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.
A lucky Ghanaian punter has won the biggest sporting jackpot in the country's history after placing a GH₵4 bet on European football matches with Betway Ghana over the weekend.
After suffering a 3-7 heavy defeat to China in their Hockey World League Round 2 first match last Saturday, Ghana’s Male Hockey team, the Black Sticks bounced back with a more determined game, making it possible for them to beat Sri Lanka 5-4 yesterday.
The match , played at the Dhaka’s Moulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium in Bangladesh, saw Ghana’s potent striker, Johnny Botsio at his striking best, scoring a hat-trick to give his side the needed tonic to overpower their overbearing opponents.
Chelsea legend Michael Essien is eager to extend his career in Sweden.
Essien, 34, has been training with Chelsea to get himself fit for his next move.
CDH Financial Holdings Limited, a savings and loans company in Accra, were last Saturday crowned champions of the maiden corporate doubles tennis festival orgainsed by the Ghana Tennis Federation (GTF) at the Accra Stadium to commemorate Ghana’s 60th Independence Day anniversary.
The event, which attracted a sizable crowd, saw the CDH team, made up of former Davis Cup player, Fred Agyiri, and Clement Ayisi, snatch the ultimate from their colleagues from Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB), also represented by Prince Ablorh and Isaac Odoom, in a game which travelled several hours before producing a winner.
Youth and Sports Minister, Honourable Isaac Kwame Asiamah, has met with executives of key identifiable youth groups in the country to discuss the issues and challenges within their respective circles and a possible roadmap to address them.
According to a statement issued last Friday and signed by the PRO of the Ministry, it was the first time in many years that the sector Minister had opened his doors to youth groups in the country.
Two first half goals scored by league leaders Aduana Stars were all that they needed to beat visiting Accra Hearts of Oak in their titanic encounter at the Osagyefo Agyeman Badu Park at Dormaa-Ahenkro yesterday.
The football marriage between Israeli coach Avram Grant and the GFA has ended after his two-year stint with the Ghana Black Stars. While some people diplomatically put it that he had resigned from the job, he himself said that was not the case. “My contract has ended, and there was no need for me to resign” he said in a television interview.
His two years stay on the job was not a particularly smooth one. Many Ghanaians never liked him for two main reasons. His monthly salary of $50, 000 was considered somehow sacrilegious.
Black Stars skipper Asamoah Gyan played a part in both goals as Al Ahli Dubai came from behind to stun United Arab Emirates league leaders Al Jazira 2-1 on Saturday night.
Gyan was reportedly injured on Monday, March 27 during Al Ahli’s 2-0 defeat at Uzbek side Tashkent Lokomotiv in the Asian Champions League.
A former president of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA), George Haldane Lutterodt, has reiterated the need to pay more attention to other sporting disciplines aside from football.
An in-form Aduana Stars team will seek to maintain their unbeaten run in this season’s Premier League when they host Hearts of Oak at the Nana Agyemang Badu Park at Dormaa-Ahenkro tomorrow.
Saint Augustine's College (Augusco) and Wesley Girls High School on Friday (March 3) emerged the winners of the respective boys and girls titles at the 2017 Cowbell Central Regional Super Zonal Athletics Championship held at the Cape Coast Stadium.
The University of Cape-Coast’s (UCC) male basketball team has qualified to the quarter-finals of the 2017 Universities Polytechnics and Colleges (UPAC) Basketball Championship.
The side beat fierce rival Takoradi Technical University (TTU) 36-22 to top Zone C and secure an automatic spot in the latter stages of the competition.
A team of experienced Ghanaian tennis stars are bracing up for a day’s international tennis action against their counterparts from Nigeria at the Burma Camp Tennis Club (BCTC) tomorrow.
A Tanzanian football fan reportedly lost his wife in a bet over that country's biggest derby between Dar es Salaam giants Simba SC and Young Africans SC.
The incredible bet was revealed on social media this week by the BBC’s Osasu Obayiuwana. The clash between the two teams is the equivalent of a Accra Hearts of Oak versus Kumasi Asante Kotoko clash in Ghana.
