TOKYO, 31 July 2021, (TON): The Czech Republic kept it close for most of the first half, but the Americans adopted  defensive intensity in the second half and performed a better team coordination. 

Durant scored 23 points on just 8-of-11 shooting to lead the US to second half 119 - 84 victory over the Czech Republic.

The US  ends group play with a 2-1 record and will advance to the quarterfinals, which begin Tuesday. The opponent and game time will be determined following the end of pool play Sunday.

BUENOS AIRES, 26 November 2020, (TON): Top football legend Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who led his country to World Cup has died. He was 60.  

Ahead of his 60th birthday in October, Maradona told France Football magazine that it was his dream to “score another goal against the English, this time with the right hand.”

Maradona’s spokesman, Sebastián Sanchi, said he died Wednesday of a heart attack, two weeks after being released from a hospital in Buenos Aires following brain surgery.

His reputation become controversial due to cocaine use and  and his addictions, he remained idolized in soccer-mad Argentina as the “Pibe de Oro” or “Golden Boy.”

Argentinean Government has announced three days of national mourning. At least one million people are expected to march past Diego Maradona’s coffin tomorrow while he lies in state at the Casa Rosada presidential palace in Argentina’s capital city of Buenos Aires.
The doors of the Casa Rosada will be opened early morning 11 am GMT  on Tuesday for the public, who will give the football superstar a hero’s farewell. Huge crowds have already gathered at the city’s landmark obelisk on the wide 9 de Julio Avenue, as well as outside the Argentinos Juniors football stadium where Maradona began his stellar career.

KABUL, 17 October 2020, (TON): With the theme of the Afghan Premier League “one nation, one voice,” the match ended with 1-0 Shaheen Asmayee’s Fardin Hakimi scored the winning goal of the match in the first half.  

Both side carried out attacks on each other’s side but the only goal was made by in the 19th minute of the match.

The stadium was packed with thousands of spectators, including prominent Afghan political figures including parliament speaker, military commanders and government functionaries.    Shaheen Asmayee, De Maiwand Atalan, Toofan Harirod, Simorgh Alborz, Mawjhai Amu, De Spinghar Bazan, De Abasin Sape, and Oqaban Hindukosh are the eight APL teams representing all 34 provinces in Afghanistan. The four teams in the semifinals round were Shaheen Asmayee, De Spin Ghar Bazan, Toofan Harirod, and Simorgh Alborz.

Toofan Harirod won the championship for two consecutive years in 2018 and 2019. 

LONDON, 3 October 2020 (FM): The London Marathon on Sunday will be a battle of the Kenyan titans as Brigid Kosgei, who holds the women's marathon world record takes on world Champion Ruth Chepngetich.

Kosgei won the Chicago Marathon last year in a record time of 2 hours, 14 minutes, 4 seconds.

But this year's race will be different due to coronavirus. The London Marathon has been reduced to elite runners only and will have no spectators.