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…
Roger Federer made a winning return to tennis as he beat Mischa Zverev in the second round of the Mercedes Cup.
He won 3-6 6-4 6-2 in Stuttgart after sitting out the clay-court season.
"Three months [out] is a long time, it's longer …
Each of Africa's World Cup competitors will be dreaming of becoming the continent's fourth representatives to reach the quarter finals or even break the glass ceiling and make the final four ahead of the start of this summer's showpiece in…
Fulham are in talks to sign striker Jordan Ayew from Swansea, Sky Sports News understands.
Sky Sports News have been told the Cottagers have made a bid in the region of £8m for Ghana international Ayew who was Swansea's top scorer last …
Great Britain's Dan Evans moved into the quarter-finals of the Nottingham Open thanks to a 7-5 7-6 (7-2) victory over seventh seed Sergiy Stakhovsky.
Evans, 28, is continuing his comeback after a year's ban for taking cocaine.
This l…
Egypt are back at the World Cup after a 28-year absence, but they begin their 2018 campaign with a tough assignment against a Uruguay side who are favourites to top Group A.
Mohamed Salah is in contention to return to the team after the…
World number one Rafael Nadal has apologised for having to withdraw from next week's Fever-Tree Championships at the Queen's Club in London.
Nadal won his 11th French Open title on Sunday and said he needed to rest before next month's W…
In the end, unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez worked out an agreement on Wednesday for their much-anticipated rematch on Sept. 15 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, but it was a wild day getting it across…
Check out the full fixture list for the 2018-19 Premier League season. All fixtures will be subject to change for television coverage, to be confirmed in the coming weeks.
Saturday, August 11, 2018
A.F.C. Bournemouth v Cardiff City
Ar…
They were handing out sandpaper boundary placards on the way up from Vauxhall Tube Station, but in the end, nothing could smooth away the rough edges in Australia's new-look batting line-up. Despite their rookie bowling attack mounting a s…
The World Cup can be a valuable opportunity to watch players who wouldn't usually grace our television screens and to get a glimpse of up-and-coming talents who haven't yet been exposed to Europe's major leagues.
It's also a good chance…
The Los Angeles Lakers have spoken to Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma about toning down their social media roasting of each other following a rap diss track that Ball released about Kuzma this week.Though Kuzma and Ball are close friends, the La…
Martin skipped organized team activities without the security of the long-term contract, but he has attended the first two days of mandatory minicamp after progress was made last weekend in the negotiations.
The Cowboys had hoped to loc…
The government has set-up a five-member Interim Management Committee to oversee the administration of football and other related matters in Ghana.
According to a release issued by the Ministry of Information, the Committee chaired by …
PGA of America President Paul Levy is facing a misdemeanor DUI charge after veering off a road in California and hitting a sign last week.
The PGA of America says it will support Levy as he seeks counseling and deals with the consequenc…
Ashley Young expects England to shed their tag of slow starters when they open their World Cup campaign against Tunisia on Monday.
England last started a major tournament with a win at the 2006 World Cup.
And Manchester United left-b…
The 2018 Fifa World Cup gets under way on Thursday, when hosts Russia face Saudi Arabia following an opening ceremony at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium.
Football's showpiece event features 32 teams, including holders Germany, competing in 64…
Black Stars striker Richmond Boakye Yiadom is hopeful of recapturing his rich goalscoring form which saw him net 15 goals in 14 matches for Red Star Belgrade last season.
Yiadom's goalscoring spree in the Serbian Superliga with Red Star…
The undercover Ghanaian journalist who filmed soccer officials appearing to take bribes said on Monday that African football will continue to be held back on the world stage unless corruption is tackled more vigorously.
Anas Aremeyaw An…
The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has requested all banks and non-bank financial institutions in Ghana to provide it with the banking details of the Ghana Football Association and its former President Kwesi Nyantakyi.
The reques…
Julen Lopetegui has been removed as Spain manager a day after it emerged that he had agreed to take over at Real Madrid after the World Cup.
Lopetegui has signed a three-year deal to succeed Zinedine Zidane with the Champions League hol…
Ferrari can no longer trust Kimi Raikkonen to be an effective teammate to Sebastian Vettel, according to driver-turned-pundit Martin Brundle.
At the Canadian Grand Prix, Raikkonen made a mistake in the closing moments of qualifying when…
About 20,000 people turned out to applaud Simona Halep for becoming the first Romanian tennis player in decades to win a Grand Slam singles title.
The fans gathered on a hot Monday evening in Bucharest's 55,000-capacity National Arena t…
For young Ghanaian footballer, Francis Acquah, success as a footballer would be wearing the jersey of Ghana's senior national team to play for the Black Stars.
Acquah, 21, is currently based in the United States and playing for Northern…