Archive for November, 2007


Champions of the World

Keohane’s book joins the Christmas queue

Wednesday, 14th November 2007 at 10:39 pm

The past weekend saw a blur of media response to Jake White’s much-anticipated autobiography, ‘In Black and White’, a book that’s unlikely to further endear him to the Watson family, the Presidents Council, or the crowd down at SARU. Three …

Commando Boot Camp

Commando Boot Camp: we’re dead

Wednesday, 14th November 2007 at 10:28 pm

Feverpitcher hasn’t slept much this past week, and those many waking hours have been filled with a sense of impending doom. We’ve done some silly things in the past, but this outstrips all of them by a mile: in a …

Jacques Kallis

Can anyone stop Jacques Kallis?

Wednesday, 14th November 2007 at 10:17 pm

So that’s 9 000 Test runs out the way, then, with close to 30 hundreds and an average nudging 60 thrown in for good measure. No double hundred, perhaps, but that’s almost being pedantic: all told, the Jacques Kallis Test …

Jim Furyk

Jim Furyk and Sergio Garcia to skip Sun City

Wednesday, 14th November 2007 at 10:07 pm

One of Feverpitcher’s favourite Sun City moments is the sight of Sergio Garcia on the dance floor at Trader’s - the bar everyone tends to end up in sooner or later - in the small hours of the morning, clearly …

Victor Matfield

Victor Matfield joins the exodus

Wednesday, 14th November 2007 at 9:54 pm

It’s fast becoming the farewell tour no one wants to go on… Jake White’s penultimate South African tour - unless Feverpitcher is very much mistaken, there’s a lengthy book tour still to come - was set to be a last grand …