In an ef­fort to use an ev­i­dence-based ap­proach to un­der­stand and de­vel­op the most ef­fec­tive way to max­i­mize sport's con­tri­bu­tion to de­vel­op­ment, the UNICEF Of­fice of Re­search, with the sup­port of the Barça Foun­da­tion, con­duct­ed and pub­lished their re­search in­to the child-fo­cused sport for de­vel­op­ment. Par­tic­i­pa­tion in sport is an ef­fec­tive tool for in­volv­ing all chil­dren to de­vel­op their phys­i­cal skills; im­prove their health as well as es­tab­lish pro-so­cial, psy­cho­log­i­cal and emo­tion­al at­trib­ut­es while play­ing and hav­ing fun.

Ten­nis queen Carlista Mo­hammed came from a match down in the open­ing set, to beat Aal­isha Alex­is in straights sets for the Girls Sin­gles ti­tle of the Open Na­tion­al Ten­nis Cham­pi­onship at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre (NRC) in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua yes­ter­day.

Cougars Track and Field Club end­ed the first day of the NGC/NAAATT Ju­ve­nile Cham­pi­onship with 98 points clear of its near­est ri­vals Mem­phis Pi­o­neers Ath­let­ic Club at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo yes­ter­day.

T&T mid­field­er Jo­mal Williams is bank­ing on the right com­bi­na­tion of youth, ex­pe­ri­ence and chem­istry to push the na­tion­al team through at the 2019 CON­CA­CAF Gold Cup.

Top T&T swim­mer Dy­lan Carter end­ed in the fourth po­si­tion in the Men's 100m back­stroke A-fi­nal in a time of 54.72 sec­onds to trail Matt Gre­vers who won in 53.59, at the TYR Pro Swim Se­ries in Clo­vis, Cal­i­for­nia on Fri­day night.

SOUTHAMP­TON, Eng­land – De­spite two loss­es for­mer West In­dies cap­tain Clive Lloyd has not giv­en up faith that the West In­dies can still win the 2019 ICC World Cup.

“We the North”. Sure­ly you’ve heard it, seen it and maybe even felt it over the past few days or weeks. I read where Sid Lee, the Cana­di­an cre­ative ser­vices firm part­nered with the Toron­to Rap­tors to unite peo­ple around a mind­set and pride of place. “We The North” isn’t a cam­paign, but an ex­am­ple of how an iden­ti­ty-shap­ing truth can spark a 'brand' cru­sade. By cre­at­ing the “We the North cam­paign”, Sid Lee Toron­to be­came a unique col­lab­o­ra­tor in the his­to­ry of their brand iden­ti­ty.

Two very good fast bowlers can win you match­es and af­ter an epic 153 from skip­per Aaron Finch, he threw the ball to Mitchell Starc and Pat Cum­mins and the re­sult was an­oth­er de­feat for a fight­ing Sri Lan­ka at the 2019 ICC World Cup by 87 runs.

T&T’s sailor An­drew Lewis is fo­cused on be­ing phys­i­cal­ly and men­tal­ly pre­pared for the fast-ap­proach­ing Olympic Games, sched­uled for Tokyo in 2020, as he metic­u­lous­ly chore­o­graphed his plans for the sea­son ahead.

The Shaf­fique Khan trained four-year-old chest­nut fil­ly, Princess Suri which won the 2018 edi­tion of the Grade Three - Pres­i­dent's Cup over 1,900 me­tres will not be de­fend­ing her crown on Wednes­day.

Skip­per Aaron Finch led from the front with a cen­tu­ry to pow­er Aus­tralia to the top of the ICC 2019 World Cup stand­ings fol­low­ing a com­mand­ing 87-run win over Sri Lan­ka at the Oval on Sat­ur­day.

Many peo­ple thought West In­di­an all-rounder Car­los Brath­waite would run afoul of the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) when he broad­sided the um­pir­ing in an in­ter­view af­ter the 15-run World Cup loss to Aus­tralia.