The Performance Director of the Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF), Dr Kyle Calhoum Pierce, has assured Ghanaian parents that children who wish to take to weightlifting would not suffer from stunted growth.

According to Dr Pierce, who serves as the director of the Weightlifting Development Centre at the Louisiana State University in Shreveport, USA, he was personally involved in a research published last year in the British Journal of Sports Medicine which proved that the sport does not damage growth plates in children.

Coach Yussif Basigi has announced a list of 25 Black Queens players to report for camping at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence at 4 p.m. on Monday to finalise preparations towards the 2015 All Africa Games.

The invited players include the foreign-based trio of Elizabeth Addo (FTC Labdarugo, Hungary), Linda Eshun and Samira Suleman, both of Yikingur FC of Iceland.

Minutes after the Blues fell to Manchester City 3-0, Chelsea announced the signing of FC Augsburg left-back Abdul Baba Rahman.
“We are delighted to announce we have reached an agreement with FC Augsburg for the transfer of Abdul Baba Rahman,” it said on Chelsea’s website.

The Ghanaian winger reportedly cost approximately $22 million, nearly covering Augsburg’s entire wage bill for the season.

Young taekwondo athlete, Joseph Tindan Kuyon, made history by becoming the first Ghanaian to win a medal at the World Children Taekwondo Cultural Festival in Taekwondo-won, Muju-gun, Jeollabuk-do, in South Korea.

The Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Vincent Oppong Asamoah, has called on the youth to take the opportunity to participate in the upcoming Millennium Marathon slated for September 5 in Accra.

Trustees of the Social Security and National Insurance Trust were crowned the men's champions of the Dwadifo Adanfo Hockey League last Saturday following a 3-2 victory over Ghana Revenue Authority.

With quality performance and two goals from two league matches, it should not be difficult for any team to sell shirts of their new signings and that is exactly what Swansea seem to be doing.

Serena Williams suffered only her second loss of 2015 last Saturday evening, as Switzerland teenager Belinda Bencic recorded the biggest win of her career in a 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 upset at the Rogers Cup semifinals.

The desire to be prolific in goal scoring during tournaments has inspired the female national hockey team, Black Sticks, to embark on a two-week tour to the United Kingdom of Friday.

The team will fly to the United Kingdom with the sole aim of learning the techniques in goal scoring, which has been identified as the bane of the forward match of the team during international competitions.

The President of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana, Kwabena Yeboah, has implored the Ministry of Youth and Sports to devote equal attention to all sporting disciplines in the country.

Mr Yeboah made the call yesterday when executive members of the SWAG paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Youth and Sports, Dr Mustapha Ahmed, and bemoaned the lack of financial support to the least-financed disciplines, while the Black Stars contninue to earn huge bonuses.

Mr Mark Mensah, National Chairman of Ashgold Supporters Union, is worried that the once football pride of Obuasi, Ashgold, are gradually sliding into extinction due to a deliberate policy by current owners, Anglogold Ashanti to starve the club of the needed funds.

Table toppers, Ashgold will be hoping to move a step close to the First Capital Plus Premier League title on Sunday when they travel to the Golden City Park at Berekum to play Berekum Chelsea.

SWAG and Asante Kotoko patron, Assad Mallah, has recommended a controversial measure to scrap the relegation exercise in the 2015 Capital Plus Premier League which has only three matches to end.

Chelsea have agreed a deal worth up to £21.7 million with Augsburg to sign left back Abdul Baba Rahman.

Former Ghana international forward Kevin-Prince Boateng did not sign for Sporting Lisbon because he failed a medical, the Portuguese club's director of international relations has revealed.