There is al­ways a dif­fer­ent feel­ing when the com­pet­i­tive games in foot­ball come around. And there is cer­tain­ly some­thing dif­fer­ent about the up­com­ing in­ter­na­tion­al win­dow.

Fol­low­ing his his­to­ry-mak­ing mo­ment as the first Trinidad and To­ba­go and Caribbean moun­tain bik­er to com­pete in Down­hill at the UCI Moun­tain Bike World Cham­pi­onships in Val di Sole, Italy, on Thurs­day, Tyriq Springer has noth­ing but grat­i­tude for the sup­port he re­ceived.

A true pi­o­neer of T20 crick­et whose ca­reer in the for­mat spans two decades, Kieron Pol­lard con­tin­ues to reach mile­stones late in his sto­ried ca­reer.

Sunil Nar­ine de­liv­ered a mas­ter­class in all-round crick­et as the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers se­cured a com­pre­hen­sive sev­en-wick­et vic­to­ry over the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair, Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night.

“Free­dom is noth­ing else but a chance to be bet­ter.” (Al­bert Ca­mus, French philoso­pher and au­thor, 1913-1960)

BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – Saim Ayub’s maid­en T20 cen­tu­ry proved to be in­stru­men­tal in the Ja­maica Kings­men’s 11-run win over the St Kitts and Nevis Pa­tri­ots, which helped to con­tin­ue their resur­gence in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League on Thurs­day.

Tim Seifert an­nounced his ar­rival at the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League with a sub­lime un­beat­en cen­tu­ry as the Saint Lu­cia Kings se­cured back-to-back vic­to­ries with a con­vinc­ing 36-run tri­umph over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers at the Queen’s Park Oval on Wednes­day.

Wednes­day night’s 36-run de­feat against the St Lu­cia Kings at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain con­demned the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) to its sec­ond-worst start to a Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) sea­son in the 14-year his­to­ry of the tour­na­ment.

​Michelle Sturge and Gwen­dolyn Smith pro­duced gold medals to open Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cam­paign at the World Mas­ters Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Daegu, South Ko­rea, putting on dom­i­nant per­for­mances to cap­ture ti­tles in their re­spec­tive di­vi­sions and dis­ci­plines.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­nior women’s vol­ley­ballers end­ed in the eighth spot when the NORCE­CA Women’s Con­ti­nen­tal Cham­pi­onship end­ed at the Vol­ley­ball Palace in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Wednesday.

Af­ter Tues­day night’s Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) en­counter be­tween the An­tigua & Bar­bu­da Fal­cons and the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents, the stand­ings are tighter than the econ­o­my. As they say in horse rac­ing terms, the field is bunch­ing nice­ly down the back­stretch. Even with the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers and the St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots cur­rent­ly prop­ping up the ta­ble, two quick vic­to­ries would throw ei­ther side right back in­to the play­off con­ver­sa­tion. We will un­pack the full CPL der­by next week once the hors­es string them­selves out, es­pe­cial­ly with the tour­na­ment pulling in­to the Queen’s Park Oval this week.