(CNN)The NBA announced Wednesday that it will play its first ever exhibition game in Africa on August 1 at Ellis Park Arena in Johannesburg, South Africa. Team Africa will tip-off against Team World and will feature two-time NBA All-Star Luol Deng, born in South Sudan, as its captain. The Miami Heat star will lead a
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The Boston Globe By John Powers Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia (Left) reclaimed the title he won two years ago, winning the Boston Marathon by a 31-second margin Monday. Caroline Rotich of Kenya (Right) won the women’s race. (Photo: USA Today) Ethiopia’s Lelisa Desisa ran away from the pack to post his second Boston Marathon men’s
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World indoor champion Genzebe Dibaba was named sportswoman of the year at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Shanghai on Wednesday (15). The middle-distance runner became the first sportsperson from Ethiopia to win an award in any category at the prestigious event, which began in 2000. Dibaba was rewarded for her 2014 season in which
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Group J: Algeria, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Seychelles The 2012 co-hosts won a vote by the Confederation of African Football’s executive committee in Cairo on Wednesday ahead of Algeria and Ghana. It will be the second time as hosts for the country, which is located on the west coast of Africa, having previously shared duties with Equatorial
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By: Collins Okinyo © supersport.com Mariano Barreto @ Getty Images Ethiopia Football Federation (EFF) cracked the whip on Friday after they sacked their Portuguese coach Mariano Barreto. The decision was arrived after lengthy talks between the EFF executive led by President Junedin Basha. Sources at EFF toldsupersport.com that the decision to sack the coach was
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Team Ethiopia is confident of a better IAAF World Cross Championships in Guiyang, China on Saturday to improve on the junior men 8km individual title they won last time in Poland. Their squad of 24 that is a mix of experience and newcomers is ready to take the battle to the other 50 nations taking
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Ethiopia’s Endeshaw Negesse held off world and Olympic champion Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda to win Sunday’s Tokyo Marathon, part of the six-race World Marathon Majors series. The 26-year-old Negesse took the tape in 2 hours, 6 minutes flat ahead of Kiprotich (2:06:33) and defending champion and race record-holder Dickson Chumba of Kenya, who came in
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Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba ran the third world indoor record * of her career when she clocked 14:18:86 for 5000m at the XL-galan meeting in Stockholm, an IAAF Indoor Permit meeting, on Thursday (19). Dibaba took more than five seconds off the previous mark of 14:24:37 set by her compatriot Meseret Defar on the same track
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Tsgabu Grmay Africa Championship Pietermaritzburg, South Africa – It was a historic day for the Ethiopian cycling team as Tsgabu Grmay became the first rider from the East African Nation to win an elite gold medal at the continental road championships here today. The host nation was equally elated to see Ashleigh Moolman Pasio who
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The family of the late Ethiopian marathon champion Abebe Bikila is suing Vibram for allegedly using his name without permission, according to the Associated Press. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Tacoma, Wash., claims that Vibram didn’t seek permission for trademarking the name “Bikila” and naming several of its minimally designed FiveFingers footwear running
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