Na­tion­al women's coach Richard Hood is ex­pect­ed on Sat­ur­day to name his 18-mem­ber women's team which will de­part on Sun­day for Mex­i­co City where they will face that coun­try's women's team in their 2024 CON­CA­CAF Women's Gold Cup Group A qual­i­fy­ing tour­na­ment, at the Es­ta­dio Hi­dal­go (Pachu­ca de So­to) at over 8,000 feet in high al­ti­tude on Wednes­day from 10 pm (TT time).

Reign­ing na­tion­al In­ter-Col cham­pi­on Fa­ti­ma Col­lege, Na­pari­ma Col­lege and San Juan North Sec­ondary, each for­mer cham­pi­ons, will all be con­fi­dent of mak­ing it four wins on the trot when the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier Di­vi­sion con­tin­ues on Sat­ur­day at venues across T&T from 4 pm.

BRIDGETOWN – Bar­ba­dos, Trinidad and To­ba­go and Guyana are among sev­en na­tions se­lect­ed to host match­es in next year’s men’s Twen­ty20 World Cup.

It feels like such a long time since the fans in the re­gion wit­nessed the first game be­tween the Ja­maica Tallawahs (JT) and the St Lu­cia Kings (SLK). Be­fore we look at the three teams in what is ex­pect­ed to be two thrilling games, let us look back at the per­for­mances of the teams that did not get in­to the fi­nal three.

T&T-born Suri­name Olympic gold medal win­ning swim­mer An­tho­ny Nesty and Todd De Sor­bo were on Thurs­day named by USA Swim­ming as the US Olympic head coach­es in 2024, with DeS­or­bo tabbed to lead the women’s team and Nesty giv­en the reins to guide the men’s squad.

Adam Pierre pro­vid­ed a fit­ting win­ner with a spec­tac­u­lar long-dis­tance free-kick from just in­side the half-line, as the Cox Coach­ing School of Pa­lo Seco record­ed a stun­ning come-from-be­hind 2-1 tri­umph over Trend­set­ter Hawks of Port-of-Spain in the fi­nal of the in­au­gur­al Caribbean Stars Boys Un­der-15 Com­mu­ni­ty Foot­ball Tour­na­ment on Sun­day.

J’Eleisha Alexan­der, the reign­ing “Most Valu­able Play­er”, net­ted six goals to in­spire de­fend­ing Na­tion­al Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Girls Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion ti­tle­hold­ers Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary to an 8-0 spank­ing of Good­wood High at Mt St George recre­ation ground on Thurs­day.

WIN­NIPEG – Bar­ba­di­an An­to­nio White­hall was crowned cham­pi­on jock­ey at the Assini­boia Downs race­track in Cana­da for the third time in his ca­reer in Man­i­to­ba, Cana­da on Wednes­day.

GEORGE­TOWN – Cap­tain Bran­don King has hailed the con­tri­bu­tion of all-rounder Fabi­an Allen af­ter the left-arm spin­ner dis­man­tled St Lu­cia Kings in the first play­off game of the Caribbean Pre­mier League on Tues­day night in Guyana.

Michael Mout­tet and Richard Jar­dine scored a goal each as de­fend­ing cham­pi­on Mur­phy Clarke had nar­row 1-0 wins over Cookkin Vibez and Sprint Main­te­nance Ser­vices, re­spec­tive­ly, in the Over-60 Di­vi­sion in the Queen's Park Crick­et Club 8-A-Side Foot­ball Tour­na­ment at the Queen's Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

Re­cent wins against El Sal­vador and Cu­ra­cao have cat­a­pult­ed eight-time Caribbean Cup cham­pi­ons T&T back in­to the top 100 of the FI­FA men’s world rank­ings.

There has been an ex­plo­sion of crick­et in At­lanta with the com­mis­sion­ing of six crick­et fields at the Param Veers Crick­et Fields in Ry­dal, Geor­gia in the Unit­ed States.