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

Club of the moment, Accra Hearts of Oak, will trek to the Nana Ameyaw Park in the heart of Techiman on a revival mission as they face Techiman City tomorrow. 

Hearts are determined to atone for their first loss of the season after crashing at home to Wa All Stars last Sunday.

The Phobians’ performance lately has won back many of their dejected followers but following a 1-3 loss to All Stars, Kenichi Yatsuhashi and his charges went back to the drawing board to correct their mistakes and bounce back strongly.

Like a spoilt child at a candy-store, Avram Grant, head coach of the senior national men's football team, the Black Stars, continues to act juvenile, if reports of him rejecting his bonus payment in cedis is accurate. 

Kumasi Asante Kotoko’s fall from grace faces a critical test on Sunday as they seek to bounce back from their recent poor form at the expense of Liberty Professionals at the Baba Yara Stadium on Sunday.

The craze for motorbikes is fast catching up with footballers and it has become virtually odd for a player not to ride one.

Coach David Duncan’s tribulations in the midst of the uncertainties about his job at Kumasi Asante Kotoko still linger and could be worse in the coming days if his assistant, Michael Osei, who has been handed temporary responsibility as caretaker coach, succeeds in his rescue mission on Sunday.

The Porcupine Warriors face Liberty Professionals at the Baba Yara Stadium in a fixture that the Oseikrom Boys have always handled with ease, yet victory could finally sound the death knell on Duncan’s troubled stint with Kotoko.

Medeama Sporting Club are capitalising on the presence of former Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah and his assistant Prince Owusu in The Sudan to ensure an impressive away outing against Al Ahly Shendi in their Orange CAF Confederation Cup one-eighth first leg encounter at the Shandi Stadium at 17.00 GMT on Sunday.

The two Ghanaian coaches, currently handling Sudanese side, FC Khartoum, are expected to furnish Medeama with some vital information about their opponents to arm them ahead of Sunday’s tie, which the MTN FA Cup champions are bent on winning.

Black Stars coach, Avram Grant, last  Wednesday night jetted out for yet another sojourn of Europe with the approval of the Ghana Football Association(GFA) to monitor players over the next few weeks.

The Stars coach was asked  to return to the country prior to Ghana’s AFCON qualifier last month (against Mozambique) after a two- month absence which saw him appear on UK- based sports channel Sky Sports and left many Ghanaians fuming.

The head coach of Accra Hearts of Oak, Kenichi Yatsuhashi, has defended the fitness of his team and thrown a challenge to critics, particularly Techiman City owner, Charles Kwadwo Ntim (Micky Charles), who claims the amazing stamina being displayed by the Hearts players and the club’s sudden turnaround in form could be due to the influence of dope.

The Japanese-American coach says his players stamina is due to hard work and is ready to avail the players to tests in the presence of his critics.

Ahead of Sunday’s clash in Techiman, Micky Charles stirred up a hornet’s nest asking for the Hearts players to undergo doping tests. 

Head coach of the Black Stars, Avram Grant, has finally accepted payment of his winning bonus in the match between the Black Stars and Mozambique in the local currency after earlier rejecting it.

The Israeli trainer reportedly returned to the Ministry of Youth and Sports a cheque for payment of his winning bonus for Ghana’s 3-1 victory over Mozambique in a Nations Cup qualifier on the grounds that he did not operate a cedi account and demanded payment in dollars.

However, the coach made a u-turn on his decision last Tuesday after meeting the Minister of Youth and Sports in the company of FA officials after which he reportedly apologised for his action and promised not to repeat it.

The Ghana Shooting Sports Federation (GSSF) will undertake an eight-day training session with its national team, the Black Snipers, under the tutelage of Olympic Instructor, Nemanja Mirosavljev. 

Accra Hearts of Oak have been drawn against Division One side Samartex in their MTN FA Cup round of 32 encounter, while rivals Asante Kotoko play Division Two Real 24 Hours FC.

Ghana has moved up three places in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola rankings released Thursday, to now perch at the 38th position. Previously Ghana logged in at the 41^st position before recording a win and a draw against Mozambique in March.