The New York Red Bulls picked up a first-ever CONCACAF Champions League away win, beating Tijuana 2-0 thanks to a brace from Bradley Wright-Phillips and an impressive clean sheet from goalkeeper Luis Robles.
Wright-Phillips had the visi…
Paris Saint-Germain suffered a 2-1 defeat at Parc des Princes on Tuesday to complete their 5-2 aggregate loss to Real Madrid in the Champions League round of 16. Edinson Cavani scored for Unai Emery's side but Cristiano Ronaldo and Casemir…
Liverpool comfortably progressed to the last eight of the Champions League after a fairly uneventful encounter at Anfield. The Reds had done the hard work in the first leg but it was important they remained professional and there can be no…
Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love opened up about suffering a panic attack during a game this season -- and how it led to him addressing his mental health -- in an essay published on The Players' Tribune on Tuesday.
Love was taken …
A day after Stephen Ross said all players on his team would stand for the national anthem next season, the Miami Dolphins owner tried to clarify his comments, saying he would not force players' involvement during "The Star-Spangled Banner.…
NFL referee Ed Hochuli has retired, the league announced Tuesday, ending a colorful career that made him one of the most recognized game officials in American sports.
Known for his long-winded explanations and exposed biceps, Hochuli, 6…
Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Piazza, the majority owner of a low-level Italian soccer team, passionately ranted about his club's financial hardships and stadium situation during a recent news conference.
Piazza, who purchased a majority …
As the talk surrounding tanking reaches a fever pitch around the NBA, the Bulls have had an ongoing dialogue with the league office regarding the best way to handle the final 19 games of the season.
The Bulls, like many teams around the…
Adrien Broner has a new opponent at a new weight for his April 21 fight.
Broner, who has won world titles in four weight classes, will face fellow former junior welterweight and welterweight titleholder Jessie Vargas in the main event o…
Add saving lives to the list of talents for Carolina Panthers multifaceted running back Christian McCaffrey.
The eighth pick of the 2017 draft was hiking with family and friends in Castle Rock, Colorado, on Saturday when they witnessed …
Serena Williams will make her long-awaited return to singles competition Thursday night at the BNP Paribas Open.
The 23-time Grand Slam winner will face Kazakhstan's Zarina Diyas in the first night match (10 p.m. ET).
Victoria Azaren…
With the start of the playoffs just more than a month away, the defending champions are still trying to find consistency for 48 minutes.
Nobody is overly concerned. Not yet. Not with this superstar roster capable of scoring in bunches e…
Once Paris Saint-Germain complete the formalities of turning Kylian Mbappe's season-long loan from Monaco into a permanent deal worth €180 million this summer, the French club will have spent just over €1 billion on players since the arriv…
Kenya finished seventh overall at the USA Sevens in Las Vegas, drawn in Pool C for Vancouver assignment
The tournament served as the fifth round of the 2017/18 HSBC Sevens World Series
Kenya finished seventh overall at the USA Se…
Mrs. Freda Prempeh, Chairperson of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the 2018 Africa Women's Cup of Nations, on Friday presented a cheque for GHc2,000 to the Ghana Prisons Ladies football team in Accra.
The presentation, according…
SOCCABET, a Ghanaian owned betting company has sealed a thrilling sponsorship deals with four top teams in the Ghana Premier League (GPL) - Berekum Chelsea, Wa All Stars, Ebusua Dwarfs and Inter Allies. The contract which was signed on Fri…
Former Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac is still haunted by the Luis Suarez handball that denied the Black Stars a spot in the World Cup semi final in 2010.
It may be almost eight years since the Uruguay forward's infamous intervention in a …
Paul Put has been named as the head coach of the Guinea national football team only 11 days after he resigned from his post as Kenya boss.
The Belgian manager was unveiled at a press conference on Friday and will succeed Kanfoy Bangoura…
Let’s get something straight off the rip. What Houston Rockets guard James Harden did to the Los Angeles Clippers’ Wesley Johnson on Wednesday night was not, in the purely technical sense, all that special. Yes, he sat Johnson down like a …
After Deontay Wilder extended his record to 40-0 with a 10th-round TKO win over Luis Ortiz on Saturday night, what is next for the American? And what conclusions can we draw from the WBC world heavyweight champion's seventh successful titl…
Deontay Wilder had just retained his heavyweight world title for the seventh time in a brutal battle with Luis "King Kong" Ortiz on Saturday night at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Wilder dropped Ortiz in the fifth round but then took so …
The light went out in Davide Astori's hotel room just after 11:30 p.m. on Saturday. To that point, it had been as ordinary and unremarkable an evening as any in the life of a professional footballer playing away from home.
Arrive at a g…
Great Britain's Andrew Pozzi claimed a thrilling gold in the 60 metres hurdles at the World Indoor Championships and set his sights on sustained global domination.
The 25-year-old, co-captain of the squad, claimed victory in a season's …
The IAAF Indoor World Championships were draped in stars and stripes, with a number of new faces for the sport taking their first steps forward in the post-Usain Bolt era.
But what these few days have shown is the evolving attractivenes…
The Milwaukee Bucks wouldn't quit.
Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 14 of his 35 points in the third quarter and the Milwaukee Bucks snapped a four-game losing streak, scoring 36 points off the Philadelphia 76ers' season-high 26 turnovers i…
For the second straight game, the Indiana Pacers prevailed on the road over a potential playoff rival, even if it wasn't always pleasing to the eye.
Victor Oladipo scored 33 points and Bojan Bogdanovic added 20 as the Pacers defeated th…
Antonio Conte insisted that he would have been "stupid" to "play open" against Manchester City after watching his team suffer a limp 1-0 defeat against the Premier League leaders.
Bernardo Silva's goal early in the second half was the o…
You can only beat what is placed in front of you, good or bad, so nothing should be taken away from Manchester City's Premier League title triumph when the inevitable is confirmed in the coming weeks.
Having coasted -- and it was a coas…
Averaging 22.6 points, 9.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists during the month of February would be reason to celebrate for most NBA players.
Giannis Antetokounmpo, however, is not most NBA players.
The Milwaukee Bucks' starting forward put up…
Ampem Darkoa are hoping to retain the Super Cup they won last year as they clash with their regional rivals, Prisons Ladies, at the Nana Agyeman Badu Park at Dormaa-Ahenkro tomorrow.
Darkoa, the National Women’s League (NWL) champions…
There is no rest for the Washington Wizards this week.
Two nights after hosting the defending champion Golden State Warriors, the Wizards play their third game in four nights as they welcome the red-hot Toronto Raptors to Capital One Ar…
A little over a month ago, Blake Griffin made his debut with the Detroit Pistons.
The first week went well, but since then the Pistons have faltered.
When they visit the Orlando Magic on Friday night, the Pistons will be seeking cons…
The chairman of the Board of Directors of Accra Great Olympics, Mr Amarkai Amarteifio, says the Wonder Club is ready to exhaust all their legal dimensions to ensure that the rules and regulations governing football in Ghana are respect…
Kell Brook has vowed to dominate the junior middleweight division division and become a two-weight world champion ahead of his debut at his new weight class against Sergey Rabchenko.
Brook [36-2, 25 KOs] lost his IBF world welterweight …
The BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells suffered its first major setback as world No. 2 Rafael Nadal pulled out with a right hip injury.
This will mark the second consecutive week Nadal has withdrawn from an event. On Wednesday, he announc…
Ghana midfielder Thomas Partey has been rewarded for his impressive form at Spanish giants Atletico Madrid with a new deal until the end of June 2023.
The 24-year-old, who has scored five goals in 35 games this season, only signed a n…
Battling with high altitude, Ghana’s Commonwealth Games medal hopeful, Derek Abrefa, overcame a resilient Lingeveldt Kurt of South Africa by 3-1 (11-2, 13-11, 9-11, 11-7) on the opening day at the Indoor Arena of the Moi International …
Veteran coach, J.E Sarpong, has slammed the President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwesi Nyantakyi, for running the association like his personal property to the detriment of the nation.
He explained that the failure of th…
English football fans are "more clients than members" of the clubs they support, says Borussia Dortmund's chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke.
Watzke expects Germany's experiment with Monday night fixtures to be scrapped following fan p…
Virgil van Dijk says he had to "step up" his game when he joined Liverpool for £75m in January.
The former Celtic and Southampton centre-back, 26, scored on his debut at Anfield against Everton in the FA Cup.
However, Van Dijk says h…
Ghana's Richmond Boakye has told KweséESPN that the opportunity to work with one of the world's top coaches in Fabio Capello was a big factor in his decision to join Jiangsu Suning.
The 25-year-old was linked with a move to the Premier …
Zlatan Ibrahimovic hasn't ruled out ending his international retirement to play for Sweden at the World Cup, but insists he must get back to full fitness before it becomes an option.
Ibrahimovic told Swedish media during a visit to Stoc…
Atletico Madrid announced on Thursday that midfielder Thomas Partey has signed a new contract, committing him to the club until June 2023.
Partey, 24, has started 19 of his 24 league appearances for Atletico this season. His current dea…
Three-time Grand Slam singles champion Stan Wawrinka is skipping hard-court events in the United States to rest his injured left knee.
Wawrinka said in a statement that he will miss the Masters-level Indian Wells and Miami events to pre…
Mino Raiola has said he is working on bringing Mario Balotelli back to Serie A or the Premier League.
Nice forward Balotelli is out of contract in the summer and, according to his agent Raiola, he will be a "bargain" for anybody looking…
The argument was heated among Manchester United fans as their train travelled through Germany for a key Champions League game vs. Wolfsburg in December 2015. The topic under discussion -- whether Chris Smalling was good enough to play for …
Former Everton and South Africa midfielder Steven Pienaar announced his retirement on Wednesday, leading to an inevitable focus on his two spells on Merseyside, the legacy created by his performances, not to mention the failed attempts at …
Anthony Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn believes the WBA-IBF heavyweight champion will weigh less than he did against Wladimir Klitschko and Carlos Takam for his upcoming fight against Joseph Parker.
Joshua weighed in at his heaviest weig…
First, the billboards. Now, the scoreboard.
The Philadelphia 76ers are giving LeBron James an eyeful and even more to think about.
J.J. Redick scored 22 points, Joel Embiid had 17 points and 14 rebounds, and the 76ers delivered an in…
Damian Lillard wasn't concerned. He knew his shots would eventually fall.
Lillard finished with 35 points after a slow start and the Portland Trail Blazers rallied to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 108-99 on Thursday night for their se…
info@businessghana.com
