| Achived
29th July 2004 |
| Villa
sees the blues |
| SC Villa fans have had to brave a
series of emotions for the last couple of weeks. |
| The
Black Whistle Affair! |
| Two years ago, two Ugandan football
clubs admitted that match fixing was rife in the country, causing
major embarrassment to the National Football League Committee
(NFLC). |
| B
E N C H M A R K |
| CHEERS: Andre Agassi
for joining a select brand of tennis players who have 800 career
wins to their names. |
| Will
Bombers bomb Athens? |
| Dick Katende played in 150 pro and
amateur bouts before retiring from boxing to take on coaching.
|
| Down
memory lane |
| No doubt, the 1972 Olympic games
held in Germany, Munich, were something of a landmark for Ugandan
sport. |
| One
win away |
| Tom Tikolo has bolstered Ugandan
cricket. The Kenyan-born coach led the U-19 team to a win in
the U-19 World Cup. |
| Achived
22th July 2004 |
| Yellow
& Blue affair |
| KCC fans must be looking at Namboole
Stadium as the ultimate spooky ground for their team that has
found the going against SC Villa anything but simple. |
| Wimbledon
flourishes |
| The Wimbledon championships have
insulated themselves from other grand slams, branding themselves
as tennis’ most prestigious tournament. |
| Transfer
fever on |
| No country kicked up a fascination
at the just concluded European championship like Otto Rehhagel’s
Greece who were 100-1 outsiders at the start of the tournament.
|
| Greeks
climb out of Trojan horse! |
| It’s been often said that a
European Championship lacks some of the glamour of a World Cup
tournament. |
| Which
KCC? |
| KCC FC will go into their match against
SC Villa Saturday at Namboole Stadium with an unquenchable thirst
for revenge. |
| Seven’s
rugby coming of age |
| National Seven’s coach Herbert
Wafula still has the same uncompromising mentality that earned
him rave reviews as a player. |
| Cranes
next in Burkina Faso |
| There is a thin line between professional
and amateur football. That line was evident when Ghana bullied
the Cranes to submission at Namboole stadium on Saturday. |
| BENCHMARK |
| VETERAN TENNIS player
Cedric Babu will captain the Ugandan team that will take to
the Moldavian clay courts for the prestigious Davis Cup event
that runs from July 12-18. |
| Achived
8th July 2004 |
| Bring
on Ghana |
| It is a chilly Friday morning and
the rain is pouring in torrents. But on the soggy pitch at Namboole
Stadium, Cranes coach Mike Mutebi and his charges are going
through a rigorous training session |
| ‘Ka-pena’
in Euro 2004 |
| At Shell Club for the pulsating encounter
that saw Portugal eject England, was one fan called ‘Fox’.
|
| Cranes,
Ghana again |
| It is just 18 months since the Uganda
Cranes last played Ghana’s Black Stars in the Africa Cup
of Nations qualifier at Namboole. |
| Looks
rule tennis |
| Russian beauty Anna Kournikova made
her name as a tennis star, never mind that she never won a single
WTA singles title all her career. |
| Cricket
league heats up |
| It was one of the most formidable
strangleholds ever witnessed on the local sports scene. |
| B
E N C H M A R K |
| EZRA BOXING Board
(EBB) hit its tail end last week amid accusations and counter-accusations
that saw the Olympics-bound 'Bombers' and EBB coordinator Johnson
Kasaija exchange harsh words. |
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