/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/690284/-/japb85z/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/UOC+members+to+meet+six+times+a+year/-/690284/1412306/-/12ehio6z/-/index.html Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) executive will from July 7, 2012 meet its affiliated federation heads to discuss operational matters. 2012-05-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/Walusimbi+wins+Entebbe+sailing/-/690284/1410164/-/ntlcp0/-/index.html “We need more Ugandans to join sailing clubs,” Commander Entebbe Sailing Club Micheal Austin said. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/Kisuze+becomes+FIDE+Master/-/690284/1409462/-/ctbnjo/-/index.html Uganda’s Chess Federation’s (UCF) vice president and FIDE Arbiter (FA), Stephen Kisuze has been crowned FIDE Master (FM). Kisuze’s FM honour comes after the UCF sent an application to the world chess governing body, FIDE, citing his splendid performance at the 1998 World Chess Olympiad in Elista, Russia where he scored five out of eight points. 2012-05-19T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1407438/-/vhuve1z/-/index.html Embattled Roger Ddungu applies for court injunction to stop Saturday’s UOC extra-ordinary assembly. 2012-05-16T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1406018/-/vhvnvsz/-/index.html There was a disagreement between Pool Association of Uganda President Farouk Kisuze and his alternate Moses Muhwezi at Lugogo yesterday as Nile Special launched the Shs500m national tournament. 2012-05-14T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1406016/-/vhvnvuz/-/index.html After a one-week training session under Ethiopian instructor, Shoatatek Alemayehu, 33 coaches from different clubs and tertiary institutions excelled in a level one volleyball coaching course at Lugogo yesterday. 2012-05-14T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/Bakkabulindi+speaks+out+on+strife+in+sport/-/690284/1405314/-/ifkhgx/-/index.html For the better part of the year, sport in the country has been entangled in a web of recurrent mayhem. Football, boxing, netball and lately the Uganda Olympic Committee have simultaneously hogged headlines for negative reasons. Naturally the figure in the spotlight in such circumstances becomes the State Minister for Sports Hon. Charles Bakkabulindi. 2012-05-13T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/Tugume+made+to+wait+longer/-/690284/1403088/-/6xqobtz/-/index.html Ugandan Titus Tugume will not fight Ukranian Volodymir Lozenko at Lugogo Indoor Stadium on May 18 as earlier scheduled. The World Kickboxing Intercontinental fight has been rescheduled to July 6 due to lack of a venue, Tugume’s promoter Patrick Kanyomozi has said. 2012-05-10T11:05:34Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/IOC+pours+cold+water+on+Kanyeihamba+tribunal/-/690284/1399972/-/mw93of/-/index.html The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has told Roger Ddungu to solve the problems dogging the Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) internally instead of involving third parties. 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1398494/-/vve2lkz/-/index.html Elijah Emojong won his fifth and sixth round games to maintain his lead in the Olympiad qualifiers on Tuesday. Emojong beat Micheal Mawanda and Vianney Luggya to move to 5.5 points, one ahead of Rajab Kamoga and Harold Wanyama. 2012-05-02T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1398496/-/vve2liz/-/index.html Passion is defined as an intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something. A decent crowd that witnessed the historic opening topflight match between hosts KCC and URA at Lugogo Stadium on Tuesday did not exhaust the definition. 2012-05-02T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1398492/-/vve2lmz/-/index.html For his impressive performances in last season’s American National Football League (NFL), the New York Giants have handed Ugandan Mathias Kagimu Kiwanuka a multi-year contract extension, reports indicate. 2012-05-02T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1397466/-/vver0cz/-/index.html Despite having only one school, St. Aloysius SSS Nabbingo at the second edition of the beach woodball circuit held at Sports Beach last Sunday, Uganda Woodball Federation (UWBF) are positive the development of the sport among the youth is on a gradual rise. 2012-05-01T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1397064/-/vveu58z/-/index.html Kampala’s Sebastian Kigongo toppled the sport’s big names to win the Osmaid Charity Cycling Race hosted in Jinja on Saturday. 2012-04-30T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1395742/-/vvg3c7z/-/index.html Uganda Woodball Federation (UWBF) has been given a Shs8m shot for this year’s second beach wood ball circuit to be held at Entebbe Lido beach today. “We have got a financial boost from the International Woodball Federation in addition to our funding” said Paul Mark Kayongo, UWBF president. 2012-04-28T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1394800/-/vvgqyiz/-/index.html St Mbuga Vocational Secondary successfully defended the Fr Grimes National Schools Chess title in the open category with 49 points at Hope Senior School in Mpigi. St Mbuga’s victory was boosted by Mulago Kings player Ben Mukumbya, who took home the man-of-series award after completing his 13 games unbeaten for 13 points. 2012-04-26T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1393988/-/vvhfawz/-/index.html Roger Ddungu will not be allowed to travel for the London Olympics as Team Uganda’s Chef de Mission, Daily Monitor has learnt. 2012-04-25T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1393208/-/vvhl07z/-/index.html Titus Tugume cannot imagine losing to Ukrainian Volodymir Lozenko in the World Kickboxing Super Middleweight Inter-continental fight next month. ‘‘I must win that title because it means everything to me,’’ Tugume said. The 27-year-old UPDF soldier faces Lozenko on May 18 at the UMA Exhibition Hall, Lugogo. 2012-04-24T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1393260/-/vvhku4z/-/index.html Uganda Olympic committee (UOC) executive, this Tuesday last evening, have sat and resolved to immediately suspend their president Roger Ddungu. The development will come as a shock to the tough-talking head, who was absent from the lengthy meet at Lugogo, as he had only last week initiated a professor George Kanyeihamba-led tribunal to handle the squabbles that have blighted UOC. 2012-04-24T18:04:14Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1392494/-/vvi8ilz/-/index.html Olympiad Harold Wanyama put up a splendid display to win the 5th edition of the Zabasajja Memorial Rapid Chess with 7 points (out of 8) at Pope Paul Memorial Hotel on Sunday. 2012-04-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1391452/-/vviwxdz/-/index.html Members of the Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) executive have rejected a tribunal commissioned by their president Roger Ddungu to handle squabbles that have blighted the sports body. The tribunal headed by former Supreme Court judge Professor George Kanyeihamba was unveiled to the press on Friday evening with protests from majority of the UOC executive that it was illegally constituted. 2012-04-22T10:09:56Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1390344/-/vvjn2tz/-/index.html KCCA new recruit Sharon Pajije believes her side are overwhelming favourites in their National Volleyball League tie against Cobap at Nakawa today. 2012-04-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1389184/-/vvyyjyz/-/index.html Uganda Hockey Federation (UHF) are in search of Shs15m to renovate the synthetic pitch at Lugogo. The pitch, constructed in 2008 at Shs500m, is in terrible shape after it was recently used for several non-sporting activities. 2012-04-18T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1389176/-/vvyyksz/-/index.html The bickering at Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) is not about to end after the body’s head Roger Ddungu threatened to take disciplinary action against his vice-president William Blick. 2012-04-18T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/Sports/OtherSport/-/690284/1387912/-/vw173wz/-/index.html Olympiad Harold Wanyama put up a splendid display to win the 5th edition of the Zabasajja Memorial Rapid Chess with 7 points (out of 8) at Pope Paul Memorial Hotel on Sunday. 2012-04-16T21:00:00Z