2,000-year-old Roman amphitheater may host Joshua vs Pulev fight
The Pula Amphitheater in Croatia, the only one of its kind, could be the venue for Anthony Joshua’s IBF, WBA and WBO mandatory title defence against Bulgarian heavyweight, Kubrat Pulev.This is according to Pulev’s manager, Ivaylo Gotsev.Joshua, 30, was...
No vaccine, no fans – Netherlands
Sporting events in the Netherlands may go ahead later in the year but they will do so without fans until a vaccine is developed for the coronavirus.This was announced by the Dutch Health Minister Hugo de Jonge on Thursday.Prime...
FIFA to sanction increase in substitutes says Rizzoli
World Football governing body, FIFA will sanction an increase in the number of substitutes used in football matches according to referees’ chief, Nicola Rizzoli.
The plan is to increase the number of substitutes from three to five per game when...
Klose appointed assistant coach at Bayern
Former Germany national team striker, Miroslav Klose has been appointed as assistant coach of 29-time German champions, Bayern Munich.Klose who is Germany's all-time leading scorer will commence his duties from next season.The 41-year-old has been a youth coach at...
Breaking new ground, Cape Town Marathon goes virtual
The Sanlam Cape Town Marathon 2020 will go ahead and will host runners from all corners of the planet, according to the organisers - but with one major caveat: the race will be offered in virtual form.
Cape Town Marathon...
South African Rugby insists 2021 Lions tour will go on
The British & Irish Lions tour in 2021 is still due to go ahead, although the door has now been opened for a possible date change.
South Africa Rugby made clear in a statement on Monday that it...
Cape Town could become Ultra-trail’s 2020 showcase
“This time for Africa” sang Shakhira, celebrating the arrival of one of the world’s biggest sporting events on the African continent – the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Chances are that Nic Bornman and Stuart McConnachie, organisers of South Africa’s...
BEATING CORONA – An SPNAfrica series
ONCE UPON A TIME, IN NAIROBI
I first met Victor Muzadi in Nairobi, in 2015. He had come to our studios together with Liz Mills, a basketball coach then living in Zambia, for an interview on BAQE, the show behind...
A “No” to Africa, Asia and the “Global Game” as Beaumont re-elected World...
World Rugby voted down major changes that would position Africa and Asia at the centre of a far more "global" game as rugby's governing body returned its chairman, Sir Bill Beaumont, to another four years at the helm.
The 68-year-old...
Can African football rise above the “age” conundrum?
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic “ - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In a span of just 8 years - from 1985 to 1993...