Pope John Senior High School and St Thomas Aquinas SHS made winning starts to the 2017/2018 Sprite Ball Championship overpowering Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School and St Johns School respectively on Thursday morning at the El Wak Stadium in Accra.

Pope John's and Presec, Legon teams were hoping to steal a march on their Group C rivals TI Ahmadiyya SHS and St Augustine's College when they took to the court but it was Pope John who notched their first win of the competition against the 2008 champions.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaian footballers playing in the country to be spurred on by the annual Confederation of African Football (CAF) awards to exhibit the highest standards in their football careers.

Such a motivation, the President added, should be the operative principle for all who plied the trade on the continent in order to fast-track the development of the game in Africa.

Dormaa Black Stars legend and ardent based club golfer Tony Yeboah will join over 50 professional and amateur golfers across the country at the Nsuta Golf Club in the Western Region on Saturday when the ‘Captain 1 Golf Society Invitational tournament’ teesoff.

Record four-time winners of the Sprite Ball Championship Mfantsipim School made a disastrous start to the 2017/2018 edition of the basketball tournament losing 45-14 to minnows Osu Presbyterian SHS in their first match.

Last year's losing finalists Mfantsipim failed to recover from a poor start and trailed Osu Presec 15-0 at the halfway stage at the concrete courts of the El Wak Stadium.

The Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium in Accra looks set to host one of the biggest competitions in Africa with 12 teams participating in the Africa Cup for Club Championships from January 20 to 27.

The eight-day tournament involves six male and six female bhockey teams who won their respective national leagues last year pitching their strengths against each other for bragging rights as the best hockey teams in Africa.

After a remarkable season marked with an impressive form for Black Stars, Atletico Madrid star, Thomas Partey, and red Star Belgrade forward Richmond Boakye go into battle for the 2017 Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) footballer of the Year award.

WesT ham united star andre ayew believes new manager David Moyes in on course to turn the club's fortunes around.

Caught up in an early relegation fight, the Hammers' affairs have now been put under the tutelage of the former Manchester United gaffer, who replaced Slaven Bilic last November following the Irons'po or start to the season.

A Former chairman of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA), George haldane Lutterodt, says Ghana sports would collapse if the shambolic treatment meted
out to it last year is repeated this year.

He bemoaned the lacklustre preparations towards the Commonwealth Games slated for April this year in Australia and wondered what Team Ghana was going to do at the event.

Aboard member of Accra hearts of oak, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has cautioned players of the club never to feel indispensable because each player is replaceable.

He said Hearts were endowed with talents and so no player should feel extra special, as if the club would not survive without him.

Ghanaian traditional wrestlers were held to a draw by their Nigerien counterparts in an international friendly combat staged at the Kawukudi Youth Cultural Centre at Nima in Accra last Sunday.

Both countries scored two points apiece in the team event but Niger took the top honours in the individuals category.

A Former vice chairman of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Nana Yaw Owusu, has implored past Chief Executives and Board members of Asante Kotoko to join forces with the supporters of the club to rally behind the present Chief Executive, Dr Kwame Kyei, as he strives to build a winsome side to conquer Africa again.

Aduana Stars are confident that the Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu I Stadium will be ready to host Libyan side, Al Tahaddy, in the CAF Champions League preliminary round qualifier next month.

The stadium, named after the immediate past Dormaahene, the late Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Dr Agyemang Badu I, is undergoing refurbishment at full speed without comprimising quality.

Teams representing schools set to compete at the 2018 Sprite Ball Championship will arrive at the games’ village in Accra on Wednesday January 3.

Sixteen boys and 10 girls’ schools will converge at the Liman Hall of the University of Ghana campus for the three-day basketball events which starts from Thursday January 4-6 at the El-Wak stadium.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says it is a matter of "respect" to allow Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane to go to an awards night in Ghana 24 hours before the FA Cup game against Everton.

The attacking duo are on a three-man shortlist for the Confederation of African Football Player of the Year award which will be named on Thursday.

Manager Jose Mourinho has hit back at former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes for his recent criticism of Paul Pogba.

Scholes, working as a pundit for BT Sport, questioned the £89m midfielder's fitness, attitude and position, after the 0-0 draw against Southampton.

"I think the only thing Paul Scholes does is criticise," said Mourinho.