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The Turkish Süper Lig will have a significant presence at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, with 21 players from 11 clubs selected to represent their countries at the continent’s premier international tournament in Morocco. The 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations will run from Dec. 21 to Jan. 18, bringing together 24 national teams divided into six groups. Hosted by Morocco for the second time after 1988, the tournament will be played across multiple cities, with the winter schedule designed to avoid extreme heat and reduce clashes with club competitions. As final squads were confirmed, the Süper…

The 2025 CAF Africa Cup of Nations will be staged in Morocco from 21 December 2025 to 18 January 2026, bringing together 24 men’s national teams from across the continent to compete for African football’s biggest prize. The tournament will be played across six Moroccan cities, with the champions crowned in Rabat. It is the 35th edition of the competition and the first to be held during the Christmas and New Year period. Hosts Morocco are among the leading contenders, buoyed by their historic run to the semi-finals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. They face strong competition from record…

The Community Calendar publishes events, meetings and fundraisers in The Jamestown Sun at no charge. To submit an activity, email it to news@jamestownsun.Wednesday, Dec. 15 James River Alcoholics Anonymous, noon (open, topic) and 8 p.m., (closed, topic), AA Clubhouse, 518 10th Ave. SE.Primary Purpose, 7 p.m. (open, Big Book) 116 1st Ave. South.Stutsman County Area Retired Teachers Association, 11:30 a.m., Legacy Center, 419 5th St. NE. Order a meal in advance by contacting the James River Senior Center.Jamestown Regional Airport Authority, 6 p.m., Jamestown Regional Airport.Thursday, Dec. 18Buffalo City Group AA, 7:30 p.m. (open, speaker meeting), United Presbyterian Church, 302…

South Africa’s triumph at the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) held the promise of a new era, one in which the sleeping giant of the continent rose to rival traditional titans of the time, Nigeria, Cameroon and the Arab nations to the north.But three decades on, it remains their only success. Bafana Bafana’s fortunes declined slowly at first, then hastened to the point where they were barely considered outsiders for the biannual continental crown.There is a new optimism around the team though, buoyed by a third place at the last finals in Ivory Coast two years ago, and by…

Ed DoveDec 17, 2025, 05:17 AM ETCloseEd Dove is a writer and scout who has a deep and enduring passion for African sport, politics and literature. Instagram: @EddyDove22, Facebook: @EddyDoveAfricaWhile the Africa Cup of Nations is regularly lauded as a magnificent opportunity to witness the stars of tomorrow in action, it also gives keen observers of the Africa game the chance to see players who they’d completely forgotten existed.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedWhether they’re ageing veterans gunning for that one last shot at glory, or middle-aged journeymen who never realised their potential, here are 15 AFCON-bound players you’d completely forgotten existed.1. Bruno…

To subscribe, please click hereWant a copy of today’s edition? Here’s a map of single-copy locationsSports Editor Matt Daniels with a look at what’s going on around the area: Members of The News-Gazette’s 2025 First-Team All-Area boys’ soccer choices gather in the newspaper’s newsroom on Nov. 12 in Champaign. Clockwise, from top right are Adam Perez from Danville, Nadav Gal from Urbana, Aldo Zepeda from Uni High, Steven Newman from St. Joseph-Ogden, Mason Swartz from Oakwood/Salt Fork, Zach Harper from St. Joseph-Ogden, Colin Jackson from Mahomet-Seymour, Noah Rice from Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin, Raymond Zhang from Champaign Central, Isaac Ramos from Centennial and…

The 35th Africa Cup of Nations starts on Sunday when hosts Morocco take on Comoros.This edition of the tournament was originally scheduled for summer 2025, but it got pushed back six months to ensure it did not clash with the inaugural playing of FIFA’s revamped Club World Cup in June and July. Matches will be held at nine stadiums across six cities, including Marrakesh, Casablanca and Tangier. The venue for the opening game and the final is the 68,700-seater Prince Moulay Abdellah stadium in Rabat, Morocco’s capital.AFCON is frequently full of surprises. For example, host nation Ivory Coast won the…

Chuck Neinas, the onetime Big Eight commissioner whose media savvy and dealmaking helped turn college football into the multibillion-dollar business it is today, died Tuesday. He was 93. The National Football Foundation announced Neinas’ death, with its president and CEO Steve Hatchell calling him “a visionary in every sense of the word.” A cause of death was not disclosed. From 1980-97, Neinas was executive director of the College Football Association, an agency created by several big conferences that sought to wrest control of their TV rights from the NCAA. Two key members, Georgia and Oklahoma, sued the NCAA over TV,…

For a number of countries that missed out on the 2026 World Cup, the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) which kicks off on December 21 in Morocco, not only offers a swift chance at a measure of redemption but also a chance to start rebuilding and preparing for the global tournament when it next comes around in 2030.  Teams such as Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Benin, Sudan and others will stay home next summer, even though Africa saw its allocation at next summer’s World Cup expand to nine automatic places, up from five in 2022. They will, however, all be in…

A toddler was found unharmed inside of a Hoover house where a couple was found dead by a family member Tuesday morning. Police arrived at a house on Highland Manor Court around 9 a.m. The husband and wife were found shot and killed, according to police. The 3-year-old was unharmed.The woman has been confirmed as Christina Chambers by WBRC News Director Shannon Maze. “We are heartbroken to confirm the death of former WBRC reporter Christina Chambers,” Maze said in a statement to WVTM 13. “Christina was a valued member of our newsroom and a beloved colleague whose warmth, humor, and…