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Boks primed for three figure riot over Spain
By Mark Els EDINBURGH -- The Springboks are primed for another three-figure fiesta in their rugby World Cup Pool A game against Spain at Murrayfield here tomorrow. South Africa's 101-0 thrashing of Italy at King's Park in Durban four months ag...

Ivanisevic advances
BASEL -- Goran Ivanisevic advanced to the semi-finals of the Swiss Indoors tournament yesterday, beating second seed Yevgeny Kafelnikov 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 and damaging the Russian's chances to finish the season ranked number one. Defending champion Ti...

Lomu looms large as England face All Black
LONDON -- Twickenham will stage one of the pivotal matches of the World Cup today when England confront favourites New Zealand in the clash of the tournament so far. The losers of the Group B encounter are likely to end up facing holders South Af...

SA on track to win Dunhill Cup
ST ANDREWS, Scotland -- South Africa, trying to win an unprecedented third straight Dunhill Cup, swamped India 3-0 in yesterday's second round led by a 5-under 67 from Retief Goosen. Goosen, with his Indian opponent Jijay Kumar shooting 75, got e...

Bucks draw
CAPE TOWN -- Bucks and Santos drew their Castle Premie league match 1-1 here last night. Bucks are still with only one win. -- DDR Eastern Cape   South Africa   Foreign   Bu...

Border umpires selected for national panel
JOHANNESBURG -- Two Border first-class cricket umpires, Craig Schoof and Ian Howell, have been placed on the list of umpires that will officiate in Supersport and other first-class matches this season. Last summer's top-heavy first-class umpires ...

Young Stirling tennis star wins SA colours
By Peter Martin EAST LONDON -- A junior Border tennis player, Yaseen Obaray, 12, of Stirling Primary School, has gained South African colours after excelling at the Usassa primary schools tournament. Obaray, Border's number one junior, was the o...

Hingis, Pierce in semi-finals
FILDERSTADT -- Top-ranked Martina Hingis beat Nathalie Dechy 6-2, 6-4 and Mary Pierce edged Barbara Schett 7-6 (7-1), 7-6 (7-2) yesterday to reach the semi-finals of the $520 000 Porsche Grand Prix. Sandrine Testud, the unseeded defending champio...

HAPPINESS IS
There were happy scenes at the Basil Kenyon Stadium on Thursday evening when 16 rugby clubs from the Border and Transkei received free kit from the South African Rugby Football Union. Clubs received tackle bags, hit shields, trauma boards, firs...

King NSC meeting is postponed
EAST LONDON -- The National Sports Council (NSC) meeting scheduled for yesterday in KIng William's Town to decide who should run for the presidency of the South African Rugby Football Union, proved a non-event. According to Eastern Cape NSC presi...

Premier league cricket faces a busy weekend
By Peter Martin EAST LONDON -- Rhodes and Healdtown will both be in action today and tomorrow in a busy weekend of Geoff Love Sales premier league cricket fixtures. The two clubs play each other at Grahamstown this morning and Rhodes also play t...

Maqolo told: you're ungrateful
BOXING Mesuli Zifo PROMOTER Chris Pondo yesterday accused the new WBF mini-flyweight champion, Wele Maqolo, of being ungrateful after Maqolo failed to dedicate his title achievement to him. Maqolo, who won the title two weeks ago from Thailand's...

Make or break marathon
EAST LONDON -- The Amatola Marathon, steeped as it is in tradition, will be a make or break affair for both the future of the race as well as for athletes looking for a fast marathon and a place in the Border team for February 2000. Sizwe Ngcetan...

Northern Titans virtually play newcomers out of the game
BENONI -- Easterns learned the harsh reality of Supersport cricket at Willowmore Park here yesterday. At the end of day two, the Northerns Titans had virtually played the tournament newcomers out of the game. Easterns picked up four wickets in t...

Soccer's off-side rule: keep it or scrap it?
By Cecil Holbrook EAST LONDON - Soccer's offside law is by far the most controversial and misunderstood of all the 17 laws of association football, but there is a feeling in some quarters that it should be expunged from the statutes in its entire...

WORLD CUP DIARY
Campo slams soft approach LONDON -- Former Australian great David Campese has urged rugby's World Cup organisers to ease up on their crackdown on violent play. The controversial former wing believes the softly-softly approach of the organisers i...

Canadian captain hits out at fines
BORDEAUX -- Canadian captain Gareth Rees warned Rugby World Cup organisers that if they suspended him for wearing a scrumcap with his sponsor's name on it then they would be penalising his team. The 32-year-old, who was talking after coming throu...

Plenty of weekend soccer action
From Jongi Maliti QUEENSTOWN -- The race for the league soccer championship in the Vodacom Eastern Cape second division hots up as more than 10 matches will take place in various towns today and tomorrow. It is clear from the way some clubs play...

Hani rugby prizegiving
EAST LONDON -- A prizegiving for the Chris Hani Memorial rugby competition, played last month, will be held at the Mdantsane Sun at 4pm today. All participants are invited to the function. * The Border U19 women's soccer team announced six weeks...

Maiwand could improve after being gelded
DURBAN -- Maiwand, a five-year-old son of Rakeen has disappointed his backers time and time again, leaving trainer Ricky Maingard with little option but to geld him. The R70000 yearling purchase has had one outing since the operation where he fi...

Arlington results
FIRST RACE 15 ARCTIC QUAIL (Centenary - Refer To Daddy) W Kennedy 1 12 Couch Buster B Morgenrood 2 4 Jap And Joe R Bonham 3 2 Chandarak F Naude Dead heat with 9 Frenchli C Roberts 4 Then came: Safe Arriva...

Notice
The race meeting scheduled for Gosforth Park tomorrow has been postponed until Wednesday due to bad track conditions Eastern Cape   South Africa   Foreign   Business &nb...

Cape forecast betting
FIRST RACE 12-10 Halfmoon Bay 5-2 Top Secret 6-1 Sleigh Dancer 7-1 Goodtime Baby 8-1 Phinda 10-1 Centrillion 12-1 Model Season, All Reved Up, Constantina, Winds Of Change 16-1 upwards others SECOND RACE 16-10 Go Withe Flo 7-2 Royal Domain 7-1...

Natal forecast betting
FIRST RACE 7-2 Bepejay, Draw The Dagger 4-1 Haymaker 7-1 Kid Colt, March To Mars 10-1 Internet, Royal Legend 12-1 upwards others SECOND RACE 5-10 Betonthebadger 5-2 Rio Rush 5-1 London To Brighton 7-1 Seek The Summit 8-1 Have A Party 14-1 upw...

Winger remembers 1991 Wallaby-Ireland thriller
DUBLIN -- Ireland's Gordon Hamilton chased down a kick, weaved past David Campese and after his long desperate lunge over the tryline there was pandemonium. He punched the sky as the Lansdowne Road crowd tumbled from the terraces and mobbed him. ...

RESULTS ROUND-UP
CRICKET SUPERSPORT SERIES GRIQUAS V GAUTENG Kimberley Griquas 1st innings 400/4 decl Gauteng 1st innings A Bacher not out 111 S Koenig c Bossenger b Bosman 99 K Rutherford not out 8 Extras: (1lb, 5nb) 6 Total: (for 1) 224 Fall of wickets: 1/ 216 B...

Softball slugfest
EAST LONDON -- Computech Crushers suffered their second heavy defeat of the week, losing 27-0 to Hellfires in a softball league fixture on Thursday evening. Without Richard Claassen on the mound it was always going to be a mammoth task for stand...