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SAN FRANCISCO, September 28, (THEWILL) - Germany has won the right to stage the 2024 European Championship, beating Turkey in a vote by Uefa’s executive committee. The two countries made final bid presentations before voting took place in Nyon, Switzerland. Berlin’s Olympic...

BEVERLY HILLS, September 27, (THEWILL) - Nigeria’s D’Tigress continued their magical run at the 2018 FIBA Women’s World Cup with an impressive 57-56 victory over Greece to advance to the quarter-final. It was a keenly contested tie which saw the...

BEVERLY HILLS, September 26, (THEWILL) - The Nigerian women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, recorded their second-straight win at the ongoing FIBA Women’s World Cup with a hard-fought 75-70 victory over Argentina in Spain on Tuesday. The ladies have made history and are...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 25, (THEWILL) - Luka Modric has defeated fellow finalists, Mohamed Salah and Cristiano Ronaldo, to win the 2018 Best FIFA player award. The Croatian midfielder broke the 10-year duopoly of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo at the ceremony...

BEVERLY HILLS, September 24, (THEWILL) - Nigeria's D'Tigress have recorded their first ever win at the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup after victory against Turkey. D’Tigress beat Turkey 74-68 in their second group B game of the 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball...

Tiger Woods was moved to the brink of tears after capturing his first title since 2013 with a two-stroke triumph at the Tour Championship in Atlanta on Sunday that proved he was far from washed up at the age...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 23, (THEWILL) - Anthony Joshua retained his world heavyweight titles by inflicting the first stoppage defeat of Russia’s Alexander Povetkin’s professional career with a ruthless seventh-round finish at Wembley Stadium on Saturday. A previously close contest turned...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 21, (THEWILL) - Nigeria moved one place from 49th position to 48th in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking as Belgium and France share the top spot for the first time in the table’s 25-year history. According to the...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 20, (THEWILL) - Amaju Pinnick has been re-elected President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, for another four-year-term at the congress held in Katsina, northwest Nigeria. Pinnick polled 34 votes to beat his challengers - Maigari (8), Ogunjobi...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 20, (THEWILL) - Cristiano Ronaldo was sent off in his first Champions League match for Juventus, leaving the Portugal star close to tears as he walked off the pitch. Ronaldo was dismissed in the 29th minute of...