Accra Hearts of Oak after losing to Wa All Stars last week gave their supporters something to cheer about as they ended the winning spree of Techiman City at home, holding them to a goalless draw.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko on Sunday put the smiles back on the faces of their supporters when they handed 10-man Liberty Professionals a 3-1 defeat in their Premier League encounter at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi.

A supporter of Accra Hearts of Oak  was  last Saturday severely beaten by angry Techiman City supporters hours before the kick-off to the big game between the two sides at Techiman.

The victim, identified as Nat Dodoo, is the General Secretary of Chapter 158 of  the National Chapters Committee of Hearts supporters at Techiman.

Fourty Senior High School students were last Saturday selected in the African Youth Basketball Organisation (AYBO) scouting camp, which was held at the Aviation Social Centre (ASC) in Accra.

The student athletes were selected from over 100 contenders after they displayed vigorous basketball skills to the admiration of the organisers of the event. 

The Minister of Youth and sports, Nii Lante Vanderpuye and former Black Stars captain Stephen Appiah joined Joy FM’s Lexis Bill and hundreds of people from all walks of life to undertake a walk up the Aburi mountain last Saturday morning in the maiden ‘Walk with Lexis’ fitness campaign.

More than 20 participants last Saturday completed a one-week llife-guard training course at the University of Ghana Swimming Pool Centre, Legon, in Accra.

The workshop, organised by the Ghana Life-Saving and Diving Association (GALDA), is aimed at drowning prevention and safety in the pool.

Participants included managers of hotels, swimming pools and athletes trained on how to save a life in the pool and how to keep it safe in deeper waters.

The Ghana Taekwondo Federation (GTF) has inaugurated a five- member advisory council to advise the executive board, assess its performance as well as connect the federation to corporate bodies to enhance a mutual co-operation between the GTF and its partners.

It is chaired by Kwaku Sakyi Addo, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Telecommunications Chamber, who is also a Black Belt in taekwondo.

Since the end of the 2014/2015 Premier League season, there have been unnecessary wranglings over the number of referees, both middle and lines, who should be enlisted to handle matches of the top leagues this 2015/2016 football season. 

The wranglings were so intense that it took the intervention of the GFA President Kwasi Nyantakyi to solve. This was quite unnecessary if the system had been allowed to work.

Fact is, Ghana’s football had benefited from a perfect long-standing tradition of refereeing recruitment, training and administration in the country. The Referees Association of Ghana (RAG) has always been responsible for referee recruitment, training and development. 

Leading mobile telecommunications company, Vodafone Ghana Limited, has been named the headline sponsor of the Unity Match which aims to maintain peace before and after the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections on November 7.

According to a statement released by the organisers of the event, Primeval Media, the two-leg friendly match slated for June 8 and June 11 in Accra and Kumasi respectively, had since been renamed the Vodafone Unity Match.

Female athlete Flings Joyner Owusu-Agyapong became the fourth Ghanaian athlete to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil when she dipped below the 11.32 seconds qualifying mark in the 100 metres dash at the 2016 Miami Hurricane Alumni Invitational held last Saturday at the University of Miami, USA.

Ghana's senior female football team, the Black Queens, plan to beat Tunisia again when they meet in the final leg of their African Women's Championship (AWC) qualifier in Accra tomorrow.

The Queens earned an important away victory in the first leg played in Tunis last week, coming from a goal down to win 2-1 and are hoping to repeat the feat at the Accra Stadium tomorrow.

A basketball scouting camp, which forms part of the annual Ballers’ Camp is underway at the Aviation Social Centre with about 500 students athletes from basic, second cycle and tertiary schools being drilled to secure sporting scholarships abroad.

The Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) won the 3rd Vice Chancellor’s Challenge Cup held at Tarkwa last week.

The competition was organised in three categories — female male students and staff.

In the female category, Faculty of Engineering (FoE) ladies beat their counterparts, from the Faculty of Mineral Resources and Technology (FMRT) on penalties  to claim the top prize.  The winners took home trophies and cash awards while the runners-up received consolation cash prizes. 

Black Stars coach, Avram Grant, will lead the local Black Stars to face Japan’s U23 team in an international friendly in May this year.

Coach Grant will be assisted by his deputy, Maxwell Konadu, who is also the head coach of the home-based national team.

The Israeli trainer is currently on a trip to Europe to monitor players and he is expected to return to the country at the end of the month.

The Ghana Fencing National team last Wednesday received a morale-boosting visit from the Minister of Youth and Sports, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye ahead of their participation in the 2016 Olympics Games qualifiers on April 10 in Algeria. 

During the visit to the National Fencing Academy in Tuba, near Kasoa, the minister encouraged the fencers to give of their best for the country and assured them of the support of his ministry and the entire nation