KINGSTON – Kirk McKen­zie’s scin­til­lat­ing half-cen­tu­ry, cou­pled with some im­pres­sive pow­er hit­ting by Rov­man Pow­ell and An­dre Rus­sell, guid­ed the Ja­maica Kings­men to their maid­en vic­to­ry in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League, a five-wick­et win over the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers in Ja­maica on Sat­ur­day.

Jeda­iah King stepped up with a team-high 23 points, close­ly sup­port­ed by Ja­son Best’s vi­tal 20-point con­tri­bu­tion, as Roy­al­ty Bas­ket­ball Acad­e­my de­feat­ed de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Mal­oney Pac­ers 86-77 in the Men’s First Di­vi­sion dur­ing the Lin­coln “Crip­ple” Grif­fith North Zone Bas­ket­ball League.

Treach­er­ous sea con­di­tions amid a yel­low-lev­el alert elim­i­nat­ed a num­ber of top con­tenders, but could not cool Heat­wave in the an­nu­al Great Race on Sat­ur­day (Au­gust 15) morn­ing. Hours be­fore 30 power­boats left Ch­aguara­mas around 7 am, the race was still up in the air with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Power­boat As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA) con­tem­plat­ing post­pon­ing the race due to the con­di­tions.

There was a time when prepar­ing a na­tion­al team meant get­ting the play­ers to­geth­er, mak­ing sure the uni­forms were packed, sort­ing out the trav­el, and then fo­cus­ing al­most en­tire­ly on what was go­ing to hap­pen once the whis­tle blew.

KINGSTON – One of Ja­maica’s great­est-ever ath­let­ic coach­es, Stephen "Fran­no" Fran­cis, was laid to rest on Sat­ur­day (Au­gust 15) in an emo­tion­al ser­vice at the Na­tion­al In­door Sports Cen­tre.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Trinidad and To­ba­go Women are the new­ly crowned cham­pi­ons of the CWI Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Women’s Cham­pi­onship af­ter de­feat­ing de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Bar­ba­dos Women by six wick­ets in an ex­cit­ing fi­nal, Sat­ur­day (Au­gust 15).

KINGSTON, Ja­maica — Chica­go Bulls shoot­ing guard Nor­man Pow­ell strong­ly be­lieves that a FI­BA el­i­gi­bil­i­ty rule is pre­vent­ing oth­er top tal­ent­ed bas­ket­ballers from rep­re­sent­ing Ja­maica on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage.

GROS ISLET – The Saint Lu­cia Kings clinched their sec­ond vic­to­ry of the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League sea­son in dra­mat­ic fash­ion, over­com­ing both the An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Fal­cons and treach­er­ous weath­er con­di­tions to win by three wick­ets with just two balls to spare in St Lu­cia on Fri­day.

Too of­ten, coach­ing and man­age­ment teams de­fine a suc­cess­ful in­jury re­cov­ery sole­ly by an ath­lete’s abil­i­ty to re­turn to phys­i­cal train­ing. This nar­row fo­cus over­looks a crit­i­cal com­po­nent of re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion: men­tal readi­ness. The in­ter­sec­tion of psy­cho­log­i­cal and phys­i­cal in­jury is one of the most ne­glect­ed ar­eas in sports med­i­cine, where emo­tion­al, cog­ni­tive and be­hav­iour­al bar­ri­ers are rarely weighed as heav­i­ly as strength tests, range of mo­tion scores, or con­di­tion­ing bench­marks. Yet, men­tal readi­ness is a de­ci­sive de­ter­mi­nant of ath­let­ic suc­cess, es­pe­cial­ly in high-stakes com­pe­ti­tion against elite op­po­nents.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s women’s un­der-19 crick­et team se­cured a state­ment win over Bar­ba­dos in their fi­nal round-robin match of the Crick­et West In­dies Ris­ing Stars Un­der-19 Women’s Cham­pi­onship at the Coolidge Crick­et Ground in An­tigua on Fri­day.

KINGSTON – Ja­maica Kings­men cap­tain Rov­man Pow­ell is tar­get­ing their up­com­ing match against the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers to fi­nal­ly get on the points ta­ble in the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL).

The Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League Pre­mier Di­vi­sion will be con­test­ed via the reg­u­lar 17-team one-round league for­mat for the up­com­ing 2026 sea­son af­ter be­ing bailed out by the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs to the sum of $406,700.