HARARE – More than 200 junior tennis players from across the country are expected to converge at Harare Sports Cub today to take part in the New Winners Junior Tennis tournament. The event is set to start today and will end on Friday. Tennis Zimbabwe (TZ) administrator Cliff Nhokwara said the tournament is meant to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has named a 30-man provisional squad for March’s ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh, although uncertainty remains over the players’ availability. The country’s cricketers late last year went on strike in protest over unpaid dues, and have vowed to continue the industrial action if ZC fails to pay them before the…
HARARE – Walter Musona, one of the country’s brightest football prospects, has joined FC Platinum from the Aces Youth Academy on a two-year deal. Musona, who is the young brother of Zimbabwe kingpin Knowledge Musona, spent the last six months of the 2013 season on loan at relegated Motor Action. The Zimbabwe youth international had…
HARARE – Zimbabwe welterweight champion Charles Manyuchi’s WBC fight against Ghanaian Patrick Allotey has been postponed to March 15 after his Zambian counterpart Catherine Phiri’s opponent pulled out of the January 25 bout. Oriental Quarries Boxing Promotions (OQBP) operations manager Chris Malunga told the Zambian Times that France’s Nadia Hokmi had pulled out of the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s African Nations Championship (Chan) Group B opponents Morocco are confident of topping the group, saying anything short of a semi-final berth will be a failure. The Atlas Lions have been billed as the group favourites due to the vast exposure of their players and strength of the Moroccan league. The North Africans…
HARARE – If anybody were to try and tell you that 2013 was a year full of happiness and potential, that person would surely be deluded. From a Zimbabwean point of view, there was precious little to smile about, say for the odd glimpse of promise shown from time to time. It has been well…
HARARE – Newly re-elected Basketball Union of Zimbabwe president Addison Chiware says national teams’ failure to travel to assignments will be a thing of the past. Chiware was elected at the Buz congress held last week together with a new board expected to take Zimbabwe’s basketball forward for the next four years. The board comprises…
BULAWAYO – The Bulawayo Pool Association (BPA) has appealed for sponsors for the Bulawayo Pool League (BPL) as the sport is fast gaining popularity in the city. “We are self-sponsored; hence invite the corporate world to join the fastest-growing sport in the country,” BPA publicity secretary Donald Wadawu said. “Our activities have been funded through…
HARARE – Zimbabwe football coach Ian Gorowa will have one more chance to assess his team before they plunge into the African Nations Championships (Chan) after Gabon this week confirmed their pre-tournament friendly match. The Warriors are set to face The Panthers at the Rand Stadium in Johannesburg a day after touching down in Cape…
HARARE – Former Manicaland first-class cricketer Keegan Taylor died in Harare on Friday following a short illness, aged 29. Taylor spent over a week at the Trauma Centre in Harare before succumbing to heart failure on Friday. Born and bred in Mutare, Taylor was now working and living in Tanzania at the time of his…
