The Eastern regional town of Oda was thrown into an all-night celebration that travelled into the early hours of Sunday when Kotoku Royals made a triumphant return after booking a place in the Ghana Premier League following their scoreless draw away to Tema Youth to complete Zone Three of the Division One League as champions.

TWO Members of Parliament (MPs) have assured some boxing stakeholders that they would use their leverage in Parliament to ensure an increase in funding for the sport and other least-financed sporting disciplines.

WISDOM Preparatory School in Accra beat Adedenkpo 1&2 Primary School 5-1 to win the HN Sarpei Foundation Football Gala at the Fire Academy and Training School Park last Saturday.

Ben Johnson was last Saturday crowned winner of the maiden SMEC Invitational Golf tournament held at the Achimota Golf Club in Accra.

Four students of Lincoln Community School at Abelenkpe in Accra have presented football equipment to the Kanda Cluster of Schools at a ceremony in Accra.

The DE-LUXY Boxing League returned to the Bukom Boxing Arena last Saturday after a month's break due to the ban on drumming and noisemaking in Ga Mashie.

The International Sports Press Association (AIPS) has honoured celebrated Ghanaian sportscaster and the first president of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG), Joachim Awuley Lartey, at the 2022 AIPS Media Awards in Doha, Qatar.

I am saddened by the news from the Black Bombers camp over the selection hurdle ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham next month.

Kumasi Asante were officially crowned the 2021/2022 Ghana Premier League champion yesterday at the Baba Yara Stadium when Kotoko’s captain, Salifu Mudasiru, lifted the league trophy which had eluded the club for the last few years.

Ampem Darkoa finished this year with their second cup by beating Hasaacas Ladies by a lone goal to win the Women’s FA Cup yesterday at Bantama, Kumasi.

SAMUEL Takyi is expected to arrive in Ghana today following an emphatic second-round stoppage victory over Mandlenkosi Sibuso at the Emperors Palace in Johannesburg last Saturday.

Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe hopes to finish his upcoming July 23 bout with Joet Gonzalez in seven rounds when they go head to head in a World Boxing Organisation (WBO) featherweight title eliminator.

A FORMER Minister of Youth and Sports, Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuije, has identified the construction of the Bukom Boxing Arena as the reason there is a steady rise of the standard of boxing in the country.

THE Ghana Boxing Federation (GBF) is expected to announce its final list of nine athletes for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Birmingham this week.

Black Starlets coach, Paa Kwesi Fabin, says he will work hard to restore the confidence of his players and turn their fortunes around in the ongoing WAFU Zone B U-17 Cup of Nations after losing the opening match 2-4 to Nigeria.