Keanan Hemmonsbey 
An Under-20 version of the Rugby Championship will be held from next year onwards. The Rugby Championship, which will be hosted on the Gold Coast in Australia next year in April (exact dates to be confirmed), will see young stars from Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa battle on an annual basis. The competition … Read more
The International Cricket Council (ICC) annual general meeting in Durban last week confirmed that Cricket South Africa will receive less than R500 million annually from the cricket body over the next four years. While overshadowed by India’s whopping R4 billion, it was still an improvement over the previous four-year cycle. “Everything is relative,” said CSA … Read more
The Junior Springboks finished their U-20 Rugby World Championship campaign with an outright 22-15 win over England in the 3rd/4th place play-off on Friday night at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town. The victory meant that South Africa secured an unprecedented bronze medal in the U-20 Championship. In contrast to traditional South African forward packs, the … Read more
France and Ireland were the stand-out teams in the Under-20 Championship and will meet for the second time this year in the final on Friday at Athlone Stadium. In the Under-20 Six Nations competition earlier this year, Ireland edged out the French 33-31. Ireland flyhalf Sam Prendergast was the hero on that occasion, scoring a … Read more
The two deserving nations, France and Ireland, will battle it out for the Under-20 Rugby World Championship title on Friday. Three of the four teams that competed in the semi-finals of the Under-20 Championship were from the northern hemisphere. England, France and Ireland have had only one cumulative loss between them since the start of … Read more
At the eleventh hour, Vitality, title sponsor of this year’s Netball World Cup, has withdrawn as sponsor of the tournament set to be hosted at the Cape Town International Convention Center in South Africa for the first time ever from 28 July until 6 August 2023. With the Netball World Cup less than three weeks … Read more
Despite the results, the Junior Springboks were gutted in their 31-12 loss to a superior Junior Ireland side in the semi-finals of the Under-20 Rugby World Championship on Sunday night. Ireland entered the Under-20 Championship after winning the Under-20 Six Nations Grand Slam and proved their class against a brave Junior Boks, who were bested … Read more
Dricus du Plessis of South Africa defeated Australian Robert Whitaker by TKO midway through the second round of their main fight at UFC 290 in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 9. The fight, which was described by Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White as a “title erasure,” sees du Plessis emerge as … Read more