BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – President of the Barbados Basketball Association Francis Williams says the senior men’s national team has started preparations towards making a return after a near five-year break.

FLORENCE, Italy – World 200 meters bronze medalist Jereem Richards of Trinidad & Tobago headlines a handful of English-speaking Caribbean athletes set to run in the World Athletics Diamond League meet on Friday in Florence.

MONACO – World Athletics is rebranding traditional indoor track and field in favor of a “short track” concept to describe events and performances that are set on a 200 meters running track.

AUSTIN, Texas – St Lucia sprint darling Julien Alfred celebrated her 22nd birthday when she signed off her American collegiate career in spectacular fashion at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships on Saturday in the United States.

MONACO – Barbadian Zane Maloney clinched his second podium of the Formula Two season when he finished third in Monaco Grand Prix here Sunday.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Former world lightweight champion Claude Noel of Trinidad & Tobago died on Sunday at the Mount Hope Hospital after a lengthy battle with diabetes. He was 74.

DALLAS, Texas - Funding by World Rugby to Imagine Rugby will support the Rookie Rugby program, a national educational program allowing teachers to introduce rugby in physical education programs to North American youth for free by covering costs for all Fall 2023 equipment needs, including Rugby 101 curriculum, 750 bag kits, and 6,000 rugby balls to youth nationwide.

RABAT, Morocco – World champion Shericka Jackson set a new meet record as she stormed to a season-best time to capture the 200 meters at the Rabat Diamond League here Sunday.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts – Barbados thwarted Guyana’s bid for a second straight win in the Women’s T20 Blaze when they beat them by three wickets in the second match of Sunday’s second round triple-header at Warner Park.

BARCELONA, Spain – Lewis Hamilton took only his second podium finish of the Formula One season as part of a Mercedes podium double, as Red Bull’s Max Verstappen dominated again to win the Spanish Grand Prix here Sunday.

LOS ANGELES, California– A handful of English-speaking Caribbean athletes, including a current and a former world champion from Grenada, are carded for the sixth World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of this season on Friday and Saturday in the United States.

MIAMI, Florida – The three top-ranked English-speaking Caribbean women’s teams are down to face difficult opponents in the first stage of the Concacaf W Gold Cup later this year.