BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Maaz Sadaqat pro­duced a sen­sa­tion­al dis­play of pow­er hit­ting to car­ry the Ja­maica Kings­men with­in sight of their first Caribbean Pre­mier League fi­nal with a nine-wick­et thrash­ing of the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents in their Elim­i­na­tor con­test on Wednes­day.

Oc­tavia E. But­ler once not­ed: “All strug­gles are es­sen­tial­ly pow­er strug­gles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will de­fine, re­fine, con­fine, de­sign? Who will dom­i­nate? All strug­gles are es­sen­tial­ly pow­er strug­gles, and most are no more in­tel­lec­tu­al than two rams knock­ing their heads to­geth­er.”

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors Women brought an end to three-time de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents Women’s reign in the Women’s Caribbean Pre­mier League (WC­PL), de­feat­ing them by sev­en wick­ets in the Elim­i­na­tor at Kens­ing­ton Oval on Wednes­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – For­mer West In­dies crick­eters Dwayne Bra­vo and Ian Bish­op were of­fi­cial­ly in­duct­ed in­to the Caribbean Pre­mier League’s (CPL) Hall of Fame dur­ing a glitzy gala din­ner at the Hilton Bar­ba­dos on Tues­day night.

Pro­mot­ed Spey­side High School, buoyed by its 2-1 win over for­mer pow­er­house Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary, will aim for a sec­ond win in as many out­ings when the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League Boys’ Pre­mier Di­vi­sion con­tin­ues Wednesday (Sep­tem­ber 16) with a full slate of match­es.

Five days af­ter a dread­ed mix-up on the course pre­vent­ed of­fi­cials from de­ter­min­ing the fi­nal po­si­tions of the Sub­way 6k and 12k Road Race in Mal­abar, Ari­ma, on Sep­tem­ber 6, the run­ners were fi­nal­ly re­ward­ed at a press brief­ing on Fri­day at Roxy, St James.

Liam Trepte, who once held the crown for en­durance rid­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go, con­firmed his re­turn to the top by beat­ing his close ri­val, Ak­il Camp­bell, for the na­tion­al ti­tle at the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion’s Na­tion­al Cri­teri­um Cham­pi­onship at Tamana In-Teck Park on Sun­day (Sep­tem­ber 13).

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – The stage is set at Kens­ing­ton Oval for a high-stakes Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) elim­i­na­tor tonight night, as the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents host the Ja­maica Kings­men at 7:00 pm lo­cal time.

Quar­ters Unit­ed and South­side Elite find them­selves on the brink of se­cur­ing fi­nal berths in their re­spec­tive di­vi­sions in the South Zone Bas­ket­ball League.

​That was the lead head­line of a sto­ry pub­lished on www.mon­i­tor.co.ug. The ar­ti­cle de­tailed the am­bi­tious vi­sion of Regi­na Hellen Okoit Lun­y­olo, a de­ter­mined woman us­ing sport to trans­form her home coun­try of Ugan­da.

Af­ter win­ning 12 medals across mul­ti­ple weight class­es, the coun­try’s mixed mar­tial arts team re­turned from the Pan Amer­i­can Mixed Mar­tial Arts Cham­pi­onships in Bo­gotá. Colom­bia, Monday (Sep­tem­ber 15).

Trinidad and To­ba­go Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) run­ner-up Club San­do and Haiti’s Vi­o­lette will lock horns for top spot in Group B of the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup at the Es­ta­dio Cibao FC in San­ti­a­go de los Ca­balleros, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, on Tues­day (Sep­tem­ber 15) from 7 pm.