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.

The new president of the Ghana Badminton Federation (GBF), Mr Evans Yeboah, says he would intensify a drive to get more people to participate in the sport, organise regional and national badminton tournaments and make badminton a national pastime.

He also pledged to provide a permanent place for competitions and the construction of satellite badminton courts across the country.

The Ghana Rugby Football Union senior men’s team, Black Eagles, yesterday defeated their Beninois counterparts 46 -5 in the first match of the Rugby Africa Regional Challenge Group West 1, held at the Accra Sports Stadium.

Team Ghana began with a winning intent in the first half when dangerman fullback Yusif Jalilu scored two tries to give the Ghanaians 29 points to five points in the half.

Accra Hearts of Oak will be without head coach Frank Nuttall when they face rivals Kumasi Asante Kotoko in the first leg of the ‘Ghana: 60 Years On’ President's Cup today at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The Scot has already guided the Phobians to a 1-0 victory this season over the Porcupine Warriors, who were then coached by Croatian trainer Zdravko Logarusic in the league this season albeit a win secured through a controversial spot kick by Vincent Atingah's at the same venue.

He came, he saw and he conquered. Now world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua wants a piece of Tyson Fury after knocking out Wladimir Klitschko.

It was a fight for the ages as British star Joshua defeated veteran Klitschko in front of a 90,000-capacity crowd at Wembley on Saturday.

Two separate basketball clinics will come off at the Takoradi Technical University and the University of Ghana courts today and next Saturday respectively.

The second edition of the Liquid Sports Ghana Awards will be staged at the Siam Meeting Room of Kempinski Hotel at 6pm tonight.

Head Coach of the national under 17 football team, Paa Kwasi Fabin has named a provisional 25-man squad for the upcoming Africa Under 17 Championship in Gabon.