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SA look to Terbrugge
DURBAN -- David Terbrugge, who passed a late fitness test yesterday and will take the new ball with Makhaya Ntini in the third Test beginning here today, has been given the additional and unenviable task of restricting Australia's rampant batting ...

Top of the log clash
By Brian McLean EAST LONDON -- Gareth Wright for Johan Bester at flyhalf is the only change to the Border Bulldogs Vodacom Cup team that faces the Blue Bulls in Pretoria tomorrow. Wright, who until now has started on the bench, has made an impre...

Large SA staff for W/Cup
JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa will not only be taking a local coach for the first time to their second World Cup appearance but they will also be taking their largest technical staff contingent ever. There will be 26 personnel going to Japan and S...

Strydom withdraws from final match of the season
By Peter Martin EAST LONDON -- The Border Bears cricket team bring a most disappointing season to a close with their final four-day SuperSport Shield cricket match of the season against North West at Potchefstroom today. To compound the situatio...

Unbeaten Waratahs warned by Dwyer
SYDNEY -- The New South Wales Waratahs have made a perfect start to the Super 12 tournament but coach Bob Dwyer and skipper Matt Burke this week urged against over-confidence. A series of three straight away victories over the Chiefs, Stormers an...

Top junior athletes set to battle it out
EAST LONDON -- Border's most promising young athletic talent will battle it out for top honours at the Jan Smuts Stadium tomorrow when the Youth and Junior Championships get underway at 9am. They will be out to impress the Border selectors for a ...

Bafana v Saudi Arabia squad
JOHANNESBURG -- A 23-man SA senior soccer squad to play Saudi Arabia in an international friendly in Italy on March 20 was announced yesterday: Goalkeepers: Calvin Marlin (Ajax Cape Town), Emile Baron (Lilestrom) Defenders: Hilton Jordan (Jomo C...

Stakeholders reject new draft of boxing Bill
By Mesuli Zifo EAST LONDON-- Eastern Cape boxing stakeholders have rejected the draft of the provincial boxing Bill on the grounds that it would render boxing in the country stagnant. In a strongly worded letter to the national Sports Minister N...

Amateur boxing comes to King
EAST LONDON -- Once a three-time national featherweight champion and now a champion of amateur boxing development in the King William's Town area, Jackie Gunguluza will stage yet another amateur show in front of the King Service Station tomorrow. ...

Cabbage Patch likely to provide surprises
By Bob Norris EAST LONDON -- The 14th annual running of the Cabbage Patch tomorrow is most likely -- as in previous outings -- to provide some surprises at the front of the field. The Umtata Police contingent is always dangerous if in attendance...

Dale to play in St John's festival
EAST LONDON -- St John's College has attracted some of the country's top rugby schools, as well as two from neighbouring countries, for its seventh annual rugby festival to be held over the Easter weekend in Johannesburg. The 12 sides taking part...

Fight is on for top spot
By Peter Martin EAST LONDON -- With the pace hotting up and with only two series of matches left to play, most of the seven Mercedes-Benz premier league matches scheduled for Sunday are vital to those teams with chances of taking the title. Log ...

Top Cape mare arrives in Gauteng to contest big race
By David Mollett JOHANNESBURG -- Owner Sabine Plattner's talented Aussie-bred mare, Laisserfaire, has made the long haul by road from the Cape to contest tomorrow's R400 000 Computaform Sprint at Newmarket. The presence of the five-...

New sponsorship deal set to boost racing at Scottsville
DURBAN -- Gold rush day at Scottsville in Pietermaritzburg in May is set to become a racing and entertainment extravaganza the likes of which has never been seen in the KwaZulu-Natal capital following successful negotiations between the Golden Hor...

Millard likes what he sees for sale
By David Mollett JOHANNESBURG -- Former cham-pion trainer, Terrance Millard, is bullish about the outcome of the 2002 National Yearling Sales which commence at the Thoroughbred Breeders Association complex at Gosforth Park tomorrow night. "Neve...

Royal Champ does it again
JOHANNESBURG -- Royal Champ, trained by George Mazaham and ridden by replacement rider Gavin van Zyl, scored an easy win in the main event, run on the grass track over 2 400m at the Vaal yesterday. Turning for home Alladins Flame moved up to take...

HOWZAT!
England bowler Matthew Hoggard appeals for LBW of New Zealand's Nathan Astle during the second day of the first cricket Test at the Jade Stadium in Christchurch yesterday. England made 228 and New Zealand replied with 147 all out in the first inn...

What a mess!
DON'T you think the actions of the SA Football Association (Safa) border on insanity? A couple of months to go to the World Cup, and they chop the coach! What were they thinking? Even if they did not exactly fire him, their actions screamed for ...

The PSL is not bankrupt ­ Pasiya
By Mesuli Zifo EAST LONDON--Bush Bucks' managing director and member of the Premier Soccer League's (PSL) board of governors, Sturu Pasiya, has rejected media reports the league was bankrupt and on the verge of collapse. His utterances follow re...

RESULTS ROUND-UP
CRICKET NEW ZEALAND v ENGLAND Christchurch First Test, day two England 1st innings 228 New Zealand 1st innings (9/1 o/n). Richardson lbw b Hoggard 2 Horne c Thorpe b Hoggard 14 Vettori c Foster b Hoggard 42 Vincent b Hoggard12 Fleming c Giles b Ca...

Nojoko new Winter Rose coach
By Brian McLean EAST LONDON -- Winter Rose rugby has taken a turn for the better with the announcement they are to be coached by Humphrey Nojoko. Winter Rose are to face Buffaloes in their opening Premier league match of the season this evening ...

Bulls pledge support for coach Meyer
PRETORIA -- The Board of the Bulls Vodacom Rugby Super 12 region has reiterated its support of coach Heyneke Meyer following a meeting yesterday with representatives of the SA Rugby Football Union and its commercial arm SA Rugby (Pty) Ltd. The me...

Carlson punch costs Eagles lock 12 weeks
EAST LONDON -- Eagles' lock Danie van Rooyen was yesterday found guilty by a SA Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) disciplinary committee for punching Spoornet Bulldogs captain Graham Carlson during a Vodacom Cup clash in George on March 2. Chaired by ...

SPORT SPOTLIGHT
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Right mental attitude is crucial
SQUASH with Clive Elworthy IT'S encouraging when young players improve, not only from a physical point of view but mentally as well. Often guys with heaps of talent struggle in match scenarios because of a lack of temperament and can't unders...

First league needs revamping
TENNIS Maud Thorne IN the East London mixed doubles first league Beacon Bay proved too experienced for a depleted Border Junior team, easily winning 6-0. Glynn Hulley and Hanlie-Marie Dodd were in devastating form dropping only one game again...

FLYING RUSSIAN
Russia's Marat Saffin gets in a return against Thailand's Paradorn Srichphan during their match at the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California. Safin won 7-5, 6-1. (AP) Eastern Cape   South Africa&...