LA Bid ‘not Only About 2024’
Los Angeles Olympic bid chiefs hinted for the first time on Wednesday that the city could be ready to step aside for Paris in the race for the 2024 Games. LA 2024 chairman Casey Wasserman suggested...
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NBA Boss Says Chinese Talent Development Must Improve
The NBA needs a greater focus on developing Chinese basketball talent to elite levels, league commissioner Adam Silver said on Thursday as a new Chinese player prepares to join the NBA. Zhou Qi, a...
NHL Chief Rules Out Ice Hockey Olympic Deal
National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman has ruled out any chance of a deal to suspend competition during the 2018 Winter Olympics, insisting that the door had closed on the issue. Bettman,...
Gatlin Struggles To Victory In Japan
American Justin Gatlin, so often the pantomime villain of men's sprinting, returned to winning form with a pedestrian 100 metres victory in Japan on Sunday. The veteran 35-year-old, a two-time doping...
Blitzbokke Aim To Break Fiji Hold In Paris
South Africa take to the Stade Jean-Bouin pitch in Paris this weekend in the knowledge that they could break Olympic champions Fiji's hold on the World Rugby Sevens Series title. Fiji have been...
UPS Announces Dubai Venture, Eyes Middle East Growth
UPS announced a partnership Tuesday to provide logistics at the 2020 World's Fair in Dubai, a venture it sees as a springboard to a bigger presence in the Middle East. UPS expects to hire 1,000...
Anxiety Rocks Black Stars Backroom Staff As Big Shake-Up Looms
Members of the Black Stars backroom staff have been making frantic and worried phone calls after it emerged that some will be sacked as Kwesi Appiah takes charge of the squad. Some of the backroom...
Kotoko Pitch Camp In Accra For One Week
Kotoko will not return to Kumasi until after the 2016/17 Premier League, match day 14 encounter at the Accra Sports Stadium on May 6, 2017 against Accra Great Olympics. The Porcupines left Kumasi for...
How Nigeria Rejection Led To Anthony Joshua’s Rise To Stardom, A Lesson To Ghana
There, on Saturday night, could have been Anthony Joshua fighting Wladimir Klitschko, as world boxing champion, under the green white green banner of Nigeria rather than the Union Jack. There, but...
Salaries of All Black Stars Coaches In the Last 15 Years
It is fair to say that Ghana regularly dispenses with its national coaches at the turn of this generation with the Black Stars having welcomed 13 in the past 15 years. The impacts they leave, and the...
Kenya’s Keitany Wins London Marathon In Record Time
Kenya's Mary Keitany set the fastest time in a women-only marathon as she won a third London Marathon on Sunday in an unofficial 2hrs 17min 01sec. The 35-year-old, who also has three New York...
Bekele Star Attraction For Marathon With Royal Touch
Ethiopian track legend Kenenisa Bekele believes he is in the sort of form to break Eliud Kipchoge's fastest ever time in the London Marathon on Sunday. Should the 34-year-old -- who still holds the...
Japan To Test Mass Telecommute For 2020 Olympics
Japanese commuters will be encouraged to work from home for one day in a nationwide exercise for the 2020 Olympics that authorities hope will ease congestion on roads and public transport. Tokyo has...
Other Sports Have ‘bullies’ Too, Says World Cycling Boss
World cycling chief Brian Cookson said he didn't recognise dark accounts of a "culture of fear" in the British team but pointed out that sport is strewn with tough leaders who could be viewed as...
Brazil Corruption: Eight Cabinet Ministers Named In Petrobras Probe
Brazil has been rocked by dramatic new corruption allegations after a judge ordered investigations into eight cabinet ministers and scores of MPs. The list includes President Michel Temer’s chief...
Bolt Inspired Me To Break World Record
Training with Jamaican athletics legend Usain Bolt gave Wayde van Niekerk the self-belief he could break Michael Johnson's 400 metres world record, he told The Times on Tuesday. The 24-year-old South...
Aduana Stun Olympics As Wa All Stars Hold Tema Youth
Aduana Stars moved within reach of leaders WAFA after recording a 2-1 win over Olympics in Accra. The game was replayed after heavy rain disrupted the game on Sunday and it was former Hearts...
Man of Steel Pieters, Rahm Ready For Masters Showdown
Two newcomers with nerves of steel, Thomas Pieters of Belgium and Spain's Jon Rahm, are both handily placed Saturday to create an upset as the Masters third round begins. Pieters, 25, ranked 35 in...
Rugby Can Rival Football In China, Says Chief
Rugby can grow from a niche sport to be as big as football in China and eventually rival the cash-rich Chinese Super League in popularity, the head of the sport in the world's most populous nation...
US Soccer, Women’s Team Settle Labor Dispute
The United States Soccer Federation and the country's women footballers agreed a new long-term labor deal on Wednesday, ending a dispute that had raised the prospect of strike action. Both sides...