Usain Bolt is widely acknowledged as the greatest sprinter of all time.
As the Jamaican prepares to retire after the World Championships in London, here are 9.58 reasons why he deserves to be called a legend, and how he achieved it.
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Africa World Airlines (AWA) has presented a sponsorship package worth $10,000 to the Ghana Table Tennis Federation (GTTF) for their participation in the 2017 International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Nigeria Open Challenge, which begins…
The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has nominated Madam Linear Addy and Christine Ashley to participate in the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Advancing Women in Leadership Forum for Africa and Asia 2017 in Rwanda This forum, which i…
The 2017 Wushu Kick Boxing tournament would take place at the Korle Beach Resort in Accra on Friday, August 25. It is being organised by Bogzie Media and Bigzie Sports in collaboration with the Ghana Kick Boxing Association (GKBA) and Wush…
South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk is half-way to a rare 200m/400m double at the IAAF World Championships after successfully defending his one-lap world title in London on Tuesday.
World record holder Van Niekerk was the overwhelming favo…
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said his team "remains hungry" after they added a sixth trophy during his less than two years in charge by beating Manchester United 2-1 in Tuesday's UEFA Super Cup game in Skopje.
Casemiro's borderline…
Chelsea are not fancied to repeat their title win, but why exactly is that? We pick out three big problems for the Premier League champions…
Chelsea may have won the Premier League title at a canter last season but it is Manchester City…
Jose Mourinho said it is "game over" for Manchester United's pursuit of Gareth Bale after the Super Cup defeat to Real Madrid on Tuesday.
The build-up to the match in Macedonia was dominated by transfer speculation after the United boss…
As the new Premier League season draws closer, Sky Sports pundit Thierry Henry gives his expert verdict on the big striker moves of the summer transfer window.
Will Alexandre Lacazette be a success at Arsenal? Will Romelu Lukaku bring g…
Alan Pardew thinks new signing Victor Lindelof is a concern for Manchester United after his performance in the 2-1 defeat to Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup on Tuesday.
Lindelof joined United from Benfica for an initial £30.7m (€35m) …
Real Madrid lifted a second successive UEFA Super Cup after a 2-1 victory over Manchester United in Macedonia.
In the battle of last season's European trophy winners, it was the Champions League holders who took the lead with Casemiro o…
Paul Pogba is an enigma. The Manchester United midfielder arrived at Old Trafford 12 months ago for a record fee of £89.3 million, yet as he prepares for his second season with the club, the unanswered question about the Frenchman is preci…
Weekends are about to 'get lit', as the kids say, in Ghana, with the English Premier League returning, to add to the Ghana Premier League action already on the go.
This weekend there will be an added incentive for Ghanaian football fans…
SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has insisted Cristiano Ronaldo is fit to start the UEFA Super Cup against Manchester United.
Ronaldo only returned to training two days ago after he was given an extended break foll…
Confederation of African Football President Ahmad Ahmad has urged Cameroon to prove they they're up to hosting the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, and has hinted that the Central African nation could have the tournament taken away from them if…
SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Juan Mata believes the gap between Manchester United and Real Madrid is not that big and the Spaniard is aiming to prove it by winning the UEFA Super Cup.
Real Madrid have won the Champions League in three of the la…
Stoke have signed Cameroon international Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, the Premier League club have announced.
The winger, 28, pens a three-year contract at the bet365 Stadium, and joins on a free transfer following his release from Bundesl…
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he is "so grateful" to the club's board for signing Bernardo Silva from Monaco this summer.
The midfielder cost a reported £43 million when he became City's first signing of the transfer window in…
Timothy Fosu-Mensah's imminent loan move from Manchester United to Crystal Palace continues the trend of top clubs loaning youngsters to gain experience, and such a practice might also add to a player's market value.
ESPN FC assesses th…
Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho is ready to "fight" for Gareth Bale's signature if Real Madrid leave the attacker out of the UEFA Super Cup.
Bale is part of the 24-man squad in Macedonia for the match between the Champions League a…
Jamie Redknapp believes Virgil van Dijk is "certain to leave" Southampton this summer after handing in a transfer request on Monday.
Speaking on The Debate - Live, a new nightly show on Sky Sports Premier League, Redknapp said it is in …
Sky Sports expert Jamie Carragher says he'll be surprised if Antonio Conte is still at Chelsea in a year's time.
The Italian steered the Blues to the Premier League title in his first season, but has stated he expects the next campaign …
The summer of 2016 was a pretty great place to be if you were an NBA free agent. With the NBA’s new national TV-rights deal kicking in, teams found themselves flush with cash and only too happy to splash it around. As a result, dozens of p…
Antonio Conte expects this season to be his most difficult in management, with the Chelsea boss making his prediction after the club publicly rebuffed "nonsense'' claims over exiled striker Diego Costa.
Costa's future has been a recurri…
From Paris to Marseille, Barcelona to Munich, Istanbul to Shanghai, Rio to Los Angeles, and Sydney to Lagos, the football world spent Friday following the biggest transfer in history: Neymar's move from Barcelona to Paris St-Germain for 22…
Kumasi Asante Kotoko took one point off Accra Hearts of Oak and climbed into fourth place in the Ghana Premier League after coming from behind at the Baba Yara Stadium.
In their first league game since the July 12th accident that killed…
The rush among Brazilian journalists did not go unnoticed by the locals attending a national team training session in Wroclaw, Poland in the autumn of 2012.
Brazil were to face Japan in a friendly the following day and the reporters had…
Justin Gatlin was subjected to boos and jeers from the crowd inside London Stadium as he was presented with his 100m World Championships gold medal.
The American, who has twice served a doping ban, pulled off a shock win on Saturday to …
The Netherlands won their first major women's international tournament after a thrilling victory over Denmark in the Euro 2017 final on home soil.
Denmark led through Nadia Nadim's early penalty but the Dutch soon levelled as Arsenal's …
USA's Tori Bowie stormed to World Championships 100m gold from Marie-Josee Ta Lou and Dafne Schippers as Olympic champion Elaine Thompson was left empty-handed.
A night after American Justin Gatlin shocked Usain Bolt in the men's final,…
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag he will not leave Borussia Dortmund this summer but he remains open to a transfer in the future.
Aubameyang, 28, has been linked with AC Milan, Chelsea, Manchester City…
Michael Essien scored his third goal of the season, helping Persib Bandung to a 3-1 win over PS TNI that moves the troubled team away from the relegation zone in Indonesia's Liga 1.
The former Real Madrid and Chelsea midfielder struck m…
Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois took a spot kick in Chelsea's Community Shield shoot-out defeat to Arsenal because he is one of the club's "best players to take a penalty," according to boss Antonio Conte.
The Premier League champions lost …
Jurgen Klopp insists he is "happy" with his Liverpool centre-backs ahead of the new Premier League season.
Virgil van Dijk was a target for Liverpool earlier this summer, but the Reds withdrew their interest after Southampton complained…
Ronald Koeman says Everton are “close” to completing a deal for Swansea midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson.
The Iceland international has been linked with a move to Goodison Park all summer, with both the Toffees and Leicester having had £40m …
Arsene Wenger has admitted delaying a decision on his Arsenal future may have had a negative impact on the team.
The 67-year-old waited until the end of May to announce his new two-year deal at the club, following Arsenal's fifth-placed…
Ghana midfielder Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu is eyeing a new challenge after completing his season-long loan switch to Bursaspor from Udinese.
The Turkish side confirmed the deal on their official website on Thursday, and after ending his se…
Most of the NBA players that are in Johannesburg, South Africa for the league’s Basketball Without Borders (BWB) Africa development camp have had a chance to spend some time with the campers and are impressed with the potential they have w…
Getting promoted to the Premier League is one of the toughest tasks and biggest accomplishments in football, but staying there can be just as difficult. Many a promoted side have succumbed to that challenge in their first shot of asking, a…
Jose Mourinho was satisfied with Manchester United's preseason, in which his team won five of their seven games -- another, vs. Real Madrid, ended in a draw, but United won on penalties -- in the U.S., Norway and Ireland. Serious injuries …
In June Masai Ujiri, the Nigerian president of basketball operations at the Toronto Raptors, blew up the American media at large, and the New York media in particular, when his name (unsurprisingly) became a serious part of the conversatio…
Ghana international Frank Acheampong has defended his decision to leave Anderlecht for a move to the Chinese Super League, and has reaffirmed his desire to play in England one day.
Despite being linked with the likes of Liverpool in rec…
DUBLIN -- Jose Mourinho has told Anthony Martial there is a place for him at Manchester United next season.
Martial has been linked with a loan move to Inter Milan as part of a deal for Ivan Perisic to move to Old Trafford.
Mourinho …
Inter Milan are close to making Nice defender Dalbert their first major signing of the summer, but sporting director Piero Ausilio has said his arrival would not mean the departures of Ivan Perisic or Antonio Candreva.
Inter have agreed…
The NBA Africa Game 2017 is the clear focus for all of the players participating in the exhibition game in Johannesburg on Saturday. The players have been heavily involved in the 15th edition of Basketball without Borders Africa and have s…
After the official announcement of his move to Leicester City, Kelechi Iheanacho says he is looking to compatriots Ahmed Musa and Wilfred Ndidi to help him settle in.
20-year-old Iheanacho was confirmed as a Leicester player on Thursday…
Jurgen Klopp is expecting that competition for places in his side will help Liverpool take "the next step" this season.
The Anfield club has brought in Mohamed Salah, Andy Robertson and Dominic Solanke so far this summer -- the former a…
Inside adjoining gymnasiums at a suburban private high school here, dozens of teenagers from around Africa have an advantage that few of their American counterparts could even imagine.
They are getting bounce passes, shooting tips and d…
As Liverpool's starting lineup begins to take shape ahead of the new season, there is at least one position that looks to be still up for grabs. Regular right-back Nathaniel Clyne has missed most of preseason with a hamstring problem and e…
PARIS -- Paris Saint-Germain have signed Neymar from Barcelona, smashing the world record for a transfer fee. But instead of universal praise for the move, the Brazil superstar has had his ambition questioned for moving to France; he certa…