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Better Future, a Netherlands-based social enterprise that aims to create brighter future for the less privileged, has developed a link with the Gambia football academies with the ultimate aims of promoting better football and providing better life skills for the interns of the local academies.
ONE thing Zimbabwean football has taken down is the once prestigious Soccer Stars of the Year Awards.
IN Zimbabwean sports the name 'Price' is synonymous with greatness, thanks to the legendary deeds of our former world number one golfer Nick Price, a World Golf Hall of Fame inductee.
Bafana Bafana midfielder Steven Pienaar has been voted the 2009 Senior National Team Player of the Year by local football supporters.
With just over 200 days to go before the kick-off of the world's biggest soccer event to hit African soil, there is no question that the country is ready to host a spectacular and memorable extravaganza.
The 2009 MAMA African best performer, Samini, has rocked Kumasi on the first destination of his four nationwide tour dubbed Samini Experience Ghana 2009. He performed at Heroes Park, fore court of the Baba Yara Sports Stadium.
Nigeria's two representatives in the African Basketball Club Championship First Bank and Deepwater will do battle today in Cotonou, Benin Republic in all-Nigeria pairing in the quarter finals stage.
The Minister of Sports and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), Engr. Sani Ndanusa has described his disqualification by the Nigeria Olympic Committee as unrealistic and said that contrary to the reasons advanced for the actions, he remains eminently qualified to contest the position.
The Nigerian Tennis Federation has rose up in defence of its President Engr. Sani Ndanusa, whom the Nigeria Olympic Committee disqualified from contesting for the post of president of the NOC in the forthcoming elections.
As the ongoing Kaduna International Polo tournament gathers momentum, so also is the politicking of the association getting hot by the hour. Already, the acting secretary of the Nigeria Polo Association, Abba Kyari is under query and may face disciplinary action as a result of misbehavior to the life President of the Kaduna Polo Club, Alhaji Hassan Hedeja. He is also up for fighting with two other ...
After going past Royal Ambassadors with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Royal Ambassadors in their opening Chairman Hockey challenge last Saturday, Exchequers cross swords with Kumasi Seniors tomorrow at the national Hockey Stadium. Push off time is 5.30pm
After 26 years of swimming coaching, the country's first and only coach from a Namibia Swimming Union (NASU) affiliated club is finally taking off the flippers.
Side corporate tournament as organisers have moved the kick-off to Friday, 20 November 2009 instead of the usual kick-off date which is in the early months of the next year.
Double finalists Ron Mango will take on Vidar FC in the Bakau knock-out final at the Bakau mini-stadium.
Over 40 drivers will line up their vehicles for the East African Safari Classic Rally set to rev off from November 22 to December 2 in Kenya and Tanzania.
DRC premier league side AS Vita has made an approach on Atraco's midfielder Johnson Bagoole and Kiyovu's defender Karim Nizigiyimana.
D'MARK Power coach Andrew Bazira says he will go into MTN-FUBA playoff finals against the Kyambogo Warriors feeling like the "underdog".
THE G4S Pirates have withdrawn from the inaugural Super Cup final that was due this weekend at Entebbe mongers rugby ground.
THE increased entry of foreign runners particularly from Kenya, looks set to cut chances of another Ugandan victory in the MTN Kampala International marathon on Sunday. Francis Musani wants to retain the title while Joseph Nsubuga will hope to repeat his feat of five years ago.
COACH Moses Basena is confident the last two results against Kinyara and KCC are a statement that URA FC is settling after a rocky start to the Uganda Super League.
RALLY driver Posiano Lwakataka has registered his two sons for the Mbarara Motor Club (MMC) Super Sprint due November 29 at the Festino Cite in Mukono.
The Gambia international midfielder Tijan Jaiteh, who plies his route with Norwegian premier tier side, SK Brann, will arrive in Banjul in late November with a 20-foot container containing football equipment for deprived Gambian kids, Observer Sports can reveal.
It is the high season for football and the excitement of fans across the globe is at fever-pitch. The passion and adrenaline is flowing ceaselessly. Several World Cup qualifier matches are on and fans have been held spellbound as to who's in and who's out.
OSUN State Governor Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has criticised the organisation of golf competitions in Nigeria without the authorisation of the Nigeria Golf Federation (NGF).
No fewer that 200 amateur golfers would take part in the 3rd edition of the CBN Governor's Golf Tournament scheduled to hold at the prestigious IBB International Golf and Country Club, Abuja.
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