Archive for June 24th, 2007


Shaun Bartlett

Bartlett and Binkin down Nicholl and Radebe

Sunday, 24th June 2007 at 11:54 pm

Blair Atholl won’t see a more illustrious fourball this year: Feverpitcher ed Dan Nicholl, former Leeds and Bafana Bafana skipper Lucas Radebe, ex-Charlton striker Shaun Bartlett (now with Chiefs), and their agent Glyn Binkin. Lining up on Gary Player’s magnificent …

Sox

Spurs star Sox needs the right girl

Sunday, 24th June 2007 at 11:52 pm

Right, one for the ladies… The man in the picture is Socrates Georgiades, former Cape Town Spurs goalkeeper, now spinning discs at assorted clubs around the planet as DJ Sox. One of the finest ‘keepers South Africa has seen, despite …

Butch James

Butch James nails number ten

Sunday, 24th June 2007 at 11:32 pm

Gordon Brown isn’t the only person about to make Number Ten a permanent home. If John Smit’s absence from the Springbok front row underlined just what a powerful scrummager the skipper is, then Butch James’s departure in the last quarter …

Jonathan Trott

Jonathan Trott joins the export list

Sunday, 24th June 2007 at 11:10 pm

Brash, confident South African batsman in the England middle order - must be Kevin Pietersen, right? Well, yes and no, because KP has been joined by another cricketer cut from similar cloth. Jonathan Trott left a career in Cape Town …

All Blacks

All Blacks and the haka - rugby’s greatest sight?

Sunday, 24th June 2007 at 10:54 pm

Feverpitcher has caught up with a number of Springboks in the past week or so, Robbie Fleck, Robbie Kempson, Mark Andrews and Rob Louw amongst them, and all share the same sentiment on one of rugby’s defining sights: that facing …

Ronaldinho

Want big crowds? Sign Ronaldinho…

Sunday, 24th June 2007 at 10:28 pm

For all the drama over the PSL’s sale of television rights to SuperSport ahead of the SABC, local football doesn’t have the most active of support bases, half-full stadiums a regular occurence if Pirates, Chiefs or Bloemfontein Celtic aren’t in …