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 ...
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 ...
The Rugby World Cup has come and passed. New Zealand slayed the dragon, Quade Cooper was average, France are still the most predictably unpredictable team on earth and Peter de Villiers said it was the end of the road, then changed his mind.
One w...
I'm currently in Cape Town, and after getting through the frequent stop and goes along the N1, the town of Colesburg (home of an awesome Wimpy breakfast and many a speed camera) was where I and a friend spent the night. Whenever travelling through th...
In Wednesday morning's edition of The Star, it was reported that "rugby, followed by power lifting and boxing, were the most doped-out sports in South Africa last year".
Between April last year and March this year, the SA Institute for Drug-Free S...
Unlike the Fifa World Cup where even a favourite team can be eliminated in the pool stages, the outcome of rugby's premier tournament is far more predictable. The winner must be one of New Zealand, Australia or South Africa, with England and France i...
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...
For South African rugby fans, the current Super 15 log isn't the most pleasant thing to look at. The Stormers do lie in "third" place but their inability to secure bonus points, with just one thus far, has seen the Blues move above them, meaning they...
