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Vive le Senegal!
Sensational Senegal 1 ... Star-studded France 0 SEOUL -- Holders France crashed to a shock 1-0 defeat against African debutants Senegal as the 2002 World Cup kicked off with one of the greatest upsets in the tournament's 72-year history here yest...

Relaxed Bafana ready for Paraguay
KANGNUNG -- "Let them dance," declared South African coach Jomo Sono as he benevolently surveyed his team at a relaxed training game in this beach resort. "They have to dance to enjoy the game. They have to enjoy the game to score goals and do we...

Keen rivalry for the No 10 jersey
PRETORIA -- New Springbok flyhalves Andre Pretorius and Brent Russell might be small in stature, but what they lack in height and weight they make up for with determination and drive. For the two men vying for the green and gold No 10 jersey it s...

Cameroon are wary of Ireland
NIIGATA -- Ireland will have to prove their class without captain Roy Keane today in their World Cup opener with Cameroon, but as far as the African champions are concerned they may be even more dangerous now. "The affair has brought Ireland clos...

Ireland will have to overcome Keane turmoil
IZUMO, Japan -- Ireland is not only up against a fast, strong team when it takes on Cameroon in its opening World Cup match today, it also faces the challenge of re-inventing itself on short order after the tumultuous departure of its only star, R...

Kicked out hockey players respond
By Brian McLean EAST LONDON -- Allegations of racism and unfairness against coach and management were made yesterday by the four Border hockey players who were asked to leave their Port Elizabeth holiday flat during the recent South African inter...

Beckham's fitness key to chances of England
SAITAMA, Japan -- Now that he finally has team captain David Beckham fit, England's Swedish coach, Sven-Goran Eriksson, is plotting to knock his countrymen out of the World Cup. Former coach of IFK Goteborg, Eriksson aims to give England a winnin...

Case against Blatter withdrawn
SEOUL -- The 11 Fifa executive committee members who took newly re-elected president Sepp Blatter to court on charges of corruption have withdrawn their legal action. The decision to drop the charges was taken at an emergency executive committee ...

Boxing's big prize at stake
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- Former world heavyweight champions Evander Holyfield and Hasim Rahman carry their dreams of regaining boxing's biggest prize into their all-American showdown here tomorrow morning (SA time). Holyfield (35-7 with two d...

Break the scrumhalf's legs!
By Brian McLean EAST LONDON -- The Border rugby premier league reaches a vital stage this weekend. While the top of the range clash is that between powerhouses Comparex Cambridge and Subaru Police at the Cambridge field, another important game t...

Clijsters crashes, Venus wins
PARIS -- Kim Clijsters, last year's French Open runner-up, was knocked out in the third round yesterday by the 87th-ranked player in the world. Clarisa Fernandez, a left-hander from Argentina, stunned the fourth-seeded Clijsters 6-4, 6-0 to join ...

World Cup notebook . . .
KEANE A DISGRACE LONDON -- Former Republic of Ireland manager Jack Charlton has branded skipper Roy Keane "a disgrace to his country" after the Manchester United star's dramatic World Cup bust-up with manager Mick McCarthy. Charlton, who achieve...

Murali delays England with 4/105 from 44 overs
BIRMINGHAM -- Muttiah Muralitharan checked England's progress in the second cricket Test here at Edgbaston yesterday with four badly needed wickets for Sri Lanka. England still finished the second day on 401 for five, a first innings lead of 239,...

Price shoots 65 for two-stroke lead
WOBURN -- Welshman Phillip Price yesterday rediscovered the form he hopes to take into the Ryder Cup, shooting a seven-under-par 65 to lead after the second round of the British Masters golf. Price, striking the ball better and better throughout ...

Tellytrack to show big British races
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PUT IT THERE, MATE . . .
Eastern Cape boxing commission member Jon Smith, left a shareholder in Vuna Fishing; commission chairman DV Mapisa and the chairman of Vuna Fish, Andrew Hendricks, join hands in solidarity after the fishing company donated R25000 to the cash-st...

RESULTS ROUND-UP
BRIDGE Results of a 5-Table Howell played on May 21: 1 Miriam Meyer & Harvey Pelser 64.8%; 2 Carmel Slavin & Eda Belikoff 54.6%; 3 Pat Bryant & Haddow van Coller 52.7%. Results of a 5-Table Howell played on May 22: 1 Peter Connell ...

SA surf dominate
DURBAN -- The SA surfing team is still in the lead with just two days of competition left in the Quiksilver ISA World Surfing Games taking place at North Beach here. SA stars that shone on the seventh day include Travis Logie and David Weare (bo...

Gauteng North sweep Vets tennis tourney honours
By Maud Thorne EAST LONDON -- The powerful Gauteng North teams swept the boards in the A divisions of the Regent South African inter-provincial tennis competition which ran to a close here yesterday. Gauteng North took top honours in the 35A Cu...