Day: July 24, 2024

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MISTAKEN IDENTITY 

Professional tennis comes up with some astonishing statistics. Many will know that the longest  match took place in the first round of Wimbledon in 2010 when John Isner eventually beat

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WHAT CAN BE DONE FOR SCHOOL SPORT?

There is a very old song by a man called Harry Belafonte, that came in the form of a conversation  between a husband and wife, entitled, ‘There’s a hole in

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WHERE IS SCHOOL SPORT GOING?

‘The Professionals’ was a popular, American western film, released in 1966, that followed the story,  of four men hired by a rich land baron to rescue his young wife, who

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WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?  

“Houston, we have a problem!” Those words from the dramatic 1995 award-winning film ‘Apollo 13’  may not have been the actual words spoken by the Apollo 13 crew but they

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WHO IS IN CHARGE?  

It may appear to be a silly question but let us consider it for a moment: in any sporting fixture, who  is in charge? The obvious answer is that the

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KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES  

In 2016 the action-comedy film ‘Keeping Up with the Joneses’ was released in which a suburban  couple discover that their apparently perfect smart new neighbours, the Joneses, are in fact

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FOR EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON

Weather patterns have certainly been changing over the years, as we have experienced throughout  these last few months especially, here in Zimbabwe as well as around the world, but the

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BOTTLE IT  

There is the old joke that an Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman were stranded on a desert  island when they came across a genie in a bottle granting them

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MAN UNITED IN GLORY  

Football fans love to air their voices loudly during matches and many clubs have their own special  songs or chants. Supporters of the relevant clubs will recognise which clubs ‘own’

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WHAT SHOULD WE DO?  

In a previous article we considered whether a player is good at a sport because he enjoys it or if he  enjoys the sport because he is good at it.