adminLeopard Rock Open tees off
Takudzwa Chitsiga Sports ReporterTHE race for the Zimbabwe Golf Association Order of Merit resumes this morning when amateur golfers take part in the Navistar Leopard Rock Open.
The event will see the amateurs teeing off tomorrow morning while the professionals will play two rounds over the weekend. Tournament organiser,
Lack of experience let us down — Sables coach
Paul Munyuki Sports ReporterSABLES coach Cyprian “Supa” Mandenge believes some of the players that donned the jersey in the Windhoek Lager Tri-Nations tournament are actually not ready and need more exposure. The Sables lost both their games against Spain (14-47) and Namibia (37-33) but the coach feels
Hwange appeal judgment today
Eddie Chikamhi Sports ReporterDynamos will be waiting with great interest for the judgment of their controversial match against Hwange, set to be delivered this morning, following the conclusion of the hearing at the Centre for Commercial Arbitration. The Glamour Boys, who are on the verge of winning back-to-back
Memories of village football
Isdore Guvamombe Reflections
Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust or Guruve elders with cotton tuft heads say a bird does not sing because it has an answer, but because it has a song. This villager likes the game of football. And, so do others, who despite, their inability even to kick a stationary ball, talk and write football more than the players themselves. Talking football and playing football are far too different domains.
The village soothsayer, the ageless autochthon of wisdom and knowledge, says many soccer supporters can hardly kick a stationary ball and yet, the irony of it, is that they play the ball better in their minds.
That is the beauty of human imagination and aspirations. Do elders not say men trip and fall on molehills than on mountains? Who has ever been tripped by a mountain?
This villager, grew up deep in the then Sipolilo Tribal Trust Lands where there was only one sporting discipline that mattered — football.
Betraying our own courage
Reason Wafawarova
Martin Luther King once said about stupidity: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity,” and it is not overstretching to assert that in religion and politics stupidity is more of a virtue than a handicap, if of course we extend the meaning of stupidity to include gullibility and naivety.