Ace Your Service

Ace Your Service

John Isner, an American tennis player, has never won a major Grand Slam tennis tournament (his best performance was to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2018) but he did win 16 ATP titles. However, he is well-remembered as having one of the best serves ever, having...
Do whet the small stuff

Do whet the small stuff

Reed Martin and Austin Richenor, two members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, did what probably most of us as pupils always wanted to do and that was reduce Shakespeare’s plays to a single sentence, instead of sentencing us to three or four hours of complicated...
Looking for the Perfect Prefect

Looking for the Perfect Prefect

Jonathan Kaplan refereed a school First team rugby match here in Zimbabwe a few weeks ago. That may not mean much to many readers – until we hear that he refereed seventy international Test matches, refereed at four Rugby World Cups, refereed 161 Currie Cup matches in...
Languishing without Languages

Languishing without Languages

What languages are we teaching at schools? And what is the point of learning languages? Such are questions that many people ask nowadays. However, what has any of that to do with an article on school sport? We do well to ask that as well. We might easily argue that...
Do not sweat the small stuff

Do not sweat the small stuff

Mosquitoes are a pain. There is the old saying that there is nothing worse than hearing a mosquito when you are lying in bed in the dark – except for then not hearing it! When it goes quiet, then we start to flap around, hitting ourselves in a vain attempt to squash...