Category: Sports

SA Rugby CEO Jurie Roux has issued a warning against proposed changes to broadcast regulations that, according to his assesment could set professional sport in South Africa on the road to ruin. Icasa are eager to ensure that more sport is made available to South Africans on free-to-air TV after years of being dominated by […]

The draw for the 2020/2021 Nedbank Cup took place this evening with a number of scintillating round of 32 matches coming up. The Nedbank Cup is this season’s second and final cup competition following the abrupt halt of the Telkom Knockout which usually acts as the second annual cup competition on the PSL calendar. There […]

The final two rounds of group matches in rugby union’s European Champions and Challenge Cups will be cancelled, with both tournaments now moving straight into the knockout phase, the chief executive of England’s Premiership Rugby said Thursday. This month’s concluding pool matches were postponed on Monday after the French government said the COVID-19 pandemic made […]

Olympic 100m hurdles champion Brianna McNeal has been provisionally suspended for doping violations, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announced Thursday. The 29-year-old American, who claimed Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and also won world gold in Moscow in 2013, was charged with “tampering” with part of a doping control, the AIU said. […]

UEFA is not planning any imminent changes to the format for the upcoming Champions League knockout stages or to its plans to hold the delayed Euro 2020 this year despite ongoing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic and other sporting events being cancelled. UEFA barrel ahead with tournament plans “As far as the Euro is concerned […]

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc announced on Thursday that he had tested positive for Covid-19, two days after Formula One was forced to postpone two of next season’s Grands Prix. “I want to let you know that I have tested positive for Covid-19,” the Monegasque driver said on Twitter. “I learned that I have been in […]

The Dolphins started their One-Day Cup defence with a 98 run win over the Titans in the Potchefstroom bubble. Titans skipper Grant Thomson won the toss, and put the Dolphins in to bat and saw his bowlers make early inroads. Starting with a win After seperating Dolphins openers Marques Ackermann (19) and Grant Roelofson with […]

Veteran American surfer Peter Mel has ridden what’s been called the ‘wave of the decade’ at infamous big wave spot Mavericks in California. Check out The South African for all the latest surfing news Mel, 51, paddled into a bomb at the fearsome northern California location, taking off from an incredibly deep position, riding through […]

Kaizer Chiefs have began the 2020/2021 in disaster fashion however just how bad is the situation at Naturena? We took a look at how Gavin Hunt’s first season at the Amakhosi is going in comparison to his predecessors as far back as we could accurately go and what we found was that Kaizer Chiefs are […]

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick said he would not accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Donald Trump as planned this week after the “tragic” riot at the US Capitol last Wednesday. BELICHICK GUIDED THE PATRIOTS TO SIX SUPER BOWL TITLES Belichick, who has guided the Patriots to six Super Bowl titles, said in […]