Tonight at the Bukom Boxing Arena, one of Ghana’s elite fighters, Isaac Dogboe, will have a date with destiny when he seeks for a WBO International super bantamweight title shot via a final eliminator with Argentine Javier Nicolas Chacon.
Indeed, Dogboe, 22, has a fine opportunity to shoot himself into fame at a time when it appears boxing fortunes are dwindling in the country.
Corporate Legal Concepts (CPL), lawyers representing the Multimedia Group Limited and two of its journalists in a $2m libel suit filed by the GFA President Kwesi Nyantakyi are pleading with him to accept GH₵ 40,000 as compensation.
Nyantakyi is seeking damages from MGL and its journalists Patrick Osei Agyemang (alias Songo) and Kofi Asare Brako (alias Abatay, who now works with Atinka FM) for allegedly calling him "the head of a Mafia".
Title chasers, Aduana Stars, will target the top spot of the Premier League table when they descend on the Tarkwa T&A Park tomorrow to contend with Medeama in a tough Week 2 battle.
With leaders WAFA dropping points against Berekum Chelsea, the race for the league title has been thrown wide open as Aduana Stars and WAFA are tied on 43 points.
The Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium in Accra will be the battle ground today when league leaders, Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), and third-placed Reformers fight for the three points at stake in the Sapholda Hockey League.
GRA, who have proved to be unconquerable by winning all their eight matches with 20 points so far, are bent on adding Reformers to their victims to prove that in the men’s category, they have no peers.
Ghana's baseball pair of Kelvin Katey Carbon and Eric Tsatsu defeated their opponents from Papua New Guinea in two straight sets in the opening preliminary match at the ongoing Commonwealth Youth Games in Nassau, Bahamas.
The duo again thrashed their counterparts from Trinidad and Tobago by two straight sets in their second preliminary game to give Ghana a comfortable lead.
The Management and staff of Liberty Group last Saturday held its annual games at the Burma Camp Sports Complex in Accra.
The event brought together staff from the Greater Accra and Central regions to participate in activities such as soccer, sack race, ludo, Oware, lime and spoon race, tug of peace, aerobics, among others.
This year’s Oguaa Fetu Afahye promises to be exceptional and memorable following the decision by the president of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA), Lawyer Peter Zwennes, to stage a boxing bill with three national title belts at stake.
The Central Regional GBA President, Mr Twintoh Walker, who doubles as the chairman of the National GBA Regional Outreach Committee, told the Daily Graphic that the promotion would be a departure from the situation where all boxing promotions were usually centred in Accra, hence a directive by Mr Zwennes to all national title holders to prepare to defend their titles anywhere in the country.
The 32-year-old cross-country records set in the Male Division and the Girls 1,500 metres were shattered during the 31st biennial Super Zonal Sports Festival of the Upper West Region (UWR) Schools and Colleges which ended at Jirapa last Saturday.
The records, which were broken in grand style, had all first three athletes in both categories walking over the old records.
Sixteen athletes, made up of 10 men and six women, last Tuesday began residential camping at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to prepare adequately for the Nigeria International Badminton competition slated for Lagos from July 26 to 29.
The athletes are Ebenezer Andrews, Ben Noah Ayim, Abraham Ayitey, George Ayittey, Michael Opoku Baah, Emmanuel Botwe, Daniel Doe, Joseph Gordon and Aaron Tamakloe.
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has challenged Javier Nicholas Javier Chacon, the Argentinian Super-Bantamweight who challenges Ghana’s WBO International Super Bantamweight Champion, Isaac Dogboe at the Bukom Arena on Saturday, to give the Ghanaian strong man a good fight.
The management of SIC Insurance has promised to provide insurance cover for all Premier League players in the country.
The acting Managing Director (MD) of the insurance giants, Mr Faris Attrickie, made the disclosure when he led a delegation from his outfit and the Professional Footballers Association of Ghana (PFAG) to visit the injured Kumasi Asante Kotoko players at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital following their road accident last week.
League Leaders Tesano Spinners hope to capitalise on the withdrawal of third-placed SmartLine@Emefs to account for fourth-placed Ghana Police Service when the second round of the Stanbic Bank-Graphic Sports National table Tennis League resumes at the D.G. Hathiramani Sports Hall of the Accra Stadium tomorrow after a week’s break.
The Nigerian duo of Rilwan Akanbi and Ahmed Bello have so far been a formidable force for Spinners and, in an interview with the Graphic Sports a fortnight ago, they vowed to win the title for their club.
State-owned oil company, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), has declared its intention to sever ties with the Black Stars following a decision by its Board to vote US$1.5million to support sports development in the country.
Per the 2015 Financial Report of the GNPC, the five-year sponsorship for the Black Stars will run out in December 2017.
Former Ghanaian international, Godwin Attram, has urged Black Stars skipper, Asamoah Gyan, to win an AFCON trophy to cement his legacy as the “ultimate king” of Ghana Football.
According to Attram, who himself was unable to win the AFCON during his nine-year stint with the Stars, all critics must rally behind Gyan and his teammates to enable them to end Ghana's 35-year wait for a trophy at the senior level.
Black Stars coach, Kwasi Appiah, and his backroom staff can now heave a sigh of relief as the Ministry of Youth and Sports has promised to settle all salary arrears owed them in due time.
The ministry’s assurance follows the confirmation of a receipt of $750,000 last Wednesday from the headline sponsors of the national team, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), as part payment for the $1.5m sponsorship package approved by the board for sports development.
