Monaco….. Track and field banned transgender athletes from international competition Thursday, while adopting new regulations that could keep Caster Semenya and other athletes with differences in sex development from competing. In a pair of decisions expected to stoke outrage, the World Athletics Council adopted the same rules as swimming did last year in deciding to […]
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Floyd Mayweather beats Aaron Chalmers in exhibition bout
Floyd Mayweather was taken the distance during his eight-round exhibition fight with Aaron Chalmers at the O2 Arena. Mayweather was fighting in the UK for the first time and, although he dominated the fight, he could not stop the former Geordie Shore star. The 46-year-old former five-weight world champion landed a string of right hands […]
Miss Uganda: Uganda’s longest beauty pageant hits Kampala City on 8th and 9th Feb, 2023
Esther Muwonge.………. Miss Uganda is the longest running and one of the most prestigious pageants in the country since 1967. The journey to find the most beautiful woman in Uganda is getting more interesting, all eyes are on Kampala contestants as we conduct the last auditions this week.Final Auditions will be held in Kampala City […]
CHAN 2022-Algeria: Uganda Cranes will qualify for the knockout stages if they manage to avoid defeat in Algiers.
Esther Muwonge.……………… StarTimes Uganda Premier League Stars continue to shine in CHAN 2022-Algeria. Uganda Cranes, now Group B table leaders return to action on Sunday at 10PM (EAT) Againstbottom side Cote D’Ivoire in a game where the boys only need to avoid defeat to progress to quarterfinal for the first time. StarTimes will broadcast the […]
Qatar2022: The most luxurious World Cup quarter-final lineup in history is released, Morocco continues Africa’s hope
The Round of 16 World Cup in Qatar in 2022 ended in a hot streak, with 28 goals scored in 8 games. The Netherlands, France, England, Brazil and Portugal all won and advanced. Messi scored again and led Argentina to a 2-1 victory over Australia. The most exciting penalty shootout was staged twice. Croatian goalkeeper […]
World Cup 2022: Senegal and Morocco carry Africa’s hope in the round of 16
AFCON champions Senegal and Morocco successfully advanced to the round of 16. Cameroon, Tunisia and Ghana, which beat Brazil 1-0 in the final round of the group stage, were unfortunately eliminated. In the group of death Group E, Spain, Japan and Germany’s qualifying battle continued until the last moment. In the end, Japan beat Spain […]
Qatar will permit ticketed fans to buy alcoholic beer at World Cup soccer matches
The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 22nd running of the FIFA World Cup competition, the quadrennial international men’s football championship contested by the senior national teams of the member- associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Qatar from November 20th to December 18th, 2022. At the World Cup […]
Birmingham2022: Uganda Netball gets shs50m rich from MTN
Thursday 21st July 2022 – Wakiso, Uganda: MTN Uganda has handed over Ushs. 50 million to the Uganda National Netball team, ahead of the Commonwealth games that shall commence next week in Birmingham, England between 28th July and 8th August 2022. This sponsorship is in line with MTN Uganda’s commitment to bolstering sports in Uganda […]
Tennis: 18 year old Angella Okutoyi,first East African to win a Wimbledon title
Angella Okutoyi 18 years, became the first Kenyan to win a Wimbledon title at the girl’s doubles event. Okutoyi and Dutch partner Rose Marie Nijkamp won the girls’ doubles trophy. The unseeded pair beat Canadians Kayla Cross and Victoria Mboko 3-6 6-4 11-9. Despite her lack of experience on grass, Okutoyi said she was getting […]
Stadium Business: Bank of Kigali pays $7m (shs26bn) for Kigali Arena naming rights.
The Kigali Arena (Rwanda) was renamed the BK Arena after the Bank of Kigali bought the franchise for 7 billion Frw over a period of six years. The deal was struck on May 24th, 2022, between the BK Group Plc and QA Venue Solutions Rwanda, the company that has managed to manage the stadium for a period of two years from 2020. […]