# Tennis: Australian Nick Kyrgios has accepted and served a reduced, one-month ban after testing positive for cocaine. The 31-year-old was provisionally suspended early last month after a sample he submitted during the Mallorca Open in Spain in June was found to contain a metabolite of cocaine. Kyrgios admitted to using cocaine at a nightclub. […]
# Tennis: Die 40-jarige Fransman Gael Monfils het sy laaste Grand Slam-wedstryd gespeel, maar in die Amerikaanse Ope se tweede ronde teen die Amerikaner, Learner Tien, verloor. Karen Khachanov van Rusland het die wêreld-nommer-vier, Felix Auger-Aliassime van Kanada, getroef. In die vroue-afdeling het die tweede gekeurde Kazak, Elena Rybakina, ʼn oorwinning oor Jessica Bouzas Maneiro […]
# Tennis: Frenchman Gael Monfils played the final match of his Grand Slam career, falling to American Learner Tien, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 in the US Open second round. Russia’s Karen Khachanov knocked out world number four Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime. In the women’s draw, second seed Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina continued her bid for the world number […]
# Sokker: FIFA beskuldig die Europese beheerliggaam, UEFA, van ‘n smeerveldtog teen sy president, Gianni Infantino. UEFA het in drie Amerikaanse howe regsake aanhangig gemaak en versoek dat bewyse gevind word van Infantino se mislukte plan om aandele in die Wêreldbekertoernooi en ander kompetisies aan privaat beleggers te verkoop. Hy beskuldig Infantino van strafregtelike wanbestuur. […]
# Rugby: Die All Blacks-afrigter, Dave Rennie, sê daar is geen kwade gevoelens tussen hom en Springbok-afrigter, Rassie Erasmus, nie. Dit volg na sy beskuldigings oor Suid-Afrika se vermeende onderduimse taktieke in die skrum, na verlede naweek se tweede toets in Kaapstad. Hy het beweer die Bokke het in vaste skrums “rondom teenstanders geloop”. Rennie […]
# Soccer: FIFA has accused European soccer body UEFA of launching a “smear campaign” against its president Gianni Infantino. UEFA has filed legal cases in three US courts requesting discovery of evidence connected to Infantino’s failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup and other competitions to private investors. It has accused Infantino of […]
# Rugby: All Blacks coach Dave Rennie says there is no bad blood between him and Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus. This follows his accusations over South Africa’s alleged underhanded tactics in the scrum after the second Test in Cape Town last weekend. He suggested the Boks were “walking around” opponents in the set-piece. Rennie says they […]
# Rugby: Babalwa Latsha voer Saterdag die Springbok-vroue teen Nieu-Seeland se Swart Varings aan op die FNB-stadion in Johannesburg. Die eerste toets tussen die spanne op Suid-Afrikaanse bodem begin om half-twee. Ses van die voorspelers was ook in die beginspan teen Nieu-Seeland in verlede jaar se Wêreldbeker-kwarteindstryd, wat die Swart Varings met 46-17 gewen het. […]
# Rugby: Former Springbok flyhalf Morné Steyn says the Class of 2026 is in for an incredible experience in tomorrow’s third Test against the All Blacks at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. The venue, known as the Calabash, is expected to be packed with up to 90-thousand spectators. Lock Eben Etzebeth and captain Siya Kolisi […]
