The coach coached, the man­ag­er han­dled team arrange­ments, the doc­tor and physio dealt with in­juries, the train­er warmed up the team, and sup­port­ing ad­min­is­tra­tors worked from their own cor­ners.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­nior women's vol­ley­ballers were hand­ed a straight-sets scold­ing by the USA in the open­ing match of Group A at the NORCE­CA Women's Con­ti­nen­tal Cham­pi­onship, held at the “Pro­fes­sor Ri­car­do Gioriber Arias” Vol­ley­ball Palace in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Fri­day (Au­gust 21).

Walt Nor­ie­ga, coach of two-time T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) cham­pi­ons De­fence Force, said he was glad to see his team get the "mon­key off their back" fol­low­ing their come-from-be­hind 2-1 win over Suri­name cham­pi­ons SV Bro­ki in Group A of the 2026 Con­ca­caf Caribbean Cup at Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain on Thurs­day night (Au­gust 20).

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s two-time Olympic medal­list Keshorn Wal­cott came up short in his bid to end his podi­um drought, fin­ish­ing fourth in the men's javelin fi­nal at the Wan­da Di­a­mond League at Stade Olympique de la Pon­taise in Lau­sanne, Switzer­land, on Fri­day (Au­gust 21).

GROS ISLET, Saint Lu­cia – A spec­tac­u­lar spell of pace bowl­ing by Matthew Forde and a su­perb, un­beat­en half cen­tu­ry from open­er Kamil Pooran were in­stru­men­tal in the St Lu­cia Kings’ six-wick­et vic­to­ry over the strug­gling Ja­maica Kings­men on Fri­day.

​Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Kafele De Sormeaux ex­it­ed the men’s in­di­vid­ual sprint event in the round-of-32 af­ter los­ing his one-off ride against Bel­gium's Math­is De Tol­lenaere on the third day of the 51st UCI Ju­nior Track World Cham­pi­onships at the Sport Vlaan­deren Heus­den-Zold­er Velo­drome in Lim­burg, Bel­gium, Fri­day (Au­gust 21).

​Trinidad and To­ba­go Un­der-14 Boys foot­ball team coach Ran­dolph Boyce says there are a lot of pos­i­tives he and his coach­ing staff have tak­en away from their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Caribbean Foot­ball Union Chal­lenge Se­ries at Cap Cana Sports City, Pun­ta Cana, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

CAS­TRIES, St. Lu­cia – For­mer cham­pi­on St Lu­cia Kings have suf­fered a ma­jor blow, with Afghanistan’s star left-arm wrist­spin­ner Noor Ah­mad ruled out of the 2026 Caribbean Pre­mier League sea­son af­ter the Afghanistan Crick­et Board re­voked his No-Ob­jec­tion Cer­tifi­cate (NOC), the fran­chise con­firmed in an of­fi­cial state­ment on Wednes­day.

NORTH SOUND, An­tigua –The An­tigua & Bar­bu­da Fal­cons launched their home cam­paign in spec­tac­u­lar fash­ion Thurs­day night, snatch­ing a dra­mat­ic three-wick­et vic­to­ry over the St Kitts & Nevis Pa­tri­ots at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um in the 12th match of the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Pres­i­dent of the Bar­ba­dos Crick­et As­so­ci­a­tion (BCA), Calvin Hope, has hailed the out­stand­ing ac­com­plish­ments of all-rounders Justin Greaves and Hay­ley Matthews af­ter they wrote their names in his­to­ry’s books ear­li­er this week.

A rel­a­tive­ly in­ex­pe­ri­enced Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior women's vol­ley­ball team will have lit­tle time to ac­cli­ma­tise to con­di­tions as they go in­to ac­tion to­day in the Se­nior NORCE­CA Women’s Con­ti­nen­tal Cham­pi­onship at the “Pro­fes­sor Ri­car­do Gioriber Arias” Vol­ley­ball Palace from 1 pm.

PUN­TA CANA – De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Ja­maica, Bermu­da, Haiti and the home side Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic have booked their spots in the semi­fi­nal of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union’s (CFU) Un­der-14 Boys’ Tier 1 Chal­lenge Se­ries in Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.