Defending male and female champions of the Sprite Ball Championship, Opoku Ware School and Wesley Girls School suffered shock losses yesterday when they opened the defence of their titles at the El Wak Stadium.

In Group D, the boys' champions Opoku Ware (OWASS) were stunned 38-27 by Accra-based Sacred Heart Senior High Technical School while in the girls' Group A, Accra Wesley Girls SHS pipped defending champions, Wesley Girls School (Cape Coast) 23-20 in a day of shocks at Ghana's flagship high school basketball tournament.

Ghana's world title hopeful,Isaac "Royal storm" Dogboe,has vowed to tame the monster in opponent Cesar Juarez and make history as they lock horns tomorrow for the WBO Interim super Bantamweight title at the Bukom Boxing arena in accra.

Dogboe told the Graphic Sports in an interview that there would be fireworks tomorrow and that he was hopeful of stopping his Mexican opponent.

Leicester City have asked about stoke City target Daniel opare.

The Ghana international full-back is available for around £3million as he is out of contract with his club Augsburg in the summer.

Coach Steve Polack of Kumasi Asante Kotoko has named a 26-man squad with a target to go past the preliminary stage of the CAF Confederation Cup as they encounter Club Athletique Renaissance Aiglon (CARA ) of Congo Brazzaville in the first match.

The list includes three goalkeepers, seven defenders, 12 midfielders and four strikers.

Ghana's boxing legend, Azumah Nelson, has described undefeated Isaac Dogboe as a boxer who is determined to make history by becoming a world champion, and believes his hard work would pay off tomorrow night.

Azumah was hopeful that the Ghanaian would defy all odds to beat Mexico's Cesar Juarez in tomorrow's WBO Interim Super Bantamweight
title showdown at the Bukom Boxing Arena.

Egypt and Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has won the CAF African Player of the Year award, beating out his Senegalese club teammate Sadio Mane for the continent's top individual footballing honor.

The striker has enjoyed a phenomenal year with both club and country -- he was a key part of a Roma team that finished second in Italy's Serie A before moving to traditional English powerhouse Liverpool in the summer, where he's already scored 23 goals from just 29 games.

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.