KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Megan Tap­per, Ja­maica’s women’s na­tion­al 100 me­tre hur­dles cham­pi­on, has signed a four-year pro­fes­sion­al con­tract with Adi­das.

De­spite en­ter­ing the bi­lat­er­al se­ries against the USA (Ju­ly 26-Au­gust 3at the Sir Frank Wor­rell Crick­et Ground, the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, Trinidad) with home ad­van­tage and hav­ing just com­plet­ed the Ris­ing Stars Re­gion­al Un­der-19 tour­na­ment, the West In­dies U-19 Women's per­for­mance fell short of ex­pec­ta­tions.

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.

Led by stand­out per­for­mances from Jay­den Seales, Ros­ton Chase and Sher­fane Ruther­ford, the West In­dies claimed a cru­cial five-wick­et win via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern method over Pak­istan in the sec­ond One Day In­ter­na­tion­al to lev­el the three-match se­ries 1-1 in TArou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day.

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.

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.

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.

Since the end of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic and the re­lax­ation of health-re­lat­ed re­stric­tions in Trinidad and To­ba­go and world­wide, there has been an in­crease in 5K races. The pop­u­lar­i­ty of 5K events has found a home in the hearts of fit­ness en­thu­si­asts, as well as pro­fes­sion­al and ca­su­al ath­letes.

Hasan Nawaz and Hus­sain Ta­lat pi­lot­ed Pak­istan to an im­pres­sive five-wick­et vic­to­ry over the West In­dies in the open­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al here at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Sta­di­um on Fri­day.

With the coun­try’s con­tin­gent seek­ing to do Trinidad and To­ba­go proud at the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Games in Paraguay – which start­ed yes­ter­day – Guardian Me­dia Sports un­der­stands that an in­ter­nal dis­pute in the Ta­ble Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion is threat­en­ing to po­ten­tial­ly un­der­mine the ta­ble ten­nis team’s prepa­ra­tions and chances.

We’ve ar­rived at the point where there is no room for hes­i­ta­tion, no space for half-mea­sures. This is the lev­el — the World Cup Fi­nal Round qual­i­fy­ing stage — where prepa­ra­tion meets pres­sure, and on­ly the strongest, most unit­ed teams sur­vive.

Kevez Quin­tero scored the lone goal as T&T Un­der-15s bat­tled to a 1-0 win over Guatemala for the bronze medal in League B of the 2025 Con­ca­caf Boys’ Un­der-15 Cham­pi­onship at the Sta­dion CD Jose Wev­er in Oran­jes­tad, Aru­ba on Sat­ur­day.