A Board member of Accra Hearts of Oak, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has praised the Phobians for their magnificent performance which resulted in their 3-1 victory over rivals, Kumasi Asante Kotoko, last Monday.

He said team spirit and the never-say-die attitude displayed by the Phobians spoke volume of the significant transformation the team had undergone and was positive about the club’s chances in the league if they maintained the same tempo.

Accra Hearts of Oak’s deputy coach, Henry Lamptey Wellington, is confident that his side can beat Kotoko again in the return leg of their 60th Independence anniversary celebration match at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium on May 28.

Back to back victories over Kotoko within a space of two months have buoyed the confidence of the Phobians and given them legitimate bragging rights, especially after last Monday’s emphatic 3-1 win at the Accra Sports Stadium watched by a sizeable crowd, including President Nana Akufo-Addo and his vice, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has tweeted his support for Sulley Muntari who stormed off a pitch on Sunday after he was racially abused by fans during a Serie A match between Cagliari and Pescara.

Pescara midfielder Muntari was banned for one game after he walked off the pitch at Cagliari on Sunday, having been booked for complaining to the referee about racist abuse in the crowd.

Asamoah Gyan's record 31-goal haul in an Arabian Gulf League season is under threat from Al Jazira striker Al Ahmed Mabkhout. 

Al Jazira is currently on 62 points and wins in both the games will see them overhaul Al Ahli's record haul of 66 points, set last season.

Ghana's table tennis icon, Courage Nanevie, has presented a quantity of tennis equipment to the Ghana Table Tennis Federation (GTTF).

The items, worth thousands of cedis, include a robot machine, a set of 100 balls for multi balls training, four packs of three-star zhuxafa balls, two cans of water based glue, a modern random balls picker, a multi ball pan and a dozen of batteries to operate the robot machine.

The Ghana Taekwondo Federation (GTF) has distributed assorted protective equipment to the various regional associations to help in the development of the sport across the country.

Equipment such as hand, chin, fore-arm and trunk protectors, as well as head gear were donated to nine regional executive members at a short ceremony held at the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) secretariat in Accra.

Caretaker coach of Kumasi Asante Kotoko, Frimpong Manso, faces a tough task in restoring confidence in the team and returning them to winning ways against Accra Great Olympics when the Premier League resumes on Saturday.

Fifth-placed Kotoko have not won a league match since losing 0-1 to Hearts on March 19 in Accra and their visits to the nation’s capital have not been favourable this year.

The penultimate matches to end the first round of this season’s Ghana Premier League (GPL) have some mouth-watering pair-ups with the league leaders’ WAFA’s away game to former champions, Hearts of Oak at the Accra Stadium topping the list.

Due to the Africa Rugby Challenge at the Accra Sports Stadium, the Hearts, WAFA game has been shifted from Sunday to Monday, but it is still attractive enough to top the week 14 fixtures.

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.