Two Kenyan runners, Viola Chelangat Kimetto and Joyce Jemutai Kiplimo, have failed drug tests and been banned for two years, Athletics Kenya has said.

Ghana's beach soccer national team, the Black Sharks, finished fourth at this year’s Copa Lagos Beach Soccer tournament in Nigeria.

The Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS) is to launch a National Sports Lottery to raise funds for the development of sports in Ghana.

The Director General of the National Sports Authority (NSA), Joe Kpenge, says Ghana sport is in  crisis, blaming journalists  for not checking the relevant authorities who are supposed to release funds for sports programmes.

Minister of Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga, has called on Ghanaians to rally behind the Black Stars' campaign at the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea, next year.

Former Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, was expected in Khartoum yesterday to complete a two-year move with Al Khartoum this week.

Champion club, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, yesterday lost their first pre-season game after 25 matches when they succumbed 0-2 to their regional rivals, Ashantigold, in a friendly encounter at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi.

A bronze sculpture of retired Ghanaian footballer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Marcel Desailly was unveiled last Friday at the Lizzy Sports Complex in Accra.

Twenty-two cyclists of Chain Gang, a charity organisation, who embarked on an 86-kilometre charity ride from Accra to Koforidua have raised over GH¢ 9,000 in aid of an orphanage.

Louis van Gaal has called for Manchester United to improve, despite beating arch rivals Liverpool to record their sixth consecutive Premier League victory yesterday.

The National Sports Authority (NSA) last Friday lauded three of its officials,  two coaches and a referee who took part in a course in Senegal.

George Afriyie, the new chairman of the Black Stars Management Committee, has disclosed that Marcel Desailly turned down the opportunity to coach the Stars before the job was handed to former Chelsea coach Avram Grant.

Veteran fighter, Michael “Ayittey Powers” Okine  returns to the ring as  Landmark Promotions lures him into the fray on a January 3 bout dubbed “ Return of the Dragon” at Tantra Hill at Achimota.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga says his ministry and the Ghana Football Association are in a race against time to submit the budget for the 2015 AFCON to the Ministry of Finance before the end of the financial year.

Russia has denied claims its officials were paid to supply banned substances and cover up tests, rejecting the allegations as "a pack of lies".