The Airforce handball team proved their superiority over their Fire Service counterparts when they beat them 32-30 in a keenly-contested match at the Burma Camp court last Wednesday.

McDan Group of Companies has paid $13,000 to ensure the national tennis team, Golden Rackets, take part in the forthcoming Davis Cup tennis tournament in Egypt.
Ghana’s contingent, comprising George Darko and Wisdom Na-Adjrago, who won gold at the recent All Africa Games (AAG), Japheth Bagerbaseh and Pascal Ziyab Alome, are in Morocco for a week’s training tour en route to Egypt to participate in the competition which starts from October 26 to 31.

Golfers Jeff Abeasi, Nik Amarteifio and S.T. Okantey will have the unique chance off teeing off first this morning at 6: 30 a.m. to set the stage for a fierce competition at the Inaugural Open tournament, a two-day medal play to officially open the refurbished Achimota Golf Club.

About 200 golfers are expected to compete in this weekend’s competition which officially ushers Ghana’s premier golf course into a new era following massive refurbishment undertaken by Paul McGinley of McGinley Design to give the course a modern outlook, designed to USPGA standard. Oil giants Tullow Ghana Limited sunk approximately $3 million into the redesign of the 18-hole course, while the club house reconstruction was funded by the club.

Two great Ghanaian football personalities will grace this year’s GFA/PLB First Capital Plus Premier League Awards Night, which comes off at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra on October 30, 2015.

The cream of Ghanaian golfers and some West African rivals will compete for honours this weekend at the country’s premier golf course, Achimota Golf Club, for the inaugural open to officially inaugurate the refurbished course.

About 200 golfers, including players from Togo, Nigeria, Gabon and Senegal will tee off at different times on Saturday and Sunday morning in the two-day medal play.

Some of the leading names in Ghana golf and some of the country’s business titans such as Jeff Abeasi, Sir Sam Jonah, Frank Adu, Mark Cofie, Charles Cofie, Sir Sam Jonah, Osagyefo Amoatia Oforipanin and Felix Owusu-Agyapong.

 The road to next year’s FIFA Women’s Under-20 World Cup in Papua New Guinea appear to be getting clearer for Ghana’s Black Princesses after they eliminated Equatorial Guinea last weekend to inch closer to the global party.

After dispatching the Nzalang Nacional of Equatorial Guinea 3-0 on aggregate, the Princesses will seek another giant-killing feat against Ethiopia in the final round of the continental qualifiers.

South Africa and Nigeria will battle it out for the other slot allotted Africa for the final tournament next year in Papua New Guinea.

Former Inter Allies coach, Paa Kwesi Fabin, says he will not make his services available to any local club for now after parting ways with his former club.

He says he would want to remain committed to the national side for this year so no lucrative offer will bait him to another club for the next one year.

"I want to concentrate on the national side for now and I am not ready to accept any offers from any club for at least one year" the Black Starlets coach told the Graphic Sports via phone yesterday.

Ghana's Black Princesses are expecting a very tough battle in Adis Ababa when they take on their Ethiopian counterparts but they insist they are ready for the challenge as they remain resolute in their pursuit of a ticket to next year’s Under-20 Women's World Cup (WWC).

Tomorrow at the Adis Ababa National Stadium, the Princesses will attempt to clear the first of two final hurdles against the Ethiopians as they clash in the final round of the U-20 WWC qualifiers.

With the stakes so high, the Princesses are taking nothing for granted in this final hurdle, aware that any slip could prove costly in the end.

Yesterday, the team emplaned for Adis Ababa and head coach Masa-Ud Didi Dramani did not mince words when he emphasised the need to play for a good result in this crucial away game.

Embattled Accra Hearts of Oak are likely to clash with arch rivals Kumasi Asante Kotoko in this year’s GHALCA Invitational tournament  after it appeared organisers had ‘smuggled’ the Phobians into the competition reserved for the top six Premier League sides.

Hearts are languishing at the 13th position after the Appeals Committee of the Ghana Football Association upheld an appeal by Kotoko over a decision to dock six points from their accumulated points over the fielding of an unqualified player in their league clash in Accra last season.

The decision to maintain Hearts in the inaugural six-club competition, according to the vice chairman of GHALCA, Isaac Koomson, was in conformity with the new regulations of the competition which is now christened GHALCA Invitational tournament.

When you are a player of Mesut Ozil’s stature and earns close to £140,000 each week and about £560,000 a month, splashing £169,000 just on one car would seem like a drop in the ocean.

Certainly that would do very little harm to the pocket of the ex-Real Madrid star, whose car collection includes a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Audi and Mercedes, among many others.

From a distance, the Arsenal star does not appears to be a hard core car freak but seeing the kind of automobiles he drives, one can easily understand the attention paid to details during the manufacturing of the cars.

The chairman of the Planning Committee of the refurbished Achimota Golf Course, Kwesi Amoafo Yeboah, says tomorrow’s Inaugural Open will be an epoch-making feat in the annals of Ghana golf.

He told the Daily Graphic that after a year’s work on the pitch by Paul McGinley Design, one of the finest golf course designers in the world, the course was ready to host the best golfers on the continent.

Among the over 200 golf players teeing off tomorrow at the Achimota Golf Course are 40 golfers from Nigeria, six from Gabon, three from Senegal, six from Togo who will battle for the trophy at stake and a South Africa Airways ticket to Washington and Johanessburg.

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is celebrating the rise of its president, Issa Hayatou, to be president of world football (FIFA), even if it is for a brief moment.

Last Wednesday, members of the Executive Committee of CAF were joined by the Youth and Sports Minister of Egypt, Khaled Abdel Aziz to give Hayatou a celebratory welcome when he returned from his first official assignment as the acting FIFA president.

Last Monday, Hayatou was in Zurich to chair the FIFA ExCo meeting, during which he stressed that the reforms at the world football governing body were on course as it was necessary to save the beautiful game.

Former league champions, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, have completed two new signings this week despite being swerved by new sensation, Joel Fameyeh, of Division One side, Asokwa Deportivo.

Kotoko’s plan to sign on the home-based Black Stars hitman fell through after Deportivo opted for a potentially lucrative foreign deal much against Fameyeh’s initial desire to play for the Porcupine Warriors.

The General Manager of Kotoko, Samuel Opoku Nti, who revealed to the Graphic Sports yesterday that but for that last minute switch, the young striker was going to play for Kotoko next season.

Nuru Paadi Alhassan yesterday got his Cowbell Cycling League campaign off to a good start by claiming victory on the opening day of the race.

The Velo Stars rider sprinted to success in the 90-kilometre route which stretched from McCarthy Hill-Mango Line to the Winneba Roundabout and ended at the Accra Stadium.

The experienced 38-year-old cyclist beat Isaac Sackey and Kofi Newton to second and third place respectively in an exciting photo-finish.

League champions Ashantigold yesterday presented two trophies they won this season to Sir Sam Jonah, a former board chairman of the club, at an emotional ceremony in Accra.

The brief ceremony held at the Achimota Golf Club for the first time brought together some of the old executive members of the club, including Captain Andy Sam (retd), former CEO, and John Alexander Ackon, Deputy Minister of Women, Children and Social Protection and a former board member of the club.