Archive for June, 2007


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 …

Bob Skinstad

Church of Skinstad in full cry

Saturday, 23rd June 2007 at 10:58 am

Until Pierre Spies and Juan Smith got injured and had to make a late withdrawal, rugby’s rumour mill was awash with cloak and dagger suggestion that the team named wouldn’t actually be the team that ran out (a technique known …

Emerging Boks

Emerging Boks: the Romania report

Wednesday, 20th June 2007 at 12:22 am

Under the leadership of Schalk Brits, the Emerging Boks are back in South Africa with a trophy in tow, having seen off Argentina ‘A’ in the final of the Nations Cup in Romania. Great result, then, but it was a …