The Setraco Junior Tennis Clinic/Tournament which will commence its third edition on 13th to 22nd December 2011 will be in the Under-16, Under-14, Under-12 and Under 10 categories.

Qatar’s Al Sadd will play Barcelona in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup after the Asian champions stunned Esperance of Tunisia 2-1 on Sunday, sparking fan violence and a pitch invasion.

The Cofederation of African Football, CAF has expressed disappointment over the decision by the International Olympic Committee to reprimand its President, Issa Hayatou, based on allegation that he received in 1995, the sum of 100,000 French francs (15,000euros) from the ISL / ISMM Company.

Barcelona upstaged Real Madrid in the first El Clasico of the season, while in England Manchester United regained winning ways after their shock midweek Champions League exit.

I write to tell you that when I wrote in my column a couple of weeks ago, “What’s Oshiomole’s Score Card?”, I never intended to impugn on your personality as your Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Peter Okhiria made it look in his rejoinder which I graciously gave a lot of space in the Vanguard of November 26, 2011.

Former President of the Nigeria Cycling Federation and Secretary General of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Moses Iloh has joined forces with those clamouring for the sack of the Nigeria Football Association, NFF Board.

Erstwhile chairman of the Nigerian Football Association, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima has challenged the congress of the Nigerian Football Federation, (NFF) to do the same they did to him six years ago as most of them that rescind his election are still there.

Nigeria continued to show her strong presence as a force to be reckoned with in the game of Scrabble at the recently concluded Causeway Scrabble Challenge which held in Malaysia with her athletes putting up a strong challenge.

The National Council on Sports has amended the eligibility rules for the National Sports Festival, NSF to exclude foreign-based athletes as it approved November 27 – December 9, 2012 for the 18th edition of the fiesta to be hosted by Lagos State.

Soccer Rumble is expected to be the next TV Reality Show in which football fans will be glued to. The executive producer, Chief Austin Izagbo, a former Commissioner of Sports in Delta State ,former member of the Nigerian Olympic Committee and also, Chairman/CEO Crown Media Nigeria Limited is known for voracious appetite for success. He spoke to Sunday Vanguard Sports on the TV Show and the recent free fall of the country’s football.

Former Golden Eaglets coach Godwin Izilien has disagreed with the Senate Committee on Sports which blamed coaches and footballers for the recent free fall of the country’s football as he attributed it instead to poor administration.

The last leg of the quarterly Heineken sponsored LM Open Golf Championship came to a thrilling end at the Le Meridien Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort in Uyo last Sunday with Abuja based Okey Igweh emerging the overall winner of the competition.

The second edition of ECOWAS Cycling Championship earlier scheduled to hold between December 6 and 10, 2011 has been postponed to 13th to 19th of February, 2012.

The Nigerian Weightlifting Federation (NWF) has been deprived of the three slots it won to compete in the 2012 Olympics in London next year at the just concluded World Weightlifting Championship held at the Disneyland in Paris, France.

Ikeja The Lagos State Government on Friday said it would host the best-ever National Sports Festival in 2012.