All posts tagged South Africa
Adam Wakefield
I've been watching a fair amount of the IPL (I still have my misgivings about its constant commercial steriodisation), and in between all the the DLF Maximums - puke - and cheerleaders - double puke - and commentators on Valium - triple puke - there ...
Adam Wakefield
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) has been criticised in recent days over their choice of kit manufacturer for the coming Olympic Games in London and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The chosen company, a Chin...
Adam Wakefield
The rumour mill has now become fact as Victor Matfield confirmed he had been approached by new Springbok coach Heyneke Meyer about a possible return to the rugby field. Matfield has reportedly been training with the Bulls since he played his last ...
Adam Wakefield
As the Super Rugby season plods along, for the Lions, what lies at the end is ominous. With the Southern Kings guaranteed Super Rugby participation next year, and the competition not expanding (SARU are really crossing their fingers on that one), wha...
Adam Wakefield
Cricket season is officially over and with it comes time for reflection. A new coaching team was drafted in, a new captain was appointed for the ODI and T20 teams, and the complexion of the team has changed with the infusion of some fresh (if not n...
Adam Wakefield
Greed: an excessive desire to posses wealth, goods, or abstract things of value with the intention to keep it for one's self. In today's modern world, it's a very important concept considering it was greed that led to the collapse of Bear Sterns w...
Adam Wakefield
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...
Adam Wakefield
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 ...
Adam Wakefield
South Africa won their first Test series at home since beating Bangladesh in 2008 after two dominant displays at Centurion and Newlands, plus being taught a lesson at Kingsmead in Durban (again). Jacques Kallis silenced his ever-present band of cr...
Adam Wakefield
Journalism allows you the opportunity to see, hear and read a lot of different opinions on how sports teams overcome tough patches to eventually triumph in a manner that would demand an unlimited bar tab at the big game after-party. So with that ...
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