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.

Premier League Defender of the Year, Abeiku Ainooson, says he is not disappointed that he has been consistently sidelined by Black Stars coach,  Kwasi Appiah.

Members of the national U-20 team, the Black Satellites, are aggrieved that barely five months after beating their Sierra Leonean counterparts in the Afirca Youth Championship qualifier, they are yet to receive qualification bonus.

Aduana Stars right back, Godfred Saka, is relishing a move to Kumasi Asante Kotoko expecting the deal to be sealed today by the two parties.

A private legal practioner, Yaw Acheampong Boafo, was last Saturday elected unopposed as the new chairman of the Ashanti Regional Hockey Association of Ghana.

Ghana’s young athletes participating in the Africa Youth Championship(AYC) in Gaborone, Botswana, at the weekend  won their ninth medal  after Precious Attipoe won a silver medal in the boy's triple jump with a leap of 15.43m.

Fifa is facing fresh allegations of corruption over its controversial decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup is almost here with us and the month-long soccer fiesta is gradually beginning to dominate conversations in offices, markets, public transport, chop bars and even in churches.