Greig Laidlaw will turn 34 the day before Scotland play Japan in what looks like a win-or-bust denouement in Pool A of the Rugby World Cup.
Since it's a little doubtful that the scrum-half will still be wearing the blue jersey after the…
Ireland's Rob Kearney has been passed fit to face Scotland in Sunday's World Cup encounter, but Robbie Henshaw will definitely miss out.
It was feared that Kearney would miss the game was after picking up a calf injury in training on Mo…
Double Paralympic champion Libby Clegg has been named in Britain's squad for the World Para-athletics Championships five months after becoming a mother.
Clegg, 29, did the T11 100m and 200m double at Rio 2016, and will be competing at h…
Rory McIlroy has said he will compete in next year's Irish Open whenever or wherever it is played.
The world number two missed this year's event at Lahinch in early July to focus on preparing for The Open at Royal Portrush, where he mis…
Liverpool chief executive Peter Moore has stayed in hospital with a fan who was "ambushed" in a bar in Naples before the Reds' Champions League loss to Napoli on Tuesday.
The fan collapsed at half-time due to "significant blood loss" ac…
Liverpool's late defeat by Napoli was a real slap in the face, but sometimes that is not the worst thing that can happen to a team.
Jurgen Klopp's side have coasted through their five Premier League games this season and had probably fo…
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and Chelsea manager Frank Lampard were both left to reflect on key penalty incidents as they began their Champions League campaigns with defeats.
Ross Barkley missed a late chance to equalise for Chelsea from…
Cristiano Ronaldo says he wants to win more Ballon d'Or awards - the trophy for the world's best player - than his main rival, Lionel Messi.
Juventus forward Ronaldo, 34, has won the prize five times - as many times as 32-year-old Barce…
Several properties belonging to top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), including its president Amaju Pinnick, have been seized in a fresh corruption probe.
The latest investigation and seizures are being carried out by …
The thrilling races keep coming thick and fast in a season that looked destined to be labelled a dud not so long ago.
Following on from his maiden Formula 1 victory in Belgium a week earlier, Charles Leclerc managed to do what only Lewi…
Wales boss Warren Gatland was "shocked" when backs coach Rob Howley was sent home from the World Cup for an alleged betting breach.
However, he believes the setback will not derail the team in Japan.
Howley's departure came just six …
Tour de France winner Egan Bernal will not ride in the Road World Championships in England on 29 September.
Bernal has pulled out of the Colombia team for the race in Harrogate and has been replaced by Carlos Betancur.
The 22-year-ol…
The Local Black Stars are in the final week of preparations for Sunday’s 2020 African Nations Championship final round qualifier first leg against Burkina Faso.
Head coach Maxwell Konadu has trimmed his squad size to 25 players after we…
The Normalisation Committee of the Ghana Football Association, has, in compliance with Article 30 of the new GFA Statutes 2019, expunged Clause 3 and Clause 2 of the eligibility criteria for the President and the Executive Council respecti…
…in IBF super welterweight clash Ghana’s world title hopeful, Dodzi Kemeh, has intensified his preparation ahead of the clash with Daniel Aduku at the A Plaza Hotel at Dzodze in the Volta Region on October 5.
They will battle for the …
The Technical Director of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr Oti Akenteng, has urged the Normalisation Committee (NC) to hasten the process to elect officers to run football in the country.
He said it was important for a new exe…
FOUNDER of SuperSport and Senior Adviser to Fox Sports Africa, Barry Lambert, has thrown his support for Ghana Football Association (GFA) presidential aspirant, George Afriyie, insisting that the Ghanaian was the right person to spearhea…
The Greater Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Mohammed Adjei Sowah, has stated that the total neglect of juvenile football by football authorities in the country is the major cause of Ghana’s recent slump in the game across al…
Any competition that sees the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal, Porto, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Lazio competing for the trophy is bound to grab the attention of fans world-wide.
It is thus not surprising that the start of this …
The home based Black Stars will take on Burkina Faso in the first leg of their CHAN qualifying double header tie on Sunday September 22.
The first leg tie is scheduled to kick off at 3pm on Sunday at the Baba Yara Stadium with the rev…
Both Ghana’s national women’s teams of the two largest team sports in the world, football and rugby, will be chasing the Olympics Dream during September and October of 2019
Members of the Ghana Rugby (GhanaRugby.org) national women’s se…
Brazil have confirmed they will face Senegal on 10 October and Nigeria three days later at the National Stadium in Singapore.
It will be first ever meeting between Brazil and Senegal, who lost the Africa Cup of Nations final to Algeria …
Arsenal needed a late strike from Danielle van de Donk to win at Manchester United, as the newly promoted hosts impressed against the defending Women's Super League champions.
England goalkeeper Mary Earps had produced several fine save…
One of the Bury players left without a club following their expulsion from the English Football League is on the verge of signing for West Bromwich Albion.
Teenage defender Saul Shotton, who played for Albion in a reserve game last week…
A Kenyan boy who featured in a missing child social media campaign launched by Roma has been found and returned to his family.
An image of the child, 13, was featured on Twitter alongside one of Henrikh Mkhitaryan when the midfielder se…
George Horne's capacity to cut holes in defences is clear, but it's only when you put his statistics in context that you get an angle on how ruthless the scrum-half can be.
Horne might be Scotland's third-choice scrum-half in Japan, but…
Ireland full-back Rob Kearney could still be in contention for Sunday's World Cup opener against Scotland despite a calf injury.
The 33-year-old had looked set to miss the first Pool A game but is now likely to train on Wednesday.
Ir…
Six-time Olympic champion Allyson Felix has been selected in the USA team for the World Athletics Championships for a record ninth consecutive time.
Felix, 33, only returned to competitive racing at the Great North City Games last week,…
Mark Cavendish says he is still interested in racing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as he prepares to return to the track at Six Day London in October.
After winning omnium silver at Rio 2016, the 34-year-old may target a first Olympic gold…
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Isaac Kwame Asiamah has appointed broadcast journalist Kofi Asare Brako (popularly known as Abatay) as his Spokesperson and Personal Assistant.
The appointment which became effective September 5, 2019…
The Minister of Inner-City and Zongo Development, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid has assured residents of Madina Zongo that a football pitch being constructed in their community meets the dimensions specified by FIFA and it would be fit to host…
Mr. Jerry Tetteh scored 42 points to win the Global Enterprise Company (GEC) Open Golf Championship played at the Achimota Golf Course in Accra.
Tetteh, a Handicap ‘five’ player, joined Professor Bernard Baden, who won the Kumasi event …
Tunisia’s Etoile Sportive du Sahel has sounded a note of caution to Asante Kotoko S/C as the two sides clash in a crucial second leg tie of the Total CAF Champions’ League in a forth night time.
The first leg, honoured at the Baba Yara …
Ghanaians are not known heavyweights in long-distance running like Kenyans who have dominated the sport for a very long time and are known globally for that.
But, William Amponsah, a 20-year-old student of the University of Education an…
Kenya will play Tunisia in 2020 in tennis's Davis Cup Euro/Africa Group II playoff.
This comes after the conclusion of the Africa Group III tournament in Nairobi in which Kenya and Tunisia won promotion to the Group II Euro/Africa cadre…
The Six Nations has "entered into an exclusive period of negotiation" with private equity firm CVC to sell a stake in rugby's oldest championship.
The deal will provide a financial boost to each union but would mean partly surrendering …
Swansea City have added club legend Alan Tate to their first-team coaching staff.
Tate, 37, has been promoted from his academy coaching role to work under boss Steve Cooper.
Tate played for Swansea in all four divisions, making 340 a…
Bundee Aki has vowed to keep doing Ireland proud despite admitting "some people won't be happy with me pulling on an Irish jersey".
The New Zealand-born centre is expected to start for Ireland in Sunday's World Cup opener against Scotla…
Exeter Chiefs have signed South African flanker Jacques Vermeulen on a three-year contract.
The 24-year-old, who can also play at lock, was previously with the Sharks Super Rugby franchise in his homeland.
He is the second South Afri…
England start their bid for World Cup glory on Sunday when they face Tonga in their Pool C opener in Sapporo.
What team do you think head coach Eddie Jones should pick?
Is Owen Farrell a fly-half or a centre?
Which two of Maro Ito…
Floating pitches, volcano views and cities named after car companies.
These are just a few of the things awaiting fans at the 12 venues for Asia's first ever Rugby World Cup.
The final will take place in Yokohama, close to Tokyo, but…
Scotland forward David Denton has decided to end his playing career on the advice of doctors.
The 29-year-old back row has been advised to stop playing following a concussion he sustained playing for Leicester Tigers in October.
"The…
South African officials have stopped the early release of convicted rapist and former tennis star Bob Hewitt following a public outcry.
The 79-year-old was jailed for six years in 2015 for raping two girls and sexually assaulting a thir…
Title-chasing Essex did their best to make up for lost time by picking up four Surrey wickets on a reduced opening day at Chelmsford.
Bad light prevented any play until 14:15 BST, with the visitors opting to bat after winning the toss.
…
South Africa sprinter Carina Horn has been provisionally suspended after violating anti-doping rules.
Horn tested positive for Ibutamoren and the anabolic agent LGD-4033, according to the International Athletics Federation's Athletics I…
Ansu Fati... if you've never heard of Barcelona's new superstar, you can be forgiven: until a couple of weeks ago, neither had the vast majority of the Spanish club's fans.
But the 16-year-old has been thrust into the limelight after ma…
Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea has signed a new contract to stay with the club until 2023.
De Gea, 28, has made 367 United appearances since Sir Alex Ferguson brought him to the club from Atletico Madrid in an £18.9m deal in …
Somerset's push for a first County Championship title was held up by Liam Dawson's century as Hampshire recovered from 24-5 on day one at the Ageas Bowl.
Lewis Gregory took three early wickets to leave Hampshire deep in trouble after el…
A crowd of more than 15,000 people watched Wales' first training session in Japan for the Rugby World Cup.
Queues stretching more than a kilometre began building up three hours before the open run-out at Kitakyushu Stadium.
The local…
Moroccan club Wydad Casablanca say they will return to the Court of Arbitration (Cas) for Sport over May's African Champions League final result.
It comes after Sunday's meeting of the Confederation of African Football's (Caf) Appeal Bo…