Archive for April, 2007


Australia World Cup

Three in a row for Aussies

Monday, 30th April 2007 at 10:19 am

The final was a farce, a wholly appropriate way for a drawn-out and poorly managed tournament to draw to a close. But despite the embarrassing conclusion in the gloom of the Kensington Oval, Australia still deserve to celebrate a quite …

WG Grace

Cricket World Cup: longest event in history

Tuesday, 24th April 2007 at 6:24 pm

Nostradamus predicted it hundreds of years ago (when the Super Eights were just getting started), and so it has come to pass: the Cricket World Cup has entered its final week. There’s no one one the planet still alive who …

Mfundo Shimana

Sundowns double still on

Tuesday, 24th April 2007 at 5:54 pm

Hopes of a triple may be over following the Champions League defeat to Egypt’s Al Ahly, but the domestic double is still very much on the cards for Sundowns. Patrice’s Motsepe’s millionaire footballers have already sealed a second successive league …

Oscar Pistorious

Oscar Pistorius cracks The Times

Monday, 23rd April 2007 at 3:01 pm

The Oscar Pistorius story is one most South Africans are pretty familiar with - both legs amputated as a kid, prosthetic ‘blades’ fitted to enable him to run, and now one of the quicket human beings on the planet. Pistorius …

New Zealand under-19

Just too much for Baby Boks

Sunday, 22nd April 2007 at 3:52 pm

One game too far, in the end - but considering the rockey start to the tournament (the loss to France), the Baby Boks can be fairly happy with their performance in Belfast at the Under-19 World Championship, disappointment of the …

Richard Jamieson

Jamieson stars in Mighty Dodos win

Sunday, 22nd April 2007 at 2:31 pm

In front of a crowd of nearly seven, the Pinelands Mighty Dodos got their season of to a rollicking start, a 3-0 victory highlighted by defensive impregnability, searing pace, and Mike Dabrowski wearing an Alice band. Dabrowski did score a …