The Rugby World Cup has finally come to an end, with New Zealand emerging as winners after a tight and enthralling final. France won't care that their performance has been praised -- as American comedian Jerry Seinfeld once said, second is the number...
In the fourth season of the American political drama The West Wing, Martin Sheen's President Bartlet is preparing for the presidential debate against James Brolin's Governor Ritchie. Apart from Brolin's southern accent and immaculate white hair, an a...
As we approach the first Tri-Nations Test of 2011, there is a nagging feeling moving beneath the media hype surrounding Saturday's clash between South Africa and Australia in Sydney. While any match-up between the Wallabies and the Springboks is alwa...
There is an often-used phrase, slowly creeping on the borders of cliché, by the South African rugby media to signify the "what now?" question once a Rugby World Cup year passes. "Player exodus" along with the imposed biblical proportions of rugby pl...
The Super Rugby universe has known the Bulls as the most feared South African team, with their large pack of forwards and unwavering devotion to the boot epitomising what many from Australasia think is the "typical" South African style of rugby. With...
Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, arguably one of the most celebrated pieces of fiction in the Western world. War and Peace is a story, grossly simplified, about five aristocratic families and how Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, including the s...
The rugby world was recently rocked by a turn of events that screams of realism, the art of carrying a bigger stick than the other guy.
The Springboks, the current world champions (which we love bragging about to the consternation of our Kiwi cous...
