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Nations Championship Rugby The opening round of the tournament delivered several unexpected results, highlighting the impressive squad depth in international rugby. France sent what pundits termed a "second team" to preserve key players for their domestic Top 14 club competition, yet they pushed the All Blacks to the absolute limit. Similarly, the Springboks demonstrated their frightenin...

1. Cricket — Women's T20 World Cup "The Women's T20 World Cup ends this weekend at Lord's: England versus Australia, both unbeaten, both terrifying. And the Proteas? Well, we did what we do best — we reached the semi-final, got everyone's hopes up, and then filed our traditional national paperwork for early elimination. Choking isn't a weakness, people, it's heritage....

Women's T20 World Cup The Proteas Women are alive and dangerous. Marizanne Kapp's unbeaten 81 off 45 balls against India — chasing 159 from 25 for 2 — is one of the great World Cup innings. SA still need to beat Bangladesh to reach the semis. Meanwhile Australia and England look like the tournament favourites, New Zealand have imploded as defending champions, and the West Indies are quietl...

TOPIC 1 — ROLAND GARROS UPDATE New champions guaranteed in both draws. Sinner gone — heat stroke or choke, you decide. Alcaraz never showed up. Djokovic lost to a 19-year-old Brazilian who came back from two sets down. Swiatek gone. Coco gone. Of the top ten men, only Zverev and Felix Auger-Aliassime are still standing. Of the top ten women, only Mirra Andreeva. The youngsters have dismantled the...

TOPIC 1 — NEWLANDS TICKET DEBACLE CSA sent a "Sold Out" email at 09:00 for tickets that went on sale at 09:30. The Barmy Army got 12%. South African fans got 13%. Resale tickets hit R4,465 before lunch. This is what happens when your national cricket board sells the New Year's Test to overseas tour packages before ordinary fans have finished their coffee — and there's still no Sk...

TOPIC 1 — HOSPITALITY Watching sport used to cost the price of a ticket. Now it costs the price of a small car, a hotel in Sandton, and your children's university fund. Welcome to corporate hospitality. Watching the Springboks play the All Blacks will set you back R9,995. That's before you've had a drink. The Barmy Army flew to South Africa for three Tests — 23 nights, flights included...

1) Surprise recall in the Proteas woman World Cup team. Balanced team , ready for World Cup. 2) Roland Garros, the clay, no Carlitos, can anyone stop Sinner? Is Iga back and can there be a new champion. 3) Sports pay, Premier League players earn huge relative to revenues, IPL players too, tennis players not so much. Mbappe earns 25 times Dupont!! 4) Who made 100 and a 50 in their only test match a...

GOLDEN OLDIES Five people who refused to retire. Merlene Ottey competed at seven Olympics across 33 years, finishing for Slovenia at 52. Martina Navratilova won a Grand Slam title at 49 — a month shy of her 50th birthday. Venus Williams still making WTA main draws at 44. Ma'a Nonu still bulldozing defenders in the French Top 14 at 43. Imran Tahir still taking T20 wickets at 47 — at a better av...

🏏 Topic 1 — Proteas Women vs India (4-1) Full match-by-match results table across all five T20Is at Kingsmead, Wanderers and Willowmoore Park. Wolvaardt's historic 115 off 47 balls in Match 3 gets its own section — the fastest SA women's T20I century, her 17th international hundred, level with Meg Lanning and Smriti Mandhana. India's perspective including Deepti Sharma's career-be...

1) Varsity Rugby concludes, stunning turnaround in half a decade in the fortunes of TUKS. General explanation by Luyanda through the similarities of US College Football. 2) The Masters. Cheap ticket, impossible to get. Quirky rules, amazing history. 3) Dirt season begins on the red clay, Coco Gauff has points galore to defend, Sincaraz just getting started. Red versus Green clay. Slip and slide ti...

The winners and losers in the rugby easter festivals from St. John's to Kearsney and everything inbetween. Proteas woman in the land of the long white cloud not quite up to the mark of a great all around Kiwi performance. Rugby time soon, the home and away, six nations vs the southerners looming large in July. Favourite sporting grounds. Fast fun five facts - records breaking chases, oldest ru...

🏉 Topic 1 — Schoolboy Rugby Easter Festivals Full Noord-Suid results tables from Days 1 & 2 (Paul Roos, Grey College, Paarl Gim all impressing; Outeniqua shocking KES; the Drostdy upset over EG Jansen). Festival overview table across KERF, KES, St John's and St Stithians with dates and international touring teams. Big storyline: the quiet pull of schools away from Easter festivals towards...

IPL starts, who gets paid what? Is it the money or the exposure to get crazy endorsements? Rugby salaries, what do they get paid on a relative basis? Not as much! URC …. European Rugby Championship cup, unlocking the competitions differences. Too confusing for the ordinary person. WORST records in professional sport. No shaming! Fun fast five facts, some serious elite sports knowledge.

1) All the shushing doesn't stop Ramos from slotting the winner. Wales eat spaghetti in Cardiff with a wooden spoon and Scotland are always the nearly team. 2) Schoolboy rugby in South Africa still killing it, the games that matter forever for the old pupils of the schools. Cannot shake that loyalty or replicate that passion. Puts South African rugby in a healthy position. 3) Formula one boast...

Dave Rennie, New All Blacks Coach So New Zealand just hired the bloke that Australia threw in the bin three years ago. Dave Rennie — sacked by the Wallabies, replaced by Eddie Jones, who then took Australia to their worst World Cup performance in history and couldn't get out of the group stage. Meanwhile, Rennie quietly went to Japan, won some games, chopped firewood in Manawatu, and waited. N...

Orlando Pirates just executed Kaizer Chiefs 3-0 in the Soweto Derby like it was a personal vendetta from the 1970s player-stealing era. Expected win? Sure. But 3-0 at FNB with 100,000+ gatecrashers? That's not a scoreline, that's a war crime. PSL goals this season are apparently on strict calorie control — everyone's too busy exporting strikers to Europe before they can score twice. Cricket World...

T20 Cricket World Cup (Men's) South Africa (Proteas) delivered a strong, clinical performance against New Zealand, chasing down 176 comfortably (led by Aiden Markram's unbeaten 86) to secure qualification for the Super 8 stage with their third straight win, regardless of their final group match. Their fast bowlers have been highly effective; Marco Jansen starred with career-best figures (e...

Sasha and Luyanda discuss the T20 Cricket World Cup, highlighting the close game between Nepal and England, predicting a semi-final finish for South Africa, and identifying the South Africa versus New Zealand game as the decider for the top of their group. In their review of the Six Nations rugby, they agreed that the France versus England match would be the title decider and acknowledged Italy’s...

SA 20 Review. Fourth season and still only two winners! Sunrisers Eastern Cape beat Pretoria Capitals in the final at Newlands. Australian Open - Womens segment. Coming down the wire, two semi finalists confirmed, Aryna Sabalenka dominant against newcomer US teenager (2nd best 18 year old in the world, Iva Jovic). Jovic tried, I think she is destined for good things, shows awesome maturity for an...

We get to speak to a man who faced Murali in Galle, he got Matthew Hayden out when he'd made 380 (the then world record). He talks about career highlights and lowlights. The state of school cricket in Zimbabwe, as well as first class and the international setup. We then run through favourite test cricketers. And lastly, our usual fun fast five facts.

1) 10th Edition of CWC starts February, can anyone challenge India? Will it be South Africa, England or Australia? One month, 13 days of three matches a day. 2) FIFA World Cup 2026 predictions. Spain, England, Germany, Brazil, Argentina (again?). Ronaldo and Messi swansong. 3) 6 Nations Rugby. Will France's home games against England and Ireland give them an edge? Wales or Italy for the wooden...

We get an opportunity to speak to Ryan Schaper, the father of golfer Jayden, who recently won the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. We ask him questions around the life of a pro golfer, the commercial and investment needed to become a pro golfer. Being a parent of a talented child. Your favourite sports books! And of course, your Five Fun Fast Facts.

1.⁠ ⁠Best & worst of SA sport in 2025 2.⁠ ⁠⁠Ashes wrap 3.⁠ ⁠⁠AFCON preview 4.⁠ ⁠⁠Favourite sporting moment 2025 5.⁠ ⁠⁠Fast Five Fun Facts 1) The Rollercoaster Ride – Highs That Had Us Dancing, Lows That Had Us Crying into Our Braai Sauce! What a wild year for Mzansi sport! We went from choking on dust to sipping champagne. Let's dish the dirt with a cheeky grin: The Absolute Best Bits (Pur...

Nqobile Ndlovu, a sport's research analyst from Cash n Sport talks about the following three topics: 1) Which sporting codes are the most popular in South Africa from a viewership perspective? Football (soccer) reigns supreme as the most popular sport in South Africa, captivating millions with its grassroots appeal and massive followings. The iconic Soweto Derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlan...

1) Rugby World Cup Draw - Rankings are officially meaningless toilet paper – prove me wrong! 2) The Ashes 2nd Test – Is Bazball Dead? - England’s ego project just got humiliated by actual Test cricket – Bazball = Braindead 3) Women in sport – required to do more for less - Equal pay? Nah, women deliver bigger moments for pocket change and zero respect 4) Athletes who’d dominate other codes - Jonty...