Ghanaian midfielder Thomas Partey was an unused substitute as Atletico Madrid were battered 3-0 by Real Madrid in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored another Champions League hat-trick as Real Madrid thrashed Atletico Madrid in the semi-final first leg to close in on a third final in four years.
Ghana's participation in this year's IPC Desert Challenge received a major boost following a timely sponsorship of an athlete by the Indian Women Association (IWA) last week.
The Indian women’s wing has presented a return ticket to one of the two athletes, Botsyo Nkegbe, who is expected to participate in the wheelchair racing competition with Maclean Atsu Dzidzienyo.
Five bodybuilders will represent the nation at this year's Arnold Classic Africa Bodybuilding Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa, from Friday to Sunday.
Heavyweight champion and current Man Ghana, Cyril Kofi Adjah, middleweight Godwin Frimpong and William Osei Kankam and lightweight Michael Adu Parnell will be joined by female bodybuilder Barbie Bamfo, a bikini athlete, for the event.
A lucky Kenyan man, Samuel Abisai has won more than $2million (£1.5m) for correctly predicting 17 football matches in a competition run by betting company SportPesa. The payout is set to be one of the biggest in Africa.
A statement from SportPesa says its CEO Ronald Karauri called the winner who was already celebrating.
Sulley Ali Muntari has been suspended by the Italian Serie A's Disciplinary Commission for walking off the pitch during a match between Cagliari and Pescara on Sunday.
Not only has Muntari's yellow card not been rescinded, a one-match ban has been handed to the Ghanaian while Cagliari have avoided any punishment for the racist chants.
The United Nations' top human rights official hailed Pescara's Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari as an 'inspiration' on Monday for leaving the pitch in protest after the player said he was booked for complaining about racist chanting.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said FIFA needed to pay greater attention to the persistent problem of racism at games - and that his office had been in touch with soccer's governing body.
Accra Hearts of Oak beat arch-rivals Kumasi Asante Kotoko by a resounding 3-1 to send a two-goal cushion into the second leg of the ‘Ghana: 60 Years On’ President's Cup in Kumasi. Hearts profited from two howlers by Kotoko’s young goalie Felix Annan for a deserved win in yesterday’s clash at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The United States national team will play Ghana on July 1 in East Hartford, Connecticut, to prepare for the CONCACAF Gold Cup, U.S. Soccer confirmed on Monday.
As reported by ESPN FC last month, the game at Rentschler Field will serve as a tune-up ahead of group-stage games against Panama, Martinique, and Nicaragua.
Zonal defending champions, Ampem Darkoa and Hasaacas Ladies began their campaign in this year’s National Women’s League (NWL) with emphatic wins as the competition kicked off over the weekend.
Newly crowned Nigerian-born British world heavyweight boxing champion, Anthony Joshua has set the records straight regarding his nationality saying he is a "Nigerian man by blood".
Joshua, 27, added the WBA and IBO heavyweight straps to the IBF heavyweight title on Saturday after an 11th round stoppage of Wladimir Klitschko.
Former national handball captain and Founder of Town Council Line volleyball team, Patrick Norvor, has appealed to the state for a parcel of land to construct a multi-purpose sports complex to engage the youth in sporting activities as a form of sustenance and recreation.
Mr Norvor, who is also an ace volleyball player, needs an urgent help from the state and stakeholders in sports to help him acquire a free piece of land to construct the sporting facility out of his own resources.
Accra Hearts of Oak will send a two-goal cushion into the second-leg of the Ghana: 60 Years On President's Cup after two howlers by young goalie Felix Annan handed them a deserved 3-1 victory over rivals Kumasi Asante Kotoko yesterday at the Accra Sports Stadium.
The victory, Hearts second over Kotoko this year after a 1-0 win in the league would be a day to forget for Kotoko fans who braved the rains to watch the game and Annan, who was at fault for two of the goals.
The Ghana Immigration Service men’s table tennis team defeated Police 3-0 to emerge champions in a special knockout tournament held at the D.G. Hathiramani Hall of the Accra Stadium last Saturday.
Top seed Thomas Setodji won his maiden McDan West African Open Championship men's trophy while Sarah Adegoke successfully defended the women's title to complete a clean sweep for foreign tennis players on Saturday at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Sarah Adegoke and Thomas Setodji last Saturday justified their reputation as the top-ranked players by claiming the top honours in the men's and women's divisions respectively of the McDan West African Open Championship at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Togolese debutant Setodji posted an emphatic 6-2, 6-1 victory over his Beninois counterpart, Felix Hounkpevi, to win the all-Francophone men's final, while defending women's champion Adegoke defeated youngster Angel McCleod 6-4, 6-3 in an all-Nigerian final.
