Nigeria’s 4x400m mixed relay team has booked a ticket to this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris following their impressive performance at the World Athletics Relays event in Nassau, Bahamas, on Saturday. Team Nigeria, making their return to the championship after a five-year break, headed to the Bahamas with a star-studded lineup, and the nation was rewarded with its first ticket after the quartet of Samuel Ogazi,...
Cristiano Ronaldo hit a hat-trick, and Senegalese forward Sadio Mane scored one and assisted two others to help Al-Nassr to a six-nil thrashing of Al-Wehda in the Saudi Pro League on Saturday. Ronaldo took his season tally to 32 league goals, while former Liverpool forward Mane found the back of the net just before the halftime break for his 19th goal this season and his 13th...
D’Tigers forward Devine Eke scored a game-high 31 points and 12 rebounds to propel the Rivers Hoopers to a 77-68 win over Sahara Conference host AS Douanes in the Basketball Africa League (BAL) on Saturday. The King’s Men, in their return to the BAL, overcame Douanes’ first quarter scoring spree to upset the home team and silence the crowd inside the Dakar Arena in Senegal to...
Egypt midfielder Sam Morsy has led Ipswich Town to secure Premier League promotion for the first time since 2002 after their 2-0 win against Huddersfield Town on Saturday. Morsy provided an assist for Omari Giraud-Hutchinson to double Ipswich’s lead after Wesley Burns opened the scoring in the first-half. Morsy played the entire duration of the final game of the season alongside DR Congo-born Alex Tuanzebe as...
The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) have fired head coach Darvin Ham, the 17-time champions announced on Friday night. Ham, who became the Lakers’ head coach in 2022 after previously being an assistant in 2011, spent two seasons in Los Angeles as head coach, leading the team to the Western Conference playoff finals in 2023. The 50-year-old replaced Frank Vogel, who was...
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