Accra Hearts of Oak fans yesterday went wild with jubiliation into the night as they handed visiting New Edubiase a 1-0 defeat at the Accra Sports Stadium to open their Premier League campaign this season.

But the Phobians had to rely on striker Sam Yeboah's late goal to burst the bubble of a stubborn  Edubiase side to carry the day before a huge crowd.

Yeboah's goal unsettled the visitors, who employed delayed tactics in a bid to hold the Phobians until Yoboah’s 78th minute strike from Robin Gnagne’s header dashed their hopes.

Barely two weeks after Ashgold succumbed to Medeama SC in the season-opening GFA Super Cup, both teams cross each other’s path again at the Obuasi Len Clay stadium as the Soccer Miners begin their Premier League title defence at home on Sunday.

For some of us, the spectacle of Claudio Ranieri’s flying Foxes soaring at rarefied heights evokes memories of 30 years ago and another title challenge which emerged from nowhere to compel astonished attention until the final whistle sounded on a campaign of Neapolitan theatricality.

Like the 1-0 scoreline that helped salvage Ghana's campaign at the 2015 AFCON in Equatorial Guinea, the 1-0 win by Ashgold in the CAF Champions League last weekend, looks like a good, first step to strike gold.

Havedzi Mighty Warriors will be looking forward to build on their brilliant start to the second round of the 2015/2016 CAL Bank Beach Soccer League season when they clash with Nungua Krowo Beach Soccer Club (BSC) at the Laboma Beach Soccer Arena at La in Accra tomorrow.

Ghana Tennis Federation’s (GTF’s) main partner and key sponsor of the national tennis team, Golden Rackets, McDan Group of Companies, has pledged to sponsor this year’s Tennis Professionals of Ghana (TPG)/GTF National Ranking tournament scheduled for Kumasi next month.

Mc Dan is supporting the seven-day competion with GH¢40,000 and it adds to more than three tournaments being sponsored by the company, including its flagship competition, the McDan Open.

The McDan Open competition goes international this year with the assembling of the continent’s great players and some known names across the globe.

The National Ranking in Kumasi is, therefore, to serve as a prelude to the McDan Open of which the winner is expected to take home $30,000.

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has sanctioned the assistant coach of Ashanti Gold Sporting Club, Yakubu Mambo, and the club for their unsportmanlike conduct that brought this year’s Super Cup into disrepute.

The two  breached  some sections of article 35 of the GFA’s General Regulations when they boycotted the award ceremony after the match played  on January 31.

A charge sheet signed by the GFA prosecutor, Raphael Tottimeh, and made available to the Daily Graphic, said assistant coach Mambo was  charged with inciting, encouraging and directing the players and technical team of the club against  the directive of the Match Commissioner in charge of the Super Cup to go for their medals from the dignatries.

The immediate past coach of the Black Bombers, Ofori Asare, will conduct an AIBA 2-Star certification coaching course in Cameroun ahead of the Olympic qualifiers in March.

The Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Brigadier General Martin Ahiaglo (retd) has pledged the support of the NLA for the 2016 Peace Match aimed at maintaining peace during and after the presidential and parliamentary elections in November.

Brigadier General Ahiaglo (retd) said without a peaceful atmosphere in the country, the operations of all corporate bodies would be halted, hence the need for corporate Ghana to support the Peace Match.

The national badminton team won four medals, comprising one silver and three bronze, at the just ended Rose Hill Series Championship held at Mauritius over the weekend.

Emmanuel Donkor and Gifty Mensah won silver medal for Ghana after battling with Mauritius pair, Edoo and Lousison, in the mixed doubles final event.

A former board member of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Kennedy Agyapong Kenpong has expressed his heartfelt condolences to the wife and family of the murdered Abuakwa North MP, J.B. Danquah-Adu.

With all the uncertainties surrounding the annual national Premier League, it is no wonder that the whole national attention is geared towards the continental club championships — the CAF Champions League which has Ashgold competing and the CAF Confederation Cup which beckons the relatively young Medeama SC of Tarkwa.

Left back Steven Oppong, is unhappy with life at Unity FC, a Division One League club and wants to terminate his contract and move on.

The poor state of the tartan tracks at the El-Wak Stadium will prove a major obstacle for athletes when the first Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) Championship takes place on Saturday.

Premier League side, Wa All Stars is back in the country after a 10-day training tour of Saudi Arabia to prepare towards the forthcoming Ghana Premier League on February 20.