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More than a game: NBA players in wildcat strike to protest racial injustice

Sport Refiloe Seiboko - 27 Aug 2020

In 1961, Bill Russell led his fellow Boston Celtics in refusing to play in an NBA game in protest of systemic racism. It happened again on Wednesday.

‘Such a pity’: How Pakistan’s Amir paid heavy price for fixing scandal

Sport Agence France Presse - 27 Aug 2020

A decade ago, Amir's exciting young career came to an abrupt halt when he was caught bowling no-balls to order at Lord's, set up by a British newspaper sting

Top European clubs circle as Messi calls time at Barcelona

Sport Daniel Bosque - 26 Aug 2020

The Argentine legend has fallen out with the Catalan club's hierarchy, which has alerted a number of sides in world football

African Blogtable: Upsets and flukes in the NBA playoffs

Sport Refiloe Seiboko - 25 Aug 2020

This week, some lower-seeded teams won their first games against the top-seeded teams. Were these once-off wins or should LeBron and Giannis be worried?

Not acknowledging crimes against humanity is the Springbok way

Sport Phumlani Pikoli - 24 Aug 2020

South African rugby was racist, is still racist, and nothing will truly transform it.

Welcome to the African Blogtable: Let’s talk NBA playoffs

Sport Refiloe Seiboko - 19 Aug 2020

The NBA playoffs have officially begun and the race to the championship is tight. African sports journalists from all over the continent share their answers to some burning questions about this season’s potential winner

Meet the first African coach to win a European league title

Sport Tolu Olasoji - 17 Aug 2020

Nigeria’s Ndubuisi Egbo is also the first African coach to take a team into the European Champions League

Why Cameroon has slid back since Italia ’90

Sport Daniel Ekonde - 4 Aug 2020

The Indomitable Lions’ class of 1990 put Africa on the international football map with their showing in Italy, where they stunned the world champions. But they have since gone backwards. Why?

Lampard vs Arteta: Managers of a forgotten generation

Sport Luke Feltham - 29 Jul 2020

Two of football’s youngest coaches are competing for one of its highest honours. This tells us something about how the Premier League appoints manager

Africa, tune in: The NBA is back on your screens

Sport Refiloe Seiboko - 28 Jul 2020

The NBA’s been on pause since March but will be back in full effect on Thursday. What’s happened since the stoppage and what’s about to happen?

Lala kahle Kaunda Ntunja

Sport Lungani Zama - 21 Jul 2020

South African rugby has lost a gentle giant in Kaunda Ntunja. His commentary in isiXhosa poetically ushered in the Springboks’ first black captain and ‘popped champagne’ after Mapimpi’s magic

Kamaru Usman: Never-ending Nigerian Nightmare

Africa Tolu Olasoji - 18 Jul 2020

Kamaru Usman has become the dominant force in mixed martial arts

Manchester City CAS ruling counts for everything and nothing

Sport Luke Feltham - 16 Jul 2020

It may leave a sour taste in the mouth, but the lack of sanction for Manchester City, aside from a fine that amounts to small change, doesn’t affect the bigger picture

It’s just not cricket

Sport Niren Tolsi - 15 Jul 2020

Near Makhanda in the Eastern Cape in the village of Salem is a cricket pitch that is said to be the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier nostalgia and contemporary paranoia, how does it play?

Klopp and his Beatles move on from ‘Yesterday’

Sport Lungani Zama - 6 Jul 2020

The wait was long and painful, from the endless jokes to that Steven Gerrard slip. But after 30 years Liverpool are finally Premier League champions of England

Corporate and broadcast deals push PSL to restart

Coronavirus Luke Feltham - 1 Jul 2020

Football will return, but the players are likely to have very little time to acquaint themselves with the "new normal"

Pundits cling to football’s racial tropes

Sport Luke Feltham - 30 Jun 2020

A study of European 2019 season commentary suggests prejudice is alive and kicking, but Black Lives Matter and Covid-19 may be changing this

‘Athlete A’ exposes the ‘cruelty’ of the elite gymnastics machine

Sport Sarah Smit - 30 Jun 2020

The Netflix documentary explores the system that created the conditions for decades of abuse

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