-Matthew Mato­moro com­bined to se­cure a bronze medal to open this coun­try’s medal ac­count at the sec­ond edi­tion of the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games at the Olympic Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Asun­cion, Paraguay, Sun­day night.

T&T De­fence Force Elite cap­tain Kevin Moli­no and for­mer head coach Den­sill Theobald walked away with two of the night’s most pres­ti­gious ac­co­lades — Tier I "Play­er of the Sea­son" and Tier I "Coach of the Sea­son", re­spec­tive­ly, when the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) held its awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA) in Port-of-Spain on Sat­ur­day night.

Jahiem Har­ry, William Fran­cis and Hec­tor Sam were the "Most Valu­able Play­ers" of the Kelvin Roberts North Zone Bas­ket­ball Com­mis­sion's All Stars Day, which cel­e­brat­ed the play­ers of the past, recog­nis­ing their con­tri­bu­tions to the sport.