This year’s French Open has been postponed by a week due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will begin on May 30, the French Tennis Federation (FFT) said on Thursday. The claycourt Grand Slam, which was...

Real Madrid will have to face Liverpool in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Tuesday night without Raphael Varane, who has tested positive for COVID-19. The World Cup-winning centre-half...

FIFA said Wednesday it had extended the ban on its former president Sepp Blatter and former secretary-general Jerome Valcke by six years and eight months, in relation to the receipt of huge bonuses. Blatter,...

19 Super Eagles players have already arrived camp for the remaining two 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Benin Republic and Lesotho. According to the team’s media officer, Babafemi Raji,...

Liverpool will face Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League Manchester City have been drawn against Borussia Dortmund, while Chelsea play Porto and defending champions Bayern Munich...

Anthony Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn has said on Monday that Joshua and Tyson Fury have signed a deal for two world heavyweight title unification fights. Confirming the agreement, Hearn told ESPN: “The...

Roger Federer on Thursday withdrew from next week’s Dubai Association of Tennis Players [ATP] tournament, claiming “it’s best to go back to training” as his comeback from 13 months...

Akwa United of Uyo, one of Nigeria’s Professional Football League campaigners, suffered a road accident in Enugu on Friday morning. Disclosing the incident via their official Twitter handle: @AkwaUnited_fc.,...

The President of the Nigerian Football Federeation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick has been elected into the FIFA Council. Pinnick was elected into the FIFA Council on Friday at the Confederation of African Football,...

Tiger Woods was hospitalized after being involved in a single-car accident in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. According to his agent, Mark Steinberg, Woods suffered “multiple” leg injuries. Woods was...

Naomi Osaka knocked Serena Williams out of the Australian Open on Thursday in a 6-3, 6-4 win in the semi-finals. Osaka, who also beat Williams in the chaotic 2018 US Open final, reached her fourth major...

Premier League referee Mike Dean will not officiate this weekend after he and his family received online death threats following two controversial incidents. The 52-year-old referee sent off West Ham midfielder...

Ajax’s Cameroonian international goalkeeper, Andre Onana has been suspended for one year for doping, the Dutch club said on Friday. The club said in a statement that Onana had “mistakenly”...

Chelsea Football Club have today parted company with Head Coach Frank Lampard. “This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the Board have taken lightly,” Chelsea...

 Argentinian football legend, Diego Maradona has died from a heart attack just days after turning 60. Maradona’s  lawyer said he died at home just two weeks after having surgery on a blood clot...

Former winners Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have been shortlisted for the Best FIFA Men’s Player for 2020. The nominations for seven individual trophies was released on Wednesday with the ceremony...

President of the Confederation of African Football, Ahmad Ahmad has been banned for five years by FIFA for breaching various codes of ethics.  Ahmad was found to have breached codes relating to duty,...

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has signed a new two-year contract to keep him at the club until 2023. Pep’s contract was due to expire in the summer after five years at the club and it had...

Germany’s humiliating  defeat by Spain on Tuesday night was the former’s worst football defeat in almost 90 years . Indeed, football analysts and historians think it was Germany’s worst...

Lewis Hamilton has joined Michael Schumacher as the most successful driver in Formula One’s history. His victory at the Turkish Grand Prix yesterday sealed the championship and his seventh title. Hamilton...