The delegates of the Handball Association of Ghana (HAG) last Saturday re-elected incumbent Chairman Ken Dzirasah by popular acclamation for another four-year term at the media centre of the Accra Sports Stadium.

A host of veteran athletes paraded at last Saturday's Circuit Championships at the El-Wak Stadium but failed to seal qualification to the 2016 Olympics. 

Attram Divise Academy last Saturday beat Galatasary U-20 1-0 in their opening fixture of the ongoing NextGen Youth Tournament at the Olympic Stadium in Holland.

Kudjoe Fianoo, CEO of Ashgold, has finally tendered his resignation after months of speculations underlining the raging turmoil in the club.

Less than a year after allegations of sexism and discrimination were raised by female players and a massive corruption scandal shook up soccer's international governing body, FIFA seems determined to reform to the organisation. The male-dominated world football organisation took a much-needed step toward gender equality last Friday when Fatma Samoura was appointed FIFA's first female secretary general. 

Giants Kumasi Asante Kotoko last Saturday reached the quarter-finals of the MTN FA Cup after beating Storm FC Academy 5-3 on penalties at the Nkawkaw Park.

Michael Osei's men fought from behind to equalise a 15th-minute setback through Bennett Ofori before Emmanuel Asante converted the kick of the game to win on penalties.

The annual Nana Awuah Darko-Apem Memorial Squash championship has been held at the Accra Polo grounds with CocoBod beating Accra Polo Club in a fiercely contested final.

The Technical Director of the Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF), Dr Kyle Pierce, has admitted that the federation faces a "very tough choice" in deciding who represents Ghana at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.

The president of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA), Professor Francis Dodoo, says it is unfair for Ghanaians to expect medals from athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil because the nation has failed to invest in their preparations.

The management of Supabets Ghana Limited, a licensed betting company, has proposed to pay 35 per cent of the value of each winning ticket to its customers who were unable to redeem their winning tickets last week due to what the company says was a mistake in the odds.

Ghanaian Supreme court judge Justice Anin Yeboah has been named on the newly-constituted FIFA Ethics Committee.

Former Black Stars striker, Kim Grant, arrived in the country last Saturday night to begin a one-year stint as the Technical Director of Cape Coast Ebusua Dwarfs.

The FIFA Council last Friday appointed Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura of Senegal as FIFA Secretary General, thrusting the 21-year veteran of United Nations programmes who is currently the UN’s Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Nigeria, into the heartbeat of world football. 

The announcement made by FIFA President Gianni Infantino at the 66th FIFA Congress in Mexico City has been the only major surprise of Infantino's first annual congress as head of the world football body, as the Italian tried to reassure the 1,000 delegates that the worst of FIFA's problems were behind it.

Ghana on Sunday scooped four gold medals at the wheelchair racing competition in the USA but failed to pick up slots for the Paralympic Games slated for Rio in Brazil later this year.

Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan did not make the top 20 highest earning footballers list in the world as published by US business magazine Forbes. The top 20 earners in the list amassed a whopping $563 million over the last year.