Over three dozen people -- including athletes and journalists -- have inquired about staying in Australia after the end of the Commonwealth Games, according to a migration agency on the Gold Coast.
"More than 40 people, including Comm…
Ghana's senior national team - the Black Stars - moved up three places to the 51st position of the latest FIFA world ranking released Thursday for the month of April despite being inactive during the recent international break.
The Bl…
The suspended Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide has welcomed a Presidential probe into the circumstances which led to the arrest of some 60 Ghanaians for allegedly attempting to enter Australia by false pretences.
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President Akufo-Addo has suspended with immediate effect, the Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Pius Enam Hadzide and the Director General of the National Sports Authority, Robert Sarfo Mensah.
A statement from the presidency said…
Philadelphia 76ers rookie Markelle Fultz finished his regular season with a flourish on Wednesday, becoming the youngest player in NBA history to notch a triple-double.
Fultz had 13 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in 25 minutes off t…
The bad blood is back in baseball's most intense rivalry.
The benches cleared twice in Wednesday night's game at Fenway Park between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, and Yankees designated hitter Tyler Austin was in the middle o…
With a rebound off an air ball with nine minutes left in the third quarter Wednesday, Russell Westbrook added another historic bullet point to his résumé, becoming the first player to average a triple-double in multiple seasons.
"I'm ve…
Teams around the NFL no longer believe the New York Giants are going to be trading wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. before or during the upcoming draft, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
This represents a change in the thinking of teams…
LeBron James capped his 15th regular season with yet another record.
The Cleveland Cavaliers star played in his 82nd game Wednesday night against the New York Knicks, completing an end-to-end run that underscores the 33-year-old's remar…
The US Open will have 25-second serve clocks on all its courts during main-draw matches this year to enforce time limits between points.
The Grand Slam tournament, which begins in New York on Aug. 27, will also have a strict seven-minut…
The New York Knicks dismissed coach Jeff Hornacek early Thursday morning, league sources told ESPN.
Knicks president Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry informed Hornacek of his firing upon the team's return to suburban New York…
GOLD COAST: Australia's Olympic champion women's sevens team thrive on pressure and are ready to deliver on home soil when their Commonwealth Games campaign begins on Friday.
That's the message from departing coach Tim Walsh, who recall…
The Wallabies face a return to their graveyard, Eden Park, as they attempt to win the Bledisloe Cup for the first time in 16 years.
The release of the Rugby Championship program, on Thursday, revealed the Wallabies would host the All Bl…
Alfie Mawson has emerged as a surprise target for Manchester United as Jose Mourinho looks to strengthen his defensive options in the summer.
According to The Sun, Mourinho sent his scouts to watch the Swansea centre-back in last weeken…
Gregoire Defrel has revealed the secret of Roma's fairytale Champions League heroics against Barcelona: Al Pacino's iconic team talk in the movie "Any Given Sunday."
In the film about an American football team, Pacino -- as coach Tony D…
There are no words. In what would have been one of the greatest comebacks in European football, Juventus and their three goals weren't enough to merit extra time as referee Michael Oliver called for a penalty in the last minute of stoppage…
At the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday night, Real Madrid got the fright of their lives from Juventus before being saved in injury time by a Cristiano Ronaldo penalty. They have problems, for sure, and questions must be asked and answered a…
To say that Ajax Cape Town have reached crisis point is perhaps an understatement of what is a perilous situation for the club as they prepare to welcome Bidvest Wits to the Athlone Stadium in the Absa Premiership on Wednesday night.
It…
Three thoughts from the Bernabeu as Real Madrid lose 3-1 to Juventus on the night but squeak through on aggregate (4-3) to the Champions League semifinals.
1. Ronaldo penalty hero as Madrid squeak through
Cristiano Ronaldo was the la…
Juventus president Andrea Agnelli accused UEFA of referee bias and called for video review after a late penalty knocked his team out of the Champions League quarterfinals.
The Italian side had erased a three-goal deficit from the first …
Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo says he did not understand Juventus players' furious protests -- including a straight red card for visiting goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon -- at the 93rd-minute penalty which the Portugal international score…
Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon questioned the character of referee Michael Oliver for awarding the late penalty that knocked his club out of the Champions League quarterfinals on Wednesday night.
The Italian side had erased a thre…
Jupp Heynckes said "nobody believed that Bayern Munich would reach the Champions League semifinals" when he took over in October as his Treble-seeking side advanced to the last four 2-1 on aggregate against Sevilla after a goalless draw in…
One crazy minute, at the end of an incredible Champions League quarterfinal second leg at the Santiago Bernabeu, perfectly summed up the contrasting fortunes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianluigi Buffon in club football's most prestigious com…
Two staff of the National Sports Authority (NSA) who have been implicated in the running saga of the visa racketeering for fake journalists and other questionable athletes and deported by the Australian authorities have been granted bail a…
King Faisal owner Alhaji Abdul Karim Gruzah is considering contesting the Ghana Football Association presidency in 2019.
Gruzah believes he has the requisite experience to solve the country's football problems.
''I can decide to co…
High-flying coach of Ashantigold Sporting Club, Charles Kwabla Akonnor, is confident his side will keep to their success story in the ongoing Ghana Premier League when they play against Liberty Professionals today in a midweek fixture at…
Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) chairman, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has challenged critics calling for the exit of president Kwesi Nyantakyi's to rather shift their agenda towards a constitutional amendment for a limited tenure fo…
Atletico Madrid will pull out all the stops to keep Antoine Griezmann and are set to offer him more than £300,000 a week.
France international forward Griezmann is reported to be a target for both Barcelona and Man United, but the Mirro…
Premier League clubs are already interested in Norwich midfielder James Maddison -- and now the Mirror reports that Canaries winger Josh Murphy is attracting attention as well.
Championship club Norwich "have put a £30m price tag on Eng…
After reports that Marcus Rashford is growing frustrated at Manchester United comes news that his fellow forward Anthony Martial could be on the move amid claims he has rejected a new contract.
The Independent reports that Juventus "ar…
Pep Guardiola hit out at referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz after being sent to the stands at half-time, though he conceded Liverpool deserved to reach the Champions League semifinals over his Manchester City side.
Trailing 3-0 from the first …
Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool deserve to be in the last four of the Champions League after Tuesday's 2-1 second-leg quarterfinal victory over Manchester City, who he calls the best team in the world.
Liverpool withstood a first-half s…
Pep Guardiola was reeling off a list of grievances about Manchester City's Champions League elimination, from offside goals at Anfield and the Etihad Stadium to his previous experiences with Spanish referee Antonio Mateu Lahoz, before he s…
Liverpool are back in the semifinals of the Champions League for the first time in nine years.
The last time the club featured in the final four of Europe's premier club competition was during the 2007-08 season, when the Reds were pitt…
Three quick thoughts from Roma's incredible 3-0 win against Barcelona in the Champions League at the Stadio Olimpico, which sees the Italian side advance on away goals after the aggregate score of this quarterfinal finished 4-4.
1. Roma…
Isaac Makwala led home a Botswana quinella in winning the Commonwealth Games men's 400m final at Carrara Stadium on Tuesday.
Makwala, the pre-race favourite, won the gold medal in a time of 44.55 seconds, with countryman Baboloki Thebe …
Legal experts say Olympian Oscar Pistorius has finally run out of options to appeal his 13-year prison sentence for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp.
South Africa's highest court dismissed Pistorius' request to review the sentence on Monda…
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft told The Athletic that he is comfortable with Tom Brady's current contract, which runs through the 2019 season.
"He'll be 41 when the season starts," Kraft told the website. "Neither side has an i…
Bellator MMA featherweight champion Patricio "Pitbull" Freire will defend his title against Daniel Weichel at a July 14 event in Rome.
Officials announced the 145-pound title fight on Tuesday. Freire is a two-time featherweight champion…
Utah Jazz rookie guard Donovan Mitchell, in a brief interview with ESPN, responded to Philadelphia 76ers standout Ben Simmons' assertion that he's "100 percent" the Rookie of the Year.
"I really don't care," Mitchell told ESPN. "The big…
Golden State Warriors All-Star Kevin Durant plans to decline his player option for the 2018-19 season and become an unrestricted free agent this summer, league sources told ESPN.
His time on the open market, however, will be brief.
A…
Houston Rockets forward Luc Mbah a Moute suffered a dislocated right shoulder in the second quarter Tuesday night and didn't return to the Rockets' 105-95 win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
Mbah a Moute suffered the injury while dunking i…
Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley and head coach Greg Vanney believe that defeating Club America in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions League will count for nothing if they don't go on to win the competition.
"We didn't sign up t…
For a while it looked like they might be in trouble, but Liverpool showed great resilience and eventually their attacking quality shone through as they wore City down to book their place in the semifinals with a 2-1 win at the Etihad on Tu…
For anyone mourning Barcelona's limp, uncompetitive exit from the Champions League at the quarterfinal stage against Roma, there is some bitter consolation: There was no doubt whatsoever, across two matches, that the more deserving side ad…
A Cameroon boxer has gone missing from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, bringing the total to six athletes from the African nation to vanish from the competitors' village since the 2018 event began.
Ulrich Rodrigue Yombo failed to app…
Ibrahim Abdulazeez has increased Team Nigeria’s gold medal haul at the ongoing Commonwealth Games taking place in Gold Coast, Australia, to four.
Team Nigeria put up a dominant display to make a clean sweep of all the Gold medals at s…
Mr. Trevor Chang, president of Great Britain's World Amateur Bodybuilding Association (WABBA), would on April 21, visit Ghana to witness a three-day bodybuilding and fitness convention slated for International Students Guest Centre, Teima…
Alhaji Abdul Karim Gruzah – owner and bankroller of King Faisal Football Club, is confident of making a return to the Ghana Premier League (GPL), after being relegated in the 2013/14 football season.
In an interview with the GNA Sports…