Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula has suspended the privileges of SA Rugby, Cricket South Africa and Athletics SA from bidding for international tournaments due to lack of transformation.
 
“I have resolved to revoke the privilege of Athletics South Africa (ASA), Cricket South Africa (CSA), Netball South Africa (NSA) and South African Rugby (SARU) to host and bid for major and mega international tournaments in the Republic of South Africa as a consequence of the aforementioned federations, not meeting their own set transformation targets with immediate effect,” Mbalula said on Monday.

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COLORADO SPRINGS (2016 Rio Olympics) - The United States have lined up several opponents this summer to get ready for the Rio de Janeiro Games, including FIBA Americas rivals Argentina.

The USA will go up against El Alma on 22 July in Las Vegas. The teams have had some famous encounters over the years, including in 2004 when Argentina won their Semi-Final at the Olympics before capturing the gold medal.

Sunday World reports that, a judgement has been passed against Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Teko Modise  to pay R 80 000 in commission to the property estate agent Homenet for a house he should have bought but instead failed to back in 2009.
 
According to the court documents seen by Sunday World, it said that Teko had signed an offer of R 1050 000 to purchase a house in Eastleigh suburb in Edenvale, east of Johannesburg, in July 2008.

Hamburg-based pro kiter Anne Valvatne against Mercedes-AMG DTM race driver Maximilian Götz in unusual race on the North Sea island of Sylt / Legendary bread roll with fish from GOSCH Sylt as winner’s trophy / The event marks the start of the final preparatory phase of Kitesurf Cup Sylt 2016.

Eight weeks ahead of this year's Kitesurf Cup Sylt the preparations for the event have entered their final stage with a particularly unusual event. On 25th of April, pro kitesurfer Anne Valvatne compets against professional Mercedes-AMG DTM race driver Maximilian Götz in a special race on the most northern island of Germany, Sylt. The special thing about that race: both contestants have to race the roundabout 3.5 km long course only by using their brain and, above all, their very own muscle strength.

MLS fans are well acquainted with Chris Wondolowski, but with seven goals in his first eight games this season, the Earthquakes forward is off to another incredible start as he looks to show U.S. Soccer boss Jurgen Klinsmann that he deserves a spot on the Copa America Centenario roster this summer.
 
If he continues this torrid pace, Wondo could once again be staring history straight in the face. He is on track to surpass his 2010 Golden Boot campaign, which started with six goals in eight games, and on pace with the historic 2012 season in which he tied Roy Lassiter’s single-season record of 27 goals, earning the 2012 MLS MVP award in the process.

Blantyre, April 25: Battle lines have been drawn in Malawi over the legal ownership of the defending Premier Soccer League champions Nyasa Big Bullets FC after George Kapachika of Bullets Holdings Limited made the claim.
" There are some Malawian citizens who used their resources in legal terms when the club was almost dead when myself and Willie Phalula invited well-wishers to an emergency meeting at Alendo Hotel and
that's where Bullets Holdings was born and was registered on 20 February 2008," Kapachika claimed.

Leicester City star Riyad Mahrez was on Sunday named as the winner of English football's Player of the Year prize, voted for by his fellow professionals.
 
The 25-year-old French-born Algerian international winger, outstanding in Leicester's incredible charge towards the Premier League title, received the trophy at a lavish awards ceremony in London.

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Head Coach of Sierra Leone national youth U-20 squad, Charlie Wrights says immaturity and lack of competitiveness were the key causes for their elimination in 2017 African U-20 Youth Championship qualifiers.
 
Wright’s Shooting Stars were eliminated by the Darling Scorpions of Gambia 4-0 on aggregate after winning both legs in Freetown and in the Gambia 2-0.
 
The former FC Kallon tactician who was hoping to turn things around in Banjul was left disappointed as they took an early exit from the competition.

Brazilian boxer Robson Conceição ready to represent his country in the lightweight category

Following March and April’s thrilling AIBA Continental Olympic Qualification Events, the line-ups for the Olympic Games Boxing Tournament in Rio de Janeiro are beginning to take shape. 135 quota places were awarded to 51 countries across the four tournaments, while three further opportunities remain for the final Olympic berths over the coming months.

Lions head coach Johan Ackermann has admitted that Malcolm Marx and Julian Redelinghuys are two injury worries from Saturday’s win over the Stormers.
 
Marx now joins the other Lions hooker Robbie Coetzee on the sidelines, leaving Armand van der Merwe as the Lions’ only specialist option left in the number two jersey in their initial Super Rugby squad.
 
Ackermann had planned to rotate both players for next week’s clash against the Kings, making the injuries all the more frustrating, and he praised Marx’s good form since the 21-year-old’s promotion to the starting line-up.

The Bulls have made a slow but steady climb up the Super Rugby Africa 1 table after their opening round 33-9 defeat to the Stormers at Newlands.
 
Recording five wins, one loss and a draw in their seven matches, head coach Nollis Marais’ men, who are currently in second position in Africa 1, are just one point adrift from the Cape franchise.
 
Captain Adriaan Strauss has been instrumental for the Pretoria side each week, putting in stellar performances both in the set-piece and general play.

NEW YORK (April 25, 2016) – Major League Soccer announced today the final roster of 15 talented young field players and three goalkeepers who will compete at the National Finals of Sueño MLS 2016– Presented by Allstate Insurance Company in Carson, Calif., between May 4-7. The field was set yesterday at the New York Red Bulls tryouts, where the last six participants were selected (see names below).
 
The nationally-televised player search is showcased on Univision Deportes’ República Deportiva, the popular weekly sports entertainment program that chronicles the tryouts in a “reality show within a show” format.

Former South Africa all-rounder Lance Klusener is not taking his dismissal as Dolphins coach lying down, and is taking the franchise to the Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA).
 
The CCMA deals with unfair labour conditions and sackings, amongst other things, and is often the first recourse in South Africa when disputing being fired from a job.
 
Klusener was let go as coach in February, even though there were still matches to be played, and he confirmed to Cricinfo on Tuesday that he had filed a complaint with the CCMA.

Carthage of Tunisia advanced to the quarterfinal round, together with Egyptian sides Ahly and Shams, while five other teams will vie for remaining quarterfinal spots at the 2016 African Women's Club Championship
 
Tunis, Tunisia, April 25, 2016 – Carthage of Tunisia, Ahly and Shams of Egypt were the three squads that made their way to the next round on Monday, leaving only five spots to complete the cast of quarterfinalists of the 2016 Asian Women’s Club Championship.

·      Heads Together aims to end the stigma around mental health and support charities that provide much needed mental health support
·      Heads Together has been brought together by the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry
The NSPCC, official Charity of The Year for the 2016 Virgin Money London Marathon, will hand over the baton for 2017 to Heads Together, a campaign set up by the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry to raise awareness and funds for mental health charities and their vital work.

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When the 24 best sides in the world gather at the FIFA Futsal World Cup Colombia 2016, the African contingent will feature a veteran Egyptian side but also a new champion in Morocco and debutants in Mozambique, who needed a dramatic penalty shoot-out to overcome a gallant Zambian effort in the play-off for third at the 2016 CAF Africa Futsal Cup of Nations.

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Crystal Palace will have another shot at winning the FA Cup against Manchester United just like they did 26 years ago, when their manager Alan Pardew was in the side.  They beat Watford 2-1 in a semi final, which was a game of two halves.  Pardew is already a legend in South London due to the goal he scored to get Palace into the final back then in 1990 against Liverpool.  He could go down as one of their greatest managers if he manages to become the first manager to win them a major trophy.

Sub 10 seconds South African sprinters, Akani Simbine on the left, Wayde Van Niekerk in the Center and Henricho Bruintjies on the right in photo above

African Sports Monthly and sister website African Sports TV has been able to compile the latest Rankings of African Men’s 100 meters sprinters and it is virtually dominated by South African sprinters who have been on a rise in the last few years.

Headlined by now world renowned names like Wayde Van Niekerk who recently became the first man in sprinting history to run sub 10 seconds in the 100 meters and sub 20 seconds in the 200 meters and sub 44 seconds in the 400 meters Van Niekerk and teammates like Akani Simbine another sub 10 seconds performer are poised to cause some major upsets in global sprint relays standings.

Uganda cruised to the next round after beating Rwanda 2-1 in the return leg on Saturday at Mandela National Stadium in Kampala.
 
The Hippos as the Uganda youth team is nicknamed qualified 3-2 on aggregate and set a date with Egypt at the Second Round. Both sides settled for a 1-1 draw in the first leg in Kigali two weeks ago.

The former rugby player who was caught on tape headbutting a woman in a bar in Bloemfontein has been named. 
 
The alleged perpetrator is Leon Van Der Watt. The incident was caught on cctv on 8 April.
 
The two apparently argued after the woman told Watt that he was speaking to the female bartender disrespectfully. The headbutt resulted in the 39-year old woman suffering a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain.

Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane is confident his side can score the two goals they need in Wednesday night’s CAF Champions League game against AS Vita.
 
The Pretoria side went down 1-0 in their second qualifying round, first-leg match away to AS Vita on 10 April, and now need to score at least twice (without conceding) at the Lucas Moripe Stadium if they are to be certain of going through to the next round.
 
The Kinshasa-based club, however, showed that they are a quality side in the first leg. They have some dangerous players up front, and will be harbouring their own ambitions, having made it to the final in 2014.

Record numbers finished the Virgin Money London Marathon today as more than 39,000 completed the gruelling 26.2-mile journey from Blackheath to Westminster, making the 36th edition of the race the biggest in its history by almost 1,500 runners.
 
Of the 39,140 who crossed the Finish Line in The Mall by 18:15 this evening, one established a new world record and two broke course records on a day when astronaut Tim Peake became the first man ever to run a marathon in space and the event on Earth celebrated its one millionth finisher.

NEW YORK (April 21, 2016) – The MLS Disciplinary Committee has suspended Orlando City SC midfielder Antonio Nocerino for one game and issued an undisclosed fine for violation of the League’s entering the field of play policy in the 90+ minute of Orlando’s match against New England Revolution on April 17 (VIDEO). Nocerino will serve the suspension during Orlando’s next MLS match on Sunday, April 24 against the New York Red Bulls.
  
In addition, the MLS Disciplinary Committee has issued a one-game suspension and undisclosed fine to D.C. United coach Ben Olsen who violated the League’s entering the field of play policy in the 80th minute of D.C.’s match against Toronto FC on April 16. Olsen will serve the suspension during D.C. United’s next MLS match on Saturday, April 23 against New England Revolution.

Japhet Kosgei in Photo above Photo credit: Victah Sailer / photorun.net

Japhet Kosgei won the 14th edition of the METRO GROUP Marathon Duesseldorf. Taking into account the weather conditions with cold temperatures, wind and a couple of hail showers he clocked a fine time of 2:10:46. Defending champion Marius Ionescu of Romania took second with a personal best of 2:13:00 while Germany’s Hendrik Pfeiffer ran a superb debut in difficult conditions. The 23 year-old was third, but more important qualified for the Olympic marathon with a time of 2:13:11. Hungary’s Zsofia Erdelyi dominated the women’s race, winning with 2:35:37 from Beverly Ramos of Puerto Rico, who clocked a national record of 2:36:31. Belgium’s Hanna Vandenbusche was third in 2:39:50.

The Uzbek Tigers were once again able to show their burgeoning WSB prowess on Saturday night as the new franchise repeated their impressive Quarter-Final first-leg performance in Russia with another 3-2 away win to take their place in the Semi-Finals. The 6-4 aggregate result sets up what could be the match of the season so far against a Cuba Domadores side that booked its place in the next round with a convincing win over Mexico Guerreros in Havana.

Saturday’s opening bout assumed huge importance with both sides looking to establish some precious momentum, and the responsabilitiy for the hosts fell to flyweight Viacheslav Tashkarakov, in for Karen Arutunian, against the Uzbek’s in-form AIBA Asia and Oceania Olympic Qualification Event winner Shakhobiddin Zoirov. The Tigers’ gifted 22-year-old boxed freely for a man making his WSB debut, using his greater speed to launch waves of counter-attacks that saw Zoirov win all five rounds against the Russian veteran and set the visitors on their way.