​I be­gin to­day’s col­umn on a sad note by ex­press­ing my sin­cer­est con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends, col­leagues, ath­letes, and all of Ja­maica at the pass­ing of the leg­endary, pi­o­neer­ing, and vi­sion­ary track and field coach, Stephen Fran­cis.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua– Justin Greaves de­fied Sri Lan­ka’s bowl­ing at­tack for over eight hours to leave the sec­ond Test like­ly to end in a draw head­ing in­to Tues­day’s fi­nal day.

Aus­tralia stamped its dom­i­nance on glob­al crick­et, se­cur­ing its sev­enth ICC Women’s T20 World Cup ti­tle with a con­vinc­ing sev­en-wick­et de­mo­li­tion of arch-ri­vals Eng­land be­fore a record-break­ing crowd of 28,000 at Lord’s in Eng­land. En route to the fi­nal, they sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly dis­man­tled top-ranked In­dia and South Africa, show­cas­ing a blend of sea­soned vet­er­ans and elite youth primed to ex­tend their glob­al dom­i­nance for years to come.

LON­DON, Eng­land – De­spite reach­ing the semi­fi­nals of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, no play­er from the West In­dies Women’s team was se­lect­ed in the Team of the Tour­na­ment.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Un­beat­en half cen­turies from Shai Hope and Justin Greaves have al­lowed West In­dies to claw back in­to the sec­ond Test match against Sri Lan­ka hav­ing been on the back­foot for the first two days of the con­test.

Rough­ly three months ago, my eyes im­me­di­ate­ly lit up when I dis­cov­ered that Capel­li Sport had found a pres­ence at the 2026 FI­FA World Cup through its part­ner­ship with Cape Verde.

Min­is­ter of Sports and Youth Af­fairs Phillip Watts is be­ing praised for his role in en­sur­ing that mem­bers of the coun­try’s Un­der-18 and Un­der-23 teams who are sched­uled to rep­re­sent the coun­try at the NACAC Cham­pi­onships be­tween Ju­ly 10-12 in Tlax­cala, Mex­i­co, are giv­en the op­por­tu­ni­ty to do so.

The halls of Sa­cred Hearts Girls’ Ro­man Catholic (RC) School were awash in red, white and black Fri­day as stu­dents proud­ly cel­e­brat­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s rich foot­ball her­itage with a spe­cial Red Day ob­ser­vance mark­ing the 20th an­niver­sary of the So­ca War­riors’ his­toric FI­FA World Cup de­but.

​Chris­t­ian Far­num poured in 24 points to keep Coach KG Elite per­fect at the top of the Men’s Sec­ond Di­vi­sion stand­ings with a 101-66 win over Ba­sic Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my in the Lin­coln “Crip­ple” Grif­fith North Zone Bas­ket­ball League at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day (June 28).

ST JOHN’S – Lahiru Udara’s stun­ning maid­en Test cen­tu­ry and Ka­min­du Mendis’ sup­port­ing half-cen­tu­ry bat­ted Sri Lan­ka in­to a com­mand­ing po­si­tion against West In­dies on the first day of the sec­ond Test in An­tigua on Fri­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Sri Lan­ka built on their im­pres­sive start by pro­duc­ing an­oth­er ster­ling bat­ting dis­play on the sec­ond day to main­tain their grip over the West In­dies in the sec­ond Test at the end of day two on Sat­ur­day.

Fol­low­ing the in­ter­ven­tion of the Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, Phillip Watts, the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) has se­cured the fi­nan­cial sup­port en­abling it to field rep­re­sen­ta­tion at the North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can, and Caribbean (NACAC) Un­der-18 and U-23 Cham­pi­onships to be held in Tlax­cala, Mex­i­co, from Ju­ly 10-12.