Male football clubs have been urged to offer support to women's football to enable their game thrive in Africa, just as it is progressing in the western world.
According to Emy Caseletti, a FIFA Instructor in Administration for women's football, that is the surest way for women's football to progress, especially considering the fact that funds are virtually non-existent in the women's game on the continent.
International triathlete,Tareq Monganie, won the country's second triathlon event held last Saturday at the University of Ghana campus at Legon, completing the three-sport competition a time of 1:09.14 hours.
Dubbed “Kempinski Race Series,” the competition involved 47 triathletes from different countries participating in swimming, biking and running.
Mariano Barreto, a former coach of the Black Stars has hit out at Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari as a bad example to younger players.
Muntari who plays for Al Ittihad has been indefinitely suspended from the Black Stars and hasn’t featured for the senior national team since returning from the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament in Brazil.
Two of Africa’s great stars at the moment, Ghana’s Andre Dede Ayew and Yaya Toure, have yet again had their paths crossed for another prestigious award as BBC named its shortlisted nominees for this year’s African Football of the Year.
The two stars, who play in the English Premier League are yet to clash in the Premier League, but they have already been pitched against each other in the CAF Best Player Award shortlist released last month.
The CEO of Joy Dadi Industries, Dr Takyi Manfred, says his outfit is ready to invest in boxing to return the sport back to its glories and as a national past time.
According to him, boxing is an interesting sport and will soon be the number one in Ghana with the support of stakeholders in the game and all and sundry.
Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has urged football fans to turn up in their numbers tomorrow as the team intend to deliver victory over Comoros and keep their 2018 World Cup dream on course.
He said Ghanaians must forget about the team’s scoreless draw with the island nation last Friday, as the Stars promise a ruthless performance in Kumasi.
The Deputy Director General of the National Sports Authority, Mr Saka Acquaye, has complained bitterly about government's continued slashing of budgetary allocation to sports in the country.
He said that the slashing of the budget for four consecutive times in the past three years was killing sports in the country.
The Euro 2016 finals in France should not be cancelled in the wake of Friday's deadly attacks in Paris, says tournament organiser Jacques Lambert.
Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility after 129 people were killed and more than 350 wounded in the French capital.
Lambert, speaking on French radio station RTL, said: "Wondering whether Euro 2016 must be cancelled is playing the game of the terrorists.
The hockey team of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) delivered a shocking 2-1 win over defending Ashanti regional league champions, Seniors, as rivals Silver stretched their lead by three points after a win overt Royals.
KNUST are now tied with Seniors on seven points apiece in the second position after a rather shaky start to the season.
The acting president of the regional association, Kwabena Akyeampong, put Seniors in front in 30th minute but it was cancelled 19 minutes later by Alexander Frimpong, while Samuel Asare scored the match winner in the 53rd minute.
Togo has crashed out of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers for Africa, after losing to Uganda in their two-leg encounter on Sunday.
Ugand’s Cranes dominated the Hawks at the Mandela National Stadium in Namboole, to record an emphatic 3-0 victory to advance 4-0 on aggregate having won the first leg 1-0 in Lome last Friday.
The Retired National Footballers Association of Ghana (RENFAG) has announced December 5 as the date for a football gala which will be used to celebrate the life of the late football icon, Nana Gyamfi Kumi aka C.K. Gyamfi
According to Alhaji Ibrahim Sunday, the chairman of the RENFAG, the 20-team gala scheduled for the Accra Sports Stadium will afford Ghanaian fans the perfect opportunity to pay tribute to the man "responsible for Ghana's football success" ahead of his burial on December 11..
"The retired players are organising the match and it will comprise 20 teams just to celebrate what he has done for us," Alhaji Sunday disclosed last Thursday when members of the RENFAG accompanied family members of the former Black Stars player to the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
Skipper Asamoah Gyan says the Black Stars have put last Friday's goalless drawn game against Comoros behind them and are poised for victory in the second-leg match at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi tomorrow.
Gyan, who joined the first leg action 10 minutes to full-time, is optimistic that the Black Stars will win the return encounter tomorrow.
Ebo Da-Costa has become the latest to etch his name on the growing list of winners of the MTN CEO Invitational golf tournament when he recorded a net of 70 with a handicap of five to win the competition last Saturday.
The 7th edition of the competition, which was played at the Celebrity golf course in Tema, witnessed a heavy attendance and the green course, coupled with the fine weather, provided little problems for Da-Costa who also won the longest drive in the men’s category.
The local league is likely to start next season without a sponsor following a decision by the headline sponsors, First Capital Plus Bank, to suspend its contract with the football governing body.
This was confirmed on Thursday by Mr Welbeck Abra-Appiah, the outgoing chairman of the Premier League Board (PLB), organisers of the domestic league.
Speaking to the Graphic Sports, the PLB boss said the news came as a surprise to him and wondered why the management of the bank waited till about a month to the start of the league to call for the suspension of the contract.
Maria Sharapova has played only four Fed Cup ties, but her presence on the court could make all the difference as Russia take on holders the Czech Republic in the 2015 final at the weekend.
The 28-year-old world No 4 will likely face sixth-ranked Petra Kvitova and ninth-ranked Lucie Safarova, the left-handed duo who have led the Czechs to three Fed Cup titles from the last four editions.
"It's a great way to finish off the year playing with two of the best players," said Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam winner, who was sidelined with leg and arm problems from July to October.
