The senior national team, the Black Stars, took a giant step towards the group phase of the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying series after labouring to dispose of a tactically disciplined Comoros side via a 2-0 aggregate.

Having drawn goalless in the first leg away last Friday, the Stars needed a vital home win against the Comorians at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi yesterday to advance to the next stage of the African qualifiers and a goal in each half by Mubarak Wakaso and Jordan Ayew made victory certain.

Former Black Stars skipper, Stephen ‘Tornado’ Appiah, has been named the ambassador for Total Ghana’s ‘StartUpper of the Year’ Challenge.

The maiden Challenge is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) contest launched recently by the oil marketing giant to unearth and nurture budding entrepreneurs in the country.

The Western Region Taekwondo Association will on November 28 host the maiden edition of the Western Open Taekwondo Championship at the Astoria community centre in Takoradi.

Athletics has been shaken by the doping allegations contained in the World Anti-Doping Association's (Wada) independent report - but who is involved and what might it mean for the future of athletics?

 Tennis players under the age of 18 years will for the first time compete in this year’s edition of the annual D.G. Hathiramani Memorial Table Tennis Championship  scheduled for  the Hathiramani Sports Hall at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday.

Male football clubs have been urged to offer support to women's football to enable their game  thrive in Africa, just as it is progressing in the western world.

According to Emy Caseletti, a FIFA Instructor in Administration for women's football, that is the surest way for women's football to progress, especially considering the fact that funds are virtually non-existent in the women's game on the continent.

 International triathlete,Tareq  Monganie, won the country's second triathlon event held last Saturday at the  University of Ghana campus at Legon, completing the three-sport competition a time of 1:09.14 hours.

Dubbed “Kempinski Race Series,” the competition involved 47 triathletes from different countries participating in swimming, biking and running.

Mariano Barreto, a former coach of the Black Stars has hit out at Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari as a bad example to younger players.

  Muntari who plays for Al Ittihad has been indefinitely suspended from the Black Stars and hasn’t featured for the senior national team since returning from the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament in Brazil.

Two of Africa’s great stars at the moment, Ghana’s Andre Dede Ayew and Yaya Toure, have yet again had their paths crossed for another prestigious award as BBC named its shortlisted nominees for this year’s African Football of the Year.

The two stars, who play in the English Premier League are yet to clash in the Premier League, but they have already been pitched against each other in the CAF Best Player Award shortlist released last month.

 The CEO of Joy Dadi Industries, Dr Takyi Manfred, says his outfit is ready to invest in boxing to return the sport back to its glories and as a national past time.

According to him, boxing is an interesting sport and will soon be the number one in Ghana with the support of stakeholders in the game and all and sundry.

 Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan, has urged football fans to turn up in their numbers tomorrow as the team intend to deliver victory over Comoros and keep their 2018 World Cup dream on course.

He said Ghanaians must forget about the team’s scoreless draw with the island nation last Friday, as the Stars promise a ruthless performance in Kumasi.

The Deputy Director General of the National Sports Authority, Mr Saka Acquaye, has complained bitterly about government's continued slashing of budgetary allocation to sports in the country.

He said that the slashing of the budget for four consecutive times in the past three years was killing sports in the country.

The Euro 2016 finals in France should not be cancelled in the wake of Friday's deadly attacks in Paris, says tournament organiser Jacques Lambert.

Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility after 129 people were killed and more than 350 wounded in the French capital.

Lambert, speaking on French radio station RTL, said: "Wondering whether Euro 2016 must be cancelled is playing the game of the terrorists.

The hockey team of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) delivered a shocking 2-1 win over defending Ashanti regional league champions, Seniors, as rivals Silver stretched their lead by three points after a win overt Royals.

KNUST are now tied with Seniors on seven points apiece in the second position after a rather shaky start to the season.

The acting president of the regional association, Kwabena Akyeampong, put Seniors in front in 30th minute but it was cancelled 19 minutes later by Alexander Frimpong, while Samuel Asare scored the match winner in the 53rd minute.

Togo has crashed out of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers for Africa, after losing to Uganda in their two-leg encounter on Sunday.

Ugand’s Cranes dominated the Hawks  at the Mandela National Stadium in Namboole, to record an emphatic 3-0 victory to advance 4-0 on aggregate having won the first leg 1-0 in Lome last Friday.