Tennis star sisters, Serena and Venus Williams, as well as Reddit creator, Alexis Ohanian, will own the first team in TGL, the new virtual golf league developed by Tiger Woods and Rory Mcilroy. The league announced Thursday that Los Angeles Golf Club (LAGC) will be the first of six...
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Players at the Women’s World Cup will be guaranteed at least 30,000 dollars each after FIFA decided to disburse some of the prize money to individuals rather than national federations. All 23 members of the winning team will take home 270,000 dollars each, part of a 110 million dollars...
Jarrod Bowen struck at the death as West Ham United beat Fiorentina 2-1 on Wednesday to end a 43-year trophy drought with the Europa Conference League title. Said Benrahma had opened the scoring for West Ham with a 62nd-minute penalty kick in Prague’s Eden Arena. This was after Fiorentina...
Lionel Messi has announced he is to join Major League Soccer (MLS) side Inter Miami. The 35-year-old Argentina forward had been strongly linked with a move to Saudi Arabian club Al Hilal, to join a league which already features Cristiano Ronaldo and now Karim Benzema. However, with Messi’s two-year...
The final matches of the 2023 Federation Cup Competition in both the male and female categories will take place at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba on June 15. The day will begin with the women’s final match between defending champions Bayelsa Queens and Rivers Angels from 2 p.m....
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Chineye Okafor of Abia State has won the 2023 under 13 Girls Offiong Edem Mini Tournament beating her Cross River counterpart, Esther Ekok with three set to two in the final played at U.J.Esuene Stadium Calabar South South Nigeria over the weekend. Also in...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – Twenty-two states of the Federation have declared intention to stage the 2023 Olympic Day Run as part of activities to promote the Olympic values of excellence. A statement issued by Tony Nezianya, the Public Relation Officer of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), listed other...
Two-time runners-up Nigeria dominated for large parts of the game but were eliminated from the ongoing FIFA Under-20 World Cup by a single goal on Sunday in the quarter-finals. The 1-0 win meant Korea Republic surged into the semi-finals for the second successive tournament. The Flying Eagles, who eliminated...
Goals from Victor Osimhen and Giovanni Simeone secured a 2-0 victory for Serie A champions Napoli over already-relegated Sampdoria on Sunday in their season finale. Hosts Napoli finished a triumphant campaign with 90 points from 38 games, while Sampdoria ended bottom on 19 points. The match was the final...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has announced his retirement from football at the age of 41. The AC Milan striker made the announcement on the San Siro pitch following his club’s final game of the Serie A season on Sunday. “I have many memories and many emotions in here,” the Sweden international...
Real Madrid’s Karim Benzema scored a penalty kick in his final Spanish LaLiga game at the Bernabeu but could not inspire them to victory as they drew 1-1 with Athletic Bilbao. Earlier on Sunday, Real Madrid announced that Ballon d’Or winner Benzema would leave the club as a free...
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has agreed a deal to end his glittering era at the club, the Spanish side said Sunday. The forward, 35, has been heavily linked this week with a lucrative move to Saudi Arabia. “Real Madrid and our captain Karim Benzema have agreed to put...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Arsenal striker, Bukayo Saka, has paid a courtesy visit to the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the Government House, Marina. Gov. Sanwo-Olu, who received the Arsenal striker with excitement on Saturday, described Saka as his favourite player in the English Premier League side....
Manchester City are one game away from a historic treble after Ilkay Gundogan scored twice to beat Manchester United 2-1 in the FA Cup final on Saturday. Pep Guardiola’s men completed a domestic double at Wembley and can become just the second side, after United in 1998/99, to win...
Chika Obi,sport analyst, says the Flying Eagles need self-confidence and determination to beat South Korea in the quarter final at the ongoing under-20 World Cup in Argentina. Obi made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Ota, Ogun. NAN reports that the Flying...
Sen. Obinna Ogba has been re-elected as the Chairman of the Ebonyi Football Association. Ogba, who is the Senate Committee Chairman on Sports, was returned unopposed alongside Chikaodi Ojemba, who emerged as the vice chairman. Mr Friday Agbom, the Chairman of the committee which conducted the election, announced that...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, has congratulated Amaju Pinnick, aformer President, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), for the conferment of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) on him by former President, Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari had before his exit on May 29 honoured Pinnick...
Former Golden Eaglets coach, Manu Garba, said on Thursday that the Flying Eagles deserved more accolades after they knocked out hosts Argentina from the ongoing Under-20 FIFA World Cup. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Flying Eagles, against all odds, produced two classical goals to defeat...
Bae Junho scored one goal and set up another as Korea Republic upset Ecuador 3-2 in the last 16 of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup on Thursday in Argentina. The result meant Korea Republic set up a quarter-final meeting with Nigeria who eliminated six-time champions Argentina at the Round...
Argentina football great Lionel Messi will leave Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) after Saturday’s final Ligue 1 match of the season against Clermont Foot, coach Christoph Galtier confirmed on Thursday. It has long been speculated that Messi would quit PSG when his two-year deal expired after being suspended by the recently-crowned...