Comments on “I can’t take that money; I won’t sleep well at night … it’s not right” – Jeremy Affeldt” From my tolaadenle@emotanafricana.com Mail Box: The story about baseball player Jeremy Affeldt preferring integrity to unearned $500,000 in a contract mistake, reminds me of the extremism of the Japanese for integrity, loyalty and honour. A […]

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From the macho world of male sports come startling, shocking three brief sentences that have set the sports world – the whole world – talking, and wondering who will be next to “come out” and face up to their sexual preference: “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” – Jason Collins.   […]

Chief Folake, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (a.k.a “Lady San”) conducts the cutting of the Centennial Cake with L-R: Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe, Professor Akin Mabogunje (Justice Titi Mabogunje -in glasses – is visible next to “Lady San”, & others. The “Old Boys” wear the school colors in the usual uniformed modern aso oke fila.  Professor Awor […]

The Road to the Final Four may still be ahead but THREE of my FOUR picks are in to the Sweet 16 round, and so are still very in:  Florida’s Gators, Duke and Indiana. Stay tuned.  TOLA, Tuesday March 26, 2013. For the teams remaining in the Big Dance to the round of 16, check […]

It seems we never grow out of certain things like mothers’ cooking, and college hoops is one of such for me.  Even if I do not follow ESPN all season on which college is up or which is down, I wake up when March Madness starts and somehow fits right in! No, do not get […]

As the final of the Major League Soccer (North America) got under way a little while ago, Freddie Adu, the young Ghanaian football phenom who is never far from my mind when I watch MLS football matches, came to mind again.  The least that the young man deserves is to be there in the uniform […]

Fresh off her season-ending victory at the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Championship, Serena is in Nigeria with her older sister, Venus who preceded her in the Grand Slam winners’ collectors. No sports personalities have graced my essays – here or before – than the two sisters. On this blog, there has been a persistent question […]

Toyin Ajayi, a niece-in-law and her friends in the Boston area joined together with friends and families to run – the older folks walked – a Half Marathon to raise funds for the Rape Crisis Center of Boston, Massachusetts in the USA.  It’s not surprising that the young ladies have more than surpassed their goal […]