HARARE – Tennis Zimbabwe (TZ) has intensified preparations to host the much-anticipated Davis Cup tie with Bosnia and Herzegovina early next month. Zimbabwe will play the Europeans in the 2015 Euro-Africa Zone Group II, the country’s first home tie in years. Home Davis Cup matches were a hit during Zimbabwe’s stint in the elite World…
HARARE – Power training enables an athlete to apply the greatest amount of their maximal strength in the shortest period of time and this is crucial for many sports men and women who require power as a component of fitness to perform their associated sport. Most athletic activities involve far faster movements and far higher…
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) vice-president Ndumiso Gumede, a former ally of the local football governing body’s embattled boss Cuthbert Dube, has urged authorities to shun a confrontational approach in efforts to remove Dube from office. Gumede, who served as number two to Dube on the Zifa board between 2010 and last year…
HARARE – Brendon de Jonge dug deep to fire a final round 68 that saw him climb 12 places at the Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale in Arizona. The Zimbabwean golfer eventually ended his campaign tied on 26 on six under 278, nine strokes adrift of winner Brooks Koepka of the United States….
HARARE – Former Sports minister David Coltart says the ongoing Zifa saga is an extension of the country’s national and intra-party politics. World football governing body Fifa at the weekend was forced to issue a statement warning that Zifa would be banned from international football if the government goes ahead with its threat to fire…
HARARE – I have a lot of respect for Germany and its people not because I have had the opportunity of furthering my journalism career there. Where there is misunderstanding or disputes involving foreign groups, the Germans leave it to you to resolve the problems without ever involving themselves in the dispute. The reason is…
HARARE – Big-hitting Solomon Mire continued with his impressive start to his Zimbabwe career with a quick-silver half-century yesterday against New Zealand domestic side Northern Districts XI, as the African side won their first warm-up match by 22 runs ahead of the upcoming Cricket World Cup in Australasia. The 25-year-old right-hander, who hit two half-centuries…
HARARE – The make-up of Zimbabwe’s team against New Zealand side Northern District in their first warm-up match yesterday ahead of the Cricket World Cup shows that new coach Dav Whatmore is still trying to find winning combinations, and more such tweaking of the line-up can be expected in the remaining warm-ups before the tournament…
HARARE – History has proven that no team does well at a major tournament without its key players taking more responsibility for their work and leading from the front. All too often, this has been a major let-down for Zimbabwe’s cricket team, with the experienced players tending to withdraw into a shell when the situation…
HARARE – Successive Dynamos’ executives have shunned George “Mastermind” Shaya fearing he may use his legendary status to claim a stake in the country’s most successful club, reveals his wife. Yet, “all he ever wanted” was to “help the club grow”. Shaya has continuously been on the sidelines of the club he joined a year…
