I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru, I've had sunshine in the arctic and a swim in Timbuktu, I've seen unicorns in Burma and a Yetti in Nepal, And I've danced with ten foot pygmies in a Montezuma hall, I've met the King of Chi...
Cricket South Africa named their list of 22 centrally contracted players for the 2012/2013 season, and it would fair to assume that the biggest eyebrow-raise was reserved for Thami Tsolekile, for all intents and purposes, being named Mark Boucher's T...
It is agonising to watch the South African Rugby Union (Saru) wrestle with what might appear a most complex solution to including the Eastern Cape in Super Rugby. Yet the solution to this is extraordinarily simple, delivering a non-conflict remedy th...
10. Spend lots of time with his wife.
9. Watch An Idiot Abroad. Brilliant show!
8. Tweet during Tour de France stages. Stuff like "@andyschleck, you know I would have beaten you today" and "@bradwiggins, b*#ch please, stop frontin".
7. Do more sit...
Howard Webb isn't very popular in the blue part of London right now. The burly referee, a policeman, had a hand in awarding Manchester United two penalties in the second half of their clash with Chelsea on Sunday, with Wayne Rooney obliging. United t...
The announcement of Heyneke Meyer as the new Springbok coach on Friday overshadowed another important day for Cricket South Africa (CSA), with it being the last of oral submissions to the sports ministry's inquiry into the bonus saga that has affli...
Four years ago, Heyneke Meyer was one of the two final candidates for the position of Springbok coach. Politics played a role and post a very strong era of Bok rugby, we threw our success away for political gain. On January 27, 2012 the South Africa...
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When asked this week if Marcel Kittel is a faster sprinter than he is, Mark Cavendish quickly replied, "No!" Kittel has been dubbed the most successful neo-pro ever because last year in his debut season he won 17 recognised UCI races. Rumour has it h...
Views: 391 | 2 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 | Tags: none
Detective Jimmy McNulty once said in The Wire, when referring to lives on the street versus the way politics interacts with those lives, "It just never connects." He was known to be a brilliant detective, but self-destructive, at the cost of those ...
Philippe Gilbert could do no wrong in 2011. He undeniably enjoyed the most successful year of his career, which eventually ended with 18 victories. Winning a race nearly every month of the season, he embarrassed other members of the peloton from Febr...
