Swim­mer Nikoli Black­man won Trinidad and To­ba­go’s first gold medal of the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games when he won the men’s 50m freestyle at the Juan Pablo Duarte Aquat­ic Cen­ter in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, on Tues­day night.

With the 2026 World Cup now fin­ished, it is strik­ing how the con­trast­ing for­tunes of the min­nows and the top teams seem to have mir­rored what is hap­pen­ing in sports in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The race for the 2026 Na­tion­al 501 League of Darts cham­pi­onship is set for a thrilling con­clu­sion af­ter an­oth­er dra­mat­ic night of ac­tion on Ju­ly 21 at Kos­mos Club in Port-of-Spain. With just one match-day re­main­ing, ti­tle hopes, pro­mo­tion am­bi­tions and rel­e­ga­tion bat­tles are all still very much alive.

GEORGE­TOWN – Open­ers Zachary Carter and Saite­ja Mukka­mal­la scored half cen­turies to pow­er the Desert Vipers to a com­pre­hen­sive nine-wick­et win over the San Fran­cis­co Uni­corns to reg­is­ter their first win in the Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) in Guyana on Mon­day.

Jay­den Seales’ fourth five-wick­et haul in Tests sealed a mem­o­rable and his­toric 90-run vic­to­ry for West In­dies over Pak­istan in the open­ing match at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Tues­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies se­nior men’s cap­tains Ros­ton Chase and Shai Hope, along with fel­low Bar­ba­di­ans Justin Greaves, Joshua Bish­op and Jomel War­ri­can, will join a Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) del­e­ga­tion in Bar­ba­dos for the fu­ner­al of Sir Garfield Sobers on Wednes­day.

Trinidad and To­ba­go se­cured its sec­ond and third bronze medals at the 2026 Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games when the women’s and men’s cy­cling team sprint teams end­ed in the third spot in their re­spec­tive events at the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Velo­drome Cen­ter in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, on Mon­day.

GEORGE­TOWN – De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Guyana Ama­zon War­riors and the San Fran­cis­co Uni­corns record­ed con­trast­ing vic­to­ries when the Glob­al Su­per League (GSL) con­tin­ued at Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um in Guyana on Sun­day.

​Al­le­ga­tions that FI­FA Pres­i­dent Gi­an­ni In­fan­ti­no breached Olympic rules on po­lit­i­cal neu­tral­i­ty in his deal­ings with US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump will not be in­ves­ti­gat­ed by the In­ter­na­tion­al Olympic Com­mit­tee (IOC). Al­though In­fan­ti­no is an IOC mem­ber, a spokesper­son for the or­gan­i­sa­tion said that be­cause the com­plaint cen­tred on FI­FA de­ci­sions and gov­er­nance, its ethics com­mis­sion con­clud­ed it did not have ju­ris­dic­tion to in­ves­ti­gate.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – For­mer at­tor­ney-at-law, King’s Coun­sel Charles Wilkin has been hailed by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) for his in­valu­able con­tri­bu­tion to the sport.

Dex­ter Cyrus, coach of T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) 2025/2026 Tier I Di­vi­sion third-place fin­ish­er T&T Prison Ser­vice FC, has put his team's ex­it from the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU) Club Shield down to too many mis­takes. Prison Ser­vice fell 4-3 to Guyana's Slingerz FC in the round of 16 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, on Sat­ur­day night.