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.
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.
