The Rugby World Cup has finally come to an end, with New Zealand emerging as winners after a tight and enthralling final. France won't care that their performance has been praised -- as American comedian Jerry Seinfeld once said, second is the number...
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...
The Springboks received a healthy dose of confidence after winning their last Tri-Nations fixture against a weakened All Blacks in Port Elizabeth. Having shaken off the evident rust against Australia the week before, South Africa went back to what th...
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...
The Wallabies don't often win in South Africa, but Durban must be their favourite city. Three of their only four away Tri-Nations victories against South Africa have been played at this venue. Fourteen-Nine. The Kings Park clash was a low-scoring, ti...
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...
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...
The Super 15 isn't even over and already the games have begun as the Rugby World Cup approaches. This became apparent with the South African Rugby Union's announcement of 21 players who are "injured" or who have been carrying injuries through the Sup...
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...
By Langa Sigodi
From the moment that Pieter de Villiers was announced as Springbok coach in 2008, it was evident that win or lose, his tenure would be remembered for one thing, his race. After a dismal Tri-Nations, the calls have been loud for him...
