LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Super Eagles defender Leon Balogun did not hold back when he spoke about the state of Nigeria’s national team in a recent interview. Balogun was on The Beautiful Game Podcast where he was asked about the state of the Super Eagles and put the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on blast over unpaid…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ugandan athlete who fled during pre-Olympics training in western Japan last week has been found and is being interviewed by police, officials said Tuesday. Mie prefectural police in central Japan said 20-year-old weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko was in the Yokkaichi city, 170 kilometers (105 miles) east of his host town in western…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian Olympic delegate became the first visitor to the Tokyo Games admitted to hospital with COVID-19, broadcaster TV Asahi said on Friday, as Japan battles to stem rising local infections a week before the showpiece event starts. The individual, a non-athlete in their 60s, tested positive on Thursday evening at the…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandan weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics this week. Then, on Friday, he disappeared. A note has been discovered, CNN reports, written by the 20-year-old insisting he went missing on purpose and does not want to return to his home country because life there is too difficult. Ssekitoleko…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Luke Loucks isn’t exactly sure what his long-term future will be as a basketball coach. But the former Florida State point guard, who helped lead the Seminoles to the 2012 ACC Championship, knows exactly what his immediate future is: He will be heading to the Olympics in Japan next week as an…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Euro 2020 rosters took shape, it became quickly apparent that Juventus was going to have a large contingent competing in the upcoming tournament. There, of course, were the Italians and the man who wears the captain’s armband for the country that won the Euros the last time they were played, but…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-D’Tigers continued their preparation for the forthcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics with a dominating 94-71 win over fourth ranked Argentina in an exhibition in Las Vegas on Monday. Both teams were physical in their approach but it was the Argentines who led 19-17 at the end of the first quarter. D’Tigers returned with…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Italians celebrated the European Championship soccer title as a new beginning not only for their youthful national team but for a country that’s been yearning to return to normalcy after being hit hard and long by the coronavirus pandemic. A cacophony of honking cars, fireworks and singing fans filled the night in…
