Sober re­flec­tion and in­tro­spec­tion. Re­al­is­ing our short­com­ings. It is an as­pect of life that can work both ways—pos­i­tive­ly or neg­a­tive­ly. There are times when, in­stead of see­ing the op­por­tu­ni­ty for growth and learn­ing, hu­man na­ture and be­hav­iour may cas­cade us down the dark, gloomy road. We be­come over­whelmed by neg­a­tive emo­tion. It’s dark and de­press­ing. None of us are per­fect. It’s hu­man to err.

De­throned T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League’s Tier 1 cham­pi­ons AC Port of Spain got a dou­ble strike from Haile Beck­les to romp to a con­vinc­ing 4-0 vic­to­ry over Prison Ser­vices FC at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va on Sun­day.

Madi­son Camp­bell got the lone item for Jew­els FC on the sis­ter-isle in a 1-0 win over arch ri­vals To­ba­go Chi­cas at the Cour­land Recre­ation Ground on Sat­ur­day, when ac­tion in the Women's Foot­ball League (WoLF) con­tin­ued.

T&T jock­eys con­tin­ued their great run at Hast­ings Race­course in Van­cou­ver, Cana­da, on Sat­ur­day.

Im­ran Khan got nine wick­ets for Cen­tral Sports, and Evin Lewis slammed a cen­tu­ry as cham­pi­ons Cen­tral Sports and Bess Mo­tors Marchin Pa­tri­ots both scored out­right vic­to­ries to take the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board Pre­mier Di­vi­sion I ti­tle race down to the wire when they meet next week in Fe­lic­i­ty in the fi­nal round of match­es to de­cide which team will cel­e­brate as the 2025 cham­pi­on.

Trinidad and To­ba­go Le­gions cre­at­ed his­to­ry on Sat­ur­day by cap­tur­ing the in­au­gur­al West In­dies Break­out League with an ex­cit­ing 17-run win over the Lee­ward Is­lands Thun­der.

MAN­CHES­TER – De­spite miss­ing a large chunk of the sea­son due to in­jury, Ja­maican and Man­ches­ter City for­ward Khadi­ja ‘Bun­ny’ Shaw has fin­ished tied for the most goals in the Women’s Su­per League (WSL) in Eng­land.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.