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.

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.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Ja­maica’s Min­is­ter of Sports Olivia Grange has re­vealed that the track at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um has fi­nal­ly been cer­ti­fied by World Ath­let­ics, near­ly a year af­ter it was resur­faced.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies’ wick­et­keep­er/bats­man Shai Hope has ful­ly re­cov­ered from the in­jury that ruled him out of last week’s open­ing Test match against Sri Lan­ka.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies’ (CWI) Board of Di­rec­tors along with its Ex­ec­u­tive Man­age­ment team met over the week­end to dis­cuss strate­gic poli­cies out­lined in CWI’s 2024-2027 Strate­gic Plan ‘The Long Run’.

As a proud res­i­dent of Siparia and a for­mer two-time Olympic fi­nal­ist, I feel com­pelled to speak out on an is­sue that af­fects not on­ly our sport­ing com­mu­ni­ty but al­so the fu­ture of our young peo­ple, es­pe­cial­ly those in my com­mu­ni­ty.

LON­DON, Eng­land – West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews has ad­mit­ted that the team’s star play­ers did not per­form to their full po­ten­tial af­ter they were dumped out of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup by Aus­tralia Women at the semi­fi­nal stage on Tues­day.

Crick­et will make its long-await­ed re­turn to the Olympics af­ter 128 years, fea­tur­ing six-team men’s and women’s T20 com­pe­ti­tions in Los An­ge­les.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my has main­tained that bat­ting coach Floyd Reifer’s ex­per­tise and ded­i­ca­tion is one of the main rea­sons be­hind the team’s bat­ting im­prove­ments.

LON­DON, Eng­land – West In­dies Women pro­duced a sub-par per­for­mance with both and ball to slump to an em­bar­rass­ing eight-wick­et de­feat to Aus­tralia Women in the first semi­fi­nal of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup on Tues­day.

Pol­i­tics and cor­po­rate mus­cle are an in­eluctable re­al­i­ty of com­mer­cialised mod­ern sports.

Speak­ing at the pre-match press con­fer­ence ahead of the cru­cial knock­out clash, Matthews ex­ud­ed con­fi­dence de­spite fac­ing the world’s num­ber one-ranked side, who en­ter the semi­fi­nal in for­mi­da­ble form af­ter brush­ing aside In­dia in their fi­nal group match.