It was a bit­ter­sweet mo­ment for T&T’s four-man bob­sleigh team of Ax­el Brown, Xaver­ri Williams, Sha­keel John, and De Aun­dre John on the fi­nal day of the Win­ter Olympics at the Mi­lano Corti­na Cen­tre in Italy on Sat­ur­day.

Nicholas Paul and Njisane Phillip have put them­selves in a po­si­tion for more medals for T&T at the Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile.

T&T’s chances of a medal at the Win­ter Olympic Games re­sume to­day as a four-man bob­sleigh team, be­ing led by cap­tain Ax­el Brown, will springs in­to ac­tion from 10 am Sat­ur­day morn­ing at the Mi­lano Corti­na Cen­tre in Italy. They will be re­quired to con­test two races.

In­ter Mi­a­mi de­fend­er Chaz Williams and mid­field­er Der­reL "Zoom Zoom" Gar­cia have been se­lect­ed in a 21-man team to con­test the Con­ca­caf Un­der-20 Qual­i­fiers start­ing on Tues­day in Cos­ta Ri­ca.

ST GEORGE’S – In a cap­ti­vat­ing con­test at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um in Grena­da on Fri­day, Sri Lan­ka Women’s spin­ners or­ches­trat­ed the telling blow to help their side to seal a nar­row 10-run vic­to­ry over the West In­dies Women in the first One Day In­ter­na­tion­al, tak­ing a 1-0 lead in the three-match se­ries.

Nicholas Paul ex­e­cut­ed a per­fect ride in the men’s keirin fi­nal Thursday to se­cure Trinidad and To­ba­go’s sec­ond gold medal of the Pan Amer­i­can Track Cy­cling Cham­pi­onships in San­ti­a­go, Chile. Mean­while, Ak­il Camp­bell, fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of his sis­ter, Te­niel, brought the T&T medal tal­ly to four by claim­ing bronze in the men’s scratch race.

KOLKATA, In­dia – West In­dies cap­tain Shai Hope has giv­en the as­sur­ance that his team is ful­ly locked in as they bid to lift the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup for an un­prece­dent­ed third time.

KOLKATA – The West In­dies were not at their clin­i­cal best but were still good enough to dis­patch Italy by 42 runs to saunter in­to the Su­per Eight phase of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup on a win­ning note in In­dia Thurs­day.

I find the com­mon or gar­den va­ri­ety Eu­ro­pean league foot­ball served up to us on any giv­en day by lo­cal ca­ble tele­vi­sion to be im­mense­ly bor­ing. I much pre­fer to watch a match from the Sau­di Pro League or the South African Pre­mier­ship than suf­fer through the pre­dictabil­i­ty of Man­ches­ter City ver­sus Leeds Unit­ed or Paris Saint-Ger­main against Lens.

​"Dif­fer­ent lev­els" is how De­fence Force coach De­vorn Jorsling de­scribed the gap be­tween his team and their Ma­jor League Soc­cer (MLS) cam­paign­ers, the Philadel­phia Union, fol­low­ing Wednes­day’s 5-0 drub­bing in round one of the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

The road got de­served­ly rocky for T&T Pre­mier League cham­pi­on De­fence Force in the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons Cup af­ter just the first round at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, on Wednes­day night.

There are se­ri­ous is­sues that I would have want­ed to dis­cuss to­day. How­ev­er, it’s Car­ni­val Mon­day as I write and Things That Mat­ter for to­day’s (Car­ni­val Tues­day) pub­li­ca­tion.