Standard Bank Proteas captain, Faf du Plessis, and his Indian counterpart, Virat Kohli, have donated R100 000 to the Cape Town Water Crisis on behalf of both teams.
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The cheque was handed over to the Gift of the Givers at the last KFC T20 International at PPC Newlands on Sunday.

Six World Indoor Championships medals will be reallocated during ceremonies at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 on Friday and Saturday 2-3 March. These upgrades follow the disqualification of the results of the original medallists after their sanction for anti-doping rule violations.

Among those receiving their reallocated medals is Tianna Bartoletta of the USA, who was promoted to gold in the long jump for the 2006 World Indoor Championships in Moscow. Her ceremony, which will include a flag raising and national anthem, will take place in Arena Birmingham at the start of the evening session on Saturday 3 March.

SPAR Eastern Cape were again able to make a substantial contribution to charity at their 22nd annual golf day at Humewood in Port Elizabeth.
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Adopting a music theme from the Beatles, the SPAR Eastern Cape Charity “Fab Fore” Golf Day saw a total of 200 golfers tackle a breezy links course to support a good cause.

​MLS is Back with all 23 teams kicking off during an action-packed Opening Weekend that will feature six games on Saturday and four on Sunday, including the debut of expansion side the Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC), and an influx of both South American and young talents – all with a shot at capturing the coveted MLS Cup by season’s end.
 
With an unprecedented nine different champions in the last 11 seasons, MLS is set to begin yet another season as one of the most competitively balanced leagues in all of sport. Over the last 10 years MLS ranks No. 1 in diversity of champions with more parity of title winners than the English Premier League, La Liga (Spain), Ligue 1 (France), the Bundesliga (Germany), and Serie A (Italy).

The Springboks will kick off their 2018 international season on an historic note when they face Wales in a once-off Test in Washington DC in the USA on Saturday 2 June.
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This momentous match – the first time the Boks will face Tier One opposition on neutral ground outside the Rugby World Cup – was confirmed by event hosts, Rugby International Marketing (RIM), the commercial arm of USA Rugby, on Monday. Kick-off is scheduled for 17h00 (23h00 SA time) in the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium (RFK) in Washington DC.

The 2017 MLS Cup champions Toronto FC begin defense of their crown with a rematch of the 2017 Eastern Conference Championship as they host Columbus Crew SC on Saturday at BMO Field (1 p.m. ET / TSN 1/4/5). The match represents the first of 10 opening-week games.
 
TFC rewrote the history books last year with a record-breaking 2017 that included a league-best 69-point regular season to win the Supporters’ Shield, a Canadian Championship title and the club’s first MLS Cup with a 2-0 victory against 2016 champions Seattle Sounders FC. The Reds return the main crux of their championship squad, led by Italian forward Sebastian Giovinco and U.S. Men’s National Team staples Jozy Altidore and Michael Bradley. Head coach Greg Vanney will have some added depth in 2018 that includes 22-year-old Brazilian outside back Auro, Dutch international Gregory van der Wiel, and the recent signing of 24-year-old Spanish midfielder Ager Aketxe.

Closing the weekend with a Soccer Sunday doubleheader on FS1, Sporting Kansas City’s rock-solid defense featuring 2017 MLS Defender of the Year Ike Opara and Allstate Goalkeeper of the Year Tim Melia will welcome New York City FC and one of the league’s most prolific goal scorers David Villa to the always raucous Children’s Mercy Park on Sunday, March 4 (7:30 p.m. ET, FS1 / TSN). Melia, who held opponents to a league-low 26 goals in 34 regular games, and Opara, an influential factor in all 11 of the club’s shutouts last season, could have their hands full with Villa’s world-class finishing that includes 63 goals in the last three seasons, including at least 22 in each of his last two campaigns.

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New Montreal Impact head coach Rémi Garde will be thrown into the fray with a tough Canadian rival when his side visits Vancouver Whitecaps FC on Sunday at BC Place (6 p.m. ET / TVA Sports and TSN 1/3). The fifth coach in the Impact’s MLS history, Garde played and coached for Lyon in France’s Ligue 1, managed Aston Villa in the Premier League and capped off his playing career with Premier League powerhouse Arsenal.

MIES (FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019) - The list of teams to have qualified for the next phase of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Qualifiers grew to twenty-two after ten more national teams from across Americas, Asia and Europe secured Second Round berths on Monday.
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Argentina, China, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Lithuania, New Zealand and Spain, Uruguay and USA clinched places in the Second Round of the World Cup Qualifiers, which will consist of three windows in September and November 2018 and February 2019.

​India may already have been presented with the ICC Test Championship Mace after being assured of the top place in the ICC MRF Tyres ICC Test Team Rankings at the cut-off date of 3 April but South Africa and Australia feature in a four-Test series from Thursday in what could be an interesting tussle for the second place.
 
India clinched the $1 million prize money for the second year running and South Africa will be similarly looking to seal the second prize of $500,000 which they are well placed to do. Australia can overtake South Africa if they win 3-0 or better but Australia (104 points) also have the danger of slipping from their third position and seeing either New Zealand or England overtake them as the two sides are scheduled to play a two-Test series that also culminates on 3 April.

Making a huge splash during the offseason, Atlanta United isn’t slowing down its fast-paced offense anytime soon as the second-year club travels to face a confident-at-home Houston Dynamo on Saturday at BBVA Compass Stadium (3:30 p.m. ET, Univision). Boasting a nearly unblemished home record last season (12-1-4), the Dynamo are returning the attacking Honduran duo of Alberth Elis (10 goals, 4 assists) and Romell Quioto (7 goals, 3 assists), who collectively accounted for 17 goals and seven assists during the 2017 season. The Dynamo will be met head-on by Atlanta United’s Josef Martinez, whose 19 goals were the fourth-best in MLS last season, alongside midfield architect Miguel Almirón, who is now controlling the center of the park with veteran midfielder Darlington Nagbe and 18-year-old Argentine Ezequiel Barco.

The five MLS sides competing in the CONCACAF Champions League hope to extend their tournament in the second leg, which takes place this week. Toronto FC host the Colorado Rapids on Tuesday while FC Dallas (Wednesday), the New York Red Bulls (Thursday) and Seattle Sounders FC (Thursday) return home in their respective Leg 2 matches. The tournament winner qualifies for the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup hosted by the United Arab Emirates in December:

• Toronto FC vs. Colorado Rapids (Tuesday, 8 p.m. ET / univisiondeportes.com; Galavision (tape delay) – Looking to add to their trophy case, Toronto FC got off to a strong start in CCL action when they traveled to bitterly cold Commerce City, Colo., to earn a 2-0 victory against the Colorado Rapids last Tuesday in Leg 1. Second-half goals from Jonathan Osorio and Sebastian Giovinco, combined with a clean sheet from goalkeeper Alex Bono, put the Reds in prime position to advance to the quarterfinals in front of their home fans at BMO Field.

​Los Angeles Football Club, Major League Soccer’s 23rd and newest expansion team, will play its first ever regular season match on Sunday at the unfriendly confines of Seattle Sounders FC’s CenturyLink Field (5 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN Deportes). LAFC enters the league with tremendous expectations, thanks to a star-studded and robust ownership group (including Peter Guber, Magic Johnson and Will Ferrell), a decorated head coach in Bob Bradley, and dynamic and young world class talents like Mexico’s Carlos Vela and 19-year-old Uruguayan Diego Rossi.

The Ohio State University quarter mile Standout and now National Record holder for the Indoor 400 meters for Sierra Leone Maggie Barrie lifted her University and Sierra Leone to higher heights over the weekends when she set a new Personal Best (PB) at the Big 10 Indoor Track and Field Championships in Geneva Ohio with a time of 52.82 seconds.
Barrie who finished 4th in the 400 meters Finals at the Big 10 Championships now ranks as the 4th best 400 meters Athlete in the Big 10, the 15th best in the NCAA, among the top 5 in Africa and Top 100 in the world according to NCAA records for 2018.

Elina Svitolina moved up two spots on the Porsche Race to Singapore to No.4 after scoring her second WTA singles title of 2018, defending her title on Saturday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and lifting the first trophy of the season at the Brisbane International.
 
Karolina Pliskova breaks into the Top 8 (at No.8) on the Leaderboard following a run to the quarterfinals at Dubai, while Garbiñe Muguruza entered the Top 8 last week at No.7 after reaching the final at the Qatar Total Open (Doha).

Houston Rockets 96 - 85 Utah Jazz
After putting up a spectacular performance against the Denver Nuggets and notching their 12th straight win, the Houston Rockets had to pack up and get ready for another encounter against an up and coming talented team in the Utah Jazz with star Rookie Point Guard Donovan Mitchell a day after in a back to back schedule.
It was a rough going in the early quarters of the Game and at one point the Rockets trailed the Jazz by 15 points. 

15 Ismael Nurmamade (MOZ) - Senegal v Mozambique, 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 African Qualifiers, Maputo - Pavilhão do Maxaquene(MOZ), 1st Round, 25 February 2018
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SHEFFIELD (Julio Chitunda's African Message) - The first-leg of Groups B and D of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 African Qualifiers concluded on Sunday, and it's fair to say that Nigeria and Mozambique were the biggest winners.

Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) and PPC unveiled a new kit for the team that will be used during the tournament and the company will construct nets across the country to aid cricket development.
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ZC board chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani expressed delight at the deal and promised that the team would do well in the qualifiers which will be played in Harare, Bulawayo and Kwekwe.

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• Sochi is hosting the 2018 World Cup Team Workshop this week
• Representatives of all 32 countries will learn about the tournament
• The workshop is the last time all competing nations will gather before the World Cup

Only three-and-a-half months remain until the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ begins, and final preparations continue in the Host Nation. For the 32 teams, it is also time to learn more about Russia’s organisation of this tournament.

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• ​Fans can select their favourite game from the past nine World Cups
• ​Facebook vote for Spain 1982 games is now LIVE
• Like the official FIFA World Cup Facebook page to join in

Want to relive the moment Diego Maradona shimmies and turns his way through the England defence in 1986? Or go back in time to experience France's remarkable victory on home soil in 1998? How about heading back to the scene of Germany's epic 7-1 defeat of hosts Brazil in 2014?

Former National U-17 head coach, Samuel Kwesi Fabin has expressed his joy after being handed the coaching job of top Ghanaian club Kumasi Asante Kotoko.
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The former Hearts of Oak manager signed a one-year contract to take charge of the club for the 2017/18 season.

​Speed skater Bart Swings was the toast of Belgium as he delivered the nation's first Winter Olympics medal in 20 years. The athlete, better known for his highly successful inline speed skating exploits, produced a devastating burst of speed to claim the silver medal in the mass start event in South Korea. In the 2017 edition of The World Games in Wroclaw, Poland, Swings demonstrated his appetite for sporting glory by winning two of the titles on offer at the inline speed skating track and adding a bronze for good measure. Four years earlier in Cali, Colombia he had been similarly dominant, also striking gold twice and making two further visits to the podium.

​APR closed the gap at the top of the Rwanda Premier League to three points thanks to a lone goal victory over city rivals Rayon Spotrts in the Kigali derby on Sunday at the Amahoro Stadium.
 
Muhadjir Hakizimana’s 27th minute goal separated the two sides handing victory to the army side, who finished with a man less after Hakizimana was sent off five minutes before recess.

Italian Serie A football club AS Roma has named German car rental company car2go as its official mobility sharing partner.
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The partnership will allow Roma fans to travel to and from matches at the Stadio Olimpico with greater ease. The length of the agreement was not disclosed.

​Egyptian Mohamed Salah demonstrated again why is the top African performer in the major European leagues this season by scoring in a sixth consecutive match for Liverpool at the weekend.

The 2017 African Footballer of the Year struck the second goal during a 4-1 Premier League thrashing of West Ham, taking his season tally to 31 in all competitions since arriving at Anfield from Roma.