For­mer West In­dies T20 star, Nicholas Pooran, says he has no plans of com­ing out of re­tire­ment to play for the re­gion­al side in next month’s ICC T20 World Cup.

CEN­TU­RI­ON – Sher­fane Ruther­ford smashed a bound­ary-laden, un­beat­en 47, but it was not enough to pre­vent the Pre­to­ria Cap­i­tals from go­ing down by 10 wick­ets to Sun­ris­ers East­ern Cape when the SA20 con­tin­ued in South Africa on Mon­day.

New head coach of T&T’s se­nior women’s net­ball team, Liselle John­son, is ea­ger to open doors and op­por­tu­ni­ties for young women and girls as­pir­ing to rep­re­sent the coun­try at the high­est lev­el.

​I first met Mr Earl Skeete in 2014 in my ca­pac­i­ty as Vice-Prin­ci­pal of St Bene­dict’s Col­lege, La Ro­maine. At the time, Mr Skeete served as the col­lege’s bas­ket­ball coach, and from our very first in­ter­ac­tion, sev­er­al qual­i­ties stood out.

The Keshorn Wal­cott Gold­en League Ath­let­ics se­ries ex­plod­ed in­to ac­tion this past Sun­day at the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah in Tacarigua, head­lined by the sen­sa­tion­al triple-vic­to­ry per­for­mances of Eli’jah Ti­tus and Kean­na Cum­mings.

​I had to de­cide be­tween out­right stub­born­ness and be­ing prag­mat­ic. I found my­self in an emo­tion­al vor­tex, ques­tion­ing for the first time (in my sport-lov­ing life–some call it an un­healthy fa­nati­cism, my in­volve­ment in sport and the Olympic move­ment. I want­ed to quit. Call it a day.

Net­ball Trinidad and To­ba­go (NTT) has ap­point­ed for­mer T&T Un­der-16 as­sis­tant coach Liselle John­son as head coach of the coun­try’s se­nior women’s net­ball team. NTT Pres­i­dent Deb­bie-Ann Fran­cois con­firmed the se­lec­tion to Guardian Me­dia Sports via a tele­phone in­ter­view on Fri­day.

BRDIGE­TOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Bar­ba­di­an for­ward Niall Reid-Stephen has reached an agree­ment with New Mex­i­co Unit­ed to play in the 2026 Unit­ed Soc­cer League Cham­pi­onship (USL).

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) Sports­man of the Year, the reign­ing World Cham­pi­on Keshorn Wal­cott, to­geth­er with field ath­lete Tyra Git­tens-Spotville, and sprint­ers Jereem Richards and Leah shared the top ho­n­ours when the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NAAATT) held its an­nu­al awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Con­fer­ence Room at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua on Sat­ur­day.

For many of us who grew up out­side the tra­di­tion­al ar­eas of op­por­tu­ni­ty in Princes Town, Ma­yaro, Rio Claro, Bar­rack­pore, La Brea, Point Fortin, Ica­cos and sim­i­lar com­mu­ni­ties, the jour­ney in­to sport, or sport ad­min­is­tra­tion, nev­er be­gan un­der bright lights. It be­gan on the road.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – West In­dies fast bowler Ja­son Hold­er end­ed 2025 in record-break­ing fash­ion by set­ting a new record for the most T20 wick­ets in a sin­gle cal­en­dar year.

PAARL – Nicholas Pooran’s strug­gles with the bat con­tin­ued as MI Cape Town suf­fered a heart­break­ing one-run loss to the Paarl Roy­als when the SA20 con­tin­ued in South Africa on Fri­day.