T&T’s Dy­lan Carter helped his LA Cur­rent to a third-placed med­ley re­lay fin­ish in Group B of the in­au­gur­al In­ter­na­tion­al Swim­ming League on Sat­ur­day at the West­side Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Lewisville, Texas.

In the in­au­gur­al col­umn of this se­ries (Au­gust 4, 2019), Dr Ak­shai Mans­ingh, Dean of the UWI Fac­ul­ty of Sport, stat­ed that the fac­ul­ty was com­mit­ted to a sym­bi­ot­ic re­la­tion­ship be­tween it­self and sport­ing bod­ies to en­hance a col­lab­o­ra­tive ap­proach to­wards the de­vel­op­ment of sport in the re­gion. As the Project Of­fi­cer in the fac­ul­ty, I wish to take the op­por­tu­ni­ty to elab­o­rate on this as­pect of the fac­ul­ty’s thrust and share the sig­nif­i­cant strides we have made in the short pe­ri­od since its in­cep­tion.

Goal-at­tack Nikeisha Gomes did the bulk of the shoot­ing for Laven­tille Unit­ed and led the scor­ing with 30 goals from 39 at­tempts to see her team to vic­to­ry in the Re­pub­lic Bank Laven­tille Net­ball League on Sat­ur­day evening.

John O’Brien will at­tack next week’s fea­ture event, the Grade Two (Re­strict­ed) Caribbean Cham­pi­on Stakes over 1,800 me­tres, with three en­trants Apoc­a­lypse, Gen­er­al JN and Mak­ing Head­lines.

Po­lice and Malvern record­ed con­trast­ing wins to join de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Queen’s Park Crick­et Club and last year’s run­ners-up De­fence Force as the four semi­fi­nal qual­i­fiers in the T&T Hock­ey Board In­door Cham­pi­onship Men’s Open Di­vi­sion at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty on Sat­ur­day night.

MUM­BAI—For­mer West In­dies bat­ting mae­stro Bri­an Lara be­lieves the Caribbean side re­main a feared side in the short­est for­mat but will not be among the favourites for next year’s Twen­ty20 World Cup in Aus­tralia.

Jahreem George scored two sec­ond-half tries and a con­ver­sion in each as Rain­bow held off a spir­it­ed fight­back from Ry­deus to lift the T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union’s Se­nior Di­vi­sion 10-a-side crown at Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah II Ground in Port-of-Spain on Sunday.

Didi­mo Sanchez Men­doza ran a well thought out race to bet­ter his time from last year and re­peat as cham­pi­on of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Sports and Ed­u­ca­tion Cen­tre’s (UWI SPEC) In­ter­na­tion­al Half-Marathon on Sun­day.

Three dif­fer­ent play­ers scored a try each as Trinidad North­ern RFC com­plet­ed the dou­ble in the 2019 T&T Rug­by Foot­ball Union Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion by blank­ing arch-ri­vals Caribs RFC 22-0 to lift the league ti­tle at Pres­i­dent's Ground, St Ann's, on Sat­ur­day.

It is pub­lic knowl­edge that we have a change in lead­er­ship of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) off the field with a new Pres­i­dent and a new Vice-Pres­i­dent. They came in with a promise to re­vamp West In­dies crick­et. I felt some al­ter­ations were done too soon just be­fore the World Cup. How­ev­er, whole­sale changes have in­deed come - new se­lec­tors, new coach, new white-ball cap­tain and it ap­pears, at last, that play­ers will be se­lect­ed (and dropped) based on mer­it and crick­et­ing abil­i­ty and noth­ing else.

Sport is a unique and im­por­tant con­nec­tive tis­sue that binds peo­ple to­geth­er. It en­ables mul­ti­ple au­di­ences and gen­er­a­tions to find align­ment. And there’s some­thing that is now be­ing hailed as the biggest in­flu­encer be­hind this glob­al uni­fi­er. Tech­nol­o­gy.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Leg­endary for­mer West In­dies speed­ster, Michael Hold­ing, has urged Crick­et West In­dies not to dis­card out­stand­ing for­mer team­mate, Desmond Haynes, but to ab­sorb him in­to the coach­ing set­up of the men’s team.