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Eddie Chikamhi Senior Sports Reporter GIANTS Dynamos are hoping to convince champions FC Platinum to extend the loan deal of talented winger Cleopas Kapupurika. The pacy 21-year-old forward rose from obscurity after featuring prominently in the Glamour Boys’ rebuilding campaign in which they finished second in the title race with a group of “unknown” players.
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David Silva scored a late goal as runaway leaders Manchester City won their 13th successive Premier League game and restored their eight-point lead with a 2-1 victory against West Ham United on Sunday.
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LONDON. — Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho labelled goalkeeper David de Gea as the best in the world after the Spaniard equalled an English Premier League soccer record during his side’s exhilarating 3-1 victory at Arsenal on Saturday night.
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NEW DELHI. — India captain Virat Kohli smashed a career-best 243, his second successive double hundred, before a blanket of smog prompted him to declare on 536 for seven in the third and final Test cricket against Sri Lanka yesterday. The home side’s attack then turned the screw even further on the visitors when they […]
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Sports Reporter THE Sports Commission are today expected to finally unveil the nominees for the Annual National Sports Awards to be held this month. The unveiling ceremony was originally set for November 15 before it was moved to today due to logistical challenges.
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ADELAIDE. — England lost an early wicket before rain forced play to be abandoned on day two of the second Ashes Test cricket yesterday after Australia declared their first innings on 442 for eight.
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Milan. — Benevento goalkeeper Alberto Brignoli scored an injury-time equaliser against AC Milan to earn his team the first Serie A point in their history. The keeper, on loan from Juventus, headed in Danilo Cataldi’s free-kick to end a record-breaking run of 14 defeats.
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MADRID. — Real Madrid remain eight points adrift of Barcelona at the top of the Spanish La Liga soccer table after failing to break down Athletic Bilbao in a 0-0 stalemate as captain Sergio Ramos saw the 24th red card of his career.
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SYDNEY. — Australian golfer Cameron Smith clinched the Australian PGA Championship title after beating Jordan Zunic on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff at Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast yesterday.
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LONDON. — Antonio Conte admits retaining the English Premier League soccer title may be out of Chelsea’s reach despite an impressive recent run of results ahead of their midweek Champions League clash with Atletico Madrid.
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ADELAIDE. — England lost an early wicket before rain forced play to be abandoned on day two of the second Ashes Test cricket yesterday after Australia declared their first innings on 442 for eight. Mitchell Starc struck in the seventh over, trapping Mark Stoneman leg before wicket for 18, to leave the tourists on 29 […]
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Ellina Mhlanga Sports Reporter IT was an exciting weekend for local karatekas with the Zimbabwe Karate Union ending their 2017 season on a high note when they staged the AfricaBet Champion of Champions tournament at City Sports Centre on Saturday.
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CARDIFF. — Warren Gatland expressed his “relief” after seeing his Wales team sucked into an arm wrestle before edging South Africa 24-22 in an international rugby match on Saturday.
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LONDON. — Philippe Coutinho’s importance to Liverpool may be difficult to put a price on following his latest exemplary showing in the 5-1 thumping of Brighton and Hove Albion in the English Premier League on Saturday.
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SHARUKO ON SATURDAY THE only big disappointment was that when it finally happened, with more than half-a-century of history melting away in the heat of a platinum furnace, someone very, very important wasn’t there to see all this drama unfold at Ascot exactly a week to this day.