Not a good day for the depleted and injury hit Blitzbokke in pouring rain in Tokyo as they competed in the Japan leg of the IRB World Sevens Championship. In their opening match South Africa beat Scotland by 14-0 with tries in each half by Kyle Brown and Cornal Hendricks. Scotland were reduced to six when […]
Looking as though they had a fight with the hairdressing staff or met a bunch of Modern Day Delilahs, the Waikato Chiefs showed no effect from their hair loss as they beat the Waratahs 30-13 on Saturday night to join the Highlanders on 22 points at the top of the table. The new “hairstyles” were […]
After last week’s hammering at Loftus the defending Super Rugby Champions, the Queensland Reds, stopped over in Perth on their way back to Brisbane to play the Western Force on Saturday. I guess they wish that the plane had been forced to overfly as it was a game they would like to forget, losing 45-19 […]
It was a massive win for the Sharks in Canberra as they took the Brumbies down to the wire in yet another close victory beating the Aussie outfit by 29-26 despite sustained pressure from the Brumbies at the death as they tried to force a penalty out of the Sharks who remained resolute in defence. The […]
For the first time in the history of Super Rugby the Cheetahs scored a victory on New Zealand soil when they beat the Wellington Hurricanes 47-38 after trailing 11-32 at the break. It looked like a typical Cheetahs tale of woe in the first half as the Canes turned the Cheetahs’ mistakes and lack of […]
India won the toss in the one-off Friendship Cup T2o at the Wanderers and put the Proteas in to bat. Jacques Kallis and Richard Levi opened the innings, putting on 22 before Levi fell, then Colin Ingram and Kallis added 119 for the second wicket. Farhaan Behardien joined Ingram and they took the score to […]
Either the Stormers or the Bulls could move to the top of the Super Rugby table on Saturday when they meet at Newlands in Cape Town. One point separates the two teams after four games each and they both have a two-match advantage over log leaders The Otago Highlanders who have already played six for […]
World No 1 Novak Djokovic beat Britain’s Andy Murray 6-1 7-6 to win the Sony Ericsson Open for the second consecutive year on Sunday. Djokovic’s victory was his third at Miami, avenged his 2009 loss to Murray here and confirmed his status as the top player in the men’s game. “I thought I played a […]
FIFA’s executive committee is bracing itself to receive an anti-corruption report on Friday with president Sepp Blatter saying soccer’s governing body needs actions, not just words. Mark Pieth, a professor at the Basel Institute of Governance, has produced the report on the way FIFA operates as part of an attempt to reform the organisation […]
After their fourth successive defeat, England should lose their top spot in the world ranking to South Africa by default unless I completely misunderstand the system South Africa won the three match series against New Zealand 1-0 with two matches drawn and in the process lost a point in the world rankings down from 117 to […]