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 ...
Four years ago, Project 2010 was launched with the aim of providing a free flow of information relating to the preparations for the 2010 World Cup. In our mission statement, we declared our confidence that South Africa would host the greatest World C...
Five years have passed since that extraordinary moment in Zurich when Fifa President Sepp Blatter declared that South Africa had earned the rights to host the biggest party on the planet.
And with exactly one year remaining before the kick-off of...
Take a bow South Africa. Four free and fair democratic elections on the trot and the country has cleared another significant hurdle en route to hosting the 2010 World Cup.
The gruelling election campaign which was frequently marred by political i...
At a recent media briefing with FIFA Communications Director Hans Klaus, a journalist said (tongue-in-cheek, we hope) that the sport’s governing body should “fix” next year’s Confederations Cup to ensure that South Africa’s not-so-beloved B...
Rugby in South Africa is at war with itself and it is tearing the game apart.
Given that the game of rugby is intended to bind us South Africans, be we rich or poor, or black or white, and to develop fine sportsman that become role models in ...
“Australian Rugby Union officials are pushing for top European nations to be included in an expanded Tri-Nations tournament and teams from North and South America, Japan and the Pacific to be involved in an expanded Super 12 competition.
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As I watched the Beijing Olympics, I could not help myself but envy the Chinese.
One question kept coming to me: Can we, as South Africans -- the sport-mad nation that we claim to be -- show such a united front when the world’s media and tourist...
