Mobi Akiode
ESPN is running a series called “Her Story”. In one of the episodes, they profile a young Nigerian lady named Mobolaji (“Mobi”) Akiode who is making a difference to the game in Nigeria.
Mobi played for the Nigerian national team at one time, and also spent time living with her family in Newark, New Jersey, working for ESPN as an accountant.
Last updated results for 18 october 2009:
Overall standing and result of the final match:
Gauteng hosted another Women’s tournament that had some interesting clashes lined up for the few people that made the trip to the Orlando Community Hall in Orlando. After a lengthy interval between the junior and senior games, that saw some of the spectators take to the court; the games were about to resume with an interesting clash between Tuks and the Jewels from Zimbabwe who were the defending champions. In the 2nd game we had Vaal University of Technology against University of Johannesburg with VUT going out there and recruiting to make their team stronger with the acquisition of Emma Ledwaba and Phumla. The way the tournament is set up is that the juniors play in the morning while the senior games are in the afternoon to accommodate the working folks… By the way there was a lot of last minute cancellation in the senior pools so it ended up with 4 teams playing round robin with the winner taking the R30000 on offer. At junior level there were plenty of teams but the defending champions from Tshwane were out to collect the grand prize of R15000.
Tuks vs Zimbabwe Jewels
Zimbabwe Jewels, the defending champions, arrived in Gauteng late and missed out on their first game against VUT ladies so they had some catching up to do if they were going to go home with some extra cash…
The world of basketball has been dominated by men for a long time and not much has been done to change that; intriguingly this dominance doesn’t only exist in basketball but in all aspects of sport as well. August was Women’s Month but still a sense of “It’s a man’s world…” was lurking here at home; it took a special lady from the US to change that…
Photos by NBA Photos/Getty Images
For the first time ever, BWB (Basketball Without Boarders) held The Women’s Clinic in South Africa at The American School. Together with Hoops for Hope, NBA brought WNBA and Olympic gold medalist Jennifer Azzi, who’s also the Ambassador for NBA Cares, along to help run the clinic. About 70 South African girls were at the clinic getting coached by some of the best in the world, not only about basketball; but about values, education, gender equality etc. Continue reading »
Gauteng Basketball Association together with Gauteng Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture cordially invites your team to the 3rd annual Women Basketball Tournament.
Details of the tournament :
Date : 28 – 30 November 2008
Venue : Orlando Community Hall ( Soweto, opposite Orlando Stadium)
Photo credit: Mark Dadswell/Getty Images
I wrote this piece on the eve of the Beijing Olympics. The USA re-established their dominance as world leaders in basketball as both women and men’s teams won the ultimate athletic achievement, Olympic gold. Asides from Mali’s butter fingered opposition to Lisa Leslie’s team USA in the women’s preliminaries, one of the most striking features of the competition were the unitards worn by team Australia. How could any self-respecting women step out onto a basketball court with a wedgie?? After all basketball is one of those sports tied undeniably to the sub-culture of music, language, and clothing that marks the sport as an urban cultural phenomenon. In South Africa we are no different in our expression of this sub-culture than our peers globally, but what really is the identity of women’s basketball in this country?
