Paddy Jackson is "keen to get on with business in a London Irish shirt" according to coach Dec Danaher.
Former Ulster fly-half Jackson joined the Exiles after a season at Perpignan in time for their Premiership return.
But Jackson's …
Serena Williams says she "has to do everything well" to win her US Open semi-final against Elina Svitolina and stay on course for a 24th Grand Slam.
American Williams, 37, is aiming to match Australian Margaret Court's record of Grand S…
Jamie Murray won two matches in one day to reach the US Open mixed doubles final and the men's doubles semis.
Murray and fellow Briton Neal Skupski came from behind to beat Americans Jack Sock and Jackson Withrow 4-6 6-1 7-6 (7-4) in th…
Switzerland's Belinda Bencic will meet Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu for a place in the US Open final after both reached their first Grand Slam semis.
Andreescu, 19, recovered from a set down to defeat Belgian 25th seed Elise Merte…
Italian 24th seed Matteo Berrettini edged a thrilling five-set match against Gael Monfils to reach a first Grand Slam semi-final at the US Open.
In a gripping conclusion, the 23-year-old squandered four match points but held his nerve i…
Rafael Nadal remains the favourite to win the US Open and move within one on Roger Federer's tally of 20 Grand Slams after a hard-fought quarter-final win over Diego Schwartzman.
Spanish second seed Nadal won 6-4 7-5 6-2 against the Arg…
The Indiana Pacers have signed Ghanaian center Amida Brimah to a contract. Per the team policy of the Pacers, the terms of the contract for the free-agent were not announced.
Brimah spent the last two seasons in the NBA G League with th…
Sean Mackie feared he was being "drafted out" at Hibernian just two months after signing a new deal, until manager Paul Heckingbottom eased his concerns about a Dundee loan move.
The 20-year-old left-back, who has played four times for …
Ghana's Black Queens defeated their Gabonese counterparts 2-0 yesterday in the second round return qualifier for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games to cruise to the next stage of the competition on a 5-0 aggregate.
It was a back-to-back feat …
Hull City defender Angus MacDonald has been diagnosed with the early stages of bowel cancer.
The Championship side said that the 26-year-old's "physical and mental wellbeing are our number one priority at this moment in time".
"Angus…
Manchester City defender Aymeric Laporte has had surgery on his right knee in Barcelona after being carried off in the 4-0 win over Brighton.
Laporte damaged his cartilage and lateral meniscus in a challenge with Brighton defender Adam …
Norwich have confirmed defender Timm Klose has suffered knee ligament damage and is out for a "lengthy spell".
Klose suffered the injury in a Carabao Cup defeat by Crawley on 27 August.
The club said scans showed "significant damage …
Greg Kiltie believes he was not been "given a fair chance" by Kilmarnock manager Angelo Alessio and that the club's fans "would back me up on that".
The midfielder decided to join Dunfermline Athletic on loan for the season after being …
Christopher Jullien says he is relishing the "intensity" of Scottish football after establishing a regular starting slot in the Celtic side.
The £7m defensive signing, 26, has started the past five games - all wins - but was left out of…
Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, the EFCC, is conducting a new investigation into the country's Football Federation (NFF), it has revealed.
The latest investigation comes on the back of a separate case brought by the Economic and Finan…
The Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) has set up an interim committee to oversee league football in the country for the next two years.
The move follows the federation's decision to suspend the activities of Cameroon's Professiona…
Formula 1 has secured the future of the Italian Grand Prix until at least the end of 2024.
The new contract was announced at an event held in Milan on Wednesday to celebrate the race's 90th anniversary ahead of Sunday's grand prix at Mo…
Steve Smith once again had the measure of England's bowlers on his return to the Australia side on a rain-shortened first day in the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.
Smith, who missed the third Test with concussion, notched up a recor…
Former captain Misbah-ul-Haq has been appointed Pakistan's new head coach and chief selector.
The 45-year-old fills the role vacated by Mickey Arthur, whose contract was not renewed after they failed to reach the World Cup semi-finals.
…
Wales lock Jake Ball admits he returned too quickly after suffering concussion in 2018, and has warned other players not to make the same mistake.
Ball, 28, was this week named in Wales' squad for the Rugby World Cup.
But he missed m…
Gaming bans in Uganda and Kenya: a sign of things to come? (by Daniel Tyler, Conference Producer at ICE Africa)
Both jurisdictions have set a precedent that threatens to spread across and bring to a halt the great signs of promise demon…
Gregor Townsend has opted not to start any players who missed out on Rugby World Cup selection for Scotland's final warm-up against Georgia.
Flanker Ryan Wilson will be captain for the first time, while Jonny Gray, Tommy Seymour and Bla…
A cannabis farm was raided after a TV helicopter following the Vuelta a Espana captured its location.
Police in Catalonia seized 40 plants in Igualada, near Barcelona, after they were alerted to stage eight footage that showed two rooft…
Live stream will be available on FIFA.com and FIFA’s YouTube channel
FIFA invests in TV production to give fans all over the world a chance to watch the first round of qualifiers; First round of CAF qualifiers for Qatar 2022 start this …
England's players will embrace and enjoy the Rugby World Cup in Japan far more than the high-pressured environment of four years ago, says prop Joe Marler.
Hosts England failed to reach the 2015 quarter-finals after an "intense and clau…
Welsh rider Owain Doull has signed a two year extension to stay with Team Ineos.
The 26-year-old first signed for the British outfit - then Team Sky - in 2017.
He has enjoyed his best season including his first stage win at February'…
South Africa women's coach Desiree Ellis has bemoaned her side's poor finishing that saw Banyana Banyana knocked out of Olympic qualifying by Botswana.
Botswana beat the Women's Africa Cup of Nations runners-up on penalties after both l…
South Africa will host Madagascar on Saturday in a hastily arranged friendly after Zambia pulled out of their planned meeting on the weekend.
Chipolopolo were due to host South Africa in Lusaka on Saturday but the Football Association o…
The German Football Federation (DFB) has announced that three German clubs have withdrawn their cases over the eligibility of Hamburg's Gambian player Bakery Jatta.
Second division sides Nuremberg, VfL Bochum and Karlsruher SC were all …
Red Bull's Max Verstappen will start Sunday's Italian Grand Prix from the back of the grid as a result of a penalty for excessive engine usage.
The Dutchman will run Honda's latest 'Spec Four' engine at Monza, which will take him over t…
Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City, Real Madrid, Kilmarnock, Livngston, St Mirren, Dunfermline
Kirk Broadfoot, the 35-year-old centre-half who has signed for St Mirren, says he had to quit Kilmarnock because manager A…
Harlequins centre Joe Marchant will start England's final warm-up match against Italy on Friday despite not being part of the World Cup squad.
Marchant is alongside Piers Francis in the midfield in what is described as a "mix and match …
Formula 2 driver Juan Manuel Correa - injured in the accident that killed French driver Anthoine Hubert last Saturday - has been moved to intensive care in Britain.
Correa, 20, suffered a spinal injury and broken legs during the support…
Ben Stokes says his heroic innings at Headingley will count for nothing if England do not win the Ashes back from Australia.
Stokes' 135 not out led England to an incredible one-wicket victory and levelled the series at 1-1.
However,…
Fifth seed Daniil Medvedev feared he would not be able to continue against Stan Wawrinka before reaching his first Grand Slam semi-final at the US Open.
Medvedev, 23, received painkillers and taping on his thigh in the first set of a 7-…
Yorkshire have signed New Zealand international spinner Ajaz Patel for the final two games of the County Championship season.
The 30-year-old will replace Keshav Maharaj after next week's game against Division One title rivals Somerset.…
Serena Williams underlined her tag as the favourite for the US Open with a brutal quarter-final win over China's Wang Qiang in just 44 minutes.
The 37-year-old American broke serve five times and hit 25 winners as she eased to a 6-1 6-0…
Five-time champion Roger Federer is out of the US Open after Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov won a late-night thriller to finally beat the Swiss great.
Federer, 38, had won all seven of their previous meetings but unseeded Dimitrov fought ba…
Leicester Tigers say they will "take further action if appropriate" after reports of an incident involving some of their players in a bar in Portugal.
It has been claimed a "violent confrontation" with security staff took place in a pub…
British number one Johanna Konta says she has "a lot to smile about" after her latest Grand Slam bid ended in a US Open quarter-final defeat.
Konta made the last eight for a third successive Grand Slam, but lost 6-4 6-4 to Elina Svitoli…
Justin Gatlin ended a 100m race limping and holding his left thigh just three weeks before the scheduled defence of his world title in Doha.
The 37-year-old American left the track supported by a fellow athlete after finishing fourth in…
Rafael Nadal will hope to continue his push towards a 19th Grand Slam title when he plays in the quarter-finals of the US Open on Wednesday.
Three-time US Open winner Nadal faces Argentina's Diego Schwartzman, who has never reached a Gr…
Dina Asher-Smith will go for the 100m and 200m sprint double after Great Britain confirmed its squad for the 2019 World Championships in Doha.
Laura Muir will focus on the 1500m rather than add the 5,000m to her schedule at the event, w…
The Black Queens of Ghana yesterday defeated the Les Pantherese of Gabon 2-0 at the Accra Sports Stadium to advance to the next stage of the 2020 Olympic Games football qualifiers on a 5-0 aggregate.
The Queens will next the Harambee …
The spokesperson of the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA), Erasmus Kwaw has hinted that the top hierarchy of the athletics body was considering a review towards the lifting of an indefinite suspension on junior Olympic champion Martha Bi…
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has issued a reminder to persons implicated in the Anas Aremeyaw Anas exposé on football that the ban placed on their involvement in the game’s administration was still in force.
Consequently, such p…
Ghana coach, James Kwesi Appiah wants the country to keep faith with local coaches amid calls for his dismissal from duty.
The 59-year-old is the only indigenous man to have handled the Black Stars on a permanent basis in the last 17 ye…
Attram De-Visser FC has won the maiden edition of the Greater Accra Regional FA (GARFA) Special Competition after beating Charity Stars FC 5-4 on penalties.
In a well-attended game at the Accra Sports Stadium, both teams gave a good acc…
Ghana's male and female relay teams, will be at the 2019 World Athletics Championship in Doha, Qatar.
The competition fixed for September 27 to October 6, would see Sean Sarfo Antwi, Benjamin Azamate, Martin Antwi and Joseph Paul Amoah,…
National Team Rosters feature current NBA Players from 21 NBA Teams
There are more than 50 former Basketball Without Borders (BWB) campers on national team rosters
A record 54 current NBA (in.NBA.com) players will be featur…