The Premier League Board (PLB), organisers of the Ghana Premier League, has postponed the Match Day 23 fixture between Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Hearts of Oak, which was scheduled for Sunday, July 16, at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi.

The decision, according to the organisers, followed the tragic accident involving the Asante Kotoko team last Wednesday on their way to Kumasi after their midweek encounter against Inter Allies in Accra.

His appointment to the post of Minister of Youth and Sports last February by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo did not come as a surprise to many sports connoisseurs, especially, considering the wealth of knowledge and experience he had acquired after serving on the Parliamentary Select Committee for Sports for several years.

He has been a member of Ghana’s Parliament for the Atwima Mponua Constituency in the Ashanti Region since 2005 and will keep serving his people for as long as they keep giving him their mandate.

The president of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), Ben Nunoo Mensah, has charged the 12 athletes who will represent the nation at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in Bahamas to repay the nation's investment in their careers by winning laurels for the country.

Greater Accra Wrestling Association (GAWA) will organise two exciting wrestling matches to herald this year’s Ga Homowo festival.

The first event, which is expected to attract over 100 traditional wrestlers in Tema to compete for honours, would be held at the Tema Manhean B Park on August 5.

The national male volleyball team, the Black Spikers, have boosted their chances of qualifying to the FIVB Volleyball world championships in Japan in 2019 after winning a qualifying tournament in Niger last weekend.

The government has pledged to maintain its focus on the fair distribution of financial resources to ensure no sporting discipline benefits to the detriment of another.

According to the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide, the practice where some sporting disciplines were given priority at the expense of others have stifled the lesser-known ones of the needed resources to develop and, therefore, needs to change.

Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) will move to the top of the Sapholda Hockey League men's standings with a victory against Legon Knights on Saturday at the Theodosia Okoh Stadium.

The GRA lads who have 17 points after seven matches will move past one-point leaders Trustees (who have a game in hand) if they defeat the whipping boys of the league Legon Knights who do not have a point to their name despite already playing seven matches.

Youth and Sports Minister Isaac Asiamah on Thursday visited players and officials of Kumasi Asante Kotoko on admission at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital  (KATH) to wish them speedy recovery after they were involved in an accident last Wednesday night at Nkawkaw.

He was accompanied on the visit by the chairman of GHALCA, Mr Kudjoe Fianoo, and the Director General of the Ghana National Sports Authority, Mr Daniel Sarfo Mensah.

The Ghana League Clubs Association (GHALCA) is rallying for national support for Kumasi Asante Kotoko following last Wednesday’s tragic accident at Nkawkaw to make them both psychically and psychologically ready to compete in the Ghana Premier League.

 The team’s equipment officer, Thomas Asare, died on the spot while several others got injured when the team’s bus ran into a stationary tipper truck loaded with fertiliser at Nkawkaw in the Eastern region.

The management of Ghana Premier League club, Kumasi Asante Kotoko have confirmed the death of the Deputy Equipment Officer of the club, Kofi Asare following Wednesday's tragic accident involving their team bus at Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region.

The accident occurred around 9:45 pm when the team bus which was returning to Kumasi after a 1-0 loss to Inter Allies on Wednesday ran into a stationary vehicle.

President Nana Akufo-Addo has expressed condolence to the management and players of the Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football Club over Wednesday night’s accident that led to the death of its Deputy Equipment Officer.

The President in a tweet Thursday morning said “Saddened by the news of the accident involving players & officials of Kotoko. My heart goes out to the team; speedy recovery to the injured.”

Accra Hearts of Oak striker, Thomas Abbey, scored a brace to help his side defeat Berekum Chelsea 2-0 at the Accra Sports Stadium yesterday and regain the third position on the Premier League log.

Abbey capitalised on a through ball by Winful Cobinnah in the 41st minute to give the Phobians a well-deserved half time lead.

Disgraced US football official Chuck Blazer has died at the age of 72, his lawyers say.

Blazer, who was banned from all football activities for life in 2015, had been suffering from cancer.

Ghanaian footballer Solomon Nyantakyi has confessed to the double murder of his mother and sister after he was arrested by the police in Italy on Wednesday morning.

The former Parma midfielder massacred his mother and sister with dozens of stab wounds on Tuesday afternoon in the family home in Via San Leonardo in the city of Parma.

Exchequers served a warning to their Sapholda Hockey League men's division rivals on Saturday by battering Reformers 7-0 at the Theodosia Okoh Stadium.

A brace by national star Elikem Akaba set Exchequers on their way to a comfortable victory before his teammates Daniel Bempah, Sylvester Aporti, Emmanuel Ankomah, Samuel Mensah and Elorm Akaba scored.