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From Uganda to America, "Far From Home" tells the story of Brolin Mawejje, who beat all odds to pursue a dream of becoming a doctor and an Olympic snowboarder

Stephen Keshi must be giggling to himself. In the last two weeks, one foreign coach, Lars Olaf Mattsson, resigned from his post in Sierra Leone because it was "so terribly strenuous", and another, Bobby Williamson has been sacked from his job in Ugan...

Remember the time when we all lost our spleens laughing when the Ugandan FA (FUFA) pranked the entire world on April 1 when they announced on their website that Bobby Williamson, their long-serving coach of 4 1/2 years, had been sacked? No? Well w...

Uganda have sacked head coach Bobby Williamson with the national team bottom of their World Cup qualifying group.

Richard Abril (17-3-1, 8 KOs), a Miami-based Cuban, will face Las Vegas-based Uganda native Sharif Bogere (23-0, 15 KOs) for a vacant lightweight world title.

On October 14, Bobby Williamson could have walked away from Ugandan football. For a third time under his watch, the national side stumbled in their quest to qualify for a continental championship. No Angola 2010, no Equatorial Guinea and Gabon 2012 a...

Eritrean footballers who vanished from a hotel in Uganda during a tournament are seeking asylum in the country, a Ugandan government official has said.

At 9, Mutesi learned chess, through the Sports Outreach Institute. Welcome to SportsNation! On Friday, chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi stops by to chat about her journey from the slums of Katwe, Uganda to becoming a Woman Candidate Master in chess. Th...

A Ugandan government official says 17 Eritrean soccer players and a team doctor have applied for political asylum after going missing during a regional tournament.

In ESPN The Magazine, Steve Wulf writes that Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins, 33, is close to the end of his career and building his legacy while racing against time.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi was just like anyone else who watched Team Uganda in the Little League World Series last week. Amazed. "It was truly amazing," Girardi said. "It's a bunch of kids that really just started to play the game and to be a...

The Ugandan little league team, the first-ever team from Africa to reach the Little League World Series, will be recognized before the Trenton Thunder minor-league baseball game on Monday. The Thunder have provided equipment for uniforms for the ...

The first team from Africa in the Little League World Series will go home with one win.

The Ugandans will need a little luck since their last real game was a month ago, they have only 11 players, they have never performed in front of a crowd and their first game on Friday (5 p.m. ET) is against a more experienced team from Panama.

Jay Shapiro explores Lugazi, the Ugandan town that produced the second African team ever to qualify for the Little League World Series, for ESPN The Magazine.

For Stephen Kiprotich, being a relative unknown had an advantage: When the Ugandan runner joined the leaders late in the Olympic marathon, no one really paid that much attention.