Actually, if all rules of engagement were established, Gor Mahia would be receiving Government money to travel to Dar es Salaam next week for the Cecafa Kagame Cup football club championship.

On the local domestic scene, Gor Mahia have virtually been bullying the opposition but a stern test awaits them as they face the likes of Yanga, APR and KCCA in the forthcoming Cecafa Kagame Cup in Dar es Salaam...

The mindset of the amateur Kenya rugby player has to change to cope with the demands of the professional game. Eddie Rombo, a high school boy 30 years ago, was a pioneer in England for the current crop of talent being exported abroad

Ebola threw the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations into disarray. Original hosts Morocco backed out saying they would not have the wherewithal to deal with the disease if it broke out in their country.

Sports minister assures National Oil Company that they have put their money in the right place by backing the national women's volleyball team. "After three years, you (National Oil Corporation) will reap the fruits of your investment. This team will go places. And keep on renewing this contract until we retire," said Dr Wario

This year, the Kenyan Premier League was in the grip of a chaos pandemic.

Were it not for Samuel Wanjiru's gold medal victory at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Kenya would hold not a single Olympic men's marathon title

Some of the world's most famous and biggest passions in sport run under ethnic, religious and sectarian names; teams like Boston and Glasgow Celtics, The Maoris (rugby XV), Asante (Ashanti) Kotoko, Universidad Católica (football, Chile), Mumbai Indians (IPL Cricket), Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves (baseball) and Washington Redskins (American football). Kenya was no different when President Moi banned used of "tribal" names throwing organizations such as Abaluhya United, Digo United, Maragoli United, Sikh Union, Goan Institute and Gema FC into confusion

Yoshio Tamura was a renown head coach of the Kenyan Karate teams in much of the 1970s up to the 90s.

A man called Gamal Alwali is the reason why Omdurman soccer club Al Merreikh is such an exciting outfit. They have clout in mass following, physical assets such as a magnificent stadium, and ability to buy good players from all over Africa.

Leopards seem to be regaining their footing and improvement will be expected at resumption of domestic action.

During the current run-up to Fifa World Cup time in Brazil, it is intriguing to be in Omdurman; that deeply historic part of a sprawling metropolis the international world refers to as Khartoum.

Without Gor Mahia here for the Nile Basin Cup tournament, Leopards may wish to go all the way and lift the new Cup, bring it to Nairobi and see whether it could wipe some tears.

You cannot criticise Adel Amrouche. He is the only one with the mandate to select the national soccer team and earlier in the week he definitely had good reasons to have picked who he did.

Kenya should easily beat the Comoros in the forthcoming second round of the Africa Cup of Nations football qualifiers and if only for sentimental reasons, Harambee Stars’ third round opponents ought to be Liberia.

Some of Nigeria’s clubs, extremely big names in Africa during their heydays, became extinct after relegation. In fact in the current Nigerian Premier League only (Enugu) Rangers International and Heartland of Owerri have never faced the axe from the top division.

The Fifa World Cup is coming, and other relatively minor events such as the Commonwealth Games and the Youth Olympics that will be of television viewing interest.

Kenyan footballers are not paid piles of cash. Indeed many of them and their sympathisers often claim that the players earn ‘peanuts’.

A majority of Kenyans see that everything in the horizon is about the Olympic Games in Rio, Brazil in 2016.

If the building of at least one of five ultra modern stadiums promised by the Government starts soon, it will be a most visible sign that sports is headed for a transformation.

After, hardly 10 short years, there are footballers who may now try to state in a conversation that they once played for the national team Harambee Stars only to be told to “go tell it to the birds!”

Suddenly, Kenya’s national football team looks good. They are champions of East and Central Africa.

Azam of Dar es Salaam want to sign Kenya and Thika United midfielder Francis Kahata for the highest fee any Kenyan Premier League player has attracted when moving to another club in the East and Central African region.

Moi International Sports Centre will always be Moi International Sports Centre.

A possible best final at this year’s Senior Challenge Cup would be Kenya versus Africa champions, Zambia. But the two would have to fight their way through Nairobi, Machakos, Nakuru, Mombasa, Kisumu and back to Nairobi on December 12.

At the dawn of Kenya’s 50thAnniversary of Independence, her rugby players are among the best in the whole world.