The three-man Electoral Commission of the Ghana Olympic Committee has cleared thirty-four out of the thirty-six applicants who filed their nominations to contest various positions at the GOC.

Whilst Cillian George Walsh from the Ghana Shooting Sports had his nomination rejected on the basis of his nationality, that of Jerry Ahmed Shaib from the Ghana Special Olympics Association is on hold following an error on his nomination form.

Walsh filed to contest the position of Vice President whilst Shaib filed to be part of the three other members on the committee.

The Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) will sit tomorrow to adjudicate on a number of cases that have come before it.

Thirty six people successfully filed their nominations to contest the 12 positions in the Ghana Olympic Committee as nominations closed last Tuesday  for the March 15, general election.

The Black Stars of Ghana have moved two places up to 43rd place on the latest world football rankings released by FIFA on Thursday March 9.

Ghana moved up nine places last month (February) after placing fourth at the 2017 AFCON and their surge up the rankings continued despite not playing a match in the period under review.

The skipper of the Black Stars, Asamoah Gyan was on the score sheet for Al Ahli in their 2-0 win over Al Dhafra in the Arabian Gulf League on Wednesday.

Gyan scored the first goal of the game when he converted from the penalty spot after he was brought down by the Al Dhafra defender Al Adoua in the 44th minute.

Jamaica's reigning 100m world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will miss this summer's World Athletics Championships in London because she is pregnant.

Barcelona made Champions League history by becoming the first team to overturn a first-leg 4-0 deficit and knock out Paris St-Germain to reach the quarter-finals for the 10th successive season.

The Spanish champions were 5-3 down on aggregate in the 88th minute, but scored three goals in the final seven minutes in one of the greatest European ties of all time.

Neymar's free-kick and penalty followed by Sergi Roberto's 95th-minute winner sealed victory on an incredible night at the Nou Camp.

The filing of nominations for the upcoming Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) elections which were opened from February 21 to March 7, 2017 has been closed. It was closed at 5pm on Tuesday March 7.

A statement issued by the GOC Electoral Commission indicated that a total of people have filed for the 18 vacant positions at the GOC by the time the nominations were closed.

Ghana striker, Kwesi Appiah has joined Norwegian side Viking FK for trials ahead of a loan move from English Premier League side Crystal Palace. The 26-year-old joined his new teammates at the La Manga Club in Spain on Wednesday afternoon.

Ghanaian defender, Gideon Baah has been ruled-out of the 2017 American Major League Soccer (MLS) season after he was placed on New York Red Bulls' season-ending injury list.

The MLS published a full and detailed lists of its teams' rosters, providing a near-unprecedented insight into the precise construction of each squad in the league.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Aduana Stars, Albert Commey, has lauded the effort of the technical team and playing body of the club, saying consistency combined with experience is what has kept them going so far.

“Traditionally, we are not a side that allow a lot of players to leave at the end of every season and so we try to blend the experience of the existing players with the young ones, who we introduce into the team gradually, and I believe that is what has kept us going”, Commey told the Graphic Sports in an interview yesterday.

The Ghanaian Skate football team will on March 19 host their Nigerian counterparts in a match dubbed “Binatone International Unity Skate Soccer Fiesta’, at the Independence Square in Accra.

According to the Managing Director of Interworld Products Ghana Limited (Binatone), organisers of the event, Venu Babu, a dance and acrobatic performances would precede the main match between Ghana and Nigeria.

Goodwill Sports Ambassador and patron of the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) Ray Quarcoo questioned the tactics of former Black Stars coach Avram Grant throughout his two-year tenure.

To him, the Israeli’s tactics have taken the shine that characterises Ghana’s play and, therefore, suggests ways of restoring Ghana’s dwindling fortunes.

It was a rare moment of emotion for Ghanaian-born American football defensive end, Ezekiel Nana "Ziggy" Ansah yesterday when he broke down in tears after a tribute to his mother at the launch of his foundation on March 7 in Accra.

Ansah, more famous for his crunchy tackles on running backs and quarter-backs in the American National Football League (NFL) showed a much softer side when he addressed a gathering of family, friends, sports administrators as well as students from his alma mater (Presbyterian Boys' Senior High School) during a eulogy to his mother, Elizabeth Ansah in Accra.

A  Kumasi-based 75-year-old retired national athlete, E.F. Kesse, has made a passionate appeal to the Sports Ministry to support him financially to reduce the trauma he is going through at his ripe age.