As we look ahead to the 2026 sport­ing sea­son in T&T, I am re­mind­ed of the words of the Ital­ian philoso­pher Nic­co­lo Machi­avel­li, who has been de­scribed by some as ruth­less but prag­mat­ic, which, at best, are con­tra­dic­to­ry in some ways.

Cy­clist Alexi Ramirez is claim­ing vic­to­ry against the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion in an un­de­cid­ed le­gal bat­tle to date but now faces an­oth­er chal­lenge against the Rowe­na Williams-led TTCF to pro­duce a time for an event that she has nev­er com­pet­ed in.

Re­cent­ly I had the op­por­tu­ni­ty look at a pro­gramme in Cana­da that is spon­sored by RBC. The rea­son I did that is the usu­al—call it a rit­u­al—desk re­search on dif­fer­ent Olympic podi­um pro­grammes around the globe. I un­der­take, es­pe­cial­ly in the last cou­ple of weeks lead­ing up to the TTOC GOIN 4 GOLD Marathon Chal­lenge. The 12th an­nu­al 26.2-mile walk/roll chal­lenge which will take place on Sun­day.

The T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion has been giv­en the all clear to host its tri­als this week­end for next month's Pan Amer­i­can Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in Chile.

Two match­es have been lined up against Grena­da and St Vin­cent and the Grenadines next week, on Jan­u­ary 18th and 20th, at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va for the coun­try’s Un­der-20 foot­ballers, who will con­test the Un­der-20 World Cup Qual­i­fiers from next month.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua—Bran­don King will cap­tain a sig­nif­i­cant­ly weak­ened West In­dies squad which will play Afghanistan in three T20Is be­gin­ning next Mon­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua—In an ef­fort to as­sem­ble their best pos­si­ble team for next month’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) have reached out to Nicholas Pooran to find out whether he is in­ter­est­ed in mak­ing a come­back.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) will com­mence a ma­jor year of women’s crick­et as the CG Unit­ed Women’s Su­per50 Cup and T20 Blaze re­turn to St Vin­cent and the Grenadines from Sat­ur­day 10 Jan­u­ary to Feb­ru­ary 1, 2026.

Kevin Moli­no, the reign­ing T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion ‘Se­nior Men’s Play­er of the Year’, was among the goals as de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons De­fence Force Elite whipped San Juan Jabloteh 3-1 to move two points clear at the top of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) Tier I stand­ings on Sun­day.

It is not un­com­mon for ad­min­is­tra­tors, fans, and com­men­ta­tors to echo the sen­ti­ment, “Keep pol­i­tics out of sports.”

In foot­ball, we spend a lot of time talk­ing about tac­tics, fit­ness, strength, and skill. We analyse for­ma­tions, GPS da­ta, re­cov­ery ses­sions, and match sta­tis­tics. But there is one sys­tem that qui­et­ly in­flu­ences every sprint, every de­ci­sion, every touch on the ball. It's the ner­vous sys­tem. You nev­er see it on a team sheet, but it shows up clear­ly on match day.

WIND­HOEK, South Africa— Jew­el An­drew stroked an im­pres­sive half cen­tu­ry in an oth­er­wise unim­pres­sive bat­ting dis­play by the West In­dies Un­der-19s in their first warm-up match of the ICC Crick­et World Cup against Ire­land, which was aban­doned due to rain at Wan­der­ers Crick­et Ground on Sat­ur­day.