France goalkeeper Fabien Barthez was given a three-month ban Friday for spitting on a Moroccan referee when Olympique Marseille played a friendly match in Casablanca in February.
"He didn't spit in his face but he certainly did spit a…
Arsenal's France international striker Thierry Henry will miss the club's next two games and faces a race against time to recover full fitness in time for the FA Cup final, manager Arsene Wenger said Friday.
Henry's groin problem has …
Juan Carlos Ferrero and Rafael Nadal set up a perfectly scripted Spanish dream final at the 850,000-euro Barcelona Open Saturday as both blasted past semi-final opponents.
The unseeded Ferrero, who has been repairing a game gone stale…
Duncan Ferguson scored his second goal in a week to salvage a point for Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday as the Toffees drew 1-1 with Birmingham City.
Everton are still in the driving seat to clinch the last Champions League space…
Chelsea's English Premiership rivals have been given some bad news concerning the London's club's Russian owner Roman Abramovich.
Forbes magazine say he made 2.2 billion dollars in the past year and is now worth 14.7 billion dollars, …
Alex Ferguson wants Roy Keane to take over when he steps down as Manchester United manager.
Ferguson insists he will be in charge for at least one more year, but believes Keane has the leadership qualities required for the Old Traffor…
US Open champion Retief Goosen shot himself into a share of the lead at the Johnnie Walker Classic golf tournament on Friday despite the distractions of camera-toting fans.
Goosen said he had been plagued by snap-happy Chinese spectat…
Lennart Johannson will step down as UEFA president in 2007, one year later than expected.
The 75-year-old Swede, who has headed European football's governing body since 1990, was handed an extension to his mandate at the UEFA congress…
Ireland's largest sporting organisation, which oversees the country's traditional games voted on Saturday, to temporarily allow soccer and rugby to be played at its 80,000-seater Croke Park stadium in Dublin, a spokesman said.
The his…
Lille eased their path towards the Champions League with a 2-1 French league victory over Lens here on Saturday as fellow challengers Marseille and Monaco slipped up.
With runaway leaders Lyon hosting Paris Saint Germain on Sunday, th…
Kenyan runners are poised to make their presence felt yet again in Boston on Monday, where they will seek to extend their country's recent hegemony over the storied Boston Marathon.
Kenyan men have won the last three editions of the B…
Henrik Larsson would have been proud of Craig Bellamy's winning goal against Aberdeen, according to Celtic manager Martin O'Neill.
The on-loan Newcastle player fired in a sensational volley to clinch a 3-2 home win on Saturday after t…
Emirate Airlines, "flew" above more than a dozen companies to win the maiden G-18 Golf Championship played at the Tema Country Gold Course on Sunday.
The pair of Rob Macalski and Eric Dyrbeck produced the winner formula with a net sc…
Eric Rudolph pleaded guilty Wednesday to bombing the 1996 Olympics and a US abortion clinic two years later, killing a police officer and wounding a nurse.
Rudolph, 38, also pleaded guilty to bombing a gay nightclub and two other f…
Liverpool set up a mouth-watering Champions League semi-final against English Premiership rivals Chelsea after grinding out a 0-0 draw in the second leg of their quarter-final against Juventus here Wednesday.
A stalemate at the Delle …
Newly promoted Ebusua Dwarfs beat Atlantic Hall of University of Cape Coast (UCC) 2-1 in a friendly soccer match played at the Robert Mensah Sports stadium at Cape Coast, on Wednesday.
The match formed part of the activities to comm…
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) has thrown an open invitation to individuals and groups to submit memoranda to the Committee appointed by the Congress to embark on constitutional reforms for the FA.
The move is to afford all Ghan…
Scott Harrison, the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) featherweight champion, has said he will revert to his usual spartan training regime ahead of the next defence of his title against Michael Brodie on June 3.
For his last fight in hi…
The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has launched the Queens Baton Relay, to herald the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.
The Queens Baton Relay is a traditional event that symbolises the traditional curtain raiser to the C…
The Status Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) has invited 30 players to appear before it on Thursday, April 14, for hearing.
The players are praying the Committee to grant them floating status to enable them continue wi…
Officer Cadet Mahamady Belem of Abyssinia Platoon of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) emerged winner of this year's annual Inter Platoon Junior Cadet Steeplechase competition held at the Ghana Military Academy, Teshie, Accra.
Cadet Officer…
The national handball competition enters its second week at all the centres this week after a thrilling first round last weekend.
The week would provide the Prisons Service with an opportunity to consolidate their position in the l…
Bayern Munich captain Oliver Kahn claims English opposition always struggle against the 18-time German champions and is confident the club can overturn a 4-2 first leg deficit when they face Chelsea in the Champions League quarter-final at…
Below is a GNA Sports compilation of the winners of the gala competition since it's inception in 1974.
1974 - Hearts beat Fankobaa 5-4 (pen)
1975 - No competition
1976 - Hearts beat Kotoko 1-0
1977 - Olympics beat Hearts…
Southampton manager Harry Redknapp said Monday he planned to hold talks with Sir Clive Woodward following the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand which finishes in July.
Woodward, who guided England to the Rugby World Cup in 2…
World number one Roger Federer and women's number two Amelie Mauresmo of France were named top seeds here Monday for the WTA and ATP Masters Series tournament that begins here Wednesday.
But the main rivals on both the men's and women…
Roger Federer successfully defended his Indian Wells ATP Masters Series title, defeating Lleyton Hewitt 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 in Sunday's final to claim his 26th career singles crown.
The world number one Federer is undefeated in his past 17 …
Italian league table after Sunday's matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):
AC Milan 29 20 6 3 49 17 66
Juventus 29 20 6 3 47 16 66
Inter Milan …
Nana Asamoah Boamah, a sports analyst has called on the management and supporters of Accra Hearts of Oak Sporting Club and Kumasi Asante Kotoko Football club to do away with the rancour and perceived enmity between them and rather promote …
Following are the standings after
English premier league played on Saturday (tabulated under games
played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, against, points):
1. Chelsea 30 24 5 1 58 10 77
2. Manchester United …
Belgium coach Aime Anthuenis announced the following 20-player squad Friday for the World Cup qualifier against Bosnia here on March 26:
Belgium squad
Goalkeepers: Silvio Proto (La Louviere), Frederic Herpoel (Ghent)
De…
A Milan derby and an emotional clash between old European rivals Liverpool and Juventus marked the draw for the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Friday.
In the two other quarters, runaway English Premiership leaders Chelsea t…
Struggling Hearts of Oak would play two practice matches on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively ahead of their image-saving Champions League game with Dolphins of Nigeria on Sunday.
The matches are against Bravo-Bravo and Africa Unite…
Monaco will have reason to be feeling aggrieved after their 2-2 draw with Auxerre on Sunday, a result which left Didier Deschamps' side short of moving up to third position in the French league.
After Lyon affirmed their ambitions to…
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson basked in his team's passage into the FA Cup semi-finals and insisted last week's heartbreaking Champions League exit will make his side stronger.
United brushed aside Southampton 4-0 at St Mar…
Kerron Clement of Trinidad broke American great Michael Johnson's 10-year-old 400m indoor world record here Saturday, clocking 44.57sec at the NCAA US collegiate indoor athletics championships.
Clement, 19 and representing the Univers…
Struggling Hearts of Oak would play two practice matches on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively ahead of their image-saving Champions League game with Dolphins of Nigeria on Sunday.
The matches are against Bravo-Bravo and Africa Unite…
Zebi Football Club, Greater Accra Second Division campaigners on Monday invited its old players as well as new players interested in joining the club to report for justifiers at the Club's training grounds at the La Town Park in Accra.
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Dutch international defender Jaap Stam has extended his contract with former European champions AC Milan till the end of the 2007 season, the club said here Wednesday.
"I'll finish my career at Milan," said the 32-year-old Stam, who j…
Nothing appears to be going right for six-time German champions Borussia Dortmund at the moment with acute financial problems off the pitch mirrored on the playing field.
It has certainly been a week to forget for the 1997 Champions L…
Tainted referee Robert Hoyzer has fuelled the escalating German match-fixing scandal by claiming that for two years now German football clubs have been inviting referees into brothels prior to matches.
According to Spiegel magazine Ho…
Wayne Rooney's return to Everton produced the predicted hostile reception but for once the Manchester United star was overshadowed by team-mate Ronaldo who made the first and scored the second to book his side's place in the FA Cup quarter…
Real Madrid's build-up to their mouth-watering Champions League clash next week against Juventus suffered a morale-shattering setback on Saturday when they went down to a 2-0 Spanish League home defeat to Athletic Bilbao.
Madrid start…
The Greater Accra Women Soccer Committee (GAWSOC), will commence the 2005 season with their annual gala competition on March 12, at the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra.
The gala is to prepare the clubs for the league, which will kic…
Manchester United's Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo said Wednesday he believes his side can still overcome runaway leaders Chelsea in the English Premiership title race.
"We know things are very complicated, Chelsea have carried …
Accra Great Olympics have petitioned the Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) against the intended relegation of the club to the Division One League.
A three-paged petition signed by Mr Ato Ampiah, chairman of th…
A one-day Judo championship which was organised with the support of the Japanese Ambassador, Mrs. Kazuko Asai, has ended at the Sports Hall of the Ohene Djan Sports Stadium in Accra.
The championship, popularly known as the "Ambassad…
The Central Regional Division Two Middle League kicked off on Monday at the Robert Mensah Sports stadium at Cape Coast.
Eight clubs made up of Agona Fankobaa, Swedru Young Rangers, Odupon Heroes and Elmina Coconut Grove Sharks are par…
Police have called on feuding managers Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson to end their war of words ahead of next month's Arsenal-Manchester United match at Highbury, amidst worries the ongoing row could provoke crowd trouble.
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