Po­lice FC's in­tent to seal a dou­ble ti­tle at the T&T Pro League sea­son, took a pos­i­tive turn yes­ter­day, cour­tesy Ka­reem Fre­itas' brace in a 4-1 thrash­ing of AC Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo.

For many ath­letes and even of­fi­cials, par­tic­u­lar­ly foot­ball coach­es, an ex­pla­na­tion of the con­cept of self-con­fi­dence is hard­ly nec­es­sary as they know in­tu­itive­ly what it is. In­deed, self-con­fi­dence is so pal­pa­ble in some in­di­vid­u­als you can al­most reach out and touch it. Their con­fi­dence is re­flect­ed in every­thing they say and do, in what they wear, how they speak and how they look.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Crick­et West In­dies chief ex­ec­u­tive, John­ny Grave, be­lieves ter­ri­to­r­i­al pol­i­tics should have no bear­ing on the re­gion­al gov­ern­ing body’s al­lo­ca­tion of in­ter­na­tion­al match­es.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – Rook­ie fast bowler Nial Smith snatched his sec­ond five-wick­et haul in three out­ings to trig­ger a sen­sa­tion­al T&T Red Force col­lapse, as cham­pi­ons Guyana Jaguars took a firm hold of their third-round en­counter on Fri­day.

Fire Ser­vice, the lone un­beat­en team in the Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­son of the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League, will at­tempt to keep its record flaw­less when it takes on Po­lice X on Sat­ur­day at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua.

It ap­pears that the de­ci­sion by the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF) not to send a team to con­test the open­ing Team Sprint event at the UCI World Cup in Cana­da on Fri­day was the right call, said cy­cling icons Roger Gib­bon and Gene Samuel, and Desmond Roberts, who is a cy­cling en­thu­si­ast and man­ag­er for Olympian Te­niel Camp­bell.

For the sixth year, the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) will part­ner with the T&T In­ter­na­tion­al Marathon (TTIM) and will par­tic­i­pate in the 38th edi­tion of the race to raise aware­ness and fund­ing for the or­gan­i­sa­tion's Team TTO #10golds24 ath­lete wel­fare and prepa­ra­tion fund.

The de­par­ture of Cana­di­an Erin Hartwell as the coun­try's cy­cling coach and tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor is be­ing seen as a huge loss, the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion said in a re­lease on Fri­day.

A late run by Po­lice X al­most end­ed TT Post's win streak but the lat­ter did just enough to avoid de­feat and pre­vailed with a nar­row one-goal (30-29) win af­ter lead­ing by as much as 10 goals ear­ly on in their Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion match of the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League.

Guaya Unit­ed FC fi­nan­cial di­rec­tor Randy Ha­gley is lead­ing the charge of some T&T Su­per League clubs to have Wednes­day's meet­ing with the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, the T&T Su­per League Board of Di­rec­tors, and the T&T Pro League clubs, to be deemed null and void.

KIM­BER­LEY, South Africa – Cap­tain Ki­mani Melius and Matthew Patrick struck half-cen­turies as West In­dies crushed hap­less Nige­ria by 246 runs to storm in­to the quar­ter-fi­nals of the ICC Un­der-19 World Cup with an un­beat­en record on Thurs­day.

T&T's ten­nis girls will play for third and fourth in the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Pre Qual­i­fy­ing Tour­na­ment for the World Ju­nior Ten­nis com­pe­ti­tion in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Wednes­day.