PAARL – Nicholas Pooran’s strug­gles with the bat con­tin­ued as MI Cape Town suf­fered a heart­break­ing one-run loss to the Paarl Roy­als when the SA20 con­tin­ued in South Africa on Fri­day.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) Sports­man of the Year, the reign­ing World Cham­pi­on Keshorn Wal­cott, to­geth­er with field ath­lete Tyra Git­tens-Spotville, and sprint­ers Jereem Richards and Leah shared the top ho­n­ours when the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NAAATT) held its an­nu­al awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Con­fer­ence Room at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre in Tacarigua on Sat­ur­day.

For many of us who grew up out­side the tra­di­tion­al ar­eas of op­por­tu­ni­ty in Princes Town, Ma­yaro, Rio Claro, Bar­rack­pore, La Brea, Point Fortin, Ica­cos and sim­i­lar com­mu­ni­ties, the jour­ney in­to sport, or sport ad­min­is­tra­tion, nev­er be­gan un­der bright lights. It be­gan on the road.

BRDIGE­TOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Bar­ba­di­an for­ward Niall Reid-Stephen has reached an agree­ment with New Mex­i­co Unit­ed to play in the 2026 Unit­ed Soc­cer League Cham­pi­onship (USL).

MEL­BOURNE, Aus­tralia – Hav­ing played a ma­jor role in help­ing Eng­land se­cure their first Test match win in Aus­tralia in 11 years, Bar­ba­di­an Ja­cob Bethell has his eyes set on se­cur­ing the all-im­por­tant num­ber three spot in the bat­ting line­up.

Both Trinidad and To­ba­go Cy­cling Fed­er­a­tion Pres­i­dent Rowe­na Williams and JLD Cy­cling Prin­ci­pal Njisane Phillip ex­pect the re­cent im­passe be­tween this coun­try’s elite sprint cy­clists and the Fed­er­a­tion to be re­solved by Fri­day.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana – West In­dies Women wick­et­keep­er/bats­man, She­maine Camp­belle has been ap­point­ed cap­tain of Guyana Women’s team which will com­pete in next year’s Re­gion­al Su­per50 Cup and T20 Blaze tour­na­ments.

De­spite be­ing over­looked by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Golf As­so­ci­a­tion (TTGA) se­lec­tion com­mit­tee for na­tion­al team as­sign­ments for 2025, one of the coun­try’s most promis­ing young golfers, Zi­co Cor­reia, made a strong im­pres­sion in the Unit­ed States as a stu­dent-ath­lete at Web­ber In­ter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty at Bab­son Park, Flori­da, USA.

Af­ter pick­ing up his third Trinidad and To­ba­go Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) Sports­man of the Year award at the 2025 cer­e­mo­ny held on Mon­day at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, Port-of-Spain, Keshorn Wal­cott ex­pressed how win­ning his first ever World Cham­pi­onship medal has brought him re­lief head­ing in­to 2026.

Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), Kieron Ed­wards, has re­vealed that Dwight Yorke will re­main as head coach of the na­tion­al team, de­spite fail­ing in his bid to qual­i­fy for the 2026 World Cup.

Daren Sam­my’s fu­ture as all-for­mat head coach could hinge on the West In­dies’ per­for­mance at the up­com­ing T20 World Cup, says renowned crick­et com­men­ta­tor Ian Bish­op.

The Har­vard Crick­et Clin­ic, which will open its 2026 sea­son on Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 4), will recog­nise one of its found­ing mem­bers, Lenny Kir­ton, dur­ing the 2026 sea­son.