Thursday, September 13th 2007

HAND STAND: Neil Diaz, the 2007 Eastern Caribbean men’s fitness champion. A trip to Spain is the big incentive for fitness competitors at the Trinidad and Tobago Senior National Bodybuilding Championships, which take place on Saturday at Queen’s Hall.The Trinidad and Tobago Bodybuilding Federation have announced that they are sending a team of four competitors to the 25th IFBB Women’s World Bodybuilding, Fitness & Body Fitness Championships in Santa Susanna, Spain, from September 20-23, 2007. More here.

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Nero 2nd in BarbadosFriday, September 14th 2007

Trinidadand Tobago cyclist Gavyn Nero finished second among the juniors at the Barbados Junior and Juveniles Road Championships, recently. The winner of the 84-kilometre race was Jyme Bridges, of Antigua. More here

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Bangladesh won by an emphatic six wicket win over the West Indies to knock them out of the Twenty20 series being held in Johannesburg. After they won the toss and elected to send the Windies in to bat. Limited to just 164/8. Led by captain Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladesh responded viciously, making 61 of 27 balls to reach their target with two overs to spare. Get the details here.

Roy Keane had nothing but confidence in his striker  Stern John after a last minute goal brought Sunderland level at 2-2 in the English Premiere League on Wednesday evening.

“I knew he’d score, because in the corridor here I saw a picture of him scoring as a Birmingham player…” said Keane.

Keane’s men salvaged the draw with only 10 men after the T&T midfielder Carlos Edwards limped off with a hamstring injury. John, who had come on as a substitute for David Conolly, created the saving goal by heading back in a parried save from a free kick.

Wrexham close on T&T midfielder

From BBC Sport

Wrexham’s bid to strengthen after their opening day 2-0 loss at
Darlington looks to have led them to Trinidad & Tobago
international Silvio Spann.

Spann had summer trials with Sunderland and Sheffield United

“We’re trying to tie up a transfer by the end of August but I’m keeping

names to myself for now,” upbeat manager Brian Careysaid after the defeat.

Wrexham’s website says that midfielder Spann is a target, but that terms with

the player and his club need sorting. Spann, under contract to Trinidad’s W

Connection, also needs a work permit. Read more here

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Yesterday Trinidad and Tobago’s Field Hockey team endured a heartbreaking 4-3 defeat to Canada in the semi-final round of the Pan American Games men’s hockey tournament at the Field Hockey Centre, here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yesterday. At the end of regulation time, the teams were deadlocked at 3-3, forcing the umpires to extend the match into sudden-death extra-time. And with less than five minutes to go in the additional 15-minute period of play, Wayne Fernandes scored to send the Canadians into Wednesday’s final. For more read here.

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Tuesday, July 24th 2007

Former West Indies skipper Brian Lara will come out of retirement to play in an unofficial Indian cricket league to be launched later this year, its organisers said yesterday.”We’ve signed up Lara, he will be playing and captaining one of the teams,” Himanshu Mody, business head of Zee Sports, told Reuters. “You can’t keep me too far from cricket and hence I return to the game in this exciting new avatar,” Lara said in a statement issued by the Essel Group, promoters of the ICL.

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Monday, July 23rd 2007

Trinidad and Tobago’s George Bovell III won bronze in the men’s 50-metre freestyle swimming finals, becoming the first of his countrymen to earn five individual Pan Am Games medals. Bovell finished in a fast 22.36 seconds, setting a new national record and yesterday, at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Park here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the 24-year-old was crowned T&T Pan Am Games King. “I’m very happy,” the Athens Olympics 200m individual medley bronze medallist told the Express, shortly after yesterday’s race. For more on this story

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by Roger SeepersadFriday, July 20th 2007

OUTSTANDING:
Yannic Cariah

THE
Trinidad and Tobago Under-17 team booked their place in the final of the 2007 Sir Garry Sobers International Schools Tournament with an eight-wicket victory over Barbados Cricket League Juniors (BCL) at Crab Hill, Barbados yesterday. BCL Juniors batted first and were restricted to 165 all out, with Antonio Greenidge (44) and Sanal Lewis (31) putting up most of the resistance. Ameer Khan emerged as T&T’s best bowler, picking up four wickets for 20 runs and helping to dismiss BCL Juniors in the 39th over.

In reply, Trinidad and Tobago’s Yannic Cariah again led with the bat, scoring 89 runs and sharing in an unbroken 99-run third-wicket partnership with Javed Boodram, who scored 43 not out.Cariah blasted eight fours and three sixes in his knock, while Boodram’s supporting role included seven boundaries that helped T&T reach 166/2 off 35.1 overs. Read more here.