Category: Sports

Italy striker Giuseppe Rossi is facing a doping ban after testing positive for the banned substance dorzolamide, media reports said Tuesday. Rossi, who has played 30 times for the Azzurri in a career blighted by knee injuries, tested positive following an Italian league match between his team at the time, Genoa, and Benevento on May […]

Argentine legend Diego Maradona applauds during his first match as coach of Mexican second-division club Dorados, against Cafetaleros, at the Banorte stadium in Culiacan, Sinaloa State, Mexico, on September 17, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / RASHIDE FRIAS By AFP Controversial and combative as ever, Diego Maradona made his Mexican coaching debut Monday with a 4-1 […]

FIFA President World football governing body, FIFA on Monday picked Luca Piazza and Solomon Mudege as its observers to Thursday’s elections into the Nigeria Football Federation’s (NFF) 2018 to 2022 Executive Committee. In the same vein, African football body, CAF has chosen Sita Sangare as its observer to the polls. Mudege is FIFA’s Senior Manager […]

Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, has blamed the sector’s woes on the Federal Government’s budgetary attitude, accusing it of hampering the maintenance of ministry’s infrastructure across the country. Speaking in Abuja while unveiling plans for the 2018 National Sports Festival, Dalung said: “The past three annual budgets for sports development is not even up to one […]

Serena Williams smashes her racket in a bad tempered Saturday night Serena Williams’s claim that the code violations that sparked her meltdown in the US Open final were sexist stirred debate, with WTA Tour chief executive Steve Simon backing her on Sunday. Williams was handed three code violations — and docked a point and then […]

African Women’s champion Dina Meshref with Aruna Quadri, the African men’s champion Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri on Sunday won the Men’s Singles title at the 2018 ITTF African Championships in Mauritius, the first time in his career. He beat veteran and three time champion, Egypt’s Ahmed Ali Saleh (11-7, 6-11, 13-11, 11-9, 11-1). The victory came […]

– says agency should be given a “decent burial” because it’s not useful to Ondo state football Ondo State Government on Thursday frowned at the situation of the three clubs being sponsored in the local league, saying it would do the needful to make them meet the yearnings and aspirations of the people and the […]

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 08: Serena Williams of the United States argues with umpire Carlos Ramos during her Women’s Singles finals match against Naomi Osaka of Japan on Day Thirteen of the 2018 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 8, 2018 in the Flushing neighborhood of the […]

Japan’s forward Yuya Osako (C) celebrates with Japan’s defender Yuto Nagatomo (L) and Japan’s midfielder Makoto Hasebe after scoring a goal during the Russia 2018 World Cup Group H football match between Colombia and Japan at the Mordovia Arena in Saransk on June 19, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ / Japan has cancelled […]

A US federal judge on Wednesday sentenced Jose Maria Marin, the 86-year-old former head of the Brazilian football federation, to four years in prison over the massive FIFA corruption scandal that rocked the world’s most popular sport. Marin — one of seven FIFA officials arrested at a luxury hotel in Zurich in May 2015 — […]