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Zimbabwe Cricket has invited applications for the position of head coach of the national side, according to a press statement released by the board on Wednesday. ZC will accept applications for the position until September 9.ZC had sacked Dav Whatmore as head coach in May this year, and appointed former South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini to the role in an interim capacity. Ntini coached the team through the limited-overs home series against India, and the two home Tests against New Zealand.Whatmore was appointed Zimbabwe coach in December 2014, following the fractious five-month tenure of Stephen Mangongo. However, Zimbabwes performances in the ICC tournaments - they finished sixth out of seven teams in Pool B during the 2015 World Cup and failed to qualify for the main round of the World T20 this year - were a factor in Whatmores dismissal. While the team did not win a series during this period, they drew T20 series against India and Bangladesh, with one-off ODI wins against New Zealand and Pakistan. However, they also lost successive ODI and T20I series to Afghanistan at home and in the UAE.Mangongo, who is currently coach of Zimbabwes Under-19 side, is likely to be one of the contenders for the job, along with A team coach Douglas Hondo. It is not yet known whether Ntini is likely to apply for the job.One of the main roles of the coach will be to focus on the new domestic cricket structure brought in by ZC. The structure has changed from one based on franchise sides to a provincial-team one, although the number of teams will remain at four.Zimbabwes next scheduled series is against Sri Lanka at home in October-November, but the planned tour of two Tests, three ODIs and a T20I, may instead be played as a triangular series, with West Indies coming in as the third team. 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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Nate Ebner is the only Super Bowl champion who ever played a game of rugby in the Olympics.The New England Patriots safety and special teams ace scored a try before his late tackle led to a yellow card in the Americans 26-0 blowout of Brazil on Tuesday in the rugby sevens tournament.Back home, Bill Belichick stopped practice so his players could watch their teammate compete a world away at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.They saw No. 12 -- no, not in honor of Tom Brady -- score just as the first half ended and then get yellow-carded in the second half for laying out Brazilian reserve Gustavo Albuquerque on a hit that would have drawn praise in Foxborough but earned him jeers and a two-minute penalty at Deodoro Stadium.It wasnt a football flashback, he insisted.Not really, Ebner said. You just let your natural instincts take over.And those instincts were honed on the pitch, not the gridiron.Ebner won a Super Bowl ring with the Patriots two years ago, but rugby is in his blood. His father, Jeff Ebner, played at the University of Minnesota and taught his son the game when he was a toddler.Jeff Ebner was killed in a robbery in 2008 at the family salvage business, the last father-son conversation over Nates desire to walk on the football team at Ohio State.Ebner said he thinks of his father all the time but he didnt venture a guess as to what his father would think of his boy making it to the Olympics.I dont know, he said. Thats a long thought.And right now hes focused on Fiji, whom the Americans play Wednesday in a make-or-break game.Ebner signed a two-year, $2.4 million extension with the Patriots this spring just before taking a leave of absence to pursue his Olympic dream.Its great for him to actually tick off two big bucket list items, said Dan Panye, CEO of USA Rugby.A Super Bowl and an Olympics.Hes probably the only person in the history of man thats able to say that, Payne said.ddddddddddddEbner will return to the Patriots when his Olympic adventure is over.Its been a great experience. To be a part of something this big and this prestigious, its really an honor, Ebner said. And its an honor to be here with this group of guys that works so hard.Hes hoping to be an example.I hope it changes the game, Ebner said of rugbys return to the Olympics for the first time since 1924. We can kind of be trailblazers for something great in the United States and obviously thats our hopes and dreams for this sport. I love this sport.While football games are 60 minutes of action interrupted by whistles and commercials, rugby sevens consists of two seven-minute halves and a two-minute halftime. With extra time, its over in 20 minutes, tops.But its played on the same field that regular rugby uses, with 14 players instead of 30. So, its a fast-moving, insane shock to the system, drenching players in adrenalin and sweat.Theyre very different, Ebner said of his two sports. Footballs a violent game played right at one another. Theyre very different games. But as you can see at times out here it can get very violent as well.His cardio and aerobic capacities are off the charts -- he doesnt dare step on a scale -- but he figures hell fit right back in at the Patriots training camp because playing Argentina and Brazil has helped prepare him to face the likes of the Jets and the Bills.I definitely think so, Ebner said. Im going to have to gain some more weight, too, because we dont run as much out there. But it should help. No one runs like this and tackles like this (in the NFL). Its unreal.---AP Summer Games website: http://summergames.ap.org---Follow AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Melendrez Stapleton on Twitter: http://twitter.com/arniestapleton ' ' '