When we think of mem­o­rable sport­ing mo­ments in T&T—a sold-out CPL (Crick­et Pre­mier League) match at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my (BLCA) or an In­ter­col match be­tween arch ri­vals Na­pari­ma Boys’ Col­lege and Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va, or No­vem­ber 19, 1989 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um when the T&T foot­ballers played the USA with a point need­ed to qual­i­fy for the 1990 FI­FA Italia World Cup, our minds fo­cus­es on the ath­leti­cism and the at­mos­phere.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Cap­tain of Ja­maica’s Un­der-17 men’s team, Jah­marie Nolan, has been named the Best Play­er of the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed CON­CA­CAF Men’s U-17 World Cup Qual­i­fiers.

MUM­BAI – Even with the West In­dies hav­ing punched their tick­ets to the next phase of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, skip­per Shai Hope is adamant there will be no let­down in fo­cus when they take on Italy in their fi­nal pre­lim­i­nary match on Thurs­day.

MUM­BAI – Ja­son Hold­er led a ster­ling bowl­ing per­for­mance by the West In­dies that helped to set up a straight­for­ward nine-wick­et vic­to­ry over Nepal and send them sail­ing in­to the Su­per Eight phase of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in In­dia on Sun­day (Feb­ru­ary 15).

There are mo­ments in a coun­try’s life when a sin­gle fig­ure be­comes more than suc­cess­ful, more than fa­mous, more than dom­i­nant. They be­come a ref­er­ence point—a con­stant that helps de­fine who we are while the world around us keeps shift­ing. For Trinidad and To­ba­go, Machel Mon­tano is that fig­ure.

ARKANSAS – Julien Al­fred con­tin­ued her im­pres­sive buildup to next month’s World In­door Cham­pi­onships with an­oth­er im­pres­sive per­for­mance, this time at the Tyson In­vi­ta­tion­al in the Unit­ed States on Fri­day.

The 35-year-old strik­er, who re­mains a free agent af­ter be­ing re­leased by the Ham­mers last sum­mer, has been train­ing with the League One side as man­ag­er Nathan Jones looks to fill the fi­nal spot in his 25-man squad.

MUM­BAI, In­dia – West In­dies left-arm spin­ner Akeal Ho­sein has promised that the re­gion­al team will not drop its guard when they come up against min­nows Nepal in their cru­cial ICC Men’s T20 World Cup con­test on Sun­day (Feb­ru­ary 15).

​In the af­ter­math of failed World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion bids by the coun­try’s U-17 boys' and girls' teams, T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) pres­i­dent Kieron Ed­wards has sum­moned new tech­ni­cal di­rec­tor Devin El­cock to de­vel­op pro­grammes to en­sure that the flaws that are ev­i­dent with the coun­try’s youth teams are cor­rect­ed and progress made at in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tions.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Min­is­ter of Sport, Olivia Grange has an­nounced that Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) match­es will re­turn to Ja­maica for the first time in sev­en years.

IS­LAM­ABAD, Pak­istan– Pak­istan Su­per League (PSL) out­fit Is­lam­abad Unit­ed has end­ed the con­tract of West In­dies fast bowler Shamar Joseph for the up­com­ing sea­son.

His­to­ry was made for T&T at the Win­ter Olympic Games in Italy on Sat­ur­day when alpine ski­er Nikhil Al­leyne took to the slopes.