Sports historian and administrator, James Oyedeji has been reported dead.
He died at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra on Monday after a short illness.
Two Korean boxers, welterweight Lee Kyu Suk and Jeon Byung Yun, a super welterweight, have begun training tour of Accra to develop their boxing skills.
The Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has banned Bibiani Gold Stars FC from playing 10 matches at their Bibiani Park.
Ghana’s senior female football team, the Black Queens, have dismissed any suggestion that the bonus arrears owed them could affect their play as they face Tunisia in a 2016 African Women's Championship (AWC) qualifier today.
The Ghana Premier League seems to be generating a wonderful interest which we believe will pass as one of the best over the years. I must say it is as a result of the efforts of all stakeholders who spent time to ensure the official take-off on February 20, 2016 when there was still some doubts as to its commencement.
Winneba United last Sunday edged past Young Millionaires in a 8-7 penalty shoot-out to commence the maiden edition of the Aboakyir Cup at the Winneba United Park.
Both teams started brightly but none of them succeeded in breaking the opponent’s defence in full-time which resulted in a narrow penalty shoot-out win for the hosts, Winneba United to record their first three points.
With the competition being the first of its kind, the Aboakyir Cup, which is scheduled to reach a climax on May 8, is aimed to promote unity and peace, as well as creating excitement among the people of Efutu in the Central Region.
In Group A, Suncity FC from Accra will be competiting alongside Windy Professionals from Winneba, Spirrows FC from Awutu-Senya and Ahenfo FC from Apam.
African ladies take their turn on the action stage as they continue their quest for tickets to this year's African Women's Championship (AWC), their version of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON).
As happened in the men's event, the female teams engaged in the qualifiers will have double headers within one week, the first leg of the final round of qualifying matches to be played today across the continent, followed by the second legs next Tuesday.
Binatone Ghana Limited, dealers in electrical appliances, have partnered Sports and Youth Development Organisation (SYDO) to sponsor a sport activity involving underprivileged Ghanaians suffering from various ailments.
They included people who suffered disabilities as a result of polio. The sponsorship by the company through the SYDO is geared at supporting efforts to enable former beggars to play Skate soccer on regular basis to help them off the streets.
The Greater Accra Hockey Association (GAHA) will hold its Annual General Meeting on Saturday with the quest for a new sponsor at the top of the agenda.
The Association is without a headline sponsor for the next hockey season after separate agreements with Bajfreight and Logistics and Dwadifo Adanfo for the respective gala and league competitions came to an end for different reasons.
Swedish coach, Tom Strand, who has been strongly linked to the Asante Kotoko job, leads Medeama Sporting Club to Sudan today ahead of their CAF Confederation Cup first leg tie against Al Ahly Shendi at the Shandi Stadium, close to the capital, Khartoum, on Sunday.
Despite expressing deep interest in Kotoko’s coaching job left vacant due to the ongoing crisis in the club in an interview with the Graphic Sports last week, the young coach had no option than to spearhead Medeama to Africa since he is still under contract with the Tarkwa-based club till the end of the season.
The legal representative of beleaguered Asante Kotoko coach, David Duncan, Larbi Amoah (aka Barbados), has threatened to go to court on behalf of his client if the management of Kotoko fails to rescind its decision to let his client step aside from the job.
According to him, nowhere in the contract signed between Duncan and Kotoko was it stipulated that he has to step aside in case of a disagreement or an impending dismissal.
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.
