Com­mu­ni­ca­tion is an ex­treme­ly im­por­tant el­e­ment of elite sports lead­er­ship. It en­com­pass­es two key el­e­ments: be­ing able to talk to peo­ple and be­ing able to lis­ten to peo­ple. A leader must be able to get his or her point across to the team, or­ga­ni­za­tion or even to each play­er or team mem­ber in­di­vid­u­al­ly.

Box­er Michael Alexan­der is not go­ing down with­out a fight. De­spite be­ing in crit­i­cal con­di­tion from a mo­tor­cy­cle ac­ci­dent last Wednes­day, the light­weight box­er has re­spond­ed in the on­ly way he knows how, by fight­ing.

Gabriel By­noe is prov­ing to be un­stop­pable. Dust­ing off the rust caused by in­ac­tiv­i­ty of the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic, the 19-year-old Mar­lins swim­mer con­tin­ued his win­ning form by claim­ing the win in the Boys 18 and Over 100 me­tres freestyle event of the FI­NA-sanc­tioned Na­tion­al Long Course Aged Group Cham­pi­onship at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre (NAC) in Bal­main Cou­va, Fri­day night in a time of 52.72 sec­onds.

Rowe­na Williams, a hu­man re­source pro­fes­sion­al, is the new pres­i­dent of the T&T Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion (TTCF).

So­lo Cru­saders and WASA Ta­ble Ten­nis Club were both in win­ners row on Thurs­day night to move in­to a joint share on the lead in the sev­en-club Ta­ble Ten­nis Cham­pi­ons League stand­ings.

NORTH SOUND — De­von Thomas’s hun­dred trumped Jonathan Carter’s as Bar­ba­dos Pride’s al­ready wretched Re­gion­al Su­per50 Cup cam­paign fin­ished on the same mis­er­able note in An­tigua on Fri­day with a sev­en-wick­et de­feat to Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes in the fifth place match.

What a run chase by our boys in the re­cent­ly com­plet­ed first Test in Bangladesh! My phone was be­ing lit up for days fol­low­ing their spec­tac­u­lar per­for­mance as my col­leagues on What­sApp group chats went berserk. It served as a re­minder that the pas­sion for West In­dies (WI) crick­et around the world was still alive; we may have on­ly lost the ap­petite for in­dif­fer­ent re­sults.

ST JOHN’S – West In­dies bat­ting star Shim­ron Het­my­er sparkled with his sev­enth List A hun­dred while star­ring in a record fifth wick­et stand, as Guyana Jaguars clob­bered Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes by 95 runs to se­cure their berth in Sat­ur­day’s fi­nal of the Re­gion­al Su­per50 Cup.

ST JOHN’S – Se­lec­tors on Fri­day hand­ed a shock re­call to fast bowler Fi­del Ed­wards at age 39 and af­ter near­ly 10 years out of in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et, in a 14-man squad for the three-match Twen­ty20 In­ter­na­tion­al se­ries against Sri Lan­ka start­ing in An­tigua on Wednes­day.

The trio of Gabriel By­noe, Kyle Leera and Har­moni Nel­son won two events each on the open­ing night of com­pe­ti­tion at the Am­a­teur Swim­ming As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) Age-Group Long Course Cham­pi­onship at the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va on Thurs­day night.

The life of Lynette “Granny” Luces was cel­e­brat­ed on Thurs­day at the fu­ner­al ser­vice of T&T’s beloved run­ning icon at the Mt D’Or Sev­enth Ad­ven­tist Church.

ST JOHN’S – Af­ter 16 years with­out a re­gion­al do­mes­tic 50-over ti­tle, Guyana Jaguars find them­selves with­in touch­ing dis­tance of break­ing their long drought but face a mas­sive hur­dle in un­beat­en T&T Red Force, who are al­so high­ly mo­ti­vat­ed to cap­ture their first ti­tle in five years.