Archive for October, 2007


Brett Evans

Bafana keep South Africa smiling

Sunday, 28th October 2007 at 10:31 am

It might not have had quite the cataclysmic effect that the win in Paris did a few days earlier, but it added to the cheer, and gave local soccer a shot in the arm. Beating Zambia in the Cosafa Cup …

OR Tambo crowds

Boks fans turn out in thousands

Tuesday, 23rd October 2007 at 3:23 pm

Had the Pope arrived with Michael Jackson, Britney Spears and John Lennon (now there’s a fourball for a celebrity golf day), you wouldn’t have got as big a crowd: the day after the South African public celebrated the World Cup, …

World Cup winners

The Boks are back!

Tuesday, 23rd October 2007 at 10:00 am

Feverpitcher is reporting in live from one of the more animated crowds we’ve found ourselves part of: the sea of green that is OR Tambo International, on the morning the Springboks touched down in South Africa. We’ll try and have …

World Cup victory

Springboks win the World Cup!

Sunday, 21st October 2007 at 9:59 am

Feverpitcher is monumentally hungover this morning, and with extremely good reason; as such, nothing terribly deep to post. Just one simple, glorious refrain: we’re the World Champions!

Os du Randt

Os du Randt’s last stand

Friday, 19th October 2007 at 3:25 pm

12 years ago, a young prop forward with limited experience but enormous presence entered the Rugby World Cup as a relative unknown, and ended it as as superstar, feared as a scrummager, a marauding forward, and a surprisingly agile athlete …

Graeme Smith

Pakistan blasts put tour in jeopardy

Friday, 19th October 2007 at 3:10 pm

Officially, the tour is still on, Cricket South Africa issuing a terse statement on Friday confirming that Pakistan authorities had assured them that security wouldn’t be an issue, and that the team was safe to continue its tour of Pakistan. …