All ath­letes need to be fit; this is as true for the equine ath­lete as it is for the hu­man ath­lete. In T&T, it seems that our sport­ing ad­min­is­tra­tors be­lieve that fit­ness is all rel­a­tive and while that might clear­ly suf­fice for in­ter­nal com­pe­ti­tion, time and time again, the fal­la­cy of that be­lief is proven on the in­ter­na­tion­al land­scape.

ST GEORGE’S – De­scrib­ing the West In­dies’ bat­ting ef­fort as “not good enough”, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my has sug­gest­ed that there might be some changes to the bat­ting line­up for the third and fi­nal Test match against Aus­tralia.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews and her team­mate Afy Fletch­er have been nom­i­nat­ed for the ICC Women’s Play­er of the Month award for June af­ter im­pres­sive per­for­mances in their re­cent­ly con­clud­ed se­ries against South Africa.

Ti­tle-hold­er Club San­do and De­fence Force will meet in a high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed fi­nal of the T&T Women’s League Foot­ball (WoLF) at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va, on Sun­day (June 6) from 6 pm.

T&T’s Jahreef Miguel and Jerome Mor­ri­son fin­ished in eighth spot at the NORCE­CA Un­der-21 Beach Vol­ley­ball Cham­pi­onships, the of­fi­cial qual­i­fi­ca­tion tour­na­ments on the road to the 2025 FIVB Age-Group World Cham­pi­onships, which end­ed in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic on Sun­day (Ju­ly 6).

GEORGE­TOWN – Ja­maica won their first-ever CARI­COM Clas­sic Team Chess tour­na­ment in spec­tac­u­lar fash­ion af­ter Bar­ba­dos shocked de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Trinidad and To­ba­go in the penul­ti­mate round on Sun­day.

The T&T boys’ team just missed out on the top spot af­ter go­ing un­der to Guyana 16-17 in the Ju­nior Caribbean Area Squash As­so­ci­a­tion (CASA) Cham­pi­onships Boys Team fi­nal at the South Sound Squash Club in the Cay­man Is­lands on Sun­day (Ju­ly 8).

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates – In­ter­na­tion­al League T20 (ILT20) de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons, Dubai Cap­i­tals have re­tained the ser­vices of West In­dies T20 cap­tain Shai Hope and Rov­man Pow­ell ahead of the 2025 sea­son.

Cougars track and field club put on a spec­tac­u­lar per­for­mance on Sun­day (Ju­ly 6) to reg­is­ter their sec­ond con­sec­u­tive suc­cess in the Ma­son Hall Po­lice Youth Club (PYC) Ju­ve­nile Track Clas­sic which was held at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain, in­stead of the tra­di­tion­al venue at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in To­ba­go.

In part one, the first five West In­dies ‘twin cen­tu­ri­ons’—George Headley [twice], Ever­ton Weekes, Clyde Wal­cott [twice], Garfield Sobers, and Ro­han Kan­hai—were rec­og­nized. In part II, the next five West In­di­an ‘twin cen­tu­ri­ons’ are ac­knowl­edged.

Ju­ly 4, there was an Op/Ed in a dai­ly news­pa­per head­line “Dirty Old Men”. The is­sue ad­dressed by the colum­nist (Vaneisa Baksh) was valid and re­al. The writer high­light­ed the preva­lence of in­cest, rape, mo­lesta­tion of every kind per­pe­trat­ed on boys and girls.

An An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion was stopped af­ter mem­bers be­came ag­i­tat­ed by ac­cu­sa­tions that T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion mem­bers were il­le­gal­ly oc­cu­py­ing po­si­tions well be­yond their al­lot­ted time.