Tony Baffoe, a FIFA and CAF General Co-ordinator, says the changes in the date for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will benefit both players and African football and bring harmony between Africa and European football.

He believes also, that the increment in the number of teams to participate in the AFCON will inure to the benefit of the ‘emerging’ teams on the continent, who often miss out on the competition, due to the difficult qualifying campaign.

Black Stars skipper Asamoah Gyan says he joined Kayserispor to help the club win trophies and not to compete for individual honours.

Gyan, 31, joined Turkish SuperLig Kayerispor earlier this month on a two-year deal with the option of extending his contract for a further season.

BGC and GTA both kept their places in the ongoing Greater Accra Cricket League after victories over Dilmah and City CC respectively at the Achimota Cricket Oval over the weekend.

BGC, playing Dilmah on Oval A, had to bat first after winning the toss. Their innings recorded 163-7 with James Vifah scoring Half a century (50), off 57 balls. In the bowling figures, Renju took 3-35 in six overs while Mukesh took 2-31 in six overs.

Hearts August 6 THE Ghana Premier League is to go on a month’s break and resume on August 27 to allow the quarter finals of the MTN FA Cup to be honoured, as well as pave way for handlers of the Black Stars Team B to prepare adequately for the 2018 CAF CHAN qualifiers with Burkina Faso.

The Black Stars B Team, which is made up of players from the domestic league, will commence a one-week residential camping ahead of their two-leg qualifiers with Burkina Faso which will be played over a two-week period in August.

StarTimes, Africa's leading pay TV operator, has acquired exclusive media rights in Sub-Saharan Africa for FIBA's national team competitions during the period 2017-2021, including the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 in China.

Basketball's world governing body awarded StarTimes exclusive free and pay transmission rights across all territories of Sub-Saharan Africa for its leading tournaments.

The football transfer world record is set to be smashed as Real Madrid are understood to have agreed a 180 million euro deal with Monaco for Kylian Mbappe.

Pending the potential 222m euro transfer of Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain, this move would beat the 105m euro record set by Paul Pogba last year as Los Blancos hope to seal the striker's signature in a matter of days.Set at 180m euros, Mbappe's fee will be split down to 160m euros up front with 20m euros worth of add-ons as the Frenchman pursues his career at Madrid, although the value of those variables may be higher, towards 30m euros.

Chelsea have sent Kenedy home from their pre-season tour following the Brazilian's social media comments before a match in China.

The club had "solemnly and sincerely" apologised after fans accused the 21-year-old of xenophobia and racism.

The MTN FA Cup resumes in full swing this weekend with some quarter-finals fireworks as former champions, Hearts of Oak and Medeama SC, engage second tier opponents in the unpredictable competition.

Hearts, who last won the trophy in 2000, will play host to Division One outfit, Danbort FC, at the Accra Sports Stadium with the intention of making the semi-finals at the expense of their neighbours in this local derby.

Former Ghana athletics chief, George Haldane Lutterodt, has donated GH¢1,000 to the executive of the Greater Accra Wrestling Association (GAWA) in support of their Homowo wrestling matches.

The donation took place at his office last Friday where the president of the association, George Mankatah, and some executive members officially requested Mr Lutterodt to become a life patron of the association.

Ghana striker Raphael Dwamena over the weekend produced a near carbon copy of a goal scored by legendary Leeds United striker Tony Yeboah.

The Emergency Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has made a number of proposals that will see changes in the technical bench of the female national teams.

The proposal is likely to be approved at the next GFA Executive Committee meeting.

A sensational strike by Accra Hearts of Oak skipper, Thomas Abbey, yesterday gave his side a deserving 3-1 victory over Tema Youth at the Accra Sports Stadium.

Abbey scored a world class goal to put the icing on the cake after his 30th minute stike from the penalty spot and Kwame Kizito’s header in the 57th minute gave the home side a good cushion as they dominated the game from the blast of the whistle.

Ninth-placed Ashanti Otumfuo Stars caused a shocker last Saturday when they defeated fifth-placed Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) 3-2 in the second round match of the ongoing Stanbic Bank-Graphic Sports Table Tennis League staged at the D.G. Hathiramani Sports Hall of the Accra Stadium.

Young paddler, Jeffrey Owusu Afriyie, became the star of the day after beating veterans William Asare and Isaac Amoako of the GRA 3-1, 3-1 respectively in men’s singles match.

Aduana Stars reclaimed the top spot of the Premier League log after they clinched a point at Tarkwa where they held Medeama to a scoreless draw last Saturday.

With WAFA’s game against Asante Kotoko postponed to enable Kotoko recuperate from a tragic accident two weeks ago, Aduana jumped to the summit with 44 points, one more than the academy lads who have two games.

Undefeated Ghanaian boxer, Isaac "Royal Storm" Dogboe, put himself in readiness for a world title shot in Las Vegas after beating Javier Chacon to defend his WBO International Super Bantamweight belt last Saturday night at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra.

Dogboe proved too strong for the former world title contender after stopping the Argentine in the sixth round via a Technical Knockout in front of a packed crowd, including former President Jerry John Rawlings and boxing legend Azumah Nelson.