# Rugby: Swys de Bruin has resigned as Springbok Women’s head coach, reportedly over a dispute with SA Rugby over unpaid bonuses and interference. The team is preparing for the historic first-ever home Test against New Zealand’s Black Ferns in Johannesburg tomorrow. It will be a precursor to the men’s encounter at the FNB Stadium. […]
# Cricket: A young Proteas side hopes for a first-ever T20 victory over the host in today’s tri-series clash in the Namibian capital of Windhoek. South Africa lost last week’s opening match against Namibia, with captain Björn Fortuin calling it a rude awakening. The Proteas then beat Zimbabwe twice and victory today will secure qualification […]
# Tennis: Die Australiër Nick Kyrgios het ʼn verminderde skorsing van ‘n maand aanvaar en uitgedien nadat hy positief getoets het vir kokaïen. Die 31-jarige speler is vroeg verlede maand voorlopig geskors nadat ʼn monster wat hy in Junie tydens die Majorka Ope in Spanje gegee het, positief getoets het vir ʼn kokaïen-metaboliet. Kyrgios het […]
# Motorsport: Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton says the potential of becoming the first black Ferrari Formula One driver to win a home race for the team would be phenomenal. The Briton’s hopes of victory in the Italian Grand Prix this weekend should be boosted by the arrival of Ferrari’s second engine upgrade of the […]
# Rugby: Eighthman Harry Wilson returns to the Wallabies’ starting-15 to captain the team in tomorrow’s Test against Argentina in Mendoza. Allan Alaalatoa led Australia when they beat the Pumas 27-21 in San Salvador last Saturday, but is rested this weekend. Head coach Les Kiss made eight changes to his team, sticking to the rotation […]
# 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. […]
