ST JOHN’S – Gen­er­al sec­re­tary of the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (AB­FA), Ro­han Hec­tor has made it clear he is not fac­ing any firearm charges fol­low­ing re­ports that a man bear­ing a sim­i­lar name ap­peared in court in An­tigua on Wednes­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Pres­i­dent of Crick­et West In­dies (CWI), Dr Kishore Shal­low is not fazed by the re­cent move by Guyana Harpy Ea­gles’ play­ers Veerasam­my Per­maul and Kevlon An­der­son to take them to court over ball tam­per­ing charges.

Nathan Cum­ber­batch rewrote the na­tion­al men’s 1,500-me­tre record when he clocked three min­utes and 43.55 sec­onds (3:43.55) on his way to vic­to­ry at the Uni­ver­si­ty of South Cal­i­for­nia (USC) ver­sus Uni­veristy of Cal­i­for­nia-Los An­ge­les (UCLA) dual meet in Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia on May 4.

Con­ca­caf Pres­i­dent Vic­tor Mon­tagliani said the base has been set for the re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion of foot­ball in T&T un­der new pres­i­dent Kieron Ed­wards and his ex­ec­u­tive team.

An­der­son Ma­hase snared four wick­ets be­fore Kofi James blast­ed an un­beat­en half cen­tu­ry as the Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der de­mol­ished the Wind­ward Is­lands In­fer­nos by eight wick­ets in their Elim­i­na­tor match here at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba on Fri­day.

Mis­cel­la­neous Po­lice and San Juan Jabloteh strength­ened their po­si­tions for a spot in ei­ther the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup or the Con­ca­caf Caribbean Shield for the re­spec­tive sec­ond-placed and third-placed teams in Tier 1 of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL), with vic­to­ries when ac­tion re­sumed on Fri­day at the Phase II Recre­ation Ground in La Hor­quet­ta.

The four-woman team of Kayan­na May­ers, Rayann Shep­pard, Tyra Titte and Anaya Pope, rid­ing for the Rigtech Son­ics, sprint­ed to the gold medal and the na­tion­al ti­tle on Wednes­day (May 7) when the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion held its Na­tion­al Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va.

New Min­is­ter of Sports and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts has giv­en the as­sur­ance he will move swift­ly to deal with the ap­point­ment of the T&T Box­ing Board of Con­trol, which re­signed fol­low­ing the loss of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) at the re­cent gen­er­al elec­tions.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Di­rec­tor of Crick­et Miles Bas­combe met with ter­ri­to­r­i­al tal­ent iden­ti­fiers dur­ing the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed West In­dies Break­out League in T&T.

This past week, I had the ho­n­our of rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Caribbean as the lone non-UE­FA par­tic­i­pant se­lect­ed for the UE­FA Strate­gic Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­pact Course, held at UE­FA head­quar­ters in Ny­on, Switzer­land.

Sports psy­chol­o­gy plays a vi­tal role in the de­vel­op­ment of young ath­letes, as­sist­ing them in en­hanc­ing their men­tal tough­ness, boost­ing their per­for­mance, and equip­ping them for long-last­ing achieve­ment.

Pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB), Az­im Bas­sarath, said he sees no rea­son for him­self or any mem­ber of staff to re­sign af­ter the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) raid­ed the TTCB’s of­fice in Cou­va on Thurs­day morn­ing.