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UEFA CL: Son shines in the City as Spurs reach semi final

Tottenham beat Manchester City 4-4 on away goals to reach Champions League semi-finals UEFA Champions League results, semi-final match-ups Semi-finals, second leg At Manchester, England Manchester City (ENG) 4 (Sterling 4, 21, Bernardo Silva 11, Aguero 59) Tottenham (ENG) 3 (Son 7, 10, Llorente 73) 4-4 on aggregate; Tottenham win on away goals At Porto, Portugal Porto (POR) 1 (Militao ...

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Allegri to remain as Juventus coach despite Champions League flop

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri announced on Tuesday he would be staying on as coach with the Italian giants next season despite another Champions League disappointment. Cristiano Ronaldo’s side crashed out of the championship to Dutch side Ajax after a 2-1 loss on the night in Turin and 3-2 aggregate defeat. “I met the (club) president (Andrea Agnelli) a couple of ...

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Joshua’s opponent fails drugs test, fight in doubt

Heavyweight contender Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller has tested positive for the banned substance GW1516 ahead of his scheduled challenge of unified world titleholder Anthony Joshua, three sources with knowledge of the results told ESPN on Tuesday. The fight is scheduled to take place on June 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York and to serve as the American debut ...

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Dogboe to quit boxing at welterweight division

Former World Boxing Organisation (WBO) super bantamweight titlist, Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe, has targeted finishing his career at welterweight before quitting. Dogboe explained in an interview with the Graphic Sports that he was looking forward to becoming a multiple-division world champion at the end of his career. Having pitched camp at Keta in the Volta Region, the 24-year-old is preparing ...

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I’m waiting for GAA ban to be lifted – Bissah

Ghana’s only Olympic gold medallist, Martha Bissah, has urged the Minister for Youth and Sports, Mr Isaac Kwame Asiamah, to back his words with action and get the Ghana Athletics Association (GAA) to lift the ban placed on her four years ago. According to her, that was the only way authorities could show that they were interested in her competing ...

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Golf: Woods wins 15th major title

Ending an 11-year major drought, the 43-year-old American superstar — who underwent spinal fusion in 2017 fearing chronic back pain would deny him life’s simple joys much less golf wins — seized his first major title since the 2008 US Open. Woods fired a final-round two-under par 70 to finish on 13-under 275 for a one-shot victory to capture a ...

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Nigeria’s Jay Jay Okocha ordered by court to be arrested

Justice Adedayo Akintoye of a Lagos High court sitting in Igbosere, has again issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a former Super Eagles Captain, Augustine popularly known as Jay- Jay Okocha over alleged tax evasion. Justice Akintoye made the order following Okocha’s alleged failure to settle a 2017 income tax evasion case brought against him by the Lagos ...

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Ghana won’t underrate AFCON opponents- Gomoa East MP

Deputy Chairman of Parliamentary Select on Sports and Gomoa East MP, hon. Kojo Asemanyi has reiterated that there is no way Ghana’s Black Stars will underrate Cameroon, Benin and Guinea Bissau in their Group F pairings. According to the young legislature and football enthusiast he believes Ghana always pulls surprises when they are written off as trophy contenders. “The Black ...

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Dogboe: I’ll make Navarrete eat his words

Former World Boxing Organisation (WBO) super bantamweight champion, Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe, has warned Emanuel Navarrete to choose his words right ahead of their crunch rematch at the Convention Centre in Tucson, Arizona, on May 11. The 24-year-old Ghanaian advised the Mexican to be mindful of his utterances as he was in the best of conditions to avenge his painful ...

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