HARARE – Just when everything seemed back on track for the Glamour Boys, coach Calisto Pusuwa was yesterday left sweating for the services of key players – Partson Jaure, Sydney Linyama and Washington Pakamisa – who are down with different ailments. Dynamos players yesterday ended their two-day boycott of training as they settled down to…
HARARE – As we look back with fond memories at the glittering profession of Graeme Smith, who has recently called stumps on a record-breaking career, I am sure cricket lovers in Zimbabwe will join me in paying fitting tribute to this true legend of the game. Smith, Test cricket’s most successful captain, leaves South Africa…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s junior men and women hockey teams went into camp in Harare yesterday to prepare for next week’s Youth Olympic Games Qualifiers in Lusaka, Zambia. The tournament will run between May 10 and 15. Two teams from each category qualify for the Youth Olympic Games to be held in China in August. Both…
HARARE – FIFA has committed to funding the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa)’s new headquarters in Harare, it has been learnt. This comes as association president Cuthbert Dube has been re-appointed to the global body’s standing committees and vice president Ndumiso Gumede had said in February that they were angling for a $500 000 grant from…
HARARE – Zimbabwe got their 2015 African Nations Cup preparations off to a promising start with a convincing victory over Malawi at Kumuzu Stadium in an international friendly yesterday. Blending local and South African-based players for the first time since reaching the semi-finals of the African Nations Championships in February, the Warriors were off to…
HARARE – Dynamos chairperson Kenny Mubaiwa has branded the Glamour Boys players “inconsiderate” after they extended their strike into a second day in protest over unpaid winning bonuses. The industrial action has cost the club valuable preparation time ahead of Sunday’s crucial African Champions League first round, second leg clash away to Democratic Republic of…
BULAWAYO – Bulawayo’s top junior football teams Highlanders, Chicken Inn and Bantu Rovers were kept apart in the quarter-final draw of the inaugural Makhandeni Legends Under-18 Top 8 tournament that was conducted at the Bulawayo Zifa offices recently. Reigning Bulawayo Province Junior League champions in the Under-18 age group, Highlanders, were drawn against LMC while…
HARARE – Zambia Professional Boxing and Wrestling Control Board (ZPBWCB) secretary, Simon Mwale has advised Zimbabwean boxer Charles Manyuchi against complacency when he takes on Ghanaian Patrick Allotey. Manyuchi, who holds the African Boxing Union (ABU) welterweight belt, fights Allotey for the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight title on March 15 at the Government…
HARARE – Zimbabwean athlete Paul Madzivire got his 2014 season off to a good start after winning the long jump event at the Atlantic Coast Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship meet in United States last week. Madzivire, who is a Florida State University State (FSU) fourth-year economics student, won the competition with a leap…
HARARE – Andy Waller, the Zimbabwe national cricket team coach has set his team a target of playing in the final of the ICC World Twenty20 that gets underway in Bangladesh next week. Zimbabwe is scheduled to fly out to Bangladesh this evening and Waller appears undeterred by the valuable preparation time lost due to…
