HARARE – When top 1500m runner Enlitha Ncube competed bare feet at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Oregon, USA, many hoped that would be the last time a Zimbabwean athlete competes without spikes on tartan track. Sadly, the lessons derived from that expedition of July 2014 did little to inspire change. Five months later,…
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s emerging sprinters, Munashe Hove, believes he can subjugate monetary challenges to become a world-class athlete in the form of American icon Michael Johnson. 20-year-old Hove, who specialises in the 400m race, is now eyeing a place at the next All-Africa Games, World Championships and Rio 2016 Olympics. The 180m-tall speedster,…
JOHANNESBURG – There is no sport which evokes as much debate as football. No wonder one of the most famous quotes in the sport is by former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly who said: “Football is not a matter of life and death … it’s more important than that.” Almost every Tom and Dick has an…
HARARE – Zimbabwean boxing legend Langton “Schoolboy” Tinago reckons he could have been one of the world’s best boxer at his peak had Rhodesia not been banned from international sports because of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). Tinago, a three-time Commonwealth champion at two different weights, says sanctions on Rhodesia (post-independent Zimbabwe) in the…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) has started the hunt to replace national team coaches for all representative teams. Headlining the vacant posts is the Zimbabwe national rugby coach, a position currently held by former captain Brendan Dawson. Other posts vacant include the Zimbabwe Sevens coach, which is presently in the hands of Gilbert Nyamutsamba….
HARARE – Martin Vengesayi was named the Harare City 2014 Player of the Year at a function held last night to award the club’s outstanding players in the just ended season. David Kutyauripo, who was part of this year’s Soccer Star of the Year finalists, won the team’s Players’ Player of the Year award while…
HARARE – I was in Bulawayo when I read an article in Tuesday’s issue of the Daily News entitled: “CAPS line up Mutasa,” in which I was quoted by Nigel Matongorere as one of the prominent CAPS fans who is against the appointment of former Dynamos sons at CAPS. For a minute I asked myself…
HARARE – Fans have reacted with dismay following a strong Takashinga Cricket Club’s defeat to Uganda in Kampala on Thursday. Takashinga, composing a number of national team players on this low key tour, are on a tour of minnows Uganda, a trip which has attracted widespread criticism due to the make-up of the squad. The…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Prisons Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner General Paradzai Zimondi says the club will not release Lloyd Mutasa to coach Premiership side CAPS United next season. Although Mutasa’s roots are at Dynamos, he has, however, emerged as a serious candidate for the Makepekepe hot seat following the resignation of Taurai Mangwiro earlier this month….
HARARE – Stephen Mangongo was yesterday sacked as Zimbabwe cricket coach just two months before the World Cup gets underway in Australia and New Zealand. Mangongo’s sacking comes after Zimbabwe’s worst tour in history, losing all three Tests and five ODIs in Bangladesh. The horrific tour sparked off an uproar among followers of the game…
