​Chris­t­ian Far­num poured in 24 points to keep Coach KG Elite per­fect at the top of the Men’s Sec­ond Di­vi­sion stand­ings with a 101-66 win over Ba­sic Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my in the Lin­coln “Crip­ple” Grif­fith North Zone Bas­ket­ball League at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty in Port-of-Spain on Sun­day (June 28).

LON­DON, Eng­land – Bar­ba­di­ans Ja­cob Bethell and Jofra Archer are in line to fea­ture for Eng­land in their up­com­ing One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries against In­dia.

LON­DON, Eng­land – Ja­maican um­pire Jacque­line Williams and Vrin­da Rathi have been named as the on-field um­pires for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup fi­nal, which will be played at the fa­mous Lord’s Crick­et Ground on Sun­day.

​Trinidad and To­ba­go swim­mer Jaden Mills swam to new per­son­al best (pb) times in both the boys’ 15–17 50-me­tre back­stroke and 100m freestyle events at the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed 54th Ba­hamas Na­tion­al Swim­ming Cham­pi­onships, held at the Bet­ty Kel­ly-Ken­ning Aquat­ic Cen­tre in New Prov­i­dence.

Fol­low­ing the in­ter­ven­tion of the Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, Phillip Watts, the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions of T&T (NAAATT) has se­cured the fi­nan­cial sup­port en­abling it to field rep­re­sen­ta­tion at the North Amer­i­can, Cen­tral Amer­i­can, and Caribbean (NACAC) Un­der-18 and U-23 Cham­pi­onships to be held in Tlax­cala, Mex­i­co, from Ju­ly 10-12.

“Glob·​al·​i·sa·​tion: the de­vel­op­ment of an in­creas­ing­ly in­te­grat­ed glob­al econ­o­my marked es­pe­cial­ly by free trade, free flow of cap­i­tal, and the tap­ping of cheap­er for­eign labour mar­kets” (Mer­ri­am-Web­ster Dic­tio­nary)

ILLI­NOIS, USA – The Chica­go Bulls have se­cured a ma­jor back­court up­grade, agree­ing to terms with vet­er­an shoot­ing guard and Ja­maican in­ter­na­tion­al Nor­man Pow­ell on a two-year, US$45 mil­lion con­tract, league sources con­firmed yes­ter­day.

I read it over and over. I felt an­gry. I felt a sense of be­tray­al. I felt that Caribbean crick­et had been be­trayed and sold out.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) has tak­en a sig­nif­i­cant step in its trans­for­ma­tion jour­ney, an­nounc­ing a strate­gic ad­vi­so­ry en­gage­ment with Teneo, a pre­mier glob­al ad­vi­so­ry firm with deep roots in the Caribbean and a proven record of shap­ing com­mer­cial suc­cess across in­ter­na­tion­al sport.

NEW OR­LEANS, USA – The me­te­oric rise of Vir­gin Is­lands sprint sen­sa­tion Adae­jah T Hodge reached new heights this week as the Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia stand­out of­fi­cial­ly signed an NIL (Name, Im­age, and Like­ness) en­dorse­ment deal with glob­al sports­wear gi­ant Nike, Inc.

ST JOHN’S – West In­dies cap­tain Ros­ton Chase has de­clared his side is dri­ven by a sin­gu­lar fo­cus head­ing in­to the sec­ond Test against Sri Lan­ka at the Sir Vi­vian Richards Sta­di­um in An­tigua.

New­ly ap­point­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go Un­der-19 cap­tain Bren­dan Boodoo was named the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion One Play­er of the Year when the Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League (SS­CL) held its an­nu­al awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce, Cam­den Road, Cou­va, on Tues­day.