Archive for August, 2007


Shaun Pollock

Pollock, Kallis up for world award

Wednesday, 29th August 2007 at 12:05 pm

The selectors (headed by Sunil Gavasker) will pare down the list early in September, and the actual winner will be named at a gala dinner just before the Twenty20 World Cup kicks off; for now, we have the shortlist of …

Schalk Burger

Springboks: now for the real deal

Monday, 27th August 2007 at 10:04 pm

If the Connacht game was a sinking disappointment, then the win over a strong Scotland side was just the tonic South African rugby needed before the World Cup gets underway. The Scots might not be amongst the favourites in France, …

Richard Short

Short stars in glorious Dodos win

Monday, 27th August 2007 at 9:51 pm

2007 is turning into a golden year for the Mighty Dodos, Cape Town’s celebrity hockey side - and Saturday afternoon was a vivid illustration of just why the world’s media is talking of little else. On the back of a …

Mark Boucher

Cricket South Africa: act of genius

Friday, 24th August 2007 at 7:10 pm

They delayed the decision after the initial hearing, but finally it’s been revealed, another stellar moment for South African cricket. Mark Boucher, for the act of standing up for his best friend, has been fined (wait for it) 60% of …

Kris Boyd

Bafana lose to world’s worst footballers

Thursday, 23rd August 2007 at 3:00 pm

The Scottish press called them insipid, uninspired and ponderous; while the good news for Bafana is that they were talking about Scotland, the bad news is that Carlos Alberto Parreira’s first foray into Europe with his new team still ended in …

Monty Panesar

Monty Panesar? No, Monty Rhodes…

Thursday, 23rd August 2007 at 2:50 pm

It was going to happen eventually, but the suggestion was that it would be employed with a healthy dose of irony. Instead, the first coining of England’s Monty Panesar - the latest in a long line of slow left-armers who …