Blake Griffin scored 23 points and the host Detroit Pistons held the Los Angeles Lakers scoreless for nearly seven minutes in the fourth quarter while pulling away to a 107-92 victory on Thursday. For the Lakers, who played without Anthony…
Mbwas Mangut, the assistant coach of Rangers International FC, Enugu, has charged his players to go all out and defeat Sunshine Stars of Akure in their Day 7 match of the ongoing Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL). Mangut made this…
The 28 Olympic sports federations have taken a big financial hit due to the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics by a year, but even if the Games were cancelled they would not be at risk of bankruptcy, the executive director…
Representatives from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic organising committee told reporters on Thursday there were no doubts or objections from its partners, including the IOC and sporting federations, about Japan hosting the rearranged Games this year. Tokyo organisers are preparing for…
Tobias Harris knocked down a 12-foot jumper with 2.4 seconds remaining to lift the host Philadelphia 76ers past the Los Angeles Lakers 107-106 on Wednesday night. Joel Embiid led the Sixers with 28 points, Harris added 24 and Ben Simmons…
World Cup winner Mesut Oezil will not return to the Bundesliga or the German international team, he said during a signing ceremony with Turkey’s Fenerbahce on Wednesday. “Once I take a path, I never turn back,” Oezil told a press…
Ibom Youths Football Club of Uyo on Wednesday said they have signed on 33 players in preparation for the 2020/2021 Nigeria National League (NNL) season. Keresifon Essien, the club’s Media Officer, said in a statement that the players were selected…
Bayern Munich are donating 100,000 euros (121,000 dollars) for the reconstruction of a local synagogue, the Bundesliga champions said on Wednesday. Bayern Munich also said they are adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism in another effort…
Members of the Ekiti chapter of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) on Wednesday elected new members of its executive committee to pilot its affairs for the next three years. The election was conducted at the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in…
The commencement of the beleaguered Tokyo Olympics as planned this July could come down to support from the U.S and its new president, a Tokyo Organising Committee member, Haruyuki Takahashi, has said. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Japanese organisers…
