Two of Africa's footballs giants, Kumasi Asante Kotoko of Ghana and Asec Mimosas of Cote D’ Ivoire will renew their rivalry in this year’s Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Cup match.
The match scheduled to take place on Sunday, May 26, at the Baba …
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Veteran Roma midfielder Daniele de Rossi will leave the Italian side at the end of the season and move abroad.
The 35-year-old, who joined the Serie A giants in 2000 from his hometown club Ostia Mare, has made 615 appearances and scored…
Manchester City youngster Alpha Diounkou has been included in Senegal's final 21-man squad for the Under-20 World Cup in Poland.
The 17-year old, who is also a Spanish citizen, has featured for his club's under-18s 19s, 21s and 23s this…
Pep Guardiola's second Premier League title success with Manchester City means he has won domestic titles eight times during his managerial career.
But which players would make an ultimate Guardiola XI from his teams at Barcelona, Bayer…
The Dutch Grand Prix will return to the Formula 1 calendar in 2020 for the first time since 1985.
The race is expected to take place at the historic Zandvoort circuit from 8-10 May. The Spanish Grand Prix was held over that weekend this…
South African twins Dan and Jean-Luc du Preez have agreed loan deals with Sale Sharks for next season.
The 23-year-olds will follow older brother Rob to the Premiership before returning to South Africa to play in Super Rugby for Natal S…
Newcastle Falcons have signed centre Gareth Owen from Leicester Tigers on a two-year deal.
Welshman Owen, 30, has spent the past two seasons with the Tigers, having previously played more than 100 games for Scarlets and Ospreys.
The …
Former champion Justin Thomas has pulled out of this week's US PGA Championship with a wrist injury.
The world number five, who won his only major at Quail Hollow in 2017, finished 12th at the Masters last month.
"My wrist is not ful…
Uefa investigators want Manchester City to be banned from the Champions League for a season if they are found guilty of breaking financial rules.
However, according to one well-placed source, a final decision is yet to be made by chief …
Scottish hammer thrower Mark Dry has been provisionally suspended by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) after being charged with "tampering or attempted tampering with any part of doping control".
According to UKAD's rules, that charge can include "…
Winners of the Ghana edition of the Standard Chartered Trophy Local Tournament for 2019-Wilmar Africa have left the country for the United Kingdom (UK), to participate in this year’s Standard Chartered Trophy Finals.
The tournament, co…
Nestle Ghana Limited in collaboration with the Ghana Education Service (GES), has launched the 2019 Milo Under-13 Champions league.
The championship is to unearth and develop young talents as well as inspire healthier lifestyle among Gh…
Mr. Isaac Asiamah, the Minister of Youth and Sports has called on traditional leaders in the country to take active roles in the sporting industry.
He said this would improve community involvement and attention to certain sporting disci…
The Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) has called on the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Normalisation Committee, to be open and transparent to all stakeholders within the football industry.
“In consonance with its dream the S…
Rafatu Inusa, captain of the Ghana Rugby Female team, was last Saturday, adjudged the 2018 Female Rugby Player of the year, by the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG).
This follows her outstanding performance on the pitch and dem…
Mr. Curtis Perry Okudzeto, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports (MOYS), has commended the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for their initiative to build an ultra-modern accommodation facility for female head potters in Accra.
According …
The Black Queens of Ghana are through to the semi finals of the ongoing WAFU Women’s Championship.
Coach Mercy Tagoe Quarcoo made it past the group stage after a goalless draw with hosts Ivory Coast in their final group match.
Ghan…
Ebusua Dwarfs will play their NC Special Competition Match day 12 against Dreams FC at the Carl Reindorf park in Dansoman.
The comes after the GFA Normalisation Committee placed a temporary ban on Dwarfs from using the Cape Coast Stad…
Accra Hearts of Oak rallied from behind to maintain their lead in Zone B, while Medeama Sporting Club surprised defeat to Bechem United, did not affect their lead in Zone A of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Normalisation Committee Sp…
Sampson Asorgbah of the Achimota Golf Club has won the Vodafone 62nd Asantehene Open Golf Championship, held at the Royal Golf Club, Kumasi.
The winner, who had 299 medal points in the Men's Scratch, was presented with a trophy by the A…
Black Stars coach James Kwesi Appiah will name a 30-man squad on Monday, May 20, to prepare for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), to be held in Egypt next month.
The list is expected to include few surprises as well as some local …
Karela United prolific striker, Diawise Taylor and Abdul Fatau Safiu of Kumasi Asante Kotoko are the top scorers of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) Normalisation Committee (NC) Special Competition.
After match day 11 of the NC spec…
Mr Herbert Mensah, President and Board Chairman of Ghana Rugby, said that he was extremely pleased with the recognition given to the Ghana Eagles by SWAG
The Ghana Rugby National Team (GhanaRugby.org), the Ghana Eagles, has been crowned…
The Ivory Coast, ranked number 43 by World Rugby, managed to clinch the match in the 75th minute with a drop goal
The national rugby team of the Ivory Coast, the Elephants, narrowly beat the Ghana Rugby Eagles by 23 - 22 in an exciting …
The only time Anfield was flat on Sunday was when the Liverpool fans heard Manchester City had gone 3-1 up against Brighton.
That basically ended any hope the Reds had of winning the Premier League title, but none of the supporters I sp…
Manchester City claimed their second successive Premier League title with a thumping 4-1 win at Brighton with Liverpool finishing a point behind in second after a 2-0 win over Wolves.
Chelsea and Tottenham did just enough in recent wee…
Former WBO super bantamweight champion, Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe, is expected to take a long vacation from the sport after suffering a second straight defeat at the hands of Emanuel Navarrete at the Convention Centre in Tucson, Arizona, …
Brighton have sacked manager Chris Hughton after the Seagulls finished 17th in the Premier League.
They won just three of their last 23 league games and none of their final nine.
Chairman Tony Bloom said that run "put our status at s…
Crystal Palace have condemned the "disgraceful" incident in which a club doctor was racially abused before the Eagles' win over Bournemouth on Sunday.
Dr Zafar Iqbal said on Twitter he was left "devastated and speechless" after he and t…
Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba should not have engaged with fans following the 2-0 home defeat by relegated Cardiff City, says former England striker Alan Shearer.
The French World Cup winner, 26, was applauding home fans when …
Sadio Mane and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored final-day goals to share the Golden Boot with Mohamed Salah.
Aubameyang's double for Arsenal at Burnley means he joins Salah and his Liverpool team-mate Mane, who scored against Wolves, on…
Ajax all but secured a 26th Eredivisie title after coming from behind to defeat Utrecht.
Othman Boussaid gave the visitors a shock lead after just 36 seconds but goals from Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Donny van de Beek put the home side in …
For St Mirren and Hamilton Academical, the success of their season could all comes down to Monday's encounter in Paisley.
Finishing bottom of the Scottish Premiership is a fate the two top-flight strugglers may have avoided, but the thr…
Dundee's decision to fire two managers in one season is "not normal and not right," says Neil McCann.
McCann was sacked eight games into the league season, while Jim McIntyre lost his job on Sunday following the club's relegation to the…
Could Mercedes win every race of this Formula 1 season?
Toto Wolff, their Formula 1 boss, first laughed at the question after the team's fifth consecutive one-two in five races this year, and said: "Don't say that" - because he was wo…
England World Cup hopeful James Vince scored 79 as holders Hampshire beat Lancashire by four wickets to book a One-Day Cup final with Somerset.
But the match was overshadowed by Lancashire and England seamer James Anderson limping from …
If the Indian Premier League has taught us one thing, it's that this summer's World Cup is going to be full of drama, big hitting and incredible feats in the field.
Mumbai Indians were crowned IPL champions on Sunday, but what else can we…
Sale have signed South Africa prop Coenie Oosthuizen on a three-year deal.
The 30-year-old will join from the Super Rugby side Sharks and is Sale's latest South African recruit following Lood de Jager's move.
Oosthuizen has won 30 ca…
AT&T Byron Nelson final leaderboard
-23 S Kang (SK); -21 S Piercy (US), M Every (US); -20 B Koepka (US)
Selected others: -15 P Harrington (Ire); -13 H Stenson (Swe); -10 M Laird (Sco)
South Korea's Sung Kang claimed his first PGA Tour…
Australian full-back Israel Folau says he resisted opportunities to make his situation "a little bit easier" and return to playing because it would be doing "Satan's" work.
Folau was found guilty of breaching Rugby Australia's (RA) play…
The GFA Disciplinary Committe has declared Tamale City FC winners of their protest against Techiman City in respect of their NC Special Competition Day 9 match.
Below is a summary decision of the Disciplinary Committee:
GFA DISCIPL…
World number one Novak Djokovic beat a tired-looking Stefanos Tsitsipas to win the Madrid Open for a third time.
The Serbian, 31, beat Rafael Nadal's semi-final conqueror 6-3 6-4 in one hour 32 minutes to earn a record-equalling 33rd Ma…
Ashantigold pipped Asante Kotoko by a lone goal in the Ashanti derby game played at the Len Clay Stadium in Obuasi on Sunday.
Mark Agyekum got the only goal for the Miners in the NC Special Competition Day 11 clash.
Yahaya Mohammed…
Great Britain's 4x100m men's relay team won bronze by one hundredth of a second at the World Relay Championships in Yokohama, Japan.
The British team of CJ Ujah, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, Adam Gemili and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake finished …
Black Stars and Atletico Madrid midfielder, Thomas Teye Partey was named the 2018 Sports Personality of the Year at the Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) Awards night on Saturday in Accra.
Partey saw off competition from dethro…
German Pascal Ackermann won a high-speed bunch sprint on his Giro d'Italia debut to claim the second stage in Fucecchio.
Bora-Hansgrohe rider Ackermann edged out Italy's Elia Viviani to win in four hours 44 minutes and 43 seconds.
Th…
Ghana’s Black Queens intend to utilise every opportunity when they clash with their Ivorian counterparts today in their final group A fixture of the ongoing West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Zone B tournament at the Stade Robert Champroux …
Ghana's Isaac Dogboe has said he will move up to featherweight after losing a world championship title to Mexican Emanuel Navarrette for the second consecutive time in five months.
The former World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Super Bantam…
Ghanaian boxer, Isaac Dogboe (21-2, 14KO's), failed to reclaim his title, as he was stopped by Mexican boxer, Emanuel Navarrete (27-1, 22 KO's) in round 12 in the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Super Bantamweight title at the Tucson Arena…