It was a scintillating exchange of leads as Nivea Kenya Harlequins snapped the scalp of Nakuru RFC, claiming a swift 31-17 victory to lift the Christie Sevens trophy.
As expected, world sprints sensation, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, was on Sunday night named the IAAF 2009 athlete of the year with American Sanya Richards voted the best female athlete.
The draws for the 2009/2010 season of the Nigeria Amateur League Division One, will take place tomorrow at the FIFA Technical Centre, National Stadium, Abuja .
RUGBY World Cup-winning Springbok assistant coach and newly appointed Stormers head coach, Allister Coetzee, yesterday warned the national team that the scrums will be one of the most important aspects of the game when they take on Ireland on Saturday.
LITTLE Gunners powered themselves to their maiden CBZ Premiership title at Rufaro yesterday, handing coach Moses Chunga his first championship medal as coach with a deserved victory over giants Dynamos that was celebrated by many neutrals across the country.
BULAWAYO giants Highlanders put up a brilliant show and dismissed Kiglon in this CBZ Premiership tie at Barbourfields yesterday.
UNDERHILL became the second team to be relegated from the Premiership after Highway's 3-0 win over Black Rhinos at Sakubva yesterday.
THE Gunners family came to Rufaro yesterday ready for a party and they celebrated wildly while Moses Chunga, in his hour of triumph, was given a standing ovation by the Dynamos fans in the Vietnam Stand as the battle for the CBZ Premiership title finally came to an end.
EXACTLY three months ago, on August 24 this year, we predicted that Moses Chunga and his Gunners were likely to win the CBZ Premiership ahead of Harare giants Dynamos.
THE MTN Marathon organising committee maintains that Sunday's athletics competition will be scandal-free.
EXPRESS FC return for their domestic league assignment against Firemasters with clear intentions of assuming new status as table leaders. The Red Eagles' ambitions though could suffer a set-back against the unpredictable league debutants if their treasured attack fire blanks as was the case in their previous outing against Hoima.
THE Namibian Premier League yesterday announced that they will re-advertise the position of chief executive officer after the preferred candidate, Mathew Haikali turned down the offer.
Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, will officially flag off the fifth Obudu international mountain race and the first African mountain running championships this weekend at the Obudu Ranch Resort in Obudu, Cross River State.
With the Super Eagles qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa still reverberating across the globe, one of Nigeria's leading banks, Access Bank Plc, is tantalising its customers with an opportunity to watch live UEFA Champions League games anywhere in Europe in a promo described as unprecedented by soccer followers.
MOST Valuable Player, MVP, and Silver shoe winner of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, Nigeria 2009, Sani Emmanuel, has dedicated his award to less privileged youths as he also promised to fund a foundation that would cater for them.
TIGERS and Ramblers will have an equal chance to come away with wins, judging from their strength, when they meet in an MTC Premiership encounter at the Sam Nujoma Stadium tonight. Kick-off is at 20h00.
FORMER Sports minister Robert Bayigamba and Rwanda Tennis Federation (RTF) president Charles Rudakubana are said to be running for RNOC's top seat-president.
The continent's premier club championship will be staged at Amahoro's refurbished indoor stadium from December 10 to 20.
ZIFA Referees Committee chairman Gladmore Muzambi has lashed out at the Zimbabwe National Soccer Supporters Association's call for the appointment of foreign officials to handle tomorrow's CBZ Premiership Super Sunday showdown between Gunners and Dynamos at Rufaro.
SO it came to pass, in the year 1391 BC in the Land of the River Nile under the rule of the Pharaoh, that a child -- who had been tossed into the waters of the great river by his mother appeared in the distance.
EDWARD SADOMBA has rallied his old Dynamos teammates to evoke the spirit of the Glamour Boys -- which inspired his Class of 2008 to a comprehensive destruction of championship leaders Monomotapa in the capital last December -- in their epic Super Sunday Showdown against the buoyant Gunners at Rufaro tomorrow.
FROM a distance, Moses Chunga directed his team's training session at Allan Wilson School on Wednesday morning, without giving away any hint of the pressure one would expect in a man on the verge of breaking his duck to join the elite club of domestic football championship-winning coaches.
DO you fancy seeing the world's best doubles tennis player giving out a free lesson in Harare?
IN the madness generated by the hype of The Beast, it's easy to forget that there are some dedicated Zimbabwean men who have been working tirelessly for the success of domestic rugby.
WHEN young James Lawson brought back two gold medals from last month's 8th Junior African Swimming Championships in Mauritius, most local followers of the sport breathed a huge sigh of relief.
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