KOLKATA – Sim­i­lar­ly to when they met in 2016, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my knows his side will be the un­der­dogs in In­dia on Sun­day when they take on In­dia in their must-win Su­per Eights con­test at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

Za­hara An­tho­ny, Katelon Leera, and Mic­ah Alexan­der se­cured qual­i­fi­ca­tion berths for the Carif­ta Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships in at least two events dur­ing the Na­tion­al Long Course Age Group Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va on Fri­day.

New­com­ers Blue Na­tion be­came the first team to qual­i­fy for the round of 16 in the East-West Cor­ri­dor Foot­ball League on Thurs­day, de­spite a 2-1 loss to the Mt Pleas­ant Boyz at the Cour­land Recre­ation Ground in Black Rock, To­ba­go.

ST GEORGE’S – West In­dies Women were saved from al­most cer­tain de­feat by the rain af­ter pro­duc­ing one of their worst-ever bat­ting per­for­mances in the open­ing T20I against Sri Lan­ka Women in Grena­da on Sat­ur­day.

Goal-at­tack Kali­fa Mc Collin of the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT), and Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) goal-shoot­er Maikea Bram­ble were both un­stop­pable as they led their re­spec­tive teams to lop­sided wins when the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League con­tin­ued at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na, Tacarigua on Thurs­day night.

Fly­ing Fish swim­mer Jaden Mills es­tab­lished a Carif­ta Swim­ming Cham­pi­onship A stan­dard qual­i­fi­ca­tion time when he won the 15-17 Boys 50m but­ter­fly on the sec­ond night of fi­nals of the Aquat­ics Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) Na­tion­al Long Course Age-Group Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­ter in Bal­main, Cou­va on Thurs­day night.

Phillip Watts, the Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, cel­e­brat­ed the re­cent suc­cess of the 11-mem­ber T&T cy­cling team at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed Pan Amer­i­can Track Cham­pi­onship in San­ti­a­go, Chile, ear­li­er this month, Feb­ru­ary (16-22) 2026, at a func­tion held at the VIP Lounge, Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo on Fri­day.

T&T net­baller Saman­tha Wal­lace-Joseph was named "Play­er of the Match" as her Lough­bor­ough Light­ning top­pled last sea­son's dom­i­nant force, Lon­don Pulse, 18-17 in the eight-team Eng­land Net­ball Su­per League Soft & Gen­tle Su­per Cup fi­nal as the new cam­paign got off to a thrilling start.

"I know it's tough to know not to hate these days...The hate gets more pow­er­ful with more hate...The on­ly thing that is more pow­er­ful than hate is love. So please, we need to be dif­fer­ent if we fight, we have to do it with love." Bad Bun­ny at the 2026 Gram­my Awards

What a week it has been. First, we must pause to of­fer a stand­ing ova­tion to Nicholas Paul. His per­for­mance at the Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile, was noth­ing short of world-class.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Sev­en­teen-year-old Bar­ba­di­an sen­sa­tion Eboni Brath­waite is the head­line in­clu­sion in Crick­et West In­dies’ (CWI) 15-mem­ber squad for the up­com­ing T20 In­ter­na­tion­al Se­ries against Sri Lan­ka. The ag­gres­sive top-or­der bat­ter forced her way in­to the se­nior side fol­low­ing an eye-catch­ing per­for­mance in the re­gion­al T20 Blaze, where she boast­ed a for­mi­da­ble strike rate of 146.

ST GEORGE’S – In a fi­nal match that was high on in­di­vid­ual bril­liance but low on se­ries im­pact, West In­dies Women pro­duced a dom­i­nant per­for­mance to de­feat Sri Lan­ka Women by six wick­ets in the third and fi­nal One Day In­ter­na­tion­al at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Grena­da on Wednes­day.