Julu Johnson, a sports editor for the Liberian newspaper News, was physically attacked by the deputy secretary general of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) when he went to cover LFA’s recent extra-ordinary congress. The attack took place in full public view of all the delegates.

FIVB top official accused of violating ethical rules by manipulating doping sanction and cheating with player’s ages.

Texas Senate approves the largest programme of random steroid tests for athletes in Texan high schools. WADA applauds the efforts. Meanwhile schools in Australia protest against drug testing of non-elite Australian children.

Last round in the wheel of fortune for Denmark, Finland and Hungary has been set off by The European Commission. In the spinning business of betting the EU Commission has issued Reasoned Opinions against the three EU member states to consider their gambling monopolies and make sure they are not contradicted by EU law.

In Mongolia, more than 30,000 child jockeys compete in horse races each year. Children riding horses in races is a popular tradition, but as horse racing has become more and more commercialised, injuries and fatalities have increased drastically - in part because races are now taking place at sub-zero temperatures.

20 years ago the German heptathlete Birgit Dressel died from drug poisoning. She did not die because of the lack of medical expertise – she died because of the excess of it. Has sport learned from this?

With a monthly budget under 90,000 US dollars and no more than three thousand supporters at their games, Arsenal de Sarandí is the smallest club in Argentina’s competitive Primera División. Nevertheless, for the first time in its brief 50-year history, Arsenal de Sarandí have reached the top of Argentine football, leading the division after four rounds.

The threat to Bob Munro's immigration status is over. He stays in Kenya and thanks the Play the Game network for its support.