The Premier League

From furlough to free-to-air: Premier League becomes a political football

The green light for the Premier League's return owes much to a political will for the national game to lift spirits in the country hardest hit by coronavirus in Europe. Suspected and confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Britain passed 50,000...
Orlando City presents Brazilian great Ronaldo with jersey

Florida teams set to open MLS return tournament in Orlando

Orlando City and Inter Miami will kick off Major League Soccer's 26-team tournament on 8 July when the league returns from a four-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. The North American league conducted its group draw Thursday for the...
Seville celebrates their win over Real Betis

Sevilla win derby as La Liga returns with video game look

Football had officially resumed in Spain on Wednesday with the second half of a second-division game that had been halted in December. With a video game look for fans at home, the Spanish league resumed Thursday with Sevilla defeating Real...
Bafana Bafana captain Mokoena present a branded jersey to Nelson Mandela

South Africa hosting 2010 Soccer World Cup made Madiba feel ‘like a 15-year-old again’

South Africa 2010 remains the first and only Soccer World Cup to have been hosted on the African continent. In a historic moment in 2004, South Africa clinched the right to host the 19th edition of the tournament after...
Rugby League game at Bankwest Stadium in Sydney

Rugby returns in Australia with new rules intended to liven up game

Rugby Australia agreed Friday to test new rules in its domestic Super Rugby competition in a bid to liven up the game, including goal-line dropouts and a 10-minute golden point period if matches are tied. Seven new laws will be...
Karsten Warholm

Karsten Warholm smashes world 300m hurdles best in Oslo

Karsten Warholm stormed to the quickest outdoor 300m hurdles time in history on Thursday, clocking 33.78 as the Diamond League returned in an exhibition event format in Oslo. The behind-closed-doors ‘Impossible Games’, held within Norway’s infection control requirements due to...
Andrew Moloney

Andrew Moloney returns June 23, hopes to fight ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez

WBA ‘regular’ super flyweight champion Andrew ‘The Monster’ Moloney 21-0 (14) has promised to put on a clinical display of power boxing when he defends his title against Joshua Franco 16-1-2 (8) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas...
Jessie Magdaleno

Jessie Magdaleno beats Yenifel Vincente via disqualification

Yes! there were fouls, multiple point deductions and knockdowns. But for featherweight Jessie Magdaleno, the win is all that mattered. Magdaleno prevailed over Yenifel Vicente via disqualification in the Top Rank on ESPN main event Thursday evening from the...
Azam FC

Tanzania release guidelines as league returns on June 13

The Tanzanian Premier League will become the second after Burundi to re-start after a three-month stoppage occasioned by the spread of COVID-19. After the government okayed for sporting activities to resume from June 1, the Tanzanian Football Federation drafted out...
Gustavo Ndong Edu

Equatorial Guinea annuls 2019/2020 league season due to COVID-19

Equatorial Guinea has become the latest Football Association to announce the annulment of all its leagues across the country due to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. An Executive Committee meeting held on Monday afternoon in Malabo made the...