Serena Williams beat Maria Sharapova for the 18th time in a row to reach the Australian Open semi-finals.
The defending champion, seeded number one and chasing a 22nd Grand Slam title, saw off fifth seed Sharapova 6-4 6-1 at Melbourne Park.
Chelsea's Ramires is close to a £25m move to Chinese side Jiangsu Suning.
The 28-year-old Brazil midfielder, signed from Benfica for about £17m in 2010, agreed a new four-year deal in October but has only started seven Premier League games this season.
Jiangsu finished ninth in China's top tier in 2015 and is managed by former Blues defender Dan Petrescu.
Borussia Dortmund and Gabon striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang admitted he was hurt by comments from Yaya Toure and Andre Ayew that he was undeserving of his African Player of the Year award.
Ivory Coast star Toure and Ghana international Ayew both featured in the African Cup of Nations final last year while Gabon exited in the first round.
Toure blasted Aubameyang's award as "indecent" and that it brought "shame" on the continent when it was made three weeks ago.
Chelsea winger Christian Atsu has signed for Malaga on loan until the end of the season – 24 hours after telling the BBC that he was joining Levante.
Before linking up with Javi Gracia's Malaga last Monday, the 24-year-old Ghana international said that he would imminently be joining their La Liga rivals, Levante.
Adidas, the IAAF's biggest sponsor, has told the athletics' world governing body it is to terminate their sponsorship deal four years early.
The sportswear giant informed the IAAF of its decision — understood to be a direct result of the doping scandal sweeping the sport - last week.
A solitary goal scored by Samuel Asare of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) hockey team was all his side needed to shoot down Seniors to jump to the second position in the five-club Ashanti Regional Hockey League at the Baba Yara Stadium last Saturday.
KNUST who are yet to rediscover the form that made them one of the dreaded sides in the league, put up a scintillating performance to freeze the surging runs of the Seniors throughout the game.
The result has now propelled them to the second position on 10 points, the same as Seniors, but with a better goal difference.
The case between Kumasi Asante Kotoko and the former CEO of the club, Dr K. K. Sarpong, was last Friday adjourned to February 15, 2016 by a Kumasi Commercial High Court.
This was because the parties were unable to finish the case management stage to set the tone for the trial.
But it was mainly due to the inability of the Kotoko Management to file all its statements to enable the trial judge, Justice Mrs Angelina Homiah, to set the date for the trial.
The two parties had earlier failed to reach an amicable settlement at a pre-trial conference held last year before another High Court and, therefore, decided to go through the normal trial to resolve the issues.
Ghana’s only qualifier for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, 800-metre runner Alex Amankwah, has been nominated for the inaugural Liquid Sports Ghana Athlete of the Year Award to be announced on Friday.
The award is aimed at promoting athletics in the country by throwing the spotlight on national athletes who excell both locally and internationally.
The list is dominated by athletes who helped Team Ghana win an impressive eight medals in athletics at the 2015 All African Games (AAG) in Congo-Brazzaville.
Four goals conceded in the first half by Rwanda saw Morocco cruise to victory in the teams' final Group A game of the first stage of CHAN 2016, but Rwanda still go through to the knockouts along with Cote d’Ivoire.
Ivory Coast joined defeated Gabon 4-1 in Butare in the other Group game yesterday and, therefore, go through with Rwanda to the quarterfinals.
As early as the 5th minute, Ernest Sugira made a good run on the right flank but no one picked up his pass, and Savio Nshuti's attempt was saved by Bourkadi. Then, five minutes later, Sugira had another scoring chance, but Bourkadi saved it easily as Morocco also forced a good save from Kwizera on the other end.
A report claiming Jose Mourinho wrote a six-page letter to Manchester United outlining his suitability to succeed Louis van Gaal as manager is "totally absurd", says his agent Jorge Mendes.
The Independent yesterday also claims Mourinho offered a "forensic analysis" of the Old Trafford squad in what it called a "love letter" to the club.
Diego Costa returned to haunt Arsenal once again as he scored the only goal in Chelsea's 1-0 victory at the Emirates having been involved in Per Mertesacker's sending-off.
Arsene Wenger's Premier League title hopefuls started brightly, but suffered a massive setback as Mertesacker was given his marching orders after 18 minutes.
Chelsea broke forward through Willian, and the Brazilian's weighted pass in behind Mertesacker led to the World Cup winner sliding in on Costa as last man to receive a red card from Mark Clattenburg.
Danny Garcia overcame a sluggish start to win a unanimous decision over Robert Guerrero at the Staples Center in Los Angeles last Saturday and claim the WBC welterweight title vacated by Floyd Mayweather Jr.
With Mayweather, who retired in September, sitting ringside, Garcia (32-0) took control from the middle rounds and was awarded the decision 116-112 by all three judges.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic survived a scare against Gilles Simon to reach the last eight of the Australian Open in Melbourne.
Five-time champion Djokovic made 100 unforced errors but prevailed 6-3 6-7 (1-7) 6-4 4-6 6-3 after four hours and 32 minutes on Rod Laver Arena.
Djokovic, 28, is through to his 27th consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final.
John Stones will be at centre of a £50m transfer scramble in the summer, with Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester City and Chelsea all keen to sign him.
Everton turned down the opportunity to sell their highly-rated centre half last summer, rejecting a £38million bid from Chelsea.
But the interest in Stones has intensified since then, with Rafa Benitez having asked Real Madrid to sign him when he was manager at the club.
Lionel Messi returned from injury to send Barcelona back to the top of La Liga as they won at Malaga.
Messi missed the midweek Copa Del Rey win at Athletic Bilbao with a hamstring problem, but came back to volley in Adriano's cross for the decisive goal.
Munir El Haddadi gave Barca the lead with a tap-in after 70 seconds.
