| Liveblog: IRB Sevens 2010 Las Vegas |
 | Liveblog: IRB Sevens 2010 Las Vegas
This weekend, the Kenyan national Rugby Sevens team is in Las Vegas on its continual quest for a championship. An international crowd favorite the Sevens team is now one of the most experienced teams in the tournament and is poised to win a cup.
I have set up a live blog below where you can follow updates, as they happen. Twitter updates with #sevens and #rugby updates will be streaming as well. If you'd like your twitter st ...
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| Coming Into the Cold |
 | Coming Into the Cold
If you're in the diaspora and find yourself staring hatefully at banks of snow, think about adopting a new sports team or athlete this winter. The Olympics are kicking off today, and if you are housebound it might be a harmless distraction to cheer on “your” side on television.
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| Egypt vs Ghana 4-0 |
 | Egypt vs Ghana 4-0
Admittedly, this is more a wish for the Nations Cup Final than a rational guess. Ghana's defence against Nigeria today did give a good account of itself, and for a team as decimated of its top talents as The youthful Black Stars, getting this far is in itself no small feat.
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| Arsenal 3 Aston Villa 0 |
 | Arsenal 3 Aston Villa 0
This match is being reported as having been turned by the Cesc Fabregas cameo that supplied two goals, a beautiful direct free-kick and a characteristically devastating finish to a team counter-attack. But it was more than that, and it is only out of a sporting respect that even on the usually spirited boards, Arsenal fans are grudgingly accepting that the scoreline flattered the Gunners.
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| Kenya Should Invest in Sports |
 | Kenya Should Invest in Sports
Time and time again, Kenyan athletes have excelled internationally, but have had little success in monetizing their sports in Kenya. Unfortunately, Kenya is yet to harness sports because we treat sports as a hobby for our youth even when sports and entertainment are some of the world's largest employers.
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| Caster Semenya and a Question of Gender |
 | Caster Semenya and a Question of Gender
Her family has produced her birth certificate; the head of her country's athletics governing body has quit his post to support her ; there have been accusations of unscrupulous coaches, Soviet-era chicanery, and racism. She may have won the IAAF World Championship ladies' 800 metres in a time of 1:55:45, a full two seconds ahead of Kenyan silver medallist Janeth Jepkosgei, but Caster Semenya's victory celebrations will have to wait while she negotiates a maelstrom that is not of her own making.
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| Caster-away? |
 | Caster-way?
A few days ago Caster Semenya received her gold medal for her outstanding victory in the 800m women's race at the IAAF's WorldChampionships. Sadly, that success has been overshadowed by claims that it was undeserved, allegations that she was ineligible for the race,that her competing was unfair to the other athletes. The stage whispers declare her a man and explain her victory with the unfair advantage conferred on her by androgens.
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| Monday Puzzle 3 |
 | Monday Puzzle 3
You have 10 sets of coins, each of which has 10 coins.
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| Beijing Olympics begin |
 | Beijing: The XXIX Olympiad
A magnificent opening to this year's Summer Olympics. In case you missed it, you can watch the three-part video on the opening ceremony here.
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Against all odds; Turkey in Europe
If you were writing this for a movie, few would find it at all life-like or even believable. The Turkish team have not led a match for more than three minutes the entirety of this tournament but have still contrived to qualify for the semi-finals.
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| Cheating at sport |
Cheating at sport
When I was growing up, it was a secret rule of mine that I would never compete in anything that I was not absolutely sure I could win. My profiling skills were not that great back then,so I often ended up last.
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| Is Truth still Stranger than Fiction? |
Is Truth still Stranger Than Fiction?
The author Mark Twain wrote: Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
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| Is Twenty-Twenty Sexier |
Is Twenty-Twenty sexier?
Many of us will no doubt have enjoyed watching the Twenty/Twenty Cricket series currently being staged in South Africa.
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| Just shooting |
Just shooting
Here I am, sitting before 2000 rounds of pistol ammunition (plus 200 rifle cartridges), and complaining my fate. For they arrived too late; and what shall I do now?
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| Kenya's Cricket Heroes |
Kenya's Cricket Heroes
Later today (20th March) a team from Kenya will go out to do battle against a far more experienced side in something of a David vs Goliath style clash.
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| Laurels for the Hardy |
Laurels for the Hardy
I have, in spite of myself, been staying up late into the night to catch the latest action from Osaka where Kenyan athletes have made an emphatic come-back to the world stage.
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| Poachers and Ivory |
Poachers and Ivory - video
A battle royal is looming in the conservation industry worldwide. Next month a decision will be made at the CITES forum in the Netherlands on whether or not to uphold a ban on the trade of ivory on the continent.
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| Save Kenyan soccer |
Save Kenyan Soccer.
When will Kenyan soccer get itself out of the endless rounds of scandal and mismanagement?
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| Sitting on top of the world |
Sitting on top of the world
It is quite dreary, time plods away as wiry frames bob up-and-down around a track ;but Kenya's success at the World Championships in Osaka has made athletics that much more viable as a spectator sport.
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