Sports

Armed Forces were formally decorated with the championship of the 2014 May Day Sports Trophy at the weekend.

A Gambian, Lamin Barrow has become the first Gambian to go play professional in the American National Football League, the NFL....

''We the undersigned members of the Gambia Football Federation [GFF], wish to submit our response to the National Sports Council [NSC] on the above caption....

The chairman of the National Sports Council, NSC, Lamin Kolley on Saturday revealed that the saga involving the Gambia National Olympic Committee, GNOC, will soon come to an end. He further revealed that the NSC will set up a committee that will look into GNOC matters and come up with recommendations...

Hadda Bangura, a seasoned football administrator from Sait Matty Football Club in Bakau and Malick Camara, a football marketing specialist have been added to the newly appointed GFF interim committee....

Wilfred Riley, the secretary general of the Gambia Cricket Association assisted by Mbye Dumbuya, Peter Campbell, Prince Johnson, Ismaila Tamba and Andreh Jarju, all of them prominent Gambian cricket officials, conducted a two-day ICC, ACA administrator's course in Banjul recently...

Nine men working in football and sports administration were arrested on Friday and charged with negligence of official duty...

The Standard has laid hands on the response of the now suspended GFF executive committee to the report of the task force which probed the Under-20 debacle and came out with recommendations which was carried in our Friday edition...

Njundu Drammeh, Child Protection Alliance: I am no football afficionado but the question bothering me is this: "Are we angry or disappointed that CAF found out we 'cheated' or are we angry and disappointed that we 'cheated'?..

The National Sports Council, NSC, yesterday formally delivered a letter to the GFF secretariat addressed to President Mustapha Kebbeh and his three vice presidents Buba Janneh, Kebba Touray and Basirou Bajo...

The suspension of the GFF executive committee by the Minster of Youth and Sports Wednesday has been greeted with strong opposition by many regional football and club representatives who yesterday converged at Football House to condemn the move.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Alieu Jammeh, yesterday disclosed that football has commanded a huge interest in The Gambia and as such it must be run in the interest of the nation....