Four T&T bas­ket­ballers re­cent­ly vis­it­ed New York to par­tic­i­pate in the fi­nal phase of the 2019 Dig­i­cel NBA Jump­start Pro­gramme.

Je­lani Black­ett and Jil­lisa Brig­gs, two of the NBA Ex­pe­ri­ence win­ners who re­cent­ly vis­it­ed New York, USA, to par­tic­i­pate in the fi­nal phase of the Dig­i­cel NBA Jump­start Pro­gramme, helped Mal­oney Pac­ers boys' and girls' teams emerge the re­spec­tive cham­pi­ons of the Na­tion­al Bas­ket­ball Fed­er­a­tion of T&T (NBFTT) Un­der-18 3X3 Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onship at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na on Sat­ur­day.

De­spite re­ceiv­ing no fund­ing from Gov­ern­ment, the Caribbean Box­ing Cham­pi­onship will go on as planned, Ce­cil Forde, pres­i­dent of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion has said.

Pleas­antville Sec­ondary’s girls re­tained the Co­ca Co­la Na­tion­al In­ter­Col ti­tle af­ter beat­ing Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary 3-1 in a hot­ly con­test­ed fi­nal at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Wednes­day.

Some­times, de­pend­ing on cir­cum­stances, it can prove re­ward­ing to take a trip down mem­o­ry lane. A friend sent me a What­sApp video with one of my favourite songs - Rock Your Ba­by by George Mc­Crea who seemed to be per­form­ing the mon­ster hit in a park much to the en­joy­ment of an aged crowd. At 75, his voice was as good and as strong as it was when he first sang the hit some 45 years ago.

LON­DON—Off-spin­ner Rah­keem Corn­wall and Shamarh Brooks have both stormed up the re­spec­tive In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil rank­ings fol­low­ing out­stand­ing per­for­mances in the in­au­gur­al one-off Test against Afghanistan last week.

Al­though it wasn’t any­thing spec­tac­u­lar, his sim­ple tap in from N’Kosi Charles’ right-side cen­tre in the 94th minute, earned Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do their first-ever Co­ca Co­la Na­tion­al In­ter­Col ti­tle with a come-from-be­hind 2-1 win over San Juan North Sec­ondary at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va.

Open­er Hay­ley Matthews played some classy shots and off-break spin­ner Kar­ish­ma Ramharack was ef­fec­tive down at the bowl­ing end to help Tri­dent Sports Phoenix seal a huge eight-wick­et win in their open­ing match of the T&T Women's Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (TTWCA) Courts Twen­ty20 (T20) Grand Slam Tour­na­ment.

Ako Pas­call hit a buzzer-beat­er from be­yond the three-point arc to keep Cale­do­nia Clip­pers alive in game one in the best-in-three semi­fi­nals of the JCW In­vi­ta­tion­al Bas­ket­ball League, send­ing the match in­to over­time but his team fell to Sto­ries of Suc­cess (SOS) Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my a nar­row 101-100 de­feat af­ter the scores were tied at 89 at the end of reg­u­la­tion time.

Shawn Coop­er, the Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do coach does not want to put any more pres­sure on his young bunch of play­ers head­ing in­to the Co­ca Co­la Na­tion­al In­ter­Col Fi­nal against San Juan North Sec­ondary at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main Cou­va on Wednes­day.

Hillview Rene­gades have been crowned cham­pi­ons of the in­au­gur­al Ramps Lo­gis­tics Su­per Se­ries with a crush­ing eight-wick­et win over Full of Vy­bz on Sun­day night at the Sir Frank Wor­rell Ground, Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine.

They earned this ti­tle af­ter beat­ing East Mu­cu­rapo 3-1 in a penal­ty shoot-out af­ter the game end­ed goal­less at the end of reg­u­la­tion time at St Mary's Col­lege Ground in St Clair on Tues­day.