World and Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya is to challenge "unfair" rules affecting some female athletes.
Athletics' governing body the IAAF has ruled some female runners with naturally high testosterone levels will have to race aga…
All-rounder Ben Stokes has been left out of England's 14-man squad for the Twenty20 internationals against Australia and India as brothers Tom and Sam Curran are included.
Bowler Jake Ball is recalled and Mark Wood rested for the four gam…
New Sporting Lisbon manager Sinisa Mihajlovic says his first objective for the troubled club is to "do better than last year".
A group of 50 fans reportedly attacked players and staff in May, after the club missed out on a Champions Lea…
Brooks Koepka became the first player to retain the US Open title since Curtis Strange won in 1988 and 1989
Brooks Koepka's triumph at Shinnecock Hills was far more noteworthy than his major breakthrough at last year's US Open.
And…
Social media summed up the highs and lows of supporting England - and playing for the national side - during the country's opening 2018 World Cup match with Tunisia.
Captain Harry Kane had a night to remember, scoring two goals in the W…
Players and officials of Saudi Arabia have arrived safely in Rostov-on-Don for their match with Uruguay on Wednesday after an engine on their plane caught fire.
Saudi Arabia were beaten heavily by hosts Russia in the opening game of the…
Liverpool winger Sadio Mane is one of the best players in the world, says his Senegal coach Aliou Cisse.
Senegal will play their first World Cup match since 2002 when 26-year-old Mane and his countrymen take on Poland in Moscow on Tuesd…
Sweden marked their first appearance in the World Cup for 12 years by beating South Korea thanks to a penalty from captain Andreas Granqvist that was awarded after a video assistant referee (VAR) review.
There was a short delay for Kim …
Belgium, who included seven British-based players in their starting line-up, scored 43 goals in qualifying, a joint record for a European team, but suffered a frustrating first 45 minutes in Sochi.
Panama's goalkeeper Jaime Penedo denie…
Harry Kane's stoppage-time winner ensured England started their World Cup campaign with victory after Tunisia threatened to snatch a point in Volgograd.
Kane scored his second goal of the game with a clever header as Gareth Southgate's …
Egypt forward Mohamed Salah will need to pass a fitness test to feature against Russia.
Liverpool's Salah sat out the 1-0 loss to Uruguay after injuring his shoulder in last month's Champions League final.
"He is fit. I hope he will …
Nigeria’s goalkeeper at the ongoing Fifa World Cup in Russia, Francis Odinaka Uzoho, has become the butt on jokes on social media for his ‘young’ age.
Football fans trolled Uzoho, whose official age is 19 years, although in the eyes o…
What was billed to be a bout between Ghana’s Richard Commey and America’s Robert Easter, has taken an interesting twist, with the two boxers set to fight on the same night, but now, against different opponents.
Despite earlier talks of …
The Rugby Africa Gold Cup 2018 live and exclusive on Kwesé Free Sports, Kwesé Sports 1, the newly launched Kwesé Iflix and Facebook Live from 16 June to 18 August
Pan-African broadcast network Kwese TV (Kwese.ESPN.com) is bringing the R…
Ghanaian athletics fans will, for the first time since this year’s Commonwealth Games, see Hor Halutie in action as she leads Team Ghana to challenge for laurels at the ECOWAS Athletics Championship set for the Cape Coast Stadium on Friday…
Under pressure Accra Hearts of Oak have initiated moves to secure the services of former West African Football Academy (WAFA) head coach, Klaus Rasmussen, to replace Coach Henry Wellington who was axed last week.
The Phobians began a se…
Sammy Hage and Mary Prempeh, both of the Royal Golf Club in Kumasi, put up exciting performances to win this year’s Head of State Invitational Golf tournament in Kumasi last Saturday.
Playing with handicap of two, Hage scored 39 points …
World Boxing Organisation super bantamweight champion, Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe, has thrown a challenge to WBA titleholder, Danny Roman, for a unification fight after the Ghanaian makes his first title defence on August 25.
After cong…
Senegal defender Saliou Ciss has been ruled out of the 2018 World Cup in Russia with an ankle injury.
The 28-year-old left-back suffered the injury in last month's friendly against Luxembourg and has not recovered sufficiently.
Franc…
EXCLUSIVE: Gal Gadot has closed a deal to star opposite Dwayne Johnson in Red Notice, the international action thriller which Rawson Marshall Thurber is directing from his original script. Universal Pictures won a heated multi-studio biddi…
A furious Johanna Konta lost out to Ashleigh Barty in the final of the Nature Valley Open in Nottingham.
Konta had recovered from 4-1 down in the decider to level at 4-4 but a controversial call allowed Barty go 5-4 ahead.
The Briton…
Aleksandar Kolarov scored a spectacular free-kick to give Serbia a deserved victory in their opening World Cup Group E match against Costa Rica.
Serbia captain Kolarov - the former Manchester City defender - scored from 25 yards when he…
Defending champions Germany made a disastrous start to their bid to win back-to-back World Cups with a shock defeat by Mexico.
Hirving Lozano's first-half goal was the difference between the two sides in an enthralling encounter in Mosc…
American Brooks Koepka retained his US Open title with a one-shot victory over England's record-equalling Tommy Fleetwood at Shinnecock Hills.
Koepka, 28, closed with a two-under-par 68 to top the leaderboard at one over and deny Fleetw…
Argentina legend Diego Maradona says the team's draw with Iceland was a "disgrace" and warned manager Jorge Sampaoli "he can't come back to Argentina" playing like that.
Lionel Messi missed a penalty as his side were surprisingly held b…
“For shopping,” says a man, laying $65,000 on a table. “Thank you,” says Kwesi Nyantakyi, the president of the Ghana Football Association, scooping it into a plastic bag.
The bribe was a set-up, secretly filmed for a documentary by Anas…
Reporting from Volgograd
England have decamped from the serenity and seclusion of their Repino retreat to join the heat of World Cup battle in Volgograd's searing temperatures.
Gareth Southgate's squad have been hidden away behind th…
Could this be England's biggest football fan?
Paul Dubberley, 58, has been travelling the globe to watch the national team in their World Cup bids for over 30 years.
His first competition was Mexico in 1986, where he witnessed Marado…
The boxing league is set to return to Accra after a nine-year break in the form of "Bukom Fist of Fury", according to Mr Moses Foh-Amoaning, the former chairman of the Ghana Boxing Authority.
He said the league is expected to commence b…
The President of the Ghana Cycling Federation (GCF), Mohammed Sahnoon has urged members of the federation with grievances to resort to congress as the means of resolving their issues.
Reacting to a recent press conference by some club c…
It was a defeat that left Germany "crestfallen", was described as an 'embarrassment' by the country's media and even triggered an earth tremor, such were the celebrations in Mexico.
World Cup holders Germany looked a shadow of their usu…
I am confident England will beat Tunisia because we have got better individual players and, as a team, we have looked good in our recent friendlies.
But I don't think we should underestimate them and it will be a difficult game - the op…
Ghana's Asamoah Gyan has hit back after it was wrongly reported Cristiano Ronaldo had become the first man to score at eight successive major tournaments.
Ronaldo scored a stunning hat trick in Portugal's 3-3 draw with Spain on Friday n…
Former President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr Kwesi Nyantakyi has responded to the Anas exposé and stated he was asked to pay $150,000 to cancel screening of the documentary.
In a press statement, vowing to fight corrupti…
After a long wait, the 2018 FIFA World Cup is here and it is already building momentum and interest as the opening group matches are honoured.
Yesterday, after a spectacular opening ceremony, hosts Russia and Saudi Arabia kicked off the…
Mohamed Salah has been declared fit for Egypt’s opening World Cup game, less than three weeks after being injured in the Champions League final.
Salah left the field in tears as Liverpool were beaten by Real Madrid on May 26, at which p…
Fernando Alonso's Toyota squad will start the Le Mans 24 Hours from pole position.
Having topped the timesheets in the initial qualifying session on Wednesday night, the No.8 team extended its advantage over the other Toyota car to exac…
The 2018 World Cup opened in spectacular fashion as Russia defied their recent poor form to score five past Saudi Arabia and record the biggest win by the host nation in the opening game of a World Cup since 1934.
Stanislav Cherchesov's…
In the aftermath of the Golden State Warriors' NBA Finals sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers last week, coach Steve Kerr estimated he received 70 congratulatory text messages right off the bat.
The coolest one?
That was from Tiger Wood…
Mohamed Salah has recovered from a shoulder injury and will play in Egypt's World Cup opener against Uruguay, coach Hector Cuper said on Thursday.
Salah, who scored 44 goals for Liverpool last season, injured shoulder ligaments in the C…
Three men. One, arguably the best Egyptian player ever, who never made it to the World Cup; one the current captain who waited 25 years for his chance, and one the best of this side, and among the best in the world, who fought his way back…
Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from next week's WTA event in Birmingham in order to be fully fit for her return to Wimbledon after a three-year absence.
The 31-year-old 2004 Wimbledon champion, has not played at the All England Club sinc…
Luis Suarez has hugely matured in the four years since he disgraced himself at the World Cup by biting an Italian opponent, Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez said on Thursday, making clear he has high expectations of his key striker in Russia.
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Hector Cuper's prematch news conference was drawing to a close when a local journalist stepped forward with a gift. It was a knee-length pair of heavy-duty felt boots and they were handed over, he said, in honour of Mohamed Salah's birthda…
The King of Morocco has instructed his country to bid to host the 2030 World Cup.
The announcement comes after the nation lost the vote to host the tournament in 2026 to the combined bid from USA, Canada and Mexico.
Confirmation came…
On the eve of the World Cup, KweseESPN's Ed Dove assesses the African teams' chances of escaping their respective groups.
Africa's teams begin their World Cup campaigns with ambitions to become the first continental representatives in t…
It's one of the cruel 'injustices' of African football that Egypt's Golden Generation never made it to the World Cup, but now's the moment for this squad to make up for lost time.
The history of African football is littered with various…
Ghana's Under-20 female football side, the Black Princesses, have been sent home from camp as a fall out from the current crisis that has hit Ghana football.
The Princesses, who have been in camp since last May, preparing for their 2018…
Commissioner Rob Manfred says Major League Baseball is trying to remove from the internet the leaked video of former Mets manager Terry Collins ranting at umpires.
The profanity-laced video surfaced this week from a Dodgers-Mets game in…