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Ladies and gentleman, may I present to you Zakumi: the official mascot for the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa.

Zakumi is a Proudly South African (and African) leopard in the green and gold of Bafana Bafana with green hair. The green hair was a decision he made once as “he felt it would [...]

Only the South African rugby boys can give Percy Montgomery the tribute party he deserves as the most capped Springbok in history…

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In case you missed it, Percy is the only one not wearing a wig, but you’ll have to look closely to spot which one he is

Wow!!!! Usain Bolt is incredible, check that margin of victory, and he wasn’t even trying in the last 10m. Usain Bolt won this race at 90m, cruised across the finish line and still SMASHED his old record to pieces in a new time of 9.69 seconds. Imagine how quick he would have been had [...]

Go to the gym, grind out 3 sets of 6 reps of deadlifts at 120kg and finish feeling amazing and like you’ve accomplished something good in your workout. Then look up at the telly and see the women hoiking weights in excess of 120kg over their heads in the Olympic women’s weightlifting competition.

Claire saw this advert the other evening and mentioned it to me. I hadn’t seen it. She mentioned it to the people at work, and they hadn’t seen it either. Claire was certain she’d seen it on TV and hadn’t just dreamed it, especially when she could recall so much detail.
Well, [...]

Take a look everyone, this is the new Springbok coach - Peter De Villiers:

I can’t really say if I agree or disagree with his selection as the new Bok coach as I can’t say I’ve actually heard of him prior to this. I don’t ever recall him playing for the Boks (not that Jake [...]

This is pretty amazing. Ebbsfleet United FC will become the first football club to be taken over by a fan website. MyFootballClub has agreed a deal in principle to purchase a controlling stake in Ebbsfleet United FC.
MyFootballClub members will have an equal say in team selection, player transfers and the general running of the [...]

The face of cricket may be changing to pink. The powers that be at the MCC (the guardians of the rules of cricket) are in the process of starting trials of a pink cricket ball, with the hopes it will replace the white ball used in Day/Night, Twenty20 and one-day international cricket by 2009.
The [...]