Kumasi Asante Kotoko yesterday defeated a team of former Black Stars players 4-2 to win the 1965 AFCON squad fundraising trophy at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The non-competitive tie was witnessed by a sizeable crowd, including former President Jerry John Rawlings, GFA president Kwesi Nyantakyi and Kennedy Agyepong of Kenpong Group of Companies, one of the sponsors of the match. It brought together the cream of the Black Stars team which reached the final of the 1992 Nations Cup in Senegal as they teamed up to pit their strength against the newly crowned SWAG Cup champions.

Comical boxer, Braimah Kamoko, known in boxing circles as Bukom Banku, has demanded a new date for his much-publicised rematch with Michael Ayittey Powers, saying he prefers to fight his old foe on Friday, February 26, next year.

With just three weeks to the big fight, Kamoko has asked Landmark Promotions, promoters of the fight, to postpone it for two more months due to perceived bias against him.

Last Saturday, Bukom Banku released a video of himself on YouTube citing a number of reasons why he wanted a postponement of the December 26 fight scheduled for the Baba Yara stadium in Kumasi.

Coach Bashir Hayford has been rewarded with a two-year extension of his deal by his employers, AshantiGold, after spearheading the club’s Premier League success nearly 19 years since they first won it.

Coach Hayford, who was also adjudged the Best Coach of the Premier League at the recent Premier League Board (PLB) awards, signed the deal some two weeks ago.

The contract of the coach, who joined the ‘Soccer Miners’ from Tarkwa-based Medeama FC, expired at the end of last season.

Retired national stars who came close to winning the AFCON trophy in 1992 will lace up their boots once again to take on Kumasi Asante Kotoko in a friendly game at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The game, organised by the Despite Group of Companies, will bring to a climax the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Ghana's 1965 AFCON victory in Tunisia and is aimed at raising funds for the 10 surviving members of that team.

The president of the Ghana Golf Association (GGA), Mr  Mike Aggrey, has described the 27th Ghana Seniors Open golf tournament as a huge success.

He said the heavy representation of golfers numbering about 45 who entered from the usual 30 players made the two-day event one of the best in recent years.

In a post-tournament interview, Mr. Aggrey said “We haven’t had high representation in the over 70-years category like we did for a long time; as many as six nine-hole players participated.

Obuasi’s Seidu Konate  finished first in the scratch Group A event after a 160 gross score. Hans De Beer of Tarkwa followed with 162 gross with S.Ofori of Takoradi (166 gross)  and Achimota’s David Arkutu (172) following in that order.

C.K. Gyamfi lost the title, 'Mr' to his name long ago because of his brilliance on the football field.

Like all masters of sports and the arts, placing suffixes before their names, make a ridiculous reading. Beethoven, Handel, Frank Sinatra, Cassius Clay, Pele, Garrincha, Eusebio, Stanley Matthews, EC Briant, and the like, are what these stars of stellar quality are named and called. Therefore, we will do fine here with C. K. Gyamfi or C. K.Wampi if you were a Nigerian or Kenyan football commentator.

C. K. Gyamfi was one of the 18 footballers who toured England in the early 50s, under the leadership of the late Richard Akwei Snr, a visionary yet uncelebrated sports administrator in the Gold Coast. C.K was one of the teenagers on the team.

A strong field of 51 golfers are competing for prizes at the Gold Fields Ghana Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Championship at the Damang Golf Club after the competition officially teed off Wednesday.

A contingent of Ghanaian golfers from the Royal Golf Club in Kumasi, Achimota Golf Club, the Celebrity Golf Club, Takoradi Golf Club, the Tarkwa Golf Club, the Obuasi Golf Club, the Tema Country Golf Club and the Beige Village Golf Club face a challenge from their counterparts from Togo, Benin, Cameroun, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Gabon, Sierra Leone and Nigeria in the four-day competition which ends on Saturday.

The winning golfer takes home GH¢25,000 as the first prize put together by the sponsors Gold Fields Ghana with support from Stellar Logistics and Connell Mining.

Black stars coach, Avram Grant, insist he bears no grudge against US-based goalkeeper Adambathia Larsen Kwarasey, disclosing that his utmost consideration for call-up to the national team will always be the commitment of players to national duty.

Grant reaction came last Monday after he had been heavily criticized for sidelining the young goalie who once established himself as the nation’s safest pair of hands until the Star’s disastrous world cup campaign in Brazil last year.

Accra Hearts of Oaks ties with Japan is set to grow stronger following a sponsorship deal struck with Japanese sportswear and equipment firm, Polar Electric.

Hearts source confirmed to the Graphic Sports yesterday that the deal was brokered by the clubs Japanese coach, Kenichi.

The Porcupine Warriors yesterday put the smiles back on the faces of their supporters when they pipped their regional rivals,  Obuasi AshGold, 1-0 to lift this year’s SIC Nyemitei SWAG Cup.

The victory ended the Aboakese boys dominance over the Oseikrom boys in recent times, earning the Kumasi lads the bragging rights for the moment.

The Porcupine Warriors yesterday put a smile on the faces of their supporters when they pipped regional rivals Obuasi AshGold to lift this year’s SIC Nyemitei Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) Cup.

This ended the Aboakese dominance over the Porcupine Warriors in recent times and earned them the bragging rights to the SWAG Cup.

Defending champions, Jessica Tei and Raymond Zigah, will defend their Coca-Cola Family Day golf titles when the competition tees-off on Saturday at the Celebrity Golf Club at Sakumono.

Last year, Zigah picked the winner’s trophy after recording a net score of 62, while Jessica finished first in the ladies event with a score of 70.

The defending champions will, however, not have it as easy on Saturday as they face a potentially stiff challenge from an estimated 120 other golfers who are expected to participate in the tournament.

The annual Norlympics Taekwondo academy competition will begin on Friday and climax on Saturday with over 3,000 participants competing in the nation’s largest mass taekwondo competition.

Accra Hearts of Oak have held their Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Accra with Board Chairman, Togbe Afede XIV, painting an unimpressive picture about the club’s finances and stating also that he was ready to trade off his stake in the club as majority shareholder.

The investment banker revealed that the club’s current assets stood at GH¢186,597 and indicated that the club had not earned money from the transfer of players since the Phobians sold striker Mahatma Otoo to Norwegian club, Sogndal, three seasons ago.

The annual National Para Sports Festival which is organised by National Paralympic Committee (NPC) in collaboration with the Dan-deVan Group of Companies, is slated for November 29 at the Accra Stadium.

The event which is dubbed the “Dan-deVan National Paralympic Festival” will see athletes participate in a top-6 wheelchair tennis competition, a wheelchair basketball game involving two teams from Accra and Sunyani, 15km wheelchair race, and a 15km hand cycling race.

Daniel Mensah, the chairman of the Dan-deVan Group of Companies, explained that the decision to partner with the NPC was to honour para sports athletes who excelled during the course of the year.