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 ...
If betting odds are any indication, then New Zealand will play England in the final of RWC 2011. The weekend’s results have caused a major shuffle at the New Zealand TAB. While Australia and South Africa remain as second and third favourites respec...
Have you seen the movie 2012? It paints a scary, Armageddon type picture of the world in 2012. Just a reminder to you all it is now September 2011 ... I thought I would look at such a picture in relation to South African rugby.
As is common in wor...
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...
Don't let the Springbok spin-machine or scribes who don't have the option to piss in the pot tell you otherwise: the Springboks didn't deserve to beat Wales as the Welsh outplayed South Africa. They dominated every facet of the game, except on the sc...
So it is Monday, the day after a heart-wrenching day of Springbok rugby and where all I read and hear is how great Wales were and yes they were pretty good. But there is no sentiment in RWC, there is a scoreboard and that is the only score that matte...
The faithful will be ecstatic, the doubters unconvinced as the Springboks retained their record of never having lost to the All Blacks in Port Elizabeth on Saturday.
It was 41 years since Dawie de Villiers’s Springbok team smashed All Black drea...
I was watching my son’s rugby team play Kasselsvlei on Saturday morning and so I missed the televised All Black/Springbok Tri-Nations clash at Westpac Park in Wellington. The night before, I had chuckled at a Facebook warning sent to a friend liv...
I am, if you have not noticed by my past articles, a rugby enthusiast. I have had the privilege of coaching this game at some very competitive and talented levels. I usally revel in the July rugby week which is the U18 Craven Week, named after SA rug...
So this weekend, as predicted by many, the Sharks did not have it in the tank to take out the Crusaders at home in Christchurch and are out of the Super 15. We're now left with only the Stormers in the competition ... oh no! How could it be that we o...
