All sports stories from Naija – Latest from the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Nigerian Super Eagles and Super Falcons preparations for the FIFA World Cups, and the Nigeria athletes compete at the Commonwealth Games, Olympics and the IAAF World Championships.
Top seed Wozniacki has been edged out of Japan’s tennis championship. She was dumped in the first set against the Estonian world No.43 before hitting back with a dominant second set. But Kanepi regained her confidence to ou...
Tiger Woods and Bill Haas were both named on a powerful United States team for this year’s Presidents cup while the Australian pair of Robert Allenby and Aaron Baddeley filled the two International places as the rival captains revealed the...
Ajax coach, Frank de Boer has confessed his side were taught a lesson in counter-attacking in their 3-0 Champions League Group D loss against Real Madrid on Tuesday. The Eredivisie side started the match at Santiago Bernabeu bright...
Manchester City coach, Roberto Mancini has written off Argentine forward Carlos Tevez after the player refused to come on as a substitute during the 2-0 defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Mancini said Tevez is finished. The 27-year...
Super Falcons forward, Perpetua Nkwocha will lead 32 other players to confront Cameroon in the race to qualify Nigeria for next year’s Olympics in London. Coach Uche Eucharia invited 27 players from the domestic league and an additional si...
Nigeria relied heavily on defense to wade-off the stiff challenge pose by Cameroon in a group-B game on Sunday at the 22nd Afrobasket for Women.Nigeria, who picked the second and third quarters by 20-10 and 13-11 points after tying the first quarter wi...
Australian butterfly swimming champion Geoff Huegill for the first time revealed he abused recreational drugs. Huegill on Saturday also admitted he had suicidal thoughts when he retired from swimming after the 2004 Athens Olympics. It is well known tha...
Arsenal and Bolton will be meeting today at the Emirate Stadium, both sides would be battling to avoid being pushed to the bottom of the English Premier League (EPL). It has been a terrible start to the season for Arsene Wenger’s side, fol...
Guinea are talking tough ahead of a final Nations Cup qualifier against Nigeria with coach Michel Dussuyer insisting the pressure is on the Eagles to win. The Syli Stars have led Group B from the start of the qualifying campaign for the 2012 Nations Cu...
According to sources within the Nigerian Football Federation, the chief coach of the National U-20 team, the Flying Eagles, John Obuh, has started wooing the Nigeria Football Federation to allow him commence preparations for the 2013 edition of the Wor...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have said they are still studying a new centralised television deal approved by CAF for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.Nigeria’s income as well as those of South Africa and Egypt are expected to be hardest hit...
Manchester United claimed a record-equalling 18th successive home win to march two points clear at the Premier League summit with victory at Old Trafford. And that does not even scratch the surface of a day of drama against Chelsea. First-half goals fr...
Kaduna United have been eliminated from this year’s CAF Confederation Cup after they lost 1-0 at home to Club Africain of Tunisia yesterday. Kaduna needed to win by a big score yesterday, but instead they fell to their Tunisian rivals after they ...
National U-23 coach, Austin Eguavoen will tomorrow defend his Olympic games qualifying programme before the Barrister Chris Green-led technical committee of the Nigeria Football Federation. Eguavoen, who is presently undergoing the ritual of becoming a...
Today,Manchester United take on Chelsea in Old Trafford, in the biggest game of the season so far. After losing to the ‘Red Devils’ three times last season (twice in the Champions League and once in the Premier League, with two of th...