Barcelona’s slim hopes of retaining their La Liga title were all but ended after they were held 2-2 at home by struggling Getafe on Saturday.

Despite manager Jose Mourinho’s insistence that Chelsea cannot win the Premier League this season, beating Norwich City on Sunday would leave them top of the table with a week remaining.

As the AFN/Solid Works golden league enters its third leg, some of the leading athletes are hoping to improve on their performances when the meet resumes on May 10, 2014 in Akure.

Flying Eagles coach Manu Garba will test the intention of his team to win the African Youth Championship with a match against their Benin Republic counterparts in Porto Novo on Sunday.

Former Nigeria coach Clemens Westerhof yesterday received the shock of his life at the arena he achieved his life dream some twenty years ago.

About 3,000 athletes including 20 world elite runners are ready to compete this morning as the second edition of the Okpekpe 10km road race rolls off the starting the line in the sleepy town of Okpekpe in the norther part of Edo State.

Seventeen years after they represented the country at the World University Games in Fukuoka, Japan, eight of the Nigerian athletes are still crying over their unpaid allowances which was denied them by the leadership of the Nigeria University Games, NUGA.

After a successful outing in the cities of Pot Harcourt, Calabar, Akure and Enugu, the audition to the academy of the ongoing season four of MTN Football Scholar has started at the Astro Turf pitch of the national Stadium in Abuja.

Golden Eaglets coach, Emmanuel Amuneke said that he is on the look out for fresh talents for the the national U-17 teams after a mix bag of performance at the WAFU tournament in Lome, Togo.

There is likely to be a tough time for unseeded teams as Fifa has confirmed that clubs do not have to release players for the first rounds of 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying.