The Namibian Squash Association (NSA) has suspended all official national competitions while hopes of sending players to represent the country at the World Junior Squash Championships in Australia this month has hit the wall due to the coronavirus pandemic. The World Junior Squash Championships, which attracts the world’s best talents, was pencilled for Australia between...
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Goals galore as indoor hockey returns
More than 80 goals were scored over the weekend as the Bank Windhoek Indoor Hockey League returned to action in the capital. It was nothing but thrilling action at the Windhoek DTS courts, which saw more than 80 goals being scored across various divisions, with players bringing out their A-game to keep spectators on their...
Juventus win ninth Serie A title in a row
Juventus won Serie A for the ninth season in a row when Cristiano Ronaldo set them on the way to a 2-0 win over Sampdoria on Sunday although the Portuguese veteran missed a late penalty. The 35-year-old broke the deadlock in first-half stoppage time with his 31st league goal of the season and Federico Bernardeschi...
Lukaku double pulls Inter second behind Juventus in Serie A
Romelu Lukaku scored in either half as Inter Milan claimed a 3-0 win against struggling Genoa to move second in Serie A behind Juventus who can win a ninth title in a row yesterday. Antonio Conte’s title ambitions took a knock with back-to-back stalemates against Roma and Fiorentina. But Inter pulled back ahead of Atalanta,...
‘We are not arrogant’ Klopp tells Lampard to move on
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has hit back at his Chelsea counterpart Frank Lampard by suggesting the Blues boss still has a lot to learn after branding the new English champions “arrogant.” During Liverpool’s 5-3 win between the sides on Wednesday, Lampard became embroiled in a row with Klopp’s assistant Pepijn Lijnders over a foul that...
At 54, Tyson to make comeback against Roy Jones
Mike Tyson, the former world heavyweight champion who retired in 2005, said on Thursday he will make a comeback at age 54, fighting Roy Jones Jr on 12 September in Los Angeles. On his Legends Only League website, Tyson announced the eight-round exhibition bout against Jones, a 51-year-old fighter who briefly held the heavyweight title...
Back to the grindstone for MTC HopSol League
The organisers of the MTC HopSol Soccer Youth League say plans to restart the 2020 Junior Leagues are at an advanced stage, with the weekend of 31 July set as the date for the resumption of the matches. Speaking to Nampa, Collin Benjamin, the founder of the youth league said plans are at an advanced...
Hamba kahle to revered rugby icon Chandler Desmond Plato RIP 1970 – 2020
Famously known as “Plates”, in reference to his surname Plato, the departed rugby administrator will go down in history as one of the most astute rugby administrators in domestic rugby. A born and bred seasider, Chandler was a product of the rugby mad De Duine High School in Walvis-Bay’s residential area Narraville for the affluent...
NFA Appeals Committee left more questions than answers
The rule of the game of football is just simple and straight forward: if you field an ineligible player the laws of football prescribes that your team should forfeit three points in each and every match the player took part. Any disciplinary structure cannot ignore the rules of the game and must respect the disciplinary...
My candid view – Transformation: Time to listen, comprehend and act
The telling line from SA Rugby chief executive Jurie Roux’s response to a question on Black Lives Matter during his media briefing this week was that “progress will not be celebrated – we will only celebrate success”. And that is how it has to be because words and transformation charters can only take you so...









