KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Grand Slam Track, the pre­mier glob­al plat­form for pro­fes­sion­al track com­pe­ti­tion found­ed by four-time Olympic cham­pi­on Michael John­son, has of­fi­cial­ly re­vealed the first wave of Chal­lengers set to com­pete at the Kingston Slam.

Na­tion­al swim­mer Ja­da Cha­toor was third in the women's 500 yard freestyle B-fi­nal when the Uni­ver­si­ty Ath­let­ic As­so­ci­a­tion (UAA) Swim­ming and Div­ing Cham­pi­onship con­tin­ued at the Madeleine Jude Brown Aquat­ic Cen­ter in At­lanta, Geor­gia, on Thurs­day.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – In a heart­felt cer­e­mo­ny held on Thurs­day, Ja­maican sprint leg­end Shelly-Ann Fras­er-Pryce was pre­sent­ed with the Keys to the City of Kingston, a pres­ti­gious ho­n­our recog­nis­ing her out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tions to ath­let­ics and her en­dur­ing im­pact on her home­land.

Min­is­ter of Sport and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment (MSCD) Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is con­fi­dent that she has made a pos­i­tive dif­fer­ence dur­ing her tenure in charge of the Min­istry.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Ja­son Mo­hammed’s un­beat­en dou­ble cen­tu­ry for the T&T Red Force was the high­light at the end of day two of the third round of match­es in the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship on Thurs­day.

Na­tion­al Un­der-17 strik­ers Orielle Mar­tin and Rashe­da Archer are among ten mem­bers of the suc­cess­ful Ayan­na Rus­sell-coached team which qual­i­fied from the Group B four-team Con­ca­caf U-17 Girls Cham­pi­onship to the Fi­nal Round World Cup qual­i­fiers, se­lect­ed by coach Der­nelle Mas­call in the na­tion­al U-20 women's team.

BEN­GALU­RU, In­dia – West In­dies fast bowler Shamar Joseph has ex­pressed grat­i­tude af­ter tak­ing home the Best Test Bowl­ing Per­for­mance and Test Debu­tant of the Year awards at the 2024 ES­P­N­cricin­fo awards.

Have you no­ticed that Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has been mak­ing head­lines late­ly in­form­ing us of cer­tain de­tails re­gard­ing their gov­er­nance and at­tempts to un­earth new tal­ent? It's about time! Af­ter decades of stum­bling around like a bats­man fac­ing a bounc­er, they seem to be fi­nal­ly wak­ing up.

The T&T 501 League of Darts launched its 2025 sea­son in spec­tac­u­lar fash­ion on Feb­ru­ary 4, at the home of darts, Kos­mos Club. The league fea­tures 17 teams, di­vid­ed in­to A and B di­vi­sions, bat­tling it out in the ex­cit­ing 501 for­mat.

With un­beat­en lead­ers De­fence Force not in ac­tion un­til Sun­day, sec­ond-placed MIC Cen­tral FC Re­boot will have a chance to cut the points gap be­tween both clubs in the 12-team 2024/2025 T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) Tier I, when they meet Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers Fri­day (Feb­ru­ary 14) night.

Rox­bury Shot Callers con­tin­ue to set the pace in the Na­tion­al Pool League’s Di­vi­sion One. Their lat­est state­ment, a 4-1 win away from home against Scotchies Nu­bian Kings on Tues­day night.

Hay­den Mitchell, pres­i­dent of the Ten­nis As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T, has as­sured that all con­cerns about his ad­min­is­tra­tion’s tenure in of­fice for the past six years would be an­swered on Sat­ur­day (Feb­ru­ary 15) when the An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) and Elec­tion are held at the Na­tion­al Rac­quet Cen­tre (NRC) in Or­ange Grove, Tacarigua, from 10 am.