Author: Joan Igbava
Ikenna Iroegbu, point guard of the D’Tigers contributed an average of 14.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 3.2 assists during the African Qualifiers as Nigeria secured a World Cup ticket for the first time since 2006. Qualification for the FIBA world cup is a dream come true for Ikenna Iroegbu, who knows he has his work cut out for him “It’s a great feeling playing for Nigeria and now that we’ve qualified for the World Cup, I am working hard, perfecting my skills and certain moves as well as pushing my body to the limit to make sure I can get…
In August 2018, San Antonio Spurs in the NBA reached an agreement on a one-year deal to sign free-agent Quincy Pondexter. He played only 23 games for Chicago Bulls during the 2017-18 season before being waived midway through the season. Having a past history of multiple knee surgeries which made him sit out for two full NBA seasons, Pondexter suffered an MRSA infection that complicated his recovery. He comes from a family where basketball is taken seriously, his father, Roscoe, was a third-round pick by the Boston Celtics in 1974 and his uncle Cliff was drafted by the Bulls in…
Serbia international player, Dusan Tadic received multiple offers to sign in different countries including the Premier League after leaving Southampton following poor goalscoring form, he picked up and left for the Netherlands to join Ajax, an option that was best for his career. His move to Ajax was met with less excitement from the fans of Ajax as they didn’t believe in his abilities due to his stats at Southampton is that he does not score enough, but those doubts have been far cleared after Dusan Tadic performance with Ajax through to the champions league quarterfinal. Eyebrows were raised when…
Nigerian Evelyn Akhator, regarded as one of the D’Tigress’ best performers in their gold-winning expedition at the FIBA Women’s 2017 Afrobasket Championship in Mali has a strong drive and always keep a positive look to life. Evelyn Akhator is just “unbelievably positive all of the time,” said her former coach Adeniyi Amadou. “You spend enough time around her and she teaches you a lot because she’s lost her mother — the closest person in her life — and just makes a choice every day to just be positive.” D’Tigress player, Evelyn Akhator is a professional women’s basketball forward/center. She was…
Bibian Mentel-Spee is a three-fold Winter Paralympics gold-medalist and five-times world champion para-snowboarding athlete. Despite battling cancer nine times since the beginning of the century, and winning her 2018 Olympic medals at age 45. She wants to transfer her energy toward giving back snowboarding at the grassroots level and help kids with physical impairment after announcing her retirement due to her cancer returning for the 10th time. Mentel-Spee became a Paralympian after having her right leg amputated below the knee after a bone cancer tumor was discovered while she was attempting to qualify for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter…
Chief Falilat Ogunkoya Omotayo MON is a Nigerian former track and field athlete. she is an Olympian and one of Nigeria’s most decorated track and field queen. She got involved in sport was she was in school, she ran and played table tennis for fun. When it was time for competition she had to choose which sports she would focus on, a decision that was not easy to make “THE BEGINNING WAS TOUGH BECAUSE WHEN I STARTED, I didn’t know if I wanted to play table tennis or to do athletics as I was good at both, the two coaches…
Like many, Kelly Smith’s childhood was spent kicking a ball around the playground with her friends at break time, but she was the only girl. Smith started playing football in an all boy’s team, also played football at her university days broke a number of school and conference records, got her jersey retired for her excellent performance, but it was not always plain sailing. There were no youth teams for girls when Smith was growing up, but the former Arsenal striker knew she had innate talent and refused to let the lack of options hold her back. Garston Boys Club,…
Mary Kom remains the only Indian female boxer to have won an Olympic medal, the sport was the way out for mary kom after failing academically, her interest in boxing was borne from the success of Dingko Singh, an Indian boxer. At 36, she is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She is the only woman to become World Amateur Boxing champion for a record six times, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the seven world championships. Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she is the only Indian woman boxer to have qualified for the…
Floyd Joy Mayweather was born February 24, 1977; he is an American professional boxing promoter and former professional boxer. He competed from 1996 to 2007 and 2009 to 2015 and made two one-fight comebacks in 2017 and 2018. During his career, he held multiple world titles in five weight classes and the lineal championship in four weight classes (twice at welterweight) and retired with an undefeated record. As an amateur, Mayweather won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics, three U.S. Golden Gloves championships (at light flyweight, flyweight, and featherweight), and the U.S. national championship at…
Kasper Schmeichel showed new coach Brendan Rodgers and his teammates what he can do with his feet other than his hands. The Denmark international may be a goalkeeper but he showed he has a trick or two up his sleeve, as he scored an outrageous goal in Leicester City training session, maybe something he picked up from his childhood idol, United talisman Eric Cantona. Despite the fact that he’s followed in his father – Peter Schmeichel’s (Ex- man Utd goalkeeper) footsteps and taken up a position between the sticks, young Kasper admired one of his father’s attacking colleagues more than…
