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…
Ryan Kent has completed his £7m switch from Liverpool to Rangers on a four-year deal.
The 22-year-old Englishman spent last season on loan at the Scottish Premiership side, making 43 appearances and scoring six goals.
Kent featured f…
Former Newcastle United striker Michael Owen says his move from Real Madrid to the Magpies was a "downward step" and the "one I really regret".
The ex-England captain signed in 2005 for £17m - a year after joining Real from Liverpool - …
Former Arsenal forward Nicklas Bendtner has joined Danish champions FC Copenhagen until the end of December.
The 31-year-old moves to his home-city club after leaving Norwegian side Rosenborg, where his contract was set to expire at the…
Jason Naismith said he "didn't have to think twice" after agreeing to join Hibernian on a season-long loan from Peterborough United.
The former St Mirren and Ross County defender, 25, is Paul Heckingbottom's 10th summer signing.
"No-…
Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Kilmarnock, Livingston, Bournemouth, West Brom
Celtic will face legal action "within weeks" from lawyers representing more than 100 survivors over systematic sexual abuse at their feeder club. (The Times)
Cel…
Sporting Lisbon have signed winger Yannick Bolasie on a season-long loan from Premier League side Everton.
The 30-year-old joined the Toffees from Crystal Palace on a five-year deal in 2016 for a fee of £25m.
In his first season at t…
The opportunity for Premier League clubs to bring in new players has long since come and gone - but the European window only shut on Monday.
And that gave a few top-flight clubs the chance to clear the decks of those judged surplus to r…
Usman Khawaja has been left out of Australia's 12-man squad for this week's fourth Ashes Test against England at Old Trafford as paceman Mitchell Starc is recalled.
Steve Smith replaces Khawaja, who batted at number three throughout the…
The summer break is a distant memory as a packed schedule demands the Italian Grand Prix at Monza comes just one week after an emotional race in Belgium.
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc took his maiden Formula 1 victory from pole position at …
Forward Alexis Sanchez "does not regret" joining Manchester United but says he did not get enough playing time to be a success.
The Chilean, 30, joined Inter Milan on a season-long loan deal in August after 19 months at Old Trafford.
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Johanna Konta believes playing on Arthur Ashe Stadium can inspire her to beat fifth seed Elina Svitolina and reach the US Open semi-finals.
The British 16th seed meets Ukrainian Svitolina on the world's biggest tennis court at 17:00 BST…
Defending champions Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands are through to the US Open mixed doubles semi-finals having beaten Mate Pavic and Gabriela Dabrowski in a match tie-break.
Murray and Mattek-Sands defeated the second seeds 2-6 …
Argentine Diego Schwartzman came from a set down to beat German sixth seed Alexander Zverev and reach the US Open quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows.
Schwartzman, the 20th seed, won 3-6 6-2 6-4 6-3 and will next face Rafael Nadal who ov…
Defending champion Naomi Osaka has been knocked out of the US Open, losing 7-5 6-4 to Switzerland's Belinda Bencic in the last 16.
Osaka, 21, was broken late in the opening set and then again in the fifth game of the second under the Ar…
Spanish second seed Rafael Nadal responded to the challenge thrown down by 2014 champion Marin Cilic as he battled to reach the US Open quarter-finals with a four-set win.
Nadal, 33, ultimately had too much quality for the Croatian 22nd…
Executive Director of Dreams FC Kurt Edwin Simeon Okraku has officially declared his intention to contest for the Presidency of the Ghana Football Association (GFA).
Announcing his decision in a video post on his official Facebook page …
Ghana defender Baba Rahman has signed a one-year extension to his Chelsea contract but will be spending the 2019/20 campaign on loan at Real Mallorca.
Left-back Baba, who joined Chelsea from German side Augsburg in the summer of 2015, d…
French coach Julien Mette is under no illusions about the task ahead of him in charge of Djibouti but is taking inspiration from the recent feats of Madagascar.
When the 37-year-old took over in February he became only the second Euro…
There are few rivalries in international football that are as fiercely contested as the one between Germany and the Netherlands.
So when the two take to the field in a Euro 2020 qualifier in Hamburg on Friday, it is irrelevant that th…
Teenager Alexander Allotey secured the first victory of his career as a professional cyclist with a shock win at the second stage of the 2019 Cowbell Cycling Challenge Homowo Edition.
The 16-year-old sprinted to victory in the 21-lap cr…
Broadcaster Dan Kweku Yeboah has resigned from his role as the spokesperson of the Normalisation Committee (NC) of the Ghana Football Association (GFA).
Kweku Yeboah confirmed to Graphic Online that he tended in his resignation last Fri…
The 2019 edition of African Sports Tourism – the premier, Pan-African convergence of stakeholders from both sports and tourism landscapes, that yearly moves from one African country to the other will be hosted in Ghana this year and two …
Gareth Bale twice came to Real Madrid's rescue to salvage a 2-2 draw at Villarreal in La Liga on Sunday but the Wales forward ended the night in despair as he was sent off in added time for receiving two yellow cards.
Real were severely…
Inter Milan striker Mauro Icardi has been offered on loan to Paris Saint-Germain, who are thinking about recruiting the Argentina international, sources have told ESPN FC.
The Nerazzuri have tried to offload him all summer and dropped h…
Jurgen Klopp confirmed Sadio Mane was "upset with a situation in a game" following the forward's angry reaction during Liverpool's 3-0 victory at Burnley, but that "everything is fine."
The Senegal international was atypically furious w…
Celtic kept their 100% record and took the Scottish Premier League title initiative with a 2-0 win at Steven Gerrard's Rangers in the Old Firm derby on Sunday.
Rangers had the first chance as Jermain Defoe almost sneaked through the def…
Manchester United winger Daniel James' instant impact in the Premier League is a result of his humility and hard work on the training ground and he is setting an example at the club for others to follow, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said.
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Inter Milan's Belgium international Romelu Lukaku was subjected to racist abuse as he scored a second-half penalty to earn his new side a 2-1 victory at Cagliari in Serie A on Sunday.
The former Manchester United striker appeared to be …
Ghana's Black Queens yesterday beat Gabon 3-0 away in Libreville, in the first leg of their second round qualifying match for the 2020 Olympic Games.
A goal in the first half and two more in the second half, handed the Queens the huge…
The Vice-president of the Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) Abraham Kotei Neequaye says he is not going to abandon the sport in pursuit of his political ambition after winning the National Democratic Congress (NDC) primary to represent the Okai…
As a kid dashing through the streets, ball at feet, in the mining town of Witbank in Mpumalanga, South Africa striker Percy Tau was at his happiest.
Now, watching him, it's obvious nothing much has changed. Tau is still famously driven …
The draw for the UEFA Champions League group stage took place in Monaco on Thursday and, as ever, threw up some intriguing story lines. Mark Ogden picks his highlights and makes some predictions.
English clubs get it easy
It is the l…
MANCHESTER -- Juan Mata has reached a stage in his career where he can take criticism on the chin. Well, most of it.
At 31 and approaching 600 professional games, he can accept the groans after a misplaced pass or a damning verdict afte…
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