A total of 14 players and four officials of the national cricket team will leave for South Africa on Friday September 12, 2014 to participate in  a six-day   World League division six qualifier  tournament.

The Ashanti Regional Police Command has arrested Baffuor Gyan, the brother of Black Stars skipper, Asamoah Gyan, for leading a gang to assault Mr Daniel Kenu, the Ashanti Regional Editor of the Daily Graphic in Kumasi.

The Ashanti Regional Editor of the Daily Graphic, Mr Daniel Kenu, had a hellish experience last Wednesday night at the Miklin Hotel in Kumasi after asking what officials of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) described as an unpleasant question at a Black Stars’ press conference.

The chief executive of Bahmed Travel and Tour, Alhaji Ahmed Bandoh, has attributed the crisis which hit Ghana’s Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign to lack of vision on the part of the former sports minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, and his Planning Committee members.

The Ghana Weightlifting Federation (GWF), has condemned the behaviour of weightlifter, Juliana Arko at last month’s Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, where she threatened to commit suicide over unpaid per diem and bonuses.

Black Stars legend, Tony Yeboah, says he has  washed his hands off football administration after selling his Division One club, Yegoala FC, out of frustration.

President John Dramani Mahama has bemoaned the demand for money by sportsmen and sportswomen as a key condition to represent Ghana in competitions as destroying the spirit of sports, saying that “moneycrazy” was gradually eroding the sense of patriotism and nationalism among Ghanaian sportsmen and sportswomen in recent times.

A two-day 2014 Loya/After 7 Basketball Tournament tips off on Friday at the University of Cape Coast Basketball Court.

The CEO of African Origin Travel and Sports Tourism, Mr Samson Deen, yesterday told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Ghana’s World Cup campaign how he advised the then Minister of Youth and Sports, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, against the idea of having a supporters village and fan parks.

Two tour operators, Travel Matters and Kenpong Travel and Tours (KT&T), are separately claiming a total of $1,046m as amount owed them for their services in lifting supporters to Brazil.

Sapholda maintained their stranglehold at the  summit of the Dwadifo Adanfo Hockey League standings with a 3-1 victory over defending champions, NDK Financiers, last Saturday at the Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium.

Telecommunications outfit, MTN, has presented GH¢25,000 to Kumasi Asante Kotoko for winning both the Premier League and the FA Cup last season.

About 50 footballers will converge on the El Wak Sports Stadium in Accra on September 15 for a selection exercise to choose three   outstanding players to represent the country in Senegal as part of the  Aspire Football Dreams recruitment event.

Ghana's senior female football team, the Black Queens, have threatened to boycott their preparations towards the African Women's Championship (AWC) and possibly the continental tournament, if their qualification bonus is not paid by tomorrow, August 30.

Coach David Duncan is set to make a sensational return to his roots as head coach of Accra Great Olympics in the forthcoming First Capital Plus Premier League, barely 10 months after he was relieved of his job at rival Accra Hearts of Oak.