Defending champions Nigeria and Mali last Sunday qualified for the semi-final of the FIFA Male Under-17 World Championship after decisive wins in their respective quarter-final matches.

Roger Federer defeated long-time rival Rafael Nadal 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 on Sunday to win his seventh title at the Swiss Indoors as he played the home final for a record tenth consecutive year.

Federer and Nadal last met in an Australian Open semifinal nearly two years ago and played their last final in Rome in 2013, both of which Nadal won.

Frustrated Christian Atsu is back to his mother club, Chelsea, ostensibly for treatment after picking a stress fracture while on international duty for Ghana last September.

Atsu, whose game-time has been limited to two League Cup appearances since he joined Bournemouth on a season-long loan from Chelsea, has been back at Stamford for almost a month and could spend four more weeks as he struggles to regain his form.

Bournemouth coach, Eddie Hower, questioned on why he was not using the Ghanaian winger, said.

New Zealand held off a fierce Australian comeback to win a thrilling World Cup final and become the first team to retain their title.

It was a call too close to call in the face off between Jose Mourinho the ‘Special One’ and Jurgen Klopp the ‘Normal One’. In the end, the verdict stunned everyone and has left Mourinho desperately fighting to keep his job at Chelsea.

Klopp got his first Premier League win as Liverpool boss with an excellent 3-1 victory at Chelsea.

Scores of lucky football fans subscribers of Glo Mobile will have the opportunity to witness the prestigious Glo-CAF Awards as Glo launches the “Find Your Place among the stars” promo ahead of the 2015 edition of the awards slated for the International Conference Centre in Abuja on January 7.

This year’s H.P. Nyemitei-SWAG Cup will come off on Sunday, November 29 at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi, following an agreement by SIC Insurance to sponsor the prestigious competition which was last played in 2009.

Guinea and Angola caused the biggest shocks of the weekend so far as they qualified for the finals of the 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Rwanda.

Guinea qualified for the tournament for locally based players for the first time after three failed attempts by eliminating Senegal.

Louis van Gaal wants Manchester United to use tomorrow's home Champions League clash with CSKA Moscow as a turning point for their season.

United secured a 1-1 draw in Russia thanks to Anthony Martial's header in their most recent European outing on October 21 but have since recorded three 0-0 draws in a row, results which have seen them lose ground to Manchester City and Arsenal at the top of the Premier League table and exit the League Cup on penalties to Middlesbrough.

The death is reported at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital on Saturday, October 31, 2015 of Mr Paul Kunkey, a former chairman of Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club. He was 72.

Five Ghanaian players are close to tasting CAF Champions League glory after helping their club, TP Mazembe to gain a 2-1 advantage in the first leg of the final away to USM Algier last Saturday

A special football match in memory of a former player of the Black Stars, the late Eric Amankwah, will be played at the Akosombo Presbyterian School Park on Sunday.

The match which involves two local clubs, Muzuu Football Academy based at Anchiase in the Asuogyaman District, and Akosombo Select Side will be preceded with the burial ceremony and final funeral rites of Eric Amankwah at Akosombo.

Chelsea's meeting with Liverpool at Stamford Bridge last Saturday was billed as the game manager Jose Mourinho must not lose if he wanted to keep his job.

Now, after a 3-1 defeat that sent Chelsea towards the bottom of the Premier League after their sixth loss in 11 games and left Liverpool fans singing "you're getting sacked in the morning", the grim statistics and questions are piling up around Mourinho.

One time a strong force in Ashanti hockey, Silver,  lived up to the billing last Saturday when they thrashed Unique 5-2 in the second week fixture of the Ashanti regional hockey league to maintain their hold on the summit on six points.

The former collection of stars who only made their return to the league last season impressed from the push off till the final whistle in the 70 minutes of play with some individual field's goals and perfect drag-flicks.

Egypt last Saturday succeeded in applying the brakes on the forward march of Ghana’s men hockey team, trashing them 7-1 at the semi-finals of the ongoing Africa Hockey Championships in Johannesburg, South Africa.