The Ghana@60 Planning Committee, in collaboration with Primeval Media Consult and FnB Media Consult, has begun the search for the best 22 players in the 60-year history of Ghana football.

The search, christened Ghana's Finest 22, form part of Ghana's 60th independence anniversary celebrations and was launched yesterday at the Independence Arch in Accra with the unveiling of a 55-man shortlist of players.

Former Youth Olympic gold medallist Martha Bissah has been named Norfolk State University's Female Athlete of the Year at the athletics department's end-of-year awards ceremony on Monday.

Martha Bissah is the first freshman to be named one of NSU’s top athletes since bowler Thea Aspiras in 2011.

Former Chelsea star Michael Essien has been banned from playing in the Indonesian league until he obtains a work permit.

Essien along with his teammate Carlton Cole was hauled before the government-backed Professional Sports Agency after they were found to have made their debuts on Saturday for Persib Bandung despite not possessing work permits.

Former Chelsea stars Michael Essien and Carlton Cole are facing the prospect of imprisonment in Indonesia after their club Persib Bandung admitted it had not acquired work permits for the high-profile duo.

Essien and cole were signed last month amid fanfare and made their respective debuts last Saturday in a 0-0 draw against Arema FC.

Ghana will host over 30 countries for the 2017 World Taekwondo Open Championship fixed for August 2017.

The West African country was given the nod by World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) to host the championship for the first time.

Juventus are confident Paulo Dybala will recover from a sprained ankle in time to face Barcelona on Wednesday at Camp Nou.

The forward bagged a brace in the 3-0 first leg victory of their Champions League quarter-final.

The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Commercial Service of the US Embassy in Accra to organise two business expositions ahead of this year’s international friendlies against Mexico and the USA.

The business exposition, which is being organised in partnership with RGG Sports LLC of Tampa, will see a business conference and two exhibition fairs held in the two cities for the friendlies.

A sliced nerve suffered by Ghana defender Harrison Afful during an attempt to prepare chicken is the latest in a long line of bizarre off-the-pitch injuries suffered by a professional footballer.

Afful's club, Columbus Crew disclosed that he was back in training on Monday after undergoing surgery to repair a sliced nerve in his hand.

Las Palmas’ Kevin-Prince Boateng has until the end of April to decide if he wants to take an offer from Valencia or stay with the island outfit.

Plaza Deportiva reports a meeting between Boateng’s representatives and the Las Palmas hierarchy that will take place in the next few days and go a long way to determining the midfielder’s future.

The University of Ghana (UG) men's basketball team retained the Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges (UPAC) Basketball Championship by easing past Marshalls University College 41-23 in a one-sided final on Saturday in Accra.

The rampant UG team lived up to their pre-tournament billing as favourites and had accounted for the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) 45-20 in the semi-finals.

Reigning FA Cup champions Bechem United will face third tier side Young Wise as they begin the 2016/17 edition of the competition.

The draw which was held at the GFA Secretariat on Thursday morning also threw up some interesting regional derbies for this round of the competition to be played between April 20-24, 2017.

Around the same time last season, Kumasi Asante Kotoko decided to let their head coach, David Duncan, step aside and his assistant, Michael Osei, take over, following strings of uninspiring performances from the team in the Ghana Premier League.

After making it five wins out of five matches, the Senior National Cricket team has emerged winners in the just ended ICC WCL Qualifier, Africa Region Qualifier tournament, held in Benoni, South Africa.

The tourney which started on April 7, saw Ghana pitch its strength against Sierra Leone.

The former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has joined the United Soccer League side Phoenix Rising as a player and co-owner.

The 39-year-old has not played since leaving Major League Soccer’s Montreal Impact in November but he has taken up the chance to join Phoenix’s “MLS expansion franchise ownership group”.

Hundreds of Ghanaian football lovers will gather at the Junction Mall on April 22, with the hope of breaking the world record of the most accurate football passes.       

The record-breaking event is part of activities to mark the grand opening of West Africa’s largest sports store – Decathlon Ghana.

The current world record of accurate football passes stands at 596 accurate passes and is held by members of the Qatar Petrochemical Company, (QAPCO).