Sierra Leone national standout and Penn Wood High school middle distance specialist Agnes Mansaray finished her indoor season campaign with a splendid time of 55.40 seconds in the individual race and a split time of 55.01 in the 4x400 meters relay.

Agnes is one of several US based athletes who will be flying the flag of Sierra Leone very high in international circles in years to come. She is an 800 meters force with a personal best time of 2:09.70.

Her focus now turns to the outdoor season where she hopes to lower her marks in both the 400 and 800 meters.

Ohio State and Sierra Leone international sprinter ended her 2016 indoor season on a high note as she closed out the season with a new PB and a new national record for Sierra Leone in the 200 with a time of 23.83 seconds. Barrie who is a standout Student and athlete at the world renowned Ohio State University has been steadily improving on her times this year since transferring from Xavier University.

She also set a new time of 55.15 seconds to break the national record in the indoor 400 meters’ race as well which was once held by former Sierra Leone Standout Melrose Mansaray at 55.82 seconds.

Bandari FC of Kenya were bundled out after 1-1 draw with St. Elou Lupopo of DR Congo on Sunday in Nairobi, crushing to a 3-1 defeat on aggregate.
 
This was Bandari’s first ever shot at the continental level and the team says it has learnt a lot from both legs against Lupopo.

For the fourth year running, Ghana’s representative has crashed out of the preliminary round of the premier continental club championship.
 
And for the third time, Algerian opponents have served the nemesis for Ghanaian clubs, being responsible for the exit, and further cementing that age-long record of no Ghanaian club ousting an opponent from the North African country in the history of the prestigious club competition.

Morocco's Kawkab Marrakesh, V Club Mokanda from Congo and Stade Gabesien of Tunisia booked their passage to the first round of the CAF confederation Cup after penalty shootout wins at the weekend.

Marrakesh went through 5-4 on penalties after they fell 3-0 at USFA of Burkina Faso in a preliminary round second leg clash leaving the teams tied 3-3 on aggregate.

Presidents Graça and Bach discussed ongoing preparations for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Lausanne, Switzerland, February 29, 2019 - FIVB President Dr. Ary S. Graça F° met with IOC President Thomas Bach late last week to discuss preparations for the volleyball and beach volleyball competitions at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Rio is set to stage iconic competitions with an unparalleled experience for both players and fans.

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Mamelodi Sundowns scored in added time to secure progression to the first round of the CAF Champions League with a 2-1 aggregate win over Chicken Inn of Zimbabwe.
 
Sundowns picked up where they left off in the first leg and Khama Billiat came close to opening the scoring, forcing the Chicken Inn goalkeeper into a spectacular save with a fierce effort from range.

Sierra Leone Cricket Association (SLCA) has on Monday released the national Women’s cricket T20 Super League fixture which will commence on Saturday March 5 2016.
 
Over 25 females cricketers have been divided into three teams; Grace Jenner Wright, Grace Brown and Kadijah Fofana has they will all battle at the Kingtom Ovals from March 5-20.

Carthage in Tunisia organised the 2014 edition of the African Women's Club Championship
 
Cairo, Egypt, February 24, 2016 – The African Volleyball Confederation has confirmed that Tunisia will replace Kenya as the organisers of the 2016 African Women’s Club Championship, after the latter withdrew from hosting the event.
 

Woobay (in number 11 jersey) celebrates a goal with his new teams
 
Sierra Leone trio, Gibrilla Julius Woobay, Ibrahim Obreh Kargbo and Prince Barrie all made their debut over the weekend in the Slovenian PrvaLiga, English National League and the Ghanaian Premier League respectively.
 
Woobay had a winning debut for his new side NK Olimpija as they registered a 2-0 home win over Koper in round 23 of the Slovenian PrvaLiga. The 31 years old attacking midfielder saw 66 minutes of action on his debut before he was replaced by Miroslav Radovic.   Woobay’s NK Olimpija are now points clear at the top of the league table.

Sportcal, a market leader in sports intelligence, celebrates its 25th anniversary this March.  In 1991 founder and CEO Mike Laflin set out to deliver a centralised calendar of all global sporting events.  Over the course of the last 25 years, Sportcal has evolved its services and offerings from this simple concept to become the most comprehensive provider of sports market intelligence worldwide.
 
CEO, Mike Laflin commented ‘We have dedicated ourselves to 25 years of delivering innovative intelligence throughout the business of sport and providing our customers with up to the minute information.   We have achieved this milestone through the hard work and dedication of our team and the constant strive to offer excellence throughout all aspects of the organisation.  Sportcal today is more comprehensive than ever with our full product suite offering the latest in-depth reports and information in news, media, sponsorship, events, directory and of course our original calendar.’

Sierra Leone Marathon record holder Idrissa Kargbo put up a brilliant performance over the weekend at the annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo 10K run which is organized to benefit area children by providing scholarships for them. Idrissa who is fresh coming off a rather average performance at his last Marathon outing proved that he has what it takes to hang with the elite athletes of the world.

Idrissa finished 5th out of 16000 plus registrants of the race with a time of 35 minutes and 02 seconds which is marked improvement from his last outing at the Houston Chevron Marathon. 

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Although some of the bigger clubs participating in the preliminary round of the CAF Champions League went into their return legs having to overcome a first leg deficit, all of them managed as they advanced to the first round proper where they will be joined by the continent's largest clubs.

Trying to bring women's football to parts of the world trying to develop the game in general can be a challenge. Doing it in a country that is over twice the size of Germany yet has only a 40th of the population and 150th the GDP makes it even more difficult. But the Head of Women's Football for the Namibia Football Association, Jackey Gertze, has been willing to tackle the mammoth task head-on, and she has recently been getting some help at the first Female Leadership Development Programme and at a women's football coaching course in Windhoek at the end of February.

29 February 2016 – The South African u23 Men’s National Team will get an early feel of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games host country when they face their Brazilian counterparts in a high-profile friendly match on Sunday, 27 March 2016 at Rei Pele Stadium in Maceio in the state of Alagoas.
 
The match kicks off 18h30 (Monday, 00h30 SA time).
 
SA U23 head coach Owen da Gama said he was excited about the upcoming friendly encounter, adding that it is such type of games that will harden his boys ahead of the Olympic Games in August.

Children celebrate with the school and national federation officials on the launch of the African Dream Project in Mauritius
 
Port Louis, Mauritius, February 28, 2016 – The African Dream Project was launched on Thursday, February 25, headed by national federation president Faysal Bundhun at the Notre Dame de Lorette School in the presence of the school head master Marie Noelle Rima, national federation secretary and president of Zone 7, Kaysee Teeroovengadum, and the members of the federation.

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Cricket South Africa yesterday congratulated the bizhub Highveld Lions on being crowned the winners of the Momentum One-Day Cup for the 2015/16 season.
 
The Lions won the 50 overs franchise competition when they beat the Cobras by a convincing eight wickets in a well-attended Final at PPC Newlands today.

Amir Khan has promised that he will win the WBC, Ring Magazine and Middleweight Linear titles when he faces the Champion Saul Canelo Alvarez, on May 7 at the New T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.  The fight will be Khan’s biggest fight and will be shown live on HBO Pay-per-view. Speaking at a press conference in London ahead of the fight he said: “This is a huge fight.  I wanted to come to the UK so that the British fans could see Canelo Alvarez and myself.  We are looking forward to this fight. When I was 17 going to the Olympic games I was an underdog. I was a young boy whom people expected would get beaten. People are saying Amir is going to get his butt whipped. You are going to see a different Amir Khan in this fight.”  

Stephen Curry (USA) - Golden State Warriors (NBA). Photo courtesy of www.nba.com/warriors.
SHEFFIELD (Julio Chitunda's African Message) - Stephen Curry continues galvanising the Golden State Warriors this season with record after record, but his electrifying game is making a lot more noise at the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania.

Curry, the seventh overall pick in the 2009 NBA Draft and the league's reigning MVP, joined the campaign of the United Nations' "Nothing But Nets" Foundation to protect families of refugees from malaria, a disease which claims the life of a child every 60 seconds, while he was still at Davidson College. 

February proved to be a relatively quiet month for women’s football, though this was very much the calm before the storm, with a variety of club and international action looming for the weeks ahead. Headline news in recent weeks was four-time Women’s Olympic Football Tournament gold-medallists USA winning their way to Rio 2016 in style. FIFA.com also looks at club news from Germany and Australia, plus much more from various parts of the globe.

Prominent politician and failed Fifa presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale has proven wrong the narrative that sectarians were spent forces who only derived amorous pleasure by spending the night with their hands clutching the forbidden fruit of their female partners.
 
The 62-year-old billionaire is a father again.
 
Sexwale's lawyer girlfriend Nataxa da Silva (26) gave birth to a bouncy baby boy on Monday.

Lausanne, 26 February 2016 – The cases of Russian racewalkers Vera Sokolova, Elmira Alembekova, Ivan Noskov, Mikhail Ryzhov and Denis Strelkov who all tested positive for EPO at the Saransk race walking center on 2 June 2015 will be handled by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland. In doing so, CAS will act as a sole instance decision making authority, substituting for the All Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) whose operations have been suspended by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Ethiopian champions St George shared the spoils with St Michel in a 1-1 draw at Stad Linite in the Seychelles to qualify 4-1 on aggregate in this African Club championships preliminary round match on Saturday afternoon.
 
The players of Dutch coach Mart Nooji seized the initiative in this match as they controlled proceedings in the first half and capitalized on a defensive error by St Michel defender Yannick Manou in the 13th minute to open the scoring.

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Nigeria's Olympic team coach Samson Siasia will take charge for the Super Eagles' upcoming Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers after Sunday Oliseh resigned, the country's football federation said on Friday.
 
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) technical committee chairman Chris Green announced the appointments in the capital Abuja in the wake of Oliseh's departure.

In a letter dated Saturday, 27 February 2016, CAF President Issa Hayatou on behalf of the CAF Executive Committee and the African football family has congratulated Gianni Infantino on his election as FIFA President last Friday.
 
“We are confident that you will restore FIFA’s image backed by your career, skills, passion for football, understanding of the issues related to the future of football, and your desire to develop our sport around the four corners of the world.