Thir­teen (13) box­ers were called to be­gin na­tion­al team train­ing on Mon­day at the Fight Fac­to­ry Box­ing Gym in Ch­agua­nas.

"Once a year, go some­where you’ve nev­er been be­fore." (Ten­zin Gy­at­so, 14th Dalai Lama)

Curleen Lara’s sharp shoot­ing re­mained the fo­cal point of T&T’s un­de­feat­ed cam­paign as the hosts up­staged St Lu­cia 43-20 in the Jean Pierre Caribbean Youth Net­ball Tour­na­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Sport and Phys­i­cal Ed­u­ca­tion Cen­tre (UWI SPEC) in St Au­gus­tine on Wednes­day.

Af­ter two days of in­tense prepa­ra­tion cou­pled with a win­ning mind­set, this coun­try’s se­nior women’s foot­ball team is con­fi­dent and ready to face El Sal­vador in their fi­nal Group F match of the Con­ca­caf World Cup Qual­i­fiers and Women’s Cham­pi­onships at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, on Fri­day from 6 pm.

Col­in “Creepy” Wil­son’s body was tak­en through an av­enue of lift­ed bike wheels at his fu­ner­al ser­vice at the Church of As­sump­tion on Mar­aval Road, Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

LON­DON, UK – In a move that sig­nals a ma­jor shift away from tra­di­tion­al en­dorse­ment deals, Are­na365 an­nounced Thurs­day that it has signed T20 su­per­star Nicholas Pooran as its Of­fi­cial Brand Am­bas­sador.

KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – The Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) is set to make his­to­ry this sum­mer, an­nounc­ing a land­mark ex­pan­sion that will see match­es played in a record-equalling eight na­tions, in­clud­ing a first-ever fix­ture at Arnos Vale in St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

Goal­keep­er and cap­tain Jerusha Des Vi­gnes and goal-de­fence Ke­lis Find­ley was ruth­less on de­fence for Team T&T (TTO) in their third match of the Jean Pierre Caribbean Youth Net­ball Tour­na­ment. They held op­po­nent Do­mini­ca to a soli­tary goal in the sec­ond half to emerge with a mas­sive 44-9 win on Tues­day night.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua - Ter­rance Hinds is in­to his fifth sea­son as a first-class play­er, but pri­or to get­ting the chance to live the dream of play­ing the sport that he loves, life for the all­rounder from Trinidad and To­ba­go was like a roller­coast­er.

ST CATHER­INE, Ja­maica – The Bar­ba­dos Pride walked away from their open­ing West In­dies Cham­pi­onship clash against the Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons with a sev­en-wick­et de­feat at Ched­win Park, but as­sis­tant coach Ryan Hinds was in no mood to dwell on the loss alone. In­stead, he chose to cel­e­brate a rare spec­ta­cle of first-class crick­et.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Bar­ba­di­an Roland Butch­er will be ho­n­oured by Sport­ing Equals with a Spe­cial Life­time Achieve­ment Award dur­ing their awards cer­e­mo­ny this week­end.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force reg­is­tered the first vic­to­ry of this year’s West In­dies Cham­pi­onship by com­plet­ing a com­pre­hen­sive in­nings and 271-run win over the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes on Tues­day.