A defiant Asante Kotoko coach David Duncan cut a lonely figure last Tuesday morning when he met an empty training grounds abandoned by his playing body and technical assistants as Michael Osei held training session at a different venue.

Determined to defy a directive by the club’s management last Sunday after the club’s 0-1 loss to Aduana Stars to “step aside” while his assistant (Osei) took over, Duncan went to the club’s Adako Jachie training grounds all dressed up and ready to take the players through their paces ahead of Sunday’s Premier League clash with Liberty Professionals. But to his surprise the players were busily training at the Baba Yara Stadium under the guidance of Osei.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s assistant coach, Michael Osei, will take charge of his first full game as the interim head of the club’s technical team when they welcome high-flying Liberty Professionals to the Baba Yara Stadium this weekend.

Interplast Ghana last Sunday donated sporting equipment worth GH¢30,000 to the skating football team at their UTC training base in Accra.

Accra Polytechnic emerged champions of Zone F in the 2016 Rexona Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges (UPAC) Basketball Championship by beating debutantes Blue Crest College 27-23 in the last round of preliminary games held last Friday in Accra.

The hosts and defending champions, Accra Poly, cruised through their opening two games with a 54-29 win over Valley View University and a 44-33 victory over Zenith College before seeing off a spirited challenge from underdogs, Blue Crest, in the final tie.

Professor Joseph Roland Atsu Ayee, Rector of the MountCrest University College, will tomorrow launch and lead a discussion on a policy brief by the Youth Bridge Foundation on the debate over the decoupling of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

About 500 student athletes from basic, second cycle and tertiary schools across the country will converge today on the Aviation Social Centre for the third edition of the annual Easter Ballers Camp, which runs to Monday, April 23.

The mens’ quartet from the Ghana Immigration Service last Saturday beat their counterparts from the Ghana Prison Service 3-0 to win the annual kncokout championship at the D.G. Hathiramani Sports Hall to herald the national league.

Immigration’s Derek Abrefa, Emmanuel Commey, Emmanuel Asante and Felix Lartey proved too strong for Prisons’ quartet, consisting of Adolf Awotwi, Jacob Saikun, Michael Debrah and Oscar Forson to lift the silver trophy and a reward of GH¢800.

Accra Hearts of Oak striker, Sam Yeboah, says he will relish an appearance in Africa in the rainbow shirt.

The striker, who had stints in Europe before joining the Phobians, told the Graphic Sports in an interview that one moment that he would cherish in his football career would be to play for Hearts in either the Champions League or the CAF Confederation Cup before he retired.

The Phobians won the Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup in 2000 and 2004 respectively, and Yeboah hoped the club would make yet another appearance in Africa next year.

Interplast Ghana has donated sporting equipment worth GH¢30,000 to the skating football team at their UTC training base in Accra.

The equipment, which is to help facilitate their training, included jerseys, hand and knee gears.

 Managing Director of Interplast, Hayssam Fakhry, said he was touched after watching the team's video online and, therefore, decided to help them.

Even without featuring in the second of the six National Tennis Ranking, All Africa Games gold medalist George Darko still remains the national number one seed.

Darko missed out on last week’s ranking at the 4 Garrison Officers Tennis Club tournament which ended in Kumasi last Saturday. The youngster is currently in the USA for a tournament.

With what appears an unassailable points build-up of 2,390 points, Darko may still not have to panic even if he fails to feature in the next edition in May.

Real Tamale United (RTU) have resorted to the floatation of shares to attract strategic investors to take over the club and save them from their current financial predicament.

Since their demotion from the topflight a few seasons ago, the ‘Pride of the North’ have been saddled with some financial challenges, especially after losing that lucrative sponsorship deal from Wienco Limited.

Former international winger Segun Odegbami, a key member part of Nigeria's team that claimed the country's first Nations Cup title in 1980, believes success on the pitch will not return unless they "sort things at the administrative level".

"It is inexcusable that the great Super Eagles will not be at the biggest tournament in Africa twice in a row," Odegbami told BBC Sport.

"I don't think that we've had the kind of administration that would have shepherded football development so that we can fulfil our true potential.

Without question, Nigeria is one of Africa's biggest and most successful football nations.

As three-time African champions, the first African nation to win football gold at the Olympic Games and the most successful country at the Fifa U-17 World Cup with five titles, Nigeria have trophies to back up the clai

Ghana's senior women's football team are scheduled to play Tunisia in a double header of the final qualifier for a ticket to this year's African Women's Championship (AWC). 

The Black Queens are already in Tunis preparing to play their Tunisian counterparts on Wednesday in the first leg then return home to play the second leg in Accra on Tuesday, instead of the April 23/24 schedule. 

The Ministry of Youth and Sports has welcomed yet another political head as the country starts its countdown to election 2016. Indeed, the recent reshuffle should be largely seen as part of the ruling party’s strategy to reassign and realign its men for the assignment ahead. That is the way I see it and there is nothing wrong with it, although it has increased the turnover of ministers at the Ministry.

And so, the long-time friend of the sports lovers media, Hon. Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has become ‘Minister Number Eight’ for the Ministry of Youth and Sports in the last eight years. Although he might not have won any top national sports award like Abedi Pele, Azumah Nelson or Ohene Karikari, Nii Lante has been involved in many sporting activities, although he was better known as a sports commentator to most of us.