Henry Amike was an athletics gladiator and his exploits are well documented in continental and global track and field annals. He is one of Nigeria’s greatest hurdlers, and this could be seen in the Nigerian athletics record book as his all time best performance of 48.50 seconds he did in 1987 in Rome, Italy remains the nations record in the event.

With about three weeks to Nigeria’s Afcon 2013 qualifier against the Lone Stars of Liberia, Super Eagles’ striker, Osaze Odemwingie yesterday, sent a strong statement of his readiness for the match when he scored in West Brom’s 3-0 victory over Liverpool in the Premier League.

The first of 21 days of football at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Japan starts today with four matches holding and it promises to have a party atmosphere, plenty of diversity and no little emotion.

As the Falconets begin their World Cup campaign against South Korea in Saitama, former Green Eagles midfielder, Henry Nwosu wants to see a different approach from the team at the tournament.

The 30th Olympic Games in London came to a classic close a week ago with the host not only putting up a spectacular closing ceremony like they did on the opening day on July 27, they recorded their best outing at the Olympics with a third place finishing with 28 gold medals.