With 2011 done and dusted, it's time for some cheer to be spread among those sportsman and suits who, in a nutshell, didn't say "The boys are disappointed" when asked how they felt about losing:
We will miss you award (if he is not reappointed)
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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...
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...
Stranded in an empty stadium at Edgbaston on June 17 1999 and agonising over the tied cricket match that ended SA's championship hopes, someone had a vision of the future: it's World Cup 2011 and Alan Donald's punching the air and high-fiving with ec...
As the circus that is World Cup comes to life in the subcontinent, a significant moment is upon South African cricket. Yes, the Proteas have headed eastward in effort to slay the ghost of Headingley past, but this will also be Graeme Smith's last ODI...
Have you ever seen a film where there are two characters, each pushing their own agenda, whose paths are destined to collide because it is just so? It's a popular story arc in fictionalised works all over the world, since it gives a clear distinction...
Leo Tolstoy wrote War and Peace, arguably one of the most celebrated pieces of fiction in the Western world. War and Peace is a story, grossly simplified, about five aristocratic families and how Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812, including the s...
2010 will in South Africa be known as the year of Ayoba! (The marketing person who latched on to that one should either be stoned or applauded.) The Soccer World Cup came to the shores of the Republic, and for once, the country didn't descend into it...
National rugby coaches are like lightning conductors for raw emotions and there is no such place on earth like the seat of the South African rugby coach, he gets struck multiple times with the intensity of heaven and hell colliding.
When it's good...
Bantwana Bantwana made history by becoming the first South African women's national team to represent the country in a Women's World Cup. The fact that it is in the under-17 level means that there is hope for women’s football in the near future, pr...
