After months of waiting, the fourth season of the National Women's League (NWL) kicks off this weekend with 16 clubs challenging one another not just  for pride and bragging rights, but a brand new trophy.

Despite winning the league three times in a row and now have the old trophy as their bonafide property, defending champions Sekondi Hasaacas are relishing the chance of winning the new trophy.

The fixtures as released by the Women's League Board (WLB), organisers of the NWL, have some interesting match-ups in the 16-club competition, with no reprieve for the debutants.

The ongoing National Table Tennis League reaches its second week tomorrow at the D.G. Hathiramani Sports Hall at the Accra Sports Stadium with defending champions Immigration expected to continue with their winning ways as they come face to face with Tesano Spinners.

The Immigration lads defeated Synergy Club 3-0 and Madina Club 3-0 in the opening week clashes last Saturday.

Accra Great Olympics’ newly appointed coach, Godwin Attram, says his target is to bring the Wonder Club back to the Premier League.

Attram re-joined Olympics during the second half of the 2014/2015 Ghana Premier League season and decided to stay even after the club was relegated.

The maiden Indomie Youth and Junior Inter-Club Weightlifting competition takes place tomorrow at the National Weightlifting Training Centre at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The competition, which is aimed at exposing weightlifting as a sporting discipline to as many school going kids as possible, is expected to attract about 40 young weightlifters representing various clubs across the country.

Under the distinguished patronage of His Excellency, John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana, the Accra Turf Club begins its Whitsun Race Meeting tomorrow with four races open to horses in divisions 4C, 4A, 3B and novices.

The first race of the day, which begins at 1.30 pm, will feature five horses in Division 4C competing over a distance of six furlongs.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko have secured a one- year sponsorship deal with Forms Capital Ltd in which outstanding players will be paid every month.

Under the deal, the financial company will present GH1000 to any player of the Porcupine Warriors who would be voted Player of the Month.

Ghanaian boxer, Abdul Wahid Omar, has been offered an opportunity to represent the country in the summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The 23-year-old bantamweight won bronze at the last Africa Zone Olympic Games qualifiers in Yaounde, Cameroun after overpowering Zambia’s Emmanuel Ngoma in the quarter-finals to reach the semis.

Renowned boxing match-maker, Ako Patterson, has called for the resignation of the president of the Ghana Amateur Boxing Federation, Gideon Quartey, and further demanding an overhaul of the federation.

He contended that the federation had suffered under Quartey’s supervision which ultimately led to the elimination of the Black Bombers in the Olympics qualifiers in Cameroun last month.

Kumasi-based Division One side, Asokwa Deportivo, Thursday kicked out defending Premier League champions, Ashantigold, from the MTN FA Cup via a 3-1 defeat on penalties in their round of 32 match at the Baba Yara Stadium.

Football-loving fans at Tumu in the Sissala East District capital of in the Upper West Region, who have heard a lot about Kumasi Asante Kotoko over the years but have not watched the team play physically in their lifetime, will have a feel of the great club when they play Tumu-based Real 24 Hours FC at the Tumu Park tomorrow in an MTN FA Cup round of 32 fixture.

Aside their off-the-field troubles regarding the ‘stepping aside’ of Coach David Duncan, Kotoko’s clash with the Tumu side has been charactersied by a heated debate over the venue, compelling the FA Cup Committee (FACC) and the Club Licencing Board (CLB) to pass a quick judgment for Kotoko to honour the match tomorrow as scheduled. 

Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kwesi Nyantakyi, has confirmed that plans are far advanced to get Spanish La Liga duo, Thomas Teye Partey and Inaki Williams, to play for the Black Stars.

The young players have been in blistering in form at their respective clubs this season and have gone unnoticed as the FA has instituted plans to get the duo to play for Ghana.

Sekondi Hasaacas on Thursday beat visiting Medeama Sporting Club 2-0 in their seventh week outstanding Premier League match at the Sekondi Stadium in Essipon.

When the rubber hits the road, they put on a show, not only for themselves, but importantly for Mother Ghana.

A Former Ghanaian international, Awudu Issaka, has slammed the management of Kumasi Asante Kotoko for what he described as an unjustifiable treatment being meted out to Coach David Duncan.

Issaka, who was influential in Ghana’s gold-winning feat at the 1995 FIFA Under-17 World Cup, said asking a coach to step aside in this current era was unprofessional and, therefore, charged the management of the Porcupine Warriors to reconsider that decision.

Kumasi Asante Kotoko stirred yet another controversy this week after coming out to vehemently protest against a decision by the FA Cup Committee (FACC) to have their MTN FA Cup round of 32 match played in Tumu as originally balloted.  

As we have observed, the latest call by the Kotoko management followed hard on the heels of a similar decision by the club asking Coach David Duncan to step aside for a while due to the club’s spate of poor results in the ongoing Premier League.

Just like the Duncan saga, Kotoko’s request for a change of venue for their match against Tumu-based Division Two side Real 24 Hours FC stirred a heated debate in the media, resulting in divided opinion on the matter.