The weather may have been hot and humid on Sunday, but the competition between St. Joseph Convent Port-of-Spain and Malick Secondary was even more heated as the Convent girls emerged as victors in their opening tourney for the Secondary Schools Girls Football Championship League.

Trinity East College and El Dorado East Secondary battled to a 2-2 draw yesterday when they finally got the chance to begin their 2011 BG T&T Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) campaign.

Not even Paul, the 2010 FIFA World Cup Octopus could have predicted the outcome of the Fatima College- St. Anthony's College clash for the Secondary Schools Football League at Fatima Grounds, Mucurapo on Saturday.

Along the winding Papourie Road, past stilted homes, unlocked front doors, petit chattel roti shops and sport fields, is cricket-loving Barrackpore West Secondary—blue and white, perched and proud. And despite their now-yearly loss of players to other schools, coach Shal Ramkissoon and his players remain unified and confident of their chances in this year’s Secondary School Cricket League.

Stay home and clean for Christmas, or play in a tennis tournament? We'll take the tennis.

Look out, Christian Homer, the next Trinidad and Tobago youth to bring home an Olympic gold medal just might be a skateboarder.

Matthaus Wilford, 16, of Presentation College, Chaguanas, and Zuwena James, 15, of Iere High School Siparia, are the new Under-19 Singles champions, having trounced their opponents in the Open Junior Trinidad and Tobago Badminton Association Finals, held on Saturday at the Chaguanas Indoor Facility.

Persistence paid off for Fatima College the overall winner of the annual National Secondary Schools Water Polo League 2010 after many years of domination by rival St Mary's College.

So with mid-term exams out of the way, the students of Tunapuna Secondary took time out for their fun and family day event hosted at the school's recreation grounds yesterday.