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 ...
The Bulls: Take probably the best provincial/regional team ever assembled, lose probably the best winger of the last five years, add two returning heroes, plus Heyneke Meyer back pulling the backroom strings and what do you get? A very likely repeat....
Tomorrow's Absa Currie Cup final will see the best of the north travel to the Cape to try and blitzkrieg the Newlands faithful. It doesn't get any more provincial then Western Province versus the Blue Bulls. Newlands is sold out and a great atmospher...
It's funny what a few weeks can do to change the complexion of things. The Tri-Nations was still under way, the Sharks and Western Province looked to be favourites (touch wood there for all those wearing blue and white ... it's been a very long time)...
