Boxing great Azumah Nelson says until a more pragmatic approach is adopted, boxing will keep wobbling of its feet.
After he (Azumah) and the likes of Ike Quartey, Joshua Clottey and others exited the boxing scene, the sport has struggled to produce quality boxers of their kind.
And to the iconic pugilist, strategising is one of the surest ways to restore the sport’s lost glory.

Lausanne, Switzerland - Beach volleyball was today confirmed as part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games sports programme after the 71 Commonwealth Games Associations (CGAs) approved the proposal to retain the sport following its hugely successful debut in Gold Coast four years ago.

The Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) met at Edgbaston Stadium, home of Warwickshire Country Cricket Club, to announce the addition of beach volleyball, as well as women’s T20 cricket and para table tennis.

CGF President Dame Louise Martin said: “Today is a historic day for the Commonwealth Games and I am delighted that we can now confirm Birmingham 2022 will have the largest ever female and para-sport programme in history.

“This is a truly historic moment for women’s cricket and for the global cricket community, who were united in their support of this bid,” said Manu Sawhney, Chief Executive of the International Cricket Council. “Women’s cricket continues to go from strength to strength, and we are delighted and honoured the Commonwealth Games Associations voted to include Women’s T20 cricket at Birmingham 2022. 
“Fast and exciting, the T20 format is the perfect fit for the Commonwealth Games and offers another chance to showcase women’s cricket on the global stage as part of our ambitious plans to accelerate the growth of the game, whilst inspiring the next generation of cricketers.  All the players who are lucky enough to compete at Birmingham 2022 will be part of a truly memorable experience."
The inclusion of Women’s T20 within the Commonwealth Games continues the ICC’s commitment to support the global growth of the women’s game and reach new markets whilst getting more girls and women watching, playing and enjoying cricket.

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has today announced that Birmingham 2022 is set to have the largest ever female and para sport programme in history after Women’s T20 Cricket, Beach Volleyball and Para Table Tennis were confirmed for the next Commonwealth Games. 
 
This exciting announcement comes after the 71 Commonwealth Games Associations (CGAs) voted by the required majority to accept the proposal from Birmingham 2022 to add these three sports to the existing programme.

​Bafana Bafana midfielder Thulani Serero has reportedly agreed a deal to leave Vitesse Arnhem, ending his eight year spell in the Eredivisie.

Serero (29) seemingly played his last game in the Netherlands this weekend with another composed 90-minute showing for Vitesse in their 2-0 win over WillemII.

According to Dutch publication De Telegraaf, the three-time Ere-divisie winner has agreed to join UAE Pro League side Al Jazira after a €1million (R17million) bid was accepted for his services. 

Emmamuel Olla Williams, the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) Youth Coordinator has been commended for his organizational skills in organizing educational institutions sports and sanitation prograammes and recently adding market and community events.
After successfully taking sports to the market with Adwadifo Ampe Challenge, the popular traditional sport at the Kaneshie market, he has once again put up an accident and violence free community sports competition dubbed the Okaikoi Ga Homowo Sports Festival at the Bubuashie Bishop School Park.

The Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) and 10CRIC have agreed a partnership for the 2019 tournament, with 10CRIC, the home of the ultimate cricket betting experience, to be the global Official Betting Partner of the CPL for the upcoming season. 
 
10CRIC will be the official partner for the coin toss and halftime break at this year’s tournament, with the brand’s social media channels fully focused on producing thrilling behind-the-scenes content – a must watch for every cricket fan. 
 
Striving to offer the best odds on every Hero CPL match, 10CRIC will also give cricket bettors extra value for their money, with plenty of special price boosts and exclusive promotions in store. 

League 2 sees 126 One Day Internationals (ODIs) played across 21 tri-series and sits in the new four-year qualification structure for the Men’s Cricket World Cup qualification which is now a four-year cycle, one month after England overcame New Zealand in the dramatic 2019 Final at Lord’s Cricket Ground.
The Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2 which is two steps from India 2023 and sits beneath the Men’s CWC Super League. League 2 provides more competitive cricket for the seven teams, Namibia, Nepal, Oman, PNG, Scotland, UAE and USA, with each team playing 36 ODIs over two and half years from August 2019 to January 2022.
From 14 – 21 August, Scotland, PNG and Oman will play the inaugural series in Mannofield Park which includes four ODIs for each team, worth 2 points per ODI which will contribute to the Men’s CWC League 2 table. After the 21 tri-series have been completed the three top teams with will confirm their place in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2022.

Close to 400 girls and boys attended training sessions from Monday to Thursday in various locations across town

LUSAKA, Zambia -- The Bhubesi Pride Foundation has concluded a successful 2019 tour of Kabwe in Zambia. The coaches who arrived in the former mining town on Sunday 4th August hit the ground running by conducting an orientation tour of participating schools in the company of Local Organizer (who is also Get Into Rugby Zambia Manager) Tom Chaloba.

Close to 400 girls and boys attended training sessions from Monday to Thursday in various locations across town. However, the numbers were trimmed to 250 (representing 125 girls and 125 boys) drawn from the five (5) participating schools.

Multiple world and Olympic decathlon champion Ashton Eaton and 2016 world indoor pentathlon champion Brianne Theisen-Eaton have been named as ambassadors for the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019.
With 50 days to go until the IAAF’s showpiece event gets under way in the Qatari capital, the Eatons are looking forward to 10 days of enthralling athletics action from 27 September until 6 October in what will be their first World Championships as spectators.
For them, the highlight will fall on 2-3 October when – for the first time ever at an IAAF World Championships – the decathlon and heptathlon will be held concurrently, creating two days of excitement for fans of combined events. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games schedule will also follow this approach.

• Four-year period includes:
• ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 in India
• ICC Men’s and Women’s T20 World Cups 2020 in Australia
• ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 in India and
• Two ICC World Test Championship Finals 2021 and 2023

Following the unprecedented digital success of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 - one of the most digitally-consumed sports events in history - this tender process offers organisations a unique opportunity to obtain rights to an attractive digital content package for 12 ICC events over the next four years.
The package includes the following events across the 2019-2023 cycle:

Defending champions Bangladesh will play Papua New Guinea while last time’s runners up Ireland will take on Namibia on the opening day of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 in Scotland from 31 August to 7 September.


The league-cum-knockout tournament, which decides the two qualifiers for the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia, will also see Scotland take on the USA and Thailand fight it out with the Netherlands, as all eight teams play on the opening day at the two venues – the Forfarshire Cricket Club in Dundee and the Arbroath Cricket Club.


Namibia were named a replacement for Zimbabwe, having finished second in the Africa regional qualifiers earlier this year, while the Netherlands (Europe), Papua New Guinea (East Asia-Pacific), Thailand (Asia) and the USA (Americas) made it after winning their respective qualifying events. Scotland qualified as hosts.

MIES (Switzerland) - The official music video for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 anthem "Champion" was released today. Jason Derulo, global multi-platinum recording artist, along with China’s soul queen Tia Ray joined forces to create "Champion" as the official song for the upcoming  FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019, that will commence in China at the end of this month.
The official song is a celebration of champions across the world, representing unity amongst basketball players and fans alike across cultures and continents and is a true convergence of East meets West. 

Addis Ababa registered an absolute average daily rate (ADR) of US$163.79 when measured in constant currency, which removes the effects of inflation

LONDON, United Kingdom, August 8, 2019/ -- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, posted Africa’s highest average daily rate (ADR), according to the most recent 12-month data from STR (https://STR.com/). The market will play host to the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) (https://www.AHIF.com/) on 23-25 September at the Sheraton Addis.

From July 2018 through June 2019, Addis Ababa registered an absolute ADR of US$163.79 when measured in constant currency, which removes the effects of inflation. That figure was a 1.1% increase year over year. The next closest STR-defined markets in Africa were Accra Area, Ghana (US$160.34) and Lagos Area, Nigeria (US$132.51).

“Addis Ababa continues to maintain high ADR levels when compared internationally,” said Thomas Emanuel, a director for STR. “The city has multiple demand drivers, such as a growing economy, successful airline and its status as the diplomatic capital for Africa. Air connections and ease of access compared with other cities also factor in the equation for strong demand, which provides hoteliers with the confidence to maintain rate levels.

President of the Ghana Taekwondo Federation, (GTF), Frederick Lartey Otu has been appointed Vice Chairman of the World Taekwondo Africa (WTAF) Para-Taekwondo Committee.
The appointment which came on Tuesday, July 23, becomes Mr Otu’s 3rd position at WTAF after he was named a member of the Education Committee at this year’s Congress in Morocco while also serving as a Council Member responsible for West Zone since June 23, 2017, till 2021.
Apart from these portfolios, Mr Otu, who is a Senior Customs Officer of the Ghana Revenue Authority, holds a Vice President position for the National Paralympic Committee of Ghana as well as Treasurer of the Ghana Olympic Committee.

South African Premier league Club Maritzburg United have named Black stars goalkeeper Richard Ofori as the Matchday captain of the club.
The goalkeeper who joined the club in 2018 will be the Match-day Captain of the club whilst Nazeer Allie will be acting as the geneal captain.
In a statement on the club website, Head coach of the Club, Eric Tinkler explained, the competition for places makes it difficult to guarantee any player a starting place, except the Ghanaian goalkeeper who is the first choice goalkeeper of the side.
It was for that reason that it was decided to appoint dual captains.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Mr Yoofi Grant, has stressed the need for football administrators in Ghana to start seeing the sport as a multi-billion dollar industry that it is.
In an interview with Kasapa FM, he mention that the development of game should be top priority in order to generate more income from it.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued a Consent Award embodying the agreement reached between the Japanese swimmer Junya Koga and the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in relation to Junya Koga’s positive out-of-competition doping control on 2 March 2018.
On 25 October 2018, the FINA Doping Panel found that Junya Koga had committed an anti-doping rule violation (ostarine and ligrandrol – non-specified substances prohibited at all times under S1.2 of the WADA Prohibited List), sanctioned him with a period of ineligibility of four years starting on 15 May 2018 and disqualified all results achieved from 2 March 2018.

International Sports Broadcasting (ISB), which successfully cooperated with host broadcaster ATM at The World Games in 2017, will be the host broadcaster for The World Games 2021. The agreement was signed in Madrid on Thursday. 
“IWGA and the Birmingham Organising Committee have reached an agreement on a new level of broadcasting for The World Games. As in Wroclaw 2017, a 24/7 Channel will be available for the global distribution of The Games. In addition, international broadcasters will get the chance to pick up specific streams of sports that are popular in their countries. ISB will use up to eight OB vans for the production of the TV signal,” IWGA TV and Marketing Coordinator Hagen Bossdorf says. 
For the first time, virtual graphics for various sports will be included in the international feed of The World Games 2021. Video content for distribution on social media will be available comprehensively as well. This time, ISB will not only act as the production arm of The World Games; they will take over the international marketing of the media rights too.

Lausanne, Switzerland - The FIVB today announced Kemerovo and Yaroslavl as the final two host cities for the FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship Russia 2022, which will showcase the sport’s best national teams across ten iconic locations.

Kemerovo, southwest of Siberia; and Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow, both share a strong passion for volleyball. Kemerovo is home to the 2019 Russian Super League champions, Kuzbass Kemerovo, where several Russian national players compete, including Igor Kobzar, Inal Tavasiev, Victor Poletaev, Yaroslav Podlesnykh and Anton Karpukhov. The Yaroslavl volleyball team, Yaroslavich, boasts three Olympic champions in its squad: Sergey Grankin, Yury Berezhko and Alexander Sokolov. Both regions have secured political and financial guarantees for their venues.

Two new sporting disciplines have been accepted unanimously into the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) at its first Annual General Meeting under the presidency of Ben Nunoo Mensah.
The President of Ghana Ghana Armwrestling Federation, Charles Osei Asibey and two executives from the Ghana Triathlon Federation made presentations to convince Congress to accept them as part of the Olympic family.
Members of Congress overwhelmingly accepted the two federations due to their organization and performance in recent times as they have been attracting media attention and engaged the public, especially Armwrestling which has been attracting sponsorship and even went to represent Ghana at world and Africa meeting.

Hervé Renard has been appointed boss of the Saudi Arabia squad. "Happy to start a new adventure in Saudi Arabia on a new continent," the 50-year-old Frenchman said on social media.
Renard's Morocco were one of the favourites for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. After emerging with maximum points from the group stages, they lost on 5 July in the last 16 to Benin following a penalty shoot-out.
Just over two weeks after that defeat, Renard resigned. “For me, Morocco will always remain a country with which I experienced incredible emotions?” Renard said on social media. “Thanks to the players, the staff, the fans, the honest journalists.”
Since coming to the fore in 2008 as Claude Leroy's assistant in Ghana, Renard has carved out a reputation as a shrewd tactician.
Winner.

The National Sports College at Winneba is hosting an Introductory Football Coaching Course from 8th - 15th September, 2019.
Cost for attending has been pegged at Ghs 700, which will cover tuition, course materials, accommodation and Feeding.
CAF Instructors Coach Oti Akenten, Coach Edusei and Prof. Mintah will be in charge of the programme.

We, the rights holders of various football competitions, collectively condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing theft of our intellectual property by the pirate broadcaster known as “beoutQ” and call on the authorities in Saudi Arabia (KSA) to support us in ending the widespread and flagrant breaches of our intellectual property rights taking place in the country.
Since May 2018, we have collectively been working with an international legal counsel to monitor and compile evidence against beoutQ, whose broadcasts are regularly and on an industrial scale made available on an illegal basis. Following thorough analysis by technical experts of how beoutQ operates from a technical perspective, we are satisfied that beoutQ is operating specifically to target customers in KSA and is utilising the facilities of at least one KSA-based entity. 

Red Beast Boxing in Richards Bay is on a mission to develop the sport among rural communities, and on Monday donated boxing gear and training equipment for the benefit of the youth in Ngwelezana.

Professional heavyweight boxer Joshua ‘Red Beast’ Pretorius and his father/coach Corrie Pretorius set up a small gymnasium for children to utilise on a daily basis.

On top of this handover, Red Beast Boxing will once a month visit Ngwelezana to train the youngsters and identify potential fighters to move into the amateur ranks.