SALEE: Study of Applied Linguistics and English Education Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2024 P-ISSN: 2715-9795 E-ISSN: 2716-1617 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Grammatical Cohesion in Sports Discourse: A Dissection of Selected Radio Programmes in Ibadan Metropolitan Area, Nigeria Adewole Oluwaseun Alolade 1 1 Corresponding author, Department of English and Literary Studies, Kings University, Ode-Omu, Nigeria: adewolealolade@gmail.com Received: 17 July 2023 Accepted: 3 December 2023 Published: 8 January 2024 Abstract There is rarely any radio station that do not present programme on sports in the contemporary age. Most radio stations have their sports analysis in the various languages that their prospective listeners understand. It is possible because the issue of sports has become an inevitable phenomenon to the people irrespective of age, status, and gender. It has become a unifying force among people of varied background. This, therefore, necessitated the linguistic investigation into the grammatical properties utilized by the sports analysts in their presentations on the radio in Ibadan between September and December, 2020. The study examines the occurrence of the grammatical properties in enhancing cohesion in the presentations made by sports presenters on the radio stations. These grammatical devices include; reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. Ferdinand de Saussure’s Model of Language Structure on Syntagmatic Relations was utilized as the theoretical framework for the study. The data for analysis in the study comprised thirty sports presentations that were recorded and afterwards transcribed to examine the manifestations of the grammatical devices. The results from the analyses show that personal reference is the most prominent of all the types of reference. Nominal substitution and nominal ellipsis are the most recurrent of the types of substitution and ellipsis. The striking manifestations of coordinating, subordinating, and additive conjuncts dominate the types of conjunction employed by the sports analysts on the radio. The study suggests that radio analysts should see language as a weapon for expressing content and meaning by practically influencing the people around them. Keywords: Conjunction, discourse, ellipsis, grammatical cohesion, reference, substitution