The race for the final Champions League qualifying place from the Bundesliga will go down to the wire after Schalke 04 slipped up on Saturday as Bayern Munich finally got their hands on the championship trophy.

Monaco clinched promotion back to Ligue 1 after two seasons in the second tier on Saturday thanks to a 1-0 win away to Nimes.

The principality club had to win in Nimes to be certain of clinching promotion with two games to spare, and duly got the three points they needed thanks to a stoppage-time goal from substitute Ibrahima Toure.

West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce has signed a new two-year contract with the Premier League club, co-owner David Gold announced Saturday

Gold used his personal Twitter account to reveal the 58-year-old Allardyce would be staying at Upton Park.

“I am delighted to announce that our manager Sam Allardyce has signed a new two-year contract,” Gold said.

Monaco, on the verge of promotion from the French second division, are ready to pull off a huge transfer coup and land Colombian international striker Radamel Falcao from Atletico Madrid, media reports in Spain and France said Saturday.

MADRID – Malaga coach Manuel Pellegrini is in line to take over at Manchester City next season according to reports emerging from Spain on Friday night. Madrid-based sports daily AS claims that City are willing to pay the EUR4 million ($5.2m, £3.4m) release clause in Pellegrini’s contract to take him from the financially troubled Spanish […]

Nigeria’s sprint sensation, Blessing Okagbare yesterday at the first in the series of the IAAF Diamond League meet in Doha, Qatar jumped a wind assisted 7.14m to threaten Chioma Ajunwa’s 7.12m that was achieved at the Atlanta 1996 Olympics Games.

Cross River grassroots athletics development coach, Earnest Tshe lamented that the Athletics Federation of Nigeria denied products of the the programme the opportunity to test their prowess at the African Youth Athletics Championships in Warri, Delta.

Kenya’s world and Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha was one of 11 athletes to register year-best performances as the Diamond League opened in Doha at the start of a world championship season.

With chairmen of football clubs having a running battle with the League Management Company, LMC, former Head Coach of the Super Eagles, Adegboye Onigbinde, has said that the only way football could thrive unhindered in the country was through a viable administrative structure.

SENATE President, David Mark has said that the late former Falcons’ coach, Joseph Ladipo otherwise called ‘Jossy Lad’ left behind a positive legacy and a footprint in the sands of time.