Today: September 19, 2024
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has announced that the city will honor Rebecca Cheptegei, the late Ugandan Olympic marathon runner, by naming a sports venue after her. The 33-year former world champion, who had finished 44th in the marathon at the recent Paris…
South Sudanese-Australian sprinter, Gout Gout, may become the next Usain Bolt with the waves he is making waves in the athletics world as a promising sprinter. At just 16 years old, he has already set multiple Australian records, including the under-16 100m…
The second largest diamond ever unearthed has been discovered in the Karowe mine in Botswana operated by the Canadian firm Lucara Diamond Corp. After more than a century, the rough diamond weighing an astonishing 2,492 carats comes after the legendary 3,106-carat Cullinan…
Major League Baseball is in full swing, the NBA and NFL seasons will be starting soon, and there will be all kinds of African diaspora representation across the major leagues once again this year. But if you have enjoyed watching African nations…
MIa Boykin In a stunning upset at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Nigeria’s women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, defeated world No. 3 Australia 75-62 in their opening game. This victory marks Nigeria’s first Olympic win in women’s basketball since 2004 and their first-ever win…
The London O2 Arena is known to give a show always and Saturday, July 20, was no different for the Basketball world. South Sudan almost wrote the USA an embarrassing history on their way to the Paris 2024 Olympics. The Olympic Practice…
A massive global technology outage on Friday, July 19, caused widespread disruption to critical services and businesses worldwide. The issue, stemming from a faulty update deployed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to computers running Microsoft Windows, affected airlines, banks, hospitals, media outlets, and…
Following Spain’s semi-final match against France on July 9, a photograph from 2007 has resurfaced, capturing a moment that now seems prophetic in the world of soccer. The image shows a young Lionel Messi, then a 20-year-old rising star at FC Barcelona,…
At just 16 years old, Quincy Wilson is rewriting the record books in the track-and-field world. The Potomac, Maryland native has been selected for the U.S. Olympic 4×400-meter relay pool, becoming the youngest American male ever to join the Olympic track team.…
Quincy Wilson, a sprinting prodigy from Potomac, Maryland, is set to make history as the youngest American male to join the Olympic track team at age sixteen. The rising high school junior at Bullis School has been selected for the 4×400-meter relay…
