Arsenal fans have a new hero in Eddie Nketiah but who is the young Carabao Cup star?
Arsenal were heading for Carabao Cup defeat at home to Championship side Norwich City before his intervention. The teenager came off the bench late on …
Anthony Joshua has again threatened to target Carlos Takam’s body as he plots to fight "in a phone box".
The IBF and WBA 'super' heavyweight champion will be four-and-a-half inches taller than his late-notice opponent Takam this weekend…
The Promoter of last Saturday's "Make or Break" fight between Braimah Kamoko and Bastie Samir, Alex Ntiamoah Boakye, says he is yet to agree on a rematch with the two boxers.
Mr Ntiamoah, the Chief Executive Officer of the Box Office Sp…
China's ruling Communist Party has voted to enshrine Xi Jinping's name and ideology in its constitution, elevating him to the level of founder Mao Zedong.
The unanimous vote to incorporate "Xi Jinping Thought" happened at the end of the…
Phil Neville is interested in the vacant managerial position at his former club Everton, BBC Sport understands.
The Merseyside club sacked Ronald Koeman on Monday after their loss at Arsenal left them in the Premier League relegation zo…
Twelve-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic is set to play his first match since Wimbledon at the World Tennis Championship in December.
The world number seven, whose season ended early with an elbow injury, is slated for the Abu Dha…
The Warriors closed out their three-game road trip on a high note, defeating the Mavericks 133-103 on Monday. Golden State never trailed in the contest, and after a seesaw first half, the Dubs ran away with the game in the second. Stephen …
The first semi-final of the ongoing FIFA Under-17 World Cup, between Brazil and England on October 25, has been moved to Kolkata due to "severe rainfall" at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati, FIFA announced on Monday.
"Foll…
"You have players with talent every year, but to achieve something special, first of all you win it by little margins that at some stage of the season become very tight, and you need your players to respond with intelligence to get through…
RB Leipzig sporting director Ralf Rangnick has said the club could not offer Naby Keita a salary that would have convinced him not to join Liverpool.
Guinea international Keita will move to Anfield for €55 million, the release fee in hi…
Monday was another busy night in the NBA as 16 teams played in eight great matchups including an impressive win by the Philadelphia 76ers in Detroit that saw rookie Ben Simmons get his first triple-double.
Sixers take Detroit
The Phi…
Manchester United's flying start to the season came to an abrupt end in the wind and rain at Huddersfield on Saturday.
A first defeat of the Premier League season left Jose Mourinho's team five points behind Manchester City. Mourinho sa…
Salomon Kalou has told ESPN FC that he and his Hertha Berlin teammates took a knee before a match this month to "protest against people who think there is a colour, who think there is a kind of white supremacy" and added that "racism is li…
Ryan Giggs says he is "interested" in taking over the vacant manager's job at Leicester City or Everton, the former Manchester United star told Sky Sports on Monday.
Giggs, 43, has long looked to move into management after ending his pl…
Which of Africa's players have a point to prove in this week's EFL Carabao Cup fixtures?
Oumar Niasse: Everton parted ways with Ronald Koeman on Monday after the Dutch coach oversaw the Toffees' miserable 5-2 defeat by Arsenal on Sunday…
Cristiano Ronaldo continued his remarkable trophy haul with a second consecutive FIFA Best Player award on Monday evening -- and he had a fair bit of help from Africans in doing so.
The award is voted for by the captain, coach and journ…
Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud has won the FIFA Puskas Award for goal of the year.
Giroud's spectacular scorpion-kick goal against Crystal Palace was voted the winner ahead of efforts from Venezuela's Deyna Castellanos and South African…
Arsene Wenger admits having a number of his Arsenal attacking players fully fit is causing a selection headache.
Arsenal host Norwich City in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday, with the north London outfit expected to rotat…
Cristiano Ronaldo was named Best FIFA Men's Player ahead of Lionel Messi for the second successive year.
The Real Madrid forward received 43.16 per cent of the total votes and was presented with the 2017 award by Diego Maradona and form…
Result: Dwight Howard brought down a near-franchise-record 22 rebounds and Frank Kaminsky scored a team-high 18 points in his return to Wisconsin but it wasn’t enough to slow Giannis Antetokounmpo (32 points) and the Bucks in a 103-94 loss…
Ghana Premier League side Elmina Sharks are calling for “sanity” in Ghana football following comments made by its owner and president, Dr. Papa Kwesi Ndoum, that there is widespread corruption in Ghana football.
The 2016 presidential ca…
The organizing committee of the MTN FA Cup has release rates for the ‘unmissable’ final between Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko at the Tamale Sports Stadium. The Committee has also scheduled the kick off time for the big game at the Tamale…
Coach Paa Kwesi Fabin, has said that he does not really care about, what Ghanaians would say when the team gets home, after losing to Mali by 2:1 in the first quarter final match of the ongoing Federation of International Football Associat…
The National Under-17 side, the Black Starlets were silenced by a more purposeful and physical Malian side at the ongoing Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) Under-17 World Cup in India.
The Starlets for the second t…
Bastie Samir, who handed local boxing idol Braimah "Bukom Banku" Kamoko, his first ever defeat in professional boxing since 2000, is ready to offer the later another opportunity in a re-match. Braimah, 37, lost his first ever professional …
Accra Great Olympics and Tema Youth, booked their tickets to division one after losing their last league matches, played on Sunday. Olympics lost by a lone goal to Bechem United, at Bechem, whilst Tema Youth suffered a 2-0 defeat at the ha…
Eric Ayiah, captain of the National Under-17 team, the Black Starlets has admitted that, the Malians were better side hence the 2-1 victory over them in the quarter-final game of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) …
Danlad Ibrahum, goalkeeper of the National U-17 football team, the Black Starlets, has apologized the goalkeeping error that handed Mali a 2-1 defeat over Ghana in the quarter-finals of the Federation of International Football Association …
Guwahati's heavy and continuous rain gave the IG Stadium pitch such a pounding that the Ghana v Mali quarter-final of the Under-17 World Cup was less an exhibition of footballing skill and more of adaptation, muscle strength and endurance.…
Mauricio Pochettino has opened up about a 2016 incident involving Jose Mourinho and Eric Dier, claiming that the Manchester United manager destabilised the Tottenham Hotspur player amid ongoing transfer interest from the Europa League winn…
BARCELONA -- Ernesto Valverde insists Luis Suarez remains "priceless" to Barcelona despite the Uruguayan scoring just three goals in 11 appearances this season.
Suarez's late equaliser at Atletico Madrid last weekend looked to have kick…
An absolutely thumping goal from Paulinho took Brazil to the semi-finals of the U-17 World Cup in style after they came back from a goal down to score two in six minutes in the second half to knock Germany out.
Brazil had looked to be b…
Playing at the peak of their passing power Spain demolished an Iranian side that had won every single previous game before Sunday's quarter-final clash.
If there was one fleeting image, one defining moment, to sum up the quarter-final c…
Walid El Kharti touched home from close range in the first half and Achraf Bencharki scored twice after the break as Wydad Casablanca secured a place in the CAF Champions League final.
After a goalless first leg, the 3-1 home win over U…
Andrew Wiggins didn’t have time to get near the basket for a final shot.
Just inside halfcourt was close enough.
Wiggins’ desperate heave banked in as time expired to give the Minnesota Timberwolves a 115-113 victory over the Oklahom…
Walid Azaro scored a hat-trick as Egyptian giants Al Ahly stormed into the final of the African Champions League with a 6-2 victory over Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia on Sunday.
The win at the Borg El-Arab Stadium in Alexandria sealed a 7-…
LONDON -- Mauricio Pochettino struggled to put his emotions into words after being reunited with Diego Maradona for the first time in 20 years ahead of Tottenham's 4-1 win over Liverpool.
Pochettino and Maradona were teammates and roomm…
Tottenham broke the 10-year-old Premier League attendance record in Sunday's 4-1 win against Liverpool at Wembley.
The attendance of 80,827 surpassed the previous record of 76,098 -- set when Manchester United beat Blackburn 4-1 at Old …
LONDON -- Jurgen Klopp said he did not want to say "anything positive" about his Liverpool side after they were thrashed 4-1 at Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
Liverpool were comprehensively beaten at Wembley thanks to a brace from Harry K…
Tom Ince believes Jose Mourinho's Manchester United not only lacked the passion of Huddersfield but showed they cannot match the fluidity of title rivals Manchester City and Tottenham.
The Red Devils left West Yorkshire with a bloody no…
LONDON -- Antonio Conte insisted that he is not like the previous Chelsea managers sacked by Roman Abramovich and does not fear losing his job after watching his team battle to a 4-2 win over Watford at Stamford Bridge.
Michy Batshuayi …
Here's yet another contender for the list of potential winter transfer window battles -- Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain could go toe-to-toe to sign Real Madrid midfielder Casemiro.
The Manchester Evening News, citing reports …
Edinson Cavani's stoppage-time free kick clinched Paris St Germain a 2-2 draw and denied Marseille their first Le Classique win over their arch-rivals in nearly six years.
Cavani curled home from the edge of the box in the third minute …
The Brooklyn Nets outscored the Atlanta Hawks 17-3 to bust open a tie game over the final minutes and register a 116-104 win at Barclays Center to improve to 2-1.
The late Brooklyn surge came after the Hawks had erased a 16-point lead t…
Juan Mata went to the slums of India before helping to launch Common Goal. Here, Adam Bate speaks to the Manchester United midfielder, the player’s girlfriend Evelina Kamph who has shared his journey, and the man from Mumbai who inspired t…
Down two starters because of injuries and still licking their wounds from a frustration-filled loss a night earlier, the Orlando Magic staggered into Saturday looking as if they could potentially be an easy target for LeBron James and the …
Pep Guardiola claims there is no chance of Manchester City going through the Premier League season unbeaten.
City lead the Premier League by five points after winning eight and drawing one of their opening nine games, scoring 33 goals i…
Looking to bounce back from consecutive losses on their home floor and trying to collect their first win of the 2017/18 season, the Dallas Mavericks found themselves without their full complement of players Saturday night in Houston.
Ho…
Leicester City earned more money for reaching the Champions League quarter-finals last season than Real Madrid did for winning the competition.
The Foxes, who were knocked out by Atletico Madrid, received 81.7m euros (£73.2m) in their d…
It is one the biggest turnovers in the history of world football. Last month, Manchester United announced record revenues of over £581 million (€661m) for the 2016-17 season. Their peers are Real Madrid, who brought in €674m in the same pe…