The Rio Olympics ended with a spectacular carnival-inspired closing ceremony, and the official handover to 2020 hosts Tokyo.

Real Madrid got their campaign in La Liga off to the ideal start as two goals from Gareth Bale steered them to a 3-0 win away to Real Sociedad.

The men’s tennis team of the Ghana Immigration Service last Saturday won the National Table Tennis League after  bagging 58 points.

The president of the Ghana Table Tennis Association(GTTA), Mawuko Afadzinu, and his Vice, Kenneth Ashigbey, will lead the funeral procession of former West Africa Table Tennis champion, Ebenezer Okine Quaye, whose burial ceremony takes place at the D.G Hathiramani Sports Hall at the Accra Sports Stadium on Friday, September 16, 2016.

After defeating Honduras in the third place match at the Olympics soccer event on Saturday, Nigeria’s players ended up with bronze medals on their necks and thousands of dollars in their pockets—thanks to Katsuya Takasu, a Japanese plastic surgeon.

Look at the roster of track-and-field athletes at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, a suburb of Nashville in the southern United States, and you will notice there are more Africans than Americans. 

Newly appointed Rwanda coach Yaounde Gilbert Kanyankore has named a 26-man provisional squad for the upcoming Afcon 2017 qualifier against Ghana at Accra Sports Stadium on September 3.

The Premier League Board (PLB) of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) have expressed their "disappointment and displeasure" with comments made by the Minister of Youth and Sports, Hon. Nii Lantey Vanderpuije which sought to run down the quality of the Ghana Premier League (GPL).

Aduana Stars kept-up the pace with leaders Wa All Stars while their title rivals Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko dropped points on Sunday in the Ghana Premier League.

The established order is fighting back in these early days of the English Premier League season - and there are some familiar names atop the scoring charts, too.

Ghana escaped elimination from the 2017 African Youth Championship qualifiers by the skin of their teeth after going down 4-1 to Burkina Faso in Ouagadougou. 

Coach Avram Grant has named a 23-man squad for Ghana’s AFCON qualifying match against Rwanda scheduled to be played early next month.

West Ham United are considering a loan move for Manchester City outcast Wilfried Bony to replace their injured record signing Andre Ayew.

Usain Bolt won the men's 200m to claim his second Rio 2016 gold, his eighth at an Olympics, and keep alive his hopes of an unprecedented 'treble treble'.

Ghana's 4x100 women's relay team finished last in their heat on Thursday afternoon to cap a miserable 2016 Olympic Games campaign for the country.