Author: BigEyeUg3

Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery has been ruled out of Saturday’s Bundesliga clash against Borussia Dortmund with a cracked rib and could also miss their Champions League match at CSKA Moscow next week, the club said on Thursday. Ribery was on the receiving end of a series of crunching tackles as France beat Ukraine 3-0 on Tuesday to snatch a World Cup spot for next year. “Without Ribery against Dortmund,” said Bayern spokesman Markus Hoerwick in a tweet. “Franck returned with cracked rib from international duty. Champions League participation in Moscow (on Wednesday) in doubt.” Bayern, unbeaten in 37 consecutive…

Premier League leaders Arsenal have received a boost with the inclusion of Theo Walcott in the squad for Saturday’s match at home to his old club Southampton while Lukas Podolski’s return is less than a month away. Manager Arsene Wenger has hailed the availability of England international Walcott, who he signed as a 16-year-old in 2006, after the forward’s season was interrupted by an abdominal operation in September. “Strikers who get behind the defenders have a very important quality and Theo has that quality,” Wenger was quoted as saying on Arsenal’s official website (www.arsenal.com) on Thursday ahead of the league…

MTN Uganda won the Best Corporate award at Uganda’s inaugural Social Media Awards which were held at the Hub – Oasis Mall on Friday 15th December 2013. The Corporate Award, which was a highlight award of the night, was centered on awarding the best Corporate Company that fully maximises social media as part of its operations and marketing strategy. It looks at the company that has made the largest investment in online engagement and reward of its customers. This award seeks to reward and recognize the company that best uses social media to create and connect with an online community…

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Thursday backed Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo for this year’s hotly contested Ballon d’Or award for the world’s best footballer. The prime minister, a Real Madrid supporter, said the 28-year-old Portuguese international deserved the prize although he saved words of praise for Barcelona forward Lionel Messi and for Bayern Munich’s French international Franck Ribery. “I am a Real Madrid fan, I have always been a Madrid fan. If I had to vote I would vote for Ronaldo,” the Spanish leader said in an interview with public radio. Ronaldo is emerging as the favourite to…

Eat your vitamins and say your prayers brothers … ’cause TMZ has learned Brooke Hogan is officially single again. Sources close to Brooke tell us Hulk’s daughter ended her engagement to Dallas Cowboys center Phil Costa a few weeks ago … after he proposed in Vegas back in June. We’re told Brooke realized things had moved way too fast, too soon … so she decided to call it quits and focus on her music — before making things official forever. Our sources say Hogan recently moved back to L.A. to put the finishing touches on her new album … and she wanted to be closer to Momma Hogan.…

By Moses Abeka GENRE: Fusion/Acoustic One of the greatest pleasures of being a writer and outgoing is that you get to meet the coolest people under the sun! Guess who I met, Lenea, a UK based Jamaican poet, singer and spoken word maestro. With bubble gum music clogging our airwaves, it is understandable such talent struggles to penetrate to our airwaves. The soul of music, safe to say, is lost and wandering. A fragile sequence of dreams, Lenea, manifests herself as an outstanding poet, live music performer with an exuberant adventurous voice singing her heart out streaming from the soul…

Two U.S.-born Puerto Rican artists, Marc Anthony and Draco Rosa, and the Colombian singer Carlos Vives on Thursday won the top Latin Grammy music awards in a night that rewarded comebacks and long careers. Top-selling salsa artist Anthony won record of the year for “Vivir Mi Vida” or “Live My Life,” a song that talks about moving on from life’s difficult moments. It is the fourth career Latin Grammy for the 45-year-old, who has also won two Grammys. “This means more to me than ever because I am in a very special time of my life and the words ‘live…

Australian actor Hugh Jackman said on Thursday that he had a skin cancer scare when doctors diagnosed a mark on his nose as cancerous cells. Jackman, 45, posted a photo of his face and a bandage on his nose on his Instagram page, saying his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, told him to get his nose checked, and he was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, cancerous cells that grow on the surface of the skin. “Please don’t be foolish like me. Get yourself checked. And USE sunscreen!!!” the “Les Miserables” actor said in the Instagram caption. Representatives for Jackman had no updates…

By Edwin Junior As the day for one of the biggest showdowns of the year draws closer, organisers of the event have started hyping it up. Free tickets can now be won. With so many concerts lined up for the festive month, reputations are at stake. Promoters are under immense pressure to attract as many people as they possibly can. This has left many scratching their heads for creative ways to entice and lure fans to their concerts. Organisers of the Rhythm and Rhyme Concert well aware that Ugandans love freebies have taken to social media to give away free…

By Isaac Mites If you have been wondering when the latest crazy and fun happening place is opening officially, well worry not. This Friday 22nd of November, 2013, all roads lead to Blu-Ice Lounge for the grand opening of the fun filled hang out, just right opposite Quality Super Market Naalya. Sharon O, the brain behind the success of this breathtaking rest together with Tusiime Jaki O will host the sexy curvaceous and hot thigh-ed Sheebah Karungi and Brenda Nambi, singers in the former group of HB Toxic who will perform live on the same stage. Owing to the creativity…