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20 Jun

Elorm Amenakpor And Andrew Owusu To Coach Ghana’s Team At 2023 World Athletics Championships

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Sprint coach, Elorm Amenakpor and jump coach, Dr. Andrew Owusu, will be Ghana’s coaches for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. This will be Elorm’s second World Athletics stint after Oregon 2022, while Dr. Owusu will be attending his first as Ghana’s coach. But he was at the Rio Olympics in 2016 as one of three coaches for the Ghana Olympic track-and-field team, and also at Tokyo 2021. Owusu, a former long and triple jumps athlete, will replace Christian Nsiah for this year’s championships and will work with Ghana’s jump athletes. Deborah Acquah’s confirmation for this year’s championships came…

20 Apr

Stop Glory-Hunting; If You Don’t Invest In Boxers Don’t Criticise – Agbeko To Ghanaians

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Former IBF Bantamweight title holder, Joseph Agbeko says Ghanaians have no right to criticise boxers when they lose. Isaac Dogboe’s world title bout defeat to Robeisy Ramirez was greeted with criticism by Ghanaians, while he was largely belittled after losing his WBO Super Bantamweight title to Emmanuel Navarrete in painful fashion. The rematch defeat was also treated in the same critical manner by large sections of Ghanaians. But Dogboe has probably received better appeal from the public than compatriot Richard Commey. After losing his IBF lightweight world title to Teofimo Lopez in 2019, Commey, 36, has struggled for consistency, winning just one of his four fights since then.…

18 Apr

Mason, Chef And Now Light-Heavyweight Fighter – Story Of Boxing Sensation, Freezy Macbones

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Ghana-born British boxer, Seth Gyimah, in a space of two-years, has seized world and global trends in a way unlike no other. He has not trended for winning a World title, nor has he, for landing a world-standstill bout. In fact Gyimah, popularly known as Freezy Macbones, could be far from achieving both feats. At 33, he has only two professional career fights to his name after starting out not until after he turned 27. Yet still, his rather late stars seem to be aligning just right – earning him comparison to one of the greatest ever with the tag…

13 Apr

Ghana’s Athletes Drop Competitive Times In Outdoor Season Opener

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Benjamin Azamati run the quickest time amongst Ghana’s track and field athletes as they pushed start their 2023 outdoor season. His time of 9.99s at the Jo Meaker Classic and Multi means four Ghanaian athletes are now running under 10.10s in the 100m event already. There was a clean sweep for Ghana in the 100m finals at the Jo Meaker Classic and Multi, as Isaac Botsio and Joseph Manu of West Texas A&M University, finished in second and third respectively. Botsio’s time of 10.06s was a jump from his Texas Relays best 10.21s, set only a week ago from the…

12 Apr

Ghanaian-Canadian Woman Drafted Overall No.8 Pick In WNBA

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Laeticia Amihere, a Canadian basketball player with West African heritage has been selected eighth overall in the WNBA draft. Amihere was selected by Atlanta Dream, making her the second South Carolina to be drafted and the first Ghanaian to enter the franchise. In 2017 at the Boo Williams Invitational, she became the first Canadian woman to dunk in a competitive game – she was 15 at the time and already 6’4. She stole headlines across the world, seized social media trends, while also attracting comments from high-profile personalities like four-time NBA champion, Shaquille O’Neal and rapper, Drake. “Coming out with…

28 Feb

Christian Atsu: Angels Play Football

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Minute 67, and the Black Stars have hit five past Lesotho, and though the fifth goal was not one of destiny, it was one which sold promise and dreams. Shortly after grabbing a goal 23 minutes into his debut, the then 20-year-old will go on to assist Ghana’s seventh, in a World Cup qualifying rout. And playing in front of a vociferous crowd which screamed at the player’s every touch in a near 35-minute cameo, it seemed a country which had birthed numerous talents from Abedi Pele, to Asamoah Gyan, Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari and others, had brought forth yet…

10 Feb

NBA: After Pulling Down Abdul-Jabbar, Certainly, LeBron Has To Be The GOAT?

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He calls himself the King, and with all his achievements from year one to 20, it checks out. But even to him, clocking 38,388 seemed impossible. “It’s still mind-boggling to myself. I’ve set goals throughout my whole career – I wanted to be rookie of the year, I wanted to be MVP in this league, I wanted to win the championship, be an All-Star. I wanted to lead the league in assists and make the all-defensive team and be defensive player of the year. “[But] I’ve never said I wanted to lead the league in scoring, or for sure I…

17 Jan

NBA: LeBron James Surpasses 38,000 Points

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Lakers forward, LeBron James has passed 38,000 NBA points in their loss to the 76ers. Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has scored more points than LeBron James. James scored the 38,000th point of his career with a jump shot in Sunday’s game with the 76ers. Prior to the game, he needed only 11 points to become only the second player to go beyond the 38k mark in the franchise. He scored 35. https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1614818304052412416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1614818304052412416%7Ctwgr%5Ea35db4b40c2bfd4a51b8c6deff1867b912a3170f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myjoyonline.com%2Fnba-lebron-james-surpasses-38000-points%2F Abdul-Jabbar scored 38,387 points in a career which saw him win six rings. James, with four, needs 363 points to surpass the record of the old-timer. https://twitter.com/espn/status/1614818130768846849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1614818130768846849%7Ctwgr%5Ea35db4b40c2bfd4a51b8c6deff1867b912a3170f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myjoyonline.com%2Fnba-lebron-james-surpasses-38000-points%2F What does…

05 Jan

How Joseph Paul Amoah Nearly Missed Out On Winning Commonwealth Bronze

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Joseph Paul Amoah stole headlines on August 6 2022, with a 20.49s sprint which won him bronze in the 200m final of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. His medal chalk was the first time since 2006 an African medaled in the event, and the first Ghanaian since George Daniels achieved the feat in 1974. “I know I drew a very good lane. Being in lane 5 means I could see those coming from 1-4 and also those from 6-9 so I wanted to use that to my advantage. The fans are also very loud [so] I was trying to use that…

05 Dec

How Individual Mistakes Cost Black Stars A Round Of 16 World Cup Slot

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Disappointingly, the 2022 World Cup’s youngest team crashed out of the group stages in Qatar, after the final round of group stage games. And elimination followed a game where the barest Ghana needed was a draw. Yet it seemed an uphill task after conceding two goals to Uruguay. Giorgian de Arrascaeta’s brace came six minutes apart in a first half the Black Stars failed to convert a penalty versus Uruguay – again. But conceding a second to Uruguay quickly after the first, summed up Ghana’s 2022 World Cup headache. Besides the time gap between Portugal’s first and second, the Black…