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Super Bowl 2023: Patrick Mahomes’ road to immortality

Super Bowl 2023: Patrick Mahomes’ road to immortality

This weekend at State Farm Stadium in Arizona, history will be made in the National Football League (NFL) when the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles battle it out for outright supremacy in American football. The Super Bowl LVII will be the first to feature two black quarterbacks (QB) starting for their respective teams; prior to this year, only seven black quarterbacks had started in...

Organisers set new date for Abuja International Marathon

Organisers set new date for Abuja International Marathon

The maiden edition of the Abuja International Marathon, the only full marathon authorised by the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), is set to hold on April 29, 2023, as announced by race organisers Unicentral Resources Generation Limited. The marathon was postponed from its initial date of December 17, 2022, due to security threats issued by the American Embassy and other foreign embassies in Nigeria last October...

Anthony Joshua appoints new trainer ahead of April bout

Anthony Joshua appoints new trainer ahead of April bout

Anthony Joshua has appointed Derrick James as his new trainer ahead of his heavyweight comeback bout against Jermaine Franklin on April 1.   A New Dawn 🌅 pic.twitter.com/WY9LgiYJ6D — Anthony Joshua (@anthonyjoshua) February 6, 2023 The British heavyweight parted ways with former coach Robert McCracken, who was with him for ten years, after his first loss to reigning world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in September 2021....

Table Tennis: Aruna excited with Russian League debut

Table Tennis: Aruna excited with Russian League debut

Nigeria’s Quadri Aruna kicked off his campaign with his new side Fakel-Gazprom Orenburg in the Russian Premier Table Tennis League with a 100 percent win record in all his matches, earning them a fourth-round victory at the Russian Table Tennis Centre in Moscow. Aruna teamed up with Russian national champion Alexander Shibaev and Chinese international An Yan, and they won all five of their matches to...

Man City responds to Premier League financial breaches sanction

Man City responds to Premier League financial breaches sanction

Manchester City have issued a statement in response to the numerous charges brought against them by the Premier League for financial rule breaches. Earlier today, the six-time Premier League champions were charged with over a hundred violations of the league’s financial rules following an investigation that began in 2018.  However, the defending champions replied with a defiant statement of their own on the club website, stating...