It was with great trepidation that I stepped upon the metro train at Malvern Station, destined for my first ever day of Ashes cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, known to us as the MCG, or to the locals as simply "the G". I had been there once b...
Just days after announcing that he had offered a 50/50 split to reigning WBO, IBF and IBO (Alphabet Soup) champion Wladimir Klitschko, WBA champion David Haye has backtracked once more. Klitschko, already incensed that Haye had "bitched out" on two f...
2010 will in South Africa be known as the year of Ayoba! (The marketing person who latched on to that one should either be stoned or applauded.) The Soccer World Cup came to the shores of the Republic, and for once, the country didn't descend into it...
The first Test between South Africa and India has from Graeme Smith's perspective gone rather nicely. His opening pair bowled like they were blood thirsty with even Morne Morkel, not usually the most aggressive of chaps, keen to play some chin music ...
The "roaring" 1920s saw the US economy explode in a manner befitting an octopus encircling an unsuspecting prey. Driven by Europe's bankruptcy after World War I, the Marshall Plan ensured that apart from propping up capitalist states in the Old World...
Orlando Pirates coach and Dutch football legend Ruud Krol must think he is in some kind of bizarre dream.
Reports, radio phone-ins and internet forums have seen him painted as some kind of dead man walking. Which to be fair is not an unusual posit...
Steve Waugh was noted back in the day to have called India the "the final frontier". A country vast in size and unique in character, has always proven to be a difficult place to tour. For the Australians, it was a place that had resisted their effort...
Mamelodi Sundowns are sitting pretty on top of the Absa Premiership log, they are saying catch us if you can to the likes of Kaizer Chiefs, Golden Arrows and Ajax Cape town who are following closely. Sundowns are on 21 points, while Chiefs, Arrows an...
The passing of a milestone is an important moment to acknowledge for a batsman. It shows that you respect the applause given to you by the crowd, your teammates and somewhat begrudgingly, the opposition. And now, more than ever, do we regularly see b...
The crowd seethes in one congruous mass, willing the home side to victory. Against them is an enemy akin to the Vikings, raiders of the north. Recognised as barbarians by their victims and heroes by those who support them, they are the furthest thing...
