Sport

Mickey Mouse SA athletics team named
JOHANNESBURG -- Athletics South Africa finally announced their "final" team for today's Engen Test against Russia at Pretoria's Pilditch stadium, although it looks more like a comedy of errors than a team list. Besides the continued inclusion of p...

Fish: Bafana's chances hinge on good start
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa's hopes of success in the African Nations Cup will depend on a good start in a soccer contest which will be competed by the 16 best countries on the continent. The Bafana Bafana face Angola in their opening match in Bo...

Border repair early damage
By Telford Vice Pakistan 232 Border 141/3 EAST LONDON -- It did not take long for Border to realise what they had missed while Makhaya Ntini and Mark Boucher toured Australia's finest net facilities. Seven deliveries, in fact. The first ball Nt...

Pressure once again on Bush Bucks to perform
EAST LONDON -- Bush Bucks need to win today's Castle Premier League soccer match against Moroka Swallows in Johannesburg if the they are to keep league title aspirations on track. Once again the odds seem heavily stacked against them, despite a ro...

Border field same ball team
EAST LONDON -- The Border men's softball selectors have retained the team which played outstanding ball to win the Gordon Monk tournament in January and set themselves on course to take the honours in the Coastal Tournament here from February 13 to...

Frost leaves his mark to lead field by two
DURBAN -- A hot David Frost took advantage of an Ernie Els off-day and a remarkable disaster for Australian Greg Chalmers to grab the halfway lead yesterday in the Vodacom/Mercedes-Benz South African Open. While Els struggled to a level-par and Ch...

Focus on first league action
EAST LONDON -- It's back to first league action for club cricketers tomorrow with five matches scheduled. The best of them could be the Pool A clash between Rhodes, back after the university break, and Hams-Tech at Hamiltons. If Rhodes pick up whe...

Angry Norman defends Clinton
SYDNEY -- Jose-Maria Olazabal took a one-shot lead in the Greg Norman International golf tournament here yesterday after firing a five-under-par second round 67. The 1994 US Masters champion profited from his morning tee time and tore through The ...

RESULTS ROUND-UP
CRICKET WESTERN PROVINCE v EP Cape Town WESTERN PROVINCE (1st innings) Western Province (First innings) De Nobrega b Kemp 18 Ferreira c Callaghan b Hayward 34 Gibbs c Masikazana b Callaghan 17 Ackerman c Masikazana b Haywrd 1 Davids c Kemp b Haywar...

Sarfu no to Venter
JOHANNESBURG -- Brendan Venter's planned move to join London Irish on an 18-month contract could be blocked by the SA Rugby Union. Rugby's controlling body was still considering a request yesterday from the 28-year-old Springbok and Free State cen...

Sikali leaves trainer
JOHANNESBURG -- Contractual problems have forced national junior flyweight champion Mzukisi Sikali to leave new trainer Brian Mitchell and return to Port Elizabeth. Mitchell said he had advised the former WBU titleholder to return to his home to s...

HP swim records go
EAST LONDON -- Two new records were set at the Hudson Park High swimming gala. Lauren Rayment set a new time of 39,91sec in the girls U14 50m breaststroke, bettering the old record by 0,08sec, and Braam Coetzee broke the boys U14 50m breaststroke ...

Good start to Border trials
By Brian McLean EAST LONDON -- As trials go, last night's match against a Cunningham and Gomm XV wasn't bad. The outcome was not important with coaches ringing the changes. Several fringe players really tried hard, impressive games coming from ...