ISSUE 106 JULY 2016 COMPLIMENTARY COPY JULY 2016 SPORTS MONTHLY 1 COLLEGE OF INSURANCE OF IN E SU G R E A L N L C O E C P R N I E O AIROB C F N E E S LL SIO E NAL EXC Regional Centre for Excellence The College is now offering the following Special Programs: • Agricultural Insurance - in partnership with USAID/COMPETE • Weather Index Based Insurance - in partnership with World Bank • Marine Insurance - in Collaboration with Kenya Maritime Authority • Pensions Trustee Development Program Kenya - In collaboration with Retirement Benefits Authority, Humber University - Canada and ARBS - All Trustees of Retirement Benefits Schemes and Trust Corporations in Kenya must ensure that at least one Trustee among them has been trained and certified to comply with Legal Notice No. 77 of 2008 amended Regulation 8 (1) (c) (iii) of the Retirement Benefits (Occupational Retirement Benefits Schemes) - Delivered in 5 modules Retirement Scheeme Fundamentals, The Law and Retirement Benefit Schemes, Trustees and Governance, Retirement Scheme Investing and Funding and Contracts,Sourcing and Administration Oversight. Examinable Programs • Certificate of Proficiency (COP) • Certificate Course in Insurance (CCI) • Diploma- Associate of the Insurance institute of Kenya (AIIK) • Diploma- Chartered Insurance Institute of London • Advanced Diploma- Chartered Insurance Institute of London(ACII) Short & Technical Programs • Customer Care • Management • Risk Management • Strategic Marketing S For further information contact: Anne/Milka - Main Campus - Nairobi Marion/Florence - Mombasa Campus P.O. Box 56928-00200 Petro Building, 3rd Floor NAIROBI Moi Avenue/Digo Road Tel: 020 – 6009175/6005601/-4, MOMBASA Mobile 0722–509759/0734-600320, Tel. No 020 2348382, 0721786448 Fax;: 6005605; Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.coi.ac.ke 2 SPORTS MONTHLY JULY 2016 July 2016 editor Editor’s Ben Ochieng [email protected] cell-phone: 0727 264019 contributors Aasif Karim NOTE Kariuki Mwangi Sandipan Banerjee Devan Shah photos Shutter Speed Avoid pitfalls of London 2012 design, graphics Kenya is soon departing for the Games of the 31st and layout Simple Edge Advertising Ltd Olympiad. 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Sports Monthly Magazine is published by Alpha Sports P.O.Box 57386-00200 Nairobi Tel: 020-4349614/5/6 Email: [email protected] Website : www.sportsmonthly.co.ke contents Cover picture: Ali floors Joe Frazier Cover story pg. 4 Kenya's swimming woes pg. 8 Karim on downfall of Kenyan cricket pg. 10 How KBC goofed during Euro 2004 pg. 13 Athletes sue Mutwii at the NCIC pg. 14 Kironi on Malkia Strikers' struggles pg. 17 Henry Rono's story pg. 18 Estonia Triplets to compete in Rio pg. 22 The Karim's pg. 26 English Premier League season review pg. 32 Last Word pg. 34 JULY 2016 SPORTS MONTHLY 3 Cover Story Muhammad Ali - Athlete, Boxer, Philanthropist Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr on January 17, 1942, was an Olympic and world champion boxer, who also had a unique personality, based on self- belief and strong religious and political convictions. He won the world heavyweight boxing championship three times, and won the North American Boxing Federation championship as well as an Olympic gold medal. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky and named after his father; Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. Ali later changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam and subsequently converted to Sunni Islam in 1975. Early boxing career Standing at 6’3″ (1.91 m), Ali had a highly unorthodox style for a heavyweight boxer. Rather than the normal boxing style of carrying the hands high to defend the face, he take part in no wars unless declared Ali was essentially banned from instead relied on his ability to avoid by Allah or The Messenger. We don’t fighting in the United States and a punch. In Louisville, October take part in Christian wars or wars of forced to accept bouts abroad for 29, 1960, Cassius Clay won his any unbelievers.” most of 1966. first professional fight; a six-round decision over Tunney Hunsaker, who Ali also famously said: “I ain’t got From his rematch with Liston in May was the police chief of Fayetteville, no quarrel with those Vietcong”. No 1965, to his final defense against Zora West Virginia. Vietcong ever called me nigger.” Folley in March 1967, he defended his title nine times. Ali was scheduled From 1960 to 1963, the young fighter Ali refused to respond to his name to fight WBA champion Ernie Terrell amassed a record of 19-0, with being read out as Cassius Clay, in a unification bout in Toronto on 15 knockouts. He became the top stating, as instructed by his mentors March 29, 1966, but Terrell backed contender for Sonny Liston’s title. from the Nation of Islam that Clay out and Ali won a 15-round decision was the name given to his slave against substitute opponent George Vietnam puts pause in Ali’s career ancestors by the white man. Chuvalo. He then went to England and defeated Henry Cooper and He refused to serve in the United “Cassius Clay is a slave name. I Brian London by stoppage on cuts. States Army during the Vietnam War didn’t choose it and I don’t want it. I as a conscientious objector, because am Muhammad Ali, a free name – it Ali returned to the United States in “War is against the teachings of the means beloved of God – and I insist November 1966 to fight Cleveland Holy Koran. I’m not trying to dodge people use it when people speak to “Big Cat” Williams. A year and a half the draft. We are not supposed to me and of me. “ before the fight, Williams had been 4 SPORTS MONTHLY JULY 2016 Cover Story shot in the stomach at point-blank “Why should they ask me to put on on March 8, 1971, at Madison range by a Texas policeman. As a a uniform and go 10,000 miles from Square Garden. The fight, known result, Williams went into the fight home and drop bombs and bullets on as ‘”The Fight of the Century”, was missing one kidney, 10 feet of his brown people while so-called Negro one of the most eagerly anticipated small intestine, and with a shrivelled people in Louisville are treated like bouts of all time and remains one left leg from nerve damage from dogs?” of the most famous. It featured two the bullet. Ali beat Williams in three skilled, undefeated fighters, both of rounds. In 1970, Ali was allowed to fight whom had reasonable claims to the again, and in late 1971 the Supreme heavyweight crown. The fight lived up On February 6, 1967, Ali returned to a Court reversed his conviction. to the hype, and Frazier punctuated Houston boxing ring to fight Terrell in his victory by flooring Ali with a hard what became one of the uglier fights Muhammad Ali’s comeback left hook in the 15th and final round in boxing. Terrell had angered Ali by and won on points. Frazier eventually In 1970, Ali was finally able to get calling him Clay, and the champion won the fight and retained the title a boxing license. With the help of vowed to punish him for this insult. with a unanimous decision, dealing a state senator, he was granted a During the fight, Ali kept shouting Ali his first professional loss. Despite license to box in Georgia because it at his opponent, “What’s my name, an impressive performance, Ali may was the only state in America without Uncle Tom … What’s my name.” have still been suffering from the a boxing commission. In October Terrell suffered 15 rounds of brutal effects of “ring rust” due to his long 1970, he returned to stop Jerry punishment, losing 13 of 15 rounds on layoff. two judges’ scorecards, but Ali did not Quarry on a cut after three rounds. knock him out. Analysts speculated Shortly after the Quarry fight, the In 1973, after a string of victories that the fight only continued because New York State Supreme Court ruled over top heavyweight opposition in Ali chose not to end it, choosing that Ali was unjustly denied a boxing a campaign to force a rematch with instead to further punish Terrell. license. Once again able to fight in Frazier, Ali split two bouts with Ken New York, he fought Oscar Bonavena Norton (in the bout that Ali lost to It was a wonderful demonstration of at Madison Square Garden in Norton, Ali suffered a broken jaw). boxing skill and a barbarous display December 1970. After a tough 14 of cruelty. rounds, Ali stopped Bonavena in the Rumble in the Jungle 15th, paving the way for a title fight Appearing at rallies with Nation of against Joe Frazier.