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...
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 ...
Have we lost our way in school sport, to a large extent I believe we have. Why? I will attempt to illustrate why.I have for many years heard this phrase, high performance, it worried me then and it still does. How can we slot a 14-year-old into a hig...
In the modern day and age of immediate satisfaction we sometimes, as sports coaches, overlook our own job -- to coach. To coach means to develop, to develop means to take a specific interest in a person who is also your player and build this person's...
I secretly rejoiced when Springbok coach Peter de Villiers was cleared of misconduct charges related to comments made during a Fox TV programme. It probably irked our Australasian friends intensely that the presiding authority was a South African bas...
By Siphiwe Hlongwane
There seems to be a big problem brewing between technical directors and head coaches in South African football. With the new PSL season looming on the horizon, a number of coaces have lost their jobs and are seemingly being re...
I had a feeling that the "Springboks" were going to lose to the Leicester Tigers on Friday night. The fixture reminded me of the torrid time the Irish club side Connacht gave the Boks in the lead up to the 2007 Rugby World Cup. Match feedback from th...
Performance-enhancing substance (PES) use in sport is most likely the chief source of distress 1 facing sport in modern times 2. According to Clisby 2, the use of drugs to boost performance is common among athletes, despite strong efforts to hamper i...
The British and Irish Lions got it wrong.
South Africa may have played a terrible 70 minutes in the second Test on Saturday, but they proved they are worthy world champions by coming from the depths of defeat to overcome tough opposition.
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Stephen Jones is a Welsh journalist who has been the rugby union correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times for more than 20 years. He was twice named sports correspondent of the year by the Sports Journalists' Association.
He i...
