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…
Denis Istomin upset two-time finalist Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3) in the first round of the Stuttgart Open on Tuesday.Kohlschreiber failed to create any break points and was forced to fend off six from the 100th-ranked Istomin. …
For the second consecutive year, the Golden State Warriors are celebrating an NBA championship with a parade in Oakland, and for the second consecutive year, Draymond Green used his T-shirt to troll LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers…
Golden Boy Promotions and Canelo Alvarez are done waiting around for unified middleweight world champion Gennady Golovkin to finalize a deal for their rematch.
Golden Boy president Eric Gomez told ESPN on Tuesday that the company has is…
The Oakland Raiders won't be sending a 2019 draft pick to the New York Jets for Christian Hackenberg after all.
Oakland released Hackenberg from its 90-man roster Tuesday, three weeks after acquiring the backup quarterback from the Jets…
Texas Rangers right-hander Bartolo Colon recorded his 2,500th career strikeout during Tuesday night's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Colon, 45, reached the milestone when he struck out second baseman Max Muncy in the first inning…
Staying on his yacht -- or "dinghy," as he kiddingly called it -- at a nearby harbor for this week's U.S. Open apparently has more advantages for Tiger Woods than the typical creature comforts that come with a 155-foot boat.
Woods noted…
Celtics All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving said Tuesday that a contract extension this summer doesn't make sense for him and that while he's already bracing for the daily questions about his future, his sole focus is on getting healthy for …
F1 driver Jolyon Palmer, who left Renault at the end of 2017, joins the BBC team this season to offer insight and analysis from the point of view of the competitors.
This was supposed to be the year McLaren would finally return to their…
World Cup assistant referees have been told to keep their flag down for tight offside calls to enable VAR to make the correct decision, says Fifa referees committee chairman Pierluigi Collina.
Russia 2018 will be the first World Cup to …
Mohamed Salah joined the rest of Egypt's World Cup squad for warmup drills on Tuesday and dribbled for the first time since injuring his left shoulder in last month's Champions League final.The Liverpool forward also appeared to run faster…
Real Madrid have appointed Spain manager Julen Lopetegui as their new head coach on a three-year deal.
Zinedine Zidane, who led the club to three successive Champions League titles, stepped down in May, saying the club needs "a differen…
The long wait is nearly over. With the 2018 World Cup in Russia kicking off on Thursday, we asked our panel of experts to answer some of the key questions ahead of the tournament. Who will the World Cup? Which player will win the Golden Ba…
Africa’s leading digital TV operator StarTimes on Tuesday announced that its App video streaming service is officially launched in Ghana ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
StarTimes plans to give all Ghanaians the opportunity to watch th…
Max Verstappen's third place for Red Bull in the Canadian Grand Prix came after he attended a race without a support group for the first time.
The Dutchman, who had been involved in crashes or incidents in the first six races, took his …
The High Court has placed an interim injunction on the activities of the Ghana Football Association (GFA).
The order of the court, therefore bars the GFA and its officials from carrying out all official duties at least for ten days.
…
The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo has announced government's plans to liquidate the Ghana Football Association (GFA) because the association in its current state is not fit for the purpose for which it was established.
The government …
Britain's Hannah Barnes believes other cycling events can learn from how the Women's Tour champions equality with its men's version, the Tour of Britain.
This year the Women's Tour has more than doubled its prize fund to match the sums …
England manager Gareth Southgate wants his players to play with flair at the World Cup and entertain the nation.
England have warmed up with wins over Nigeria and Costa Rica, with many pundits praising the effective - and sometimes styl…
Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has been unfairly treated in his anti-doping case and his reputation will always be "tarnished", says former world champion Lizzie Deignan.
Froome was found to have double the allowed level o…
Dubai will host the 2019 World Para-athletics Championships, marking the first time the event has taken place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The ninth edition of the Championships will be staged from 7-15 November.
London conside…
Geraint Thomas says winning the 2018 Criterium du Dauphine is the finest result of his career on the road.
The Welshman, 32, is a double Olympic champion on the track and won stage one of the 2017 Tour de France, wearing the leader's ye…
Bahrain-Merida rider Sonny Colbrelli prevailed in a sprint finish to claim the third stage of the Tour de Suisse.
The 28-year-old Italian negotiated the 182km run from Oberstammheim to Gansingen to win in four hours 39 minutes and 50 se…
Romelu Lukaku scored twice as Belgium eased to victory against Costa Rica in their final World Cup warm-up match.
Belgium, England's Group G opponents, were again without injured defender Vincent Kompany in Brussels, while Eden Hazard l…
One side has David Beckham lobbying and Donald Trump menacing on social media. The other is promising a "European" World Cup in Africa.
But who will prevail on Wednesday when a vote is taken to decide on the hosts of the 2026 Fifa Wor…