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.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Isaac Asiamah, has reiterated the government’s desire to make school sports the hub for the identification and development of sporting talents.
FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, is putting his best foot forward as a true friend of Africa and has pledged to ensure that African football is the biggest beneficiary of his leadership of the sport’s world governing body.
Accra Hearts of Oak coach Frank Nuttall must brace up for a tough challenge on Sunday as his side comes face to face with Aduana Stars. The Ghana Premier League’s topmost fixture will be at the Nana Agyemang Badu Park at Dormaa-Ahenkro as the home side seeks to maintain its position on top of the league log.
The sports industry received a shot in the arm yesterday when the government voted GH¢45.8 million as budgetary allocation for the Ministry of Youth and Sports for the 2017 fiscal year, as was announced in Parliament yesterday by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta.
An intruder broke into Floyd Mayweather's Las Vegas mansion over the weekend and got away with several high-dollar items, law enforcement said.
The boxing champion was in Los Angeles celebrating his 40th birthday at the time of the robbery.
The son of football legend Pele has been released by a Brazilian court after he was arrested six days ago on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering.
Pele's son, Edson Cholbi do Nascimento (nicknamed Edinho) was released by the high court temporarily till his final appeal is assessed.
