Berekum Chelsea and FC Samartex 1996 played out a goalless draw in their Ghana Premier League Round 8 fixture at the Golden City Park. The result leaves FC Samartex 1996 third on the Ghana Premier League table with 15 points, while Berekum Chelsea sit 10th with 11 points.
With Omewa helping Häcken move closer to the Swedish title, Nnadozie delivering a clean sheet in England, and Okpe and Nkor continuing to score regularly in Belarus, the weekend provided another reminder of the growing presence of Nigerian women footballers across international leagues
Former world number one Naomi Osaka cast doubt on her future Sunday saying she would consider quitting tennis if her three-year-old daughter asked her to. Osaka, whose mother is Japanese and father from Haiti, said “nobody should have to go through that”.
Vice President commends Black Maidens for reaching FIFA U-17 World Cup Vice President Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has congratulated Ghana’s Black Maidens on reaching the Round of 16 of the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Morocco after their impressive 2-0 victory over Canada.
The Wallabies will take on the All Blacks at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as part of the Rugby Championship in 2027, along with an additional Test in 2029.
From blowout results to bumper attendances, here are the highlights from week two of the Rugby League World Cup.
England captain Harry Kane is the favourite to win a wide open race to be crowned Ballon d’Or winner at a glitzy London ceremony on Monday, with Lamine Yamal and Kylian Mbappe also in the running to be named the world’s best footballer. Her former club team-mate, Poland’s Ewa Pajor is the main challenger to Putellas after she netted 11 Champions League goals in Barca’s latest triumph.
Rivers United maintained their position at the top of the Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) table despite suffering their first defeat of the season, losing 2-1 to Bendel Insurance in Matchday 10.
Flamingos face Mexico as Africa’s last four battle for quarter-final tickets. Nigeria will face Mexico in the Round of 16 on Thursday at the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Morocco, leading four African teams into the knockout stage
Kylian Mbappe scored twice, including an 87th-minute winner, to earn victory for Real Madrid against Barcelona in El Clasico. Mbappe’s first goal four minutes before half-time was a fortuitous one; home defender Gerard Martin’s attempted clearance of Yan Diomande’s low cross flew in off the France striker past Joan Garcia.
Fighting in a ring may not seem like the most obvious way to help young men learn to control their emotions, but the team behind this free boxing program say it has done exactly that.
Bayern Munich won 3-1 at Freiburg to return to the top of the Bundesliga, as the German champions paid tribute to absent manager Vincent Kompany. Freiburg pulled a goal back with eight minutes left through an own goal from Bayern’s Tom Bischof, but Olise sealed Bayern’s victory by adding a third in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
Isak’s goal against Brighton on Sunday helped Liverpool secure an impressive 2-0 win over the Premier League’s in-form side, taking his tally to six for the campaign. Only Erling Haaland (nine) has scored more Premier League goals this season than Isak and when Liverpool signed him from Newcastle these were the numbers they expected.
An 89-run last-wicket stand has given Pakistan a stunning ODI victory over England, who just days ago failed to defend 429 in its last game against Sri Lanka.
Kylian Mbappe struck twice to earn Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid a 2-1 Clasico victory over La Liga leaders Barcelona on Sunday at Camp Nou, cutting the gap to three points. Anthony Gordon, playing in his first Clasico since joining Barcelona from Newcastle, backheeled the ball to Raphinha, who fired narrowly wide as Barca threatened.
Kylian Mbappe struck twice to earn Jose Mourinho’s Real Madrid a 2-1 Clasico victory over La Liga leaders Barcelona on Sunday at Camp Nou, cutting the gap to three points. Anthony Gordon, playing in his first Clasico since joining Barcelona from Newcastle, backheeled the ball to Raphinha, who fired narrowly wide as Barca threatened.
Thirteen years later, José Mourinho led Real Madrid into the Camp Nou, and he led them out again with a late, late victory that opens up a whole new world. It had been an intense, breathless ride, a proper battle, and Madrid had won it, Mbappé getting his second goal of a special match to end Barcelona’s record nine-game winning run.
Four wins and two draws in his past six matches in charge of Real Madrid against Barcelona put him up there with Miguel Munoz (1962 to 1965) and Vicente del Bosque (2001 to 2003) as Real managers who have gone six in a row without defeat against the old enemy. It was also just a second victory in eight games against Barcelona for Real, with the return of Mourinho to the fixture haunting the reigning champions And more importantly for Mourinho, Mbappe’s double in Real’s 2-1 win ended Barcelona’s nine-game unbeaten domestic run with a crucial Clasico victory at the Camp Nou.
Australia returns to the scene of Sandpapergate for the third Test in Cape Town, with the series on a knife edge.
Finally, the 100% winning start ends for Manchester City, much to the pleasure of Manchester United, who struck late through Elisabeth Terland to claim a point in a well-contested and at times breathless Manchester derby. Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw’s second-half strike appeared to have settled the game and kept the defending champions top of the table, and it had looked likely to be the same old story.
Forty students from seven schools compete to see who can sound most like a kookaburra, Australian raven, or yellow-tailed black cockatoo — and be crowned best bird caller.
Jimmy Anderson says if it was up to him, his Lancashire career "wouldn't have ended like this", after the club ended its 25-year association with England's leading Test wicket taker.
Natalie Wood has paid the price for taking Essendon to a meagre one win, getting the sack with a round to go in the AFLW season.
Job in balance after 3-0 home defeat by Bournemouth Howe is director of football Jason Wilcox’s top candidate Manchester United’s hierarchy are in crisis talks over whether or not to sack Michael Carrick as manager after he oversaw another torrid defeat, to Bournemouth at Old Trafford on Sunday, that appeared to leave his job in the balance. Eddie Howe remains the preferred candidate of Jason Wilcox, United’s director of football, should there be a change in the dugout, with the former Newcastle manager’s extensive Premier League experience placing him ahead of other potential targets.