HORSE RACING

 Horse racing is a equestrian performance sport, involving two or more jockeys riding horses over a set distance for competition.
horse races vary widely in format . Often, countries have developed their own particular horse racing traditions. Variations include restricting races to particular breeds, running over obstacles, running over different distances, running on different track surfaces and running in different gaits.


In Botswana horse racing is slowing starting to be recognized as a sporting activities, this was made possible by horse racing events that takes place every year.
The annually held Mascom Derby horse racing is in most of the times held in Maun.

 "an international horse track will be built in Palapye to improve the horse racing competition as well as to make it attracting, land has already been identified and that a bench marking exercise would soon commence where a task team would be sent to countries like Dubai and the US." said the minister of youth sports and culture Honorable Thapelo OLopeng after Batswana complained that the government does not regard horse racing as sport.

Horse racing is one of the oldest sports that developed from mere community leisure clubs to huge entertainment business around the world.

NO RESPECT IN THE LIMKOKWING PREMIERSHIP

With each team having playing the firth match of the first ever Limkokwing premiership, teams were urged to take the matches seriously after they showed lack of commitment by not turning up of for matches.








 The Limkokwing premier league has been on going since the beginning of this semester. At the moment the teams are still at the first half of the league, the second half of the league is to commence next semester. However the premiership Mr Ryan Kgenngwenyane is not pleased with the team's misconduct.

 According to Mr Ryan teams do not respect the premier league at all, he continued to mention that there is no team that has arrived to filed in time since the league began and that there is a lot of violence during the games.

"the source of the problem is that communication is very poor, we get different message from both the SRC office the premier league. Bad things are happening at the top and they affect us as the teams." said the captain of Real Brothers FC.

Despite all this chaos in the premier league games are still on until the end of this semester. Tomorrow Real Stars will be at logger heads with Arche Boys.

SPORTING CLUBS SHORT OF EQUIPMENT

Limkokwing university does not only deliver in academics but also in extracurricular activities. however most sporting clubs in Limkokwing complain of not having enough equipment.

Even though this clubs have little or no equipment, they are expected to bring good results after every competition. clubs that raised their concerns are the football, volleyball, and basket ball teams.
speaking with the basketball captain Mr Obakeng Lesego said that even today they are still using old kits that has been used for more than five years. she continued to say that not having enough equipment force them to improvise during competition by using their own personal equipments. 

This concerns have reached office of the minister of non academics Mr Thabang Ramolale who said "I understand your concerns and i promise to take this matter to the student services, i will push together with my team until something comes out of it. In the mean time i will urge the clubs to continue to be patient and for them to improvise where necessary until the matter is resolved".

This state negatively impact and discourage a lot of sporting activities as most of youngsters have pulled back from school teams.

SERENE WILLIAMS OUT OF WTA FINALS AFTER SHOULDER INJUR

Serena Williams will not take part in the WTA Finals in late October due to a shoulder injury, meaning she is skipping the elite year-end event for the second straight season.The 22-time grand slam winner missed the entire Asian swing due to the shoulder problem and has struggled with the issue for much of the second half of the campaign.

"It's been a really tough year for me," Williams said "I've been dealing so much with these shoulder injuries. My doctor insists that I stay home and heal it... so I can have a chance to play next year."
In September, Williams told CNN she was hoping to make the Singapore tournament despite withdrawing from both the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open and the China Open in the same month over health concerns. Besides the shoulder injury, the 35-year-old was hampered by a knee injury in a semifinal loss to Karolina Pliskova at the US Open in September.

She also withdrew from the WTA Finals in 2015, saying at the time that she needed to address her health. Just like last year, Williams didn't play any tennis after the US Open.Williams won one grand slam title this year -- at Wimbledon in July -- to match Steffi Graf's Open Era record of majors but lost two grand slam finals, leading her coach Patrick Mouratoglou to tell CNN that it was a "bad" season for the American.
Williams is scheduled to play her next tournament in Auckland in January in the buildup to the Australian
Williams' pullout from Singapore means that Angelique Kerber secured the year-end No. 1 ranking.

 The German took over as No. 1 from Williams two days after winning the US Open, ending the latter's consecutive 186-week reign atop the rankings.Kerber will now headline the field in Singapore, with one place remaining due to Williams' omission. That spot will be taken by either Johanna Konta, Svetlana Kuznetsova or Carla Suarez Navarro.


SOURCE:NEWS TODAY
REPORTER:NEO MOSIAMIEMANG
DATE:14/10/2016

HOW BOXING WAS INVETED?

 In the 18th century boxing was revived in Victorian Britain by Christopher Monck and the Heavyweight champion by then was James Figg in 1719. Boxing is the human bloodsport in which the intention is to hurt one's opponents by delivering blows to their body and ultimately knocking them unconscious.

Boxing sport is still there and just like other sports it keeps on bringing out more and more champions who are becoming millionaires out of it. Champions such as Muhammad Ali was into boxing and was known as a legendary by the Americans just because of the way he was using his hands to fight his opponents. He joined boxing on the early times and won the heavyweight titles three times later on his family joined him even his children till up to date.

Boxing brought out champions such as Mike Tyson, Floody Mayweather and many more. Equipments such as
-punching bag
-punching gloves
-apparel
-protective gear
-shortpants
-headgear
are the most needed one to those who do boxing

SOURCE: NEWS TODAY
LOCATION: GABORONE
DATE: 19/10/2016
AUTHOR: REFILWE MADISA                                                                                                                                                                  

BOTSWANA SUPPORTS WOMEN IN SPORT

Assistant minister of Youth Sports and Development Sport and Culture Kefentse Mzwinila says  Botswana continues to pledge support towards women and girl participation in sport.

Speaking at the African Women and Sport Conference held in Gaborone on Friday, Mzwinila said Botswana was committed to the embrace opportunities to work hard and support structures that drive women agenda. The conference helde under the theme Reshaping Africa Women and Sport, would target issues such as influence of culture on women and Sport, inclusion in sport and gender based violence in sport among others.

"We need to encourage our daughters, sisters and friends to become more involved in sport by stpping uneccesary criticism physical and emotional abuse."he said. He added that it was again upon the males to be lenient on issues of culture where women and girls were prevented or judged when playing, male dominated sports futher, he indicated that tremendous growth in women and girls participation had been witnessed in the country since independance, adding however, a lot more can be done to ensure thier promotion in sport.

He highlighted that the two day conference which gathered participants from countries like Suth Africa, Namibia, Kenya and Ghana hosted by IWG paves away for the world conference on women and sport which would
be held in Botswana in May 2018  

 SOURCE:NEWS TODAY
REPORTED BY: NEO MOSIAMIEMANG
DATE:14/10/2016

DEVELOP TALENT AT AN EARLY AGE

It is a vital to develop talent at an early age to afford young athletes on opportunity to participate in the football leagues in the country that would intimately expose them to international leagues in the future.

Speaking during Lobatse Primary Schools grassroots football tournament recently technical director of Grass Root Football in Lobatse, Odirile Matlhaku said the tournament would help  in the transformation of Lobatse schools into being high achievers in the future. He lauded Botswana Football Association for recognizing the need for establishment of age based teams to enhance the country grassroots football development.

He added that the development programme is vital as it helped to keep young people meaningful occupied when not a school and creating and creating a fun environment for youth in playing soccer, rather than letting them roaming around the streets where they could end up getting involved in undesired acts.

Furthermore he said the programmer would help to establish grassroots football teams within difference console wards and grass roots football tournament competition for wards teams. He encouraged coordinators and coaches to mobilize and organize ward teams training and matches to maintain continuity. the tournaments was graced by 170, 10 years old and other pupils from Lobatse


REPORTED BY; NEO MOSIAMIEMANG

KNOW SOFTBALL

Softball was invented and established by a guy named George Hancock.  It was made on Thanksgiving Day in 1887.  After 111 years later the game was then called softball because before then people used to call itb names such as cabbage ball or lettuce ball because of its roundness. It was invented in Chicago  and it spread out the whole world just like any other sport.

At then softball was known as the sport for men because women by then did not have time for playing but time to take care for their families but as time goes on back in 1976 women then joined the game. Softball is played with a large ball on a small field and it is categorizes in three forms and the most common one is slow-pitch softball which can measure either 11 or 12 inches in a circumference and at most times there are 10 players in a team. Their is also a fast pitch softball in which the pitch is fast and there are 9 players on the field at one time.

The difference between men and women when it comes to their gear is that women are expected to wear short pants while men have to wear long ones and the equipments they use at most times are
-gloves
-batting
-helmet
-mouth-guard
-bat
-bat bag

SOURCE: NEWS TODAY
LOCATION: GABORONE
DATE: 19/10/2016
AUTHOR: REFILWE MADISA

THE ORIGIN OF TENNIS

Tennis sport is originated from a country known as France and by then it was called JEA DE PAUME which means a game of hand. It has been there in the 12th century till then. Tennis sport it is a sport played over a rope or against a wall using a tennis ball. By then tennis sport had champions such as Louis X of France who won many titles in 1941 and he later died of pneumonia. Since then tennis sport is one of the most respected sport in the whole world and it continues to bring out  more champions such as "the sisters" being Serena Williams and Venus Williams, Camden Riviere, Robert Fahey, Charlotte Cornwallis and people like Tyga Woods.

Tennis sport is categorized in many types such as ;

Wheelchair Tennis
In this type the sport is played by people in wheelchairs. They run around using the wheelchair to hit the ball.

Single Tennis
This type it involves two players competing against each other in the field.

Double Tennis
In this kind of play it is played by two teams of two players each. The two players of the receiving side change positions after each other.

Mixed Doubles
It is played the same as doubles but with one man and one woman per team.
SOURCE : NEWS TODAY
LOCATION : GABORONE

DATE: 19/10/2016
AUTHOR:REFILWE MADISA

ARGENTINA BOSS SAVOURS MOMENT OF DAVIS CUP GLORY

Argentina captain

Daniel Orsanic said he would savoir a special moment for his side after they claimed a place in the Davis cup final following 3-2 victory over holders Great Britain. Leonardo Maver fired Argentina into their fourth final in ten years after victory over Dan Evans in the decisive fifth rubber.

Argentina, who will be hoping for their first victory in the tournament at the fifth attempt, will travel to Croatia for November's final after the Croats booked their berth with 3-2 win over France in Zadar. ' I am very proud of all the players. It is a very special moment for the whole team,' the Argentina captain said.





SOURCE: News Today
LOCATION: Gaborone
DATE: 13 October 2016
AUTHOR: Kedibonye J Elijah

NORTH WRAPS UP WHILE SOUTH CLASH CONTINUES

The ongoing my spar my Botswana netball league has gone on the third lap at a high note. The highly contested league has seen UB crystal dominating the southern zone while Task and Orapa Wanderers are level in points at the top of the log. The Northern zone has wrapped up their first leg which sees Task and Orapa being consistent at the top of the log but Task with an upper hand by a massive goal difference as compared to Orapa.

Sowa Flamingoes has a mountain to climb in the second leg as they have not secured any point from their last 5 fixtures. they trail at the bottom of the log with just 0 points and a disappointing -112 goal difference.National development officer Kgomotso Mtokusa for Bona spoke exclusively with this publication that the league is of a good standard, 'we are very happy with the current league, everything is of good standard given fact that there has been a gap year without a league,' she said.








SOURCE: News Today
LOCATION: Gaborone
DATE: 13 October 2016
AUTHOR: Kedibonye J Elijah

JAMALI CONFISCATES PROPERTY FROM CHIEFS

The Jamali family are said to have confiscated several properties of Mochudi Centre Chiefs, following a dispute that erupted between the two parties on Monday. As revealed by Gazette sports last month, the Jamalis who previously held 60% in shares of the club, decided to ditch the side in July after a fall out with members of the chiefs trust.
It was said that Jamali family cited that they were not satisfied with the contributions of other shareholders, which often led to them taking full responsibilities of funding the club.According to news reaching this publication, the Jamali family decided to take over a number of Chiefs properties yesterday morning.

A source close to developments informed Gazette sports that the team was barred from entering their usual training grounds at Duma grounds, with the team bus, balls and training equipment allegedly taken away.





SOURCE: News Today
LOCATION: Gaborone
DATE: 13 October 2016
AUTHOR: Kedibonye J Elijah

FIFA TO PUNISH SLIPPERY EELS

                                             Chelsea's Victor moses

Two African Premier League stars could find themselves in hot water and potentially receive bans from FIFA after reportedly faking injuries to snub call-ups to represent their country.

Chelsea's Victor Moses and Watford's Isaac Success, the two players in question, reportedly snubbed the opportunity to represent Nigeria during the recent international break.
"We know the two players had good games and there was no sign of injury on the duo during or after the game," a Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) source told News Today through a telephone interview.

                                                      Watford's Isaac Success

"It came as a surprise to hear later that Moses was injured and that he would not be available for the game, and Success finished his team's game before claiming injury.
"Honestly, they won't go unpunished if our investigation turns out as we are suspecting.
"In fact, we are considering writing a protest to FIFA if we find out that they connived with their respective clubs to feign injuries and stay away."
Success even posted a picture of his leg strapped up on social media, but the NFF remain suspicious.According to FIFA rules, both players could be banned for their upcoming club matches if the NFF lodge an official complaint and they are found guilty.

SOURCE:News Today                                              EVENT:International Transfers  LOCATION:Gaborone                                              TIME:17:43
DATE:12 October 2016                                             AUTHOR:Dithapelo Miti   
                                             

HE GOT ME SACKED

                                     Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson

Former Liverpool director of football Damien Comolli claims that signing stand-in England captain Jordan Henderson was 'one of the main reasons I got sacked'.

The Frenchman, who has also worked as a director at Arsenal and Tottenham, was dismissed from his role at Anfield in 2012 for failures in the transfer market - which included being told that Henderson was a 'waste of money.

Henderson's arrival from Sunderland for of fee of £16million in June 2011 raised eyebrows, but the midfielder has gone on to replace Steven Gerrard as Liverpool skipper and was handed the England captaincy for Tuesday's goalless draw with Slovenia. 

                                  former Liverpool director Damien Comolli

Henderson is one of the main reasons I got sacked,' Comolli told News Today through a telephone interview. 'The day I got sacked they told me I had made a big mistake on Jordan and he was a waste of money.

'Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but I think we paid the right price. He was a young English, British player and we know very often that British players are overvalued. But we were more than happy to pay the price because we thought he would become an outstanding player.

'I never said it publicly, but I was convinced he would be the future captain. People will say it is easy to say now, but I was convinced at the time that he would become the Liverpool captain. Now he is and he is also the England captain.'

SOURCE:News Today                                 EVENT:English Premier League               

LOCATION:GABORONE                            TIME:17:47

DATE:12 OCTOBER                                                          AUTHOR:Dithapelo Miti                                                      

ARGENTINA STUMBLE AS AGUERO MISSES PENALTY

Manchester City hitman Sergio Aguero missed a penalty as Argentina lost 1-0 to Paraguay in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Cordoba.

The South American giants had made three changes following their 2-2 draw against Peru last week, but were still without influential captain Lionel Messi due to injury.
Paraguay began the game on the front foot and almost scored the opener in the seventh minute when Gustavo Gomez sent a diving header wide following a free-kick from Oscar Romero.
They managed to break the deadlock soon afterwards, though, in the 18th minute of the match, when Angel Romero put Derlis Gonzalez into space down the right, who then managed to beat Manchester United shot-stopper Sergio Romero at his near post.
Paris Saint-Germain's Angel Di Maria and United's Marcos Rojo had chances in the first half to score, but failed to hit the target.
In the second half, Paraguay allowed Argentina to have all the ball and ended up giving away a penalty, but Aguero failed to convert from the spot, with Justo Villar pulling off a fine save.
The Citizens striker tried to make amends for his mistake with two more attempts at scoring, but could not find the back of the next.
Source : News Today

Location : Gaborone

Date : October 12 2016
Author : Phenyo Odirileng Koloi

NOVAK DJOKOVIC ADVANCES IN SHANGHAI MASTERS, DEL PORTO

No longer concerned about titles and honors, Novak Djokovic is instead trying to rediscover the inner joy he used to have while playing tennis.

And after beating Fabio Fognini 6-3, 6-3 Tuesday in the second round of the Shanghai Masters - his first win following a month-long injury layoff - the top-ranked Serb said he's closing in on that feeling again.
It's been a summer of soul-searching for Djokovic, who admitted to being both emotionally and mentally exhausted after finally succeeding in his quest to win the French Open and complete a career Grand Slam.
He lost in the third round of Wimbledon and afterward reportedly said he was dealing with personal issues. He then went into the Rio de Janeiro Olympics with high expectations of winning gold only to stumble in the first round against Juan Martin del Potro and exit the tournament in tears.

Then came another frustrating loss to Stan Wawrinka in the U.S. Open final and an elbow injury that sidelined him for a month.

Back on court again in Shanghai, an upbeat Djokovic said he needed the time off to recharge mentally and put his career goals in better perspective.

Djokovic was rusty in his comeback - double-faulting four times and making 18 unforced errors with only 13 winners - but he had no trouble dispatching an even more erratic Fognini, who racked up 40 unforced errors of his own.
Djokovic is aiming to win his fourth title in Shanghai, a tournament where he has a 25-3 record.
Also Tuesday, Juan Martin del Potro faded down the stretch against 11th-seeded David Goffin, dropping serve in the 11th game of the third set and losing 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.
The Argentine, on his own comeback from a series of career-threatening wrist injuries over the past several years, was trying to maintain the momentum that saw him win the Olympic silver medal and reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals last month.

Nick Kyrgios, fresh off winning his third title of the year at the Japan Open on Sunday, defeated Sam Querrey 6-4, 6-4.

Sixth-seeded Gael Monfils also moved into the third round with a 7-6 (4), 6-3 win over Kevin Anderson, and ninth-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Janko Tipsarevic 6-3, 7-6 (6). Two other seeded players fell in the first round, No. 10 David Ferrer and No. 14 Richard Gasquet. Bernard Tomic retired from his match against 15th-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut with an abdominal muscle pain while trailing 6-3, 3-0.
Source : News Today

Location : Gaborone

Date : October 12 2016
Author : Phenyo Odirileng Koloi

ALGERIA SACKS MILOVAN RAJEVAC

Milovan Rajevac became the second casualty of the opening round of African World Cup group qualifiers at the weekend when he was sacked by Algeria on Tuesday.
The country’s football federation announced the decision in the wake of the 1-1 home draw with Cameroon on Sunday, which marked a disappointing start to their Group B campaign.
The Serbian coach had only been in charge for two matches but has been criticized by several players for his tactics in the game in Blida at the weekend, where Algeria had been seeking to make a wining start to a difficult group which also contains Nigeria.
He had met with the federation president Mohamed Raouraoua on Tuesday to discuss the fallout, after which his departure was announced.
Algeria, who next play Nigeria next month, will now be looking for their third coach inside a year. Frenchman Christian Gourcuff quit the job in April to return to Ligue 1.
Rajevac, 62, was previously coach of Ghana, when they became only the third African country to reach the quarter-finals of the World Cup at the 2010 finals in South Africa, and Qatar.
Source : News Today

Location : Gaborone

Date : October 12 2016
Author : Phenyo Odirileng Koloi