Mo Farah: Fly Mo discovers his cutting edge He is in the running for Sports Personality of the Year tonight – and the world 5,000m champion tells Simon Turnbull he has no intention of taking his foot off the gas in an Olympic year Mo Farah was back on home ground yesterday, heading straight from Heathrow to St Mary’s University College in Twickenham after a marathon... 

    Having attended multiple red carpet award ceremonies, I decided this year to attend to my first blue carpet event: the fourth annual Somali Entertainment Awards at the Cedar Cultural Center on December 18. The SEA awards celebrate the best movies, sports, music, and arts of the year and are described as a “Blue Carpet Event.” I must say I was impressed. The ceremony was conducted... 

  Teenage boys representing Wadajir and Yaqshid districts in the war-devastated Banaadir region have on Saturday confirmed to have crossed to the semifinals of the district level football for peace tournament which has been underway at the ill-equipped Banaadir stadium in Mogadishu for past six days. In the first match on Saturday Yaqshid district team defeated its Waberi district rivals by 3-1... 

After scoring a superb double in Barcelona’s sctintillating 4-0 victory over Santos in Sunday’s 2011 FIFA Club World Cup final in Japan, Lionel Messi was presented with both the adidas Golden Ball and the TOYOTA Award after being voted the tournament’s best player by FIFA’s Technical Study Group (TSG). adidas Golden Ball and TOYOTA Award: Lionel Messi (Barcelona) The reigning... 

Doha, Qatar – Host Qatar’s new generation of promising and talented athletes, along with a junior 1500m runner from Djibouti, stole the show in the athletics events at the 12th Pan Arab Games which were held at the Khalifa Stadium in Doha from 15-20 December while Morocco was the most successful nation in the medal tally. The 1500m race was definitely the “play of the Games” where three teenagers... 

It’s just a few minutes after the final whistle has blown and the shiny basketball court of the Al Gharafa Sports Hall in Doha is filled with shouts and cheers. The sky blue-clad national women’s basketball team from war-ravaged Somalia has just beaten Qatar, the host nation, at the 2011 Arab Games, in a hotly-contested match that ended 67-57 to the East African country. “Words can’t... 

The Somali soccer youth ended the season with a banquet that was held at the Brian Cole Center on November 1, 2011. Dozens of Somali kids were joined by their parents to celebrate the first successful partnership between PAL and the Brian Coyle Center. The kids were given medals for participating in the program along with framed pictures of the team.   This was a major milestone for PAL which... 

Waxaa maalintii Isniinta taariikhduna ahayd 29-ka bisha Nofember ee 2010 lagu soo daabacay ama laga sheegay guud ahaan warbaahinta Soomaaliyeed in ciyaartoyda Xulka Qaranka Kubadda cagta ee dalka Soomaaliya ay ka badbaadeen shil baabuur. Shilka baabuur oo ka dhacay magaalada Darsalaam ee dalka Tanzania. Nasiib wanaag waxa uu dhaawac fudud uu gaaray afar ciyaartoy oo kali ah, halka saddex ciyaartoy... 

Gabar Soomaaliyeed oo ka tirsan xulka Qaranka Gabdhaha kubadda koleyga dalka Soomaaliya oo loogu doortey tartanka Doha ee Cayaaraha Carabta 2011 ciyaaryahanadii ugu fiicneyd, magaceedana waxaa la yiraahdaa Maryan Xuseen waa 26 jir  degan dalka Canada magaalada Edmonton. Run ahaantii  waxay magac iyo sharafba u tahey dhamaan Soomaaliya hadii ay ahaan laheyd dal iyo dad, gaar ahaana waxay tusaale... 

One of the UK’s top sports stars will be crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Thursday. Broadcast live from MediaCity in Salford Quays for the first time, the show will be screened on BBC One. The public will pick the winner from a shortlist of 10. The shortlist is: Mark Cavendish, Darren Clarke, Alastair Cook, Luke Donald, Mo Farah, Dai Greene, Amir Khan, Rory McIlroy, Andy Murray...