HARARE – The Zimbabwe Open Golf Committee (ZOGC) yesterday announced an increase in the prize fund for the 2013 edition of the Golden Pilsener Zimbabwe Open. This year’s Open will tee off on Independence Day on April 18 at Royal Harare Golf Club with a field of 156 golfers expected to be in attendance. ZOGC…
HARARE – Dynamos players have been urged to draw lessons from the club’s infamous capitulation at the hands of MC Algiers of Algeria two years ago as they prepare to travel to Lesotho for the return leg of their African Champions League qualifying round. The warning came from assistant coach Tichaona Diya, who was…
HARARE – Dynamos forward Farai Mupasiri failed to travel to Turkey yesterday to take part in the 2013 European Showcase Tour trial. Mupasiri was scheduled to leave the country for a two-week stint organised by United States-based football firm Pro Soccer Consulting (PSC). The Dynamos rookie’s place at the showcase had been facilitated by locally-based…
HARARE – Big-hitting West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has targeted a clean-sweep over touring Zimbabwe across all three formats. Speaking before the Windies’ impressive27-run win over Australia in the only Twenty20 international last week, the powerful left-hander told the Jamaican Gleaner: “We have the home series against Zimbabwe coming up around the corner, actually next…
HARARE – One thing that Togo captain Emmanuel Adebayor endeared himself to the public most during the recently-ended African Nations Cup was controversy and his outspoken nature. Yes, the gangling striker was one of the outstanding players and a driving force for his side that reached the quarterfinals of the South Africa Orange Afcon 2013…
HARARE – Businessman Farai Jere has refuted claims he has purchased a majority shareholding of financially-troubled Castle Lager Premiership side Motor Action. Jere, who quit CAPS United towards the end of last year following irreconcilable differences with club president Twine Phiri over the shareholding structure of the club, said he has no intentions of coming…
HARARE – A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. When triathlete Laurelle Brown took her first step as a “tri-kid”, she never imagined that one day the stride would lead to her carrying the country’s high hopes. Chris Felgate, a veteran of two Olympics, retired from international competition in November last…
HARARE – Dynamos yesterday began their African Champions League campaign in typical fashion, with a convincing early stages win, to dispatch Lesotho Correctional Services and put one foot in the next round of the continent’s premier club competition. Zimbabwean teams have historically found it easy against teams from the mountainous Kingdom over the years, and…
HARARE – Dynamos coach Calisto Pasuwa warned his side are not yet through to the African Champions League first-round despite beating Lesotho Correctional Services 3-0 in the first leg of the preliminary round. A goal each from Tawanda Muparati, Partson Jaure and Boban Zirintusa secured a convincing win at Rufaro Stadium yesterday but Pasuwa insists…
HARARE – The agony of missing out on the just-ended African Nations Cup and the devastating effects of a world-famous fixing scandal have still not healed completely, but the Zimbabwean football fraternity need to show resilience in overpowering the pain to start afresh. The friendly international between the Warriors and Botswana last week marked the…
