Sport

Pretorius rocks England
Free Stater's 4/107 takes Proteas to brink of enforcing follow-on GOT HIS MAN: South Africa's Makhaya Ntini celebrates his dismissal of England's Marcus Trescothich at Edgbaston in Birmingham yesterday during the fourth day of the first Test bet...

All Black win raises stakes in WCup bonus dispute
All Blacks winger Joe Rokocoko scored a hat-trick of tries against Australia at the weekend. (AP) WELLINGTON - New Zealand's record rugby union win over Australia on Saturday may become an accelerant in a heated dispute between the All Blacks an...

Campbell wins Irish Open
PORTMARNOCK - New Zealand's Michael Campbell emerged from the worst slump of his career to win the Irish Open in a three-way play-off here yesterday. Campbell hit a 146-yard nine iron to within a foot of the pin at the first extra hole, the 18th, t...

Phelps smashes Spitz record
BARCELONA - Michael Phelps surpassed Mark Spitz for most world records set in individual events at a single swim meet yesterday, the final day of the World Swimming Championships. The 18-year-old American set his fifth world mark in an individual e...

Wallabies will be tough, says Bok captain
BRISBANE - The Springboks are expecting to confront a stung Wallabies' team in next Saturday's Tri-Nations battle for the wooden spoon here. South African captain Corne Krige, speaking here ahead of the match, said he wasn't taking heart from the W...

Armstrong wins fifth Tour de France
PARIS - Lance Armstrong won his fifth consecutive yellow jersey here yesterday after the 20th and final stage of the centenary Tour de France where the hosts were given an unexpected victory. Armstrong, the 31-year-old team leader of US Postal, bec...

Arrows mean business
DURBAN - Lamontville Golden Arrows showed that they mean business next soccer season when they beat Supersport United 1-0 in a friendly game played as a curtain raiser for the SA Bid game at Absa Stadium here on Saturday. The score was 0-0 at inter...

SA highjumper shines
EBERSTADT - Jacques Freitag, South Africa's star high jumper, yesterday moved one step closer to global glory when he won the 25th Anniversary High Jump Festival against the best the world can offer with a solid 2,30m in pouring rain. Three other j...

Winger's hat-trick sets up record All Blacks victory
SYDNEY - Winger Joe Rokocoko netted a hat-trick of tries as New Zealand posted their highest score over Australia Saturday in a 50-21 victory to move a step closer to regaining the Bledisloe Cup. The mighty All Blacks turned in their second juggern...

Take a bow Border
IT'S A DRAW: The Border women's rugby team celebrates after drawing their provincial match against Eastern Province after a dramatic come-back during the final minutes. The final score was 17-17. By Charles Beningfield EAST LONDON - Will the Bor...

Maoris beat Canada
CALGARY, Canada - The New Zealand Maori gave World Cup-bound Canada its worst loss in seven years in a 65-27 hiding here on Saturday. The Maori scored 10 tries to four as Canada crashed to its fifth straight loss, and its heaviest since it fell 74-...

Cheetahs sound warning
BLOEMFONTEIN - The Free State Cheetahs sounded a warning to their rivals with a convincing 54-14 win over neighbours Griquas in their opening Currie Cup encounter played at the Free State Stadium here on Saturday. The Cheetahs, based on this perfor...

Baby Bulldogs beaten again by EP
By Charles Beningfield EAST LONDON - For the second time in two weeks the "Baby Bulldogs", the Border U20 team lost to their Eastern Province counterparts who beat them 34-14 in an Absa Cup B division U20 match at Absa Stadium here on Saturday. Al...

Breakers win match of many errorss
By Alton Jegels QUEENSTOWN - Breakers reversed the tables on local rivals Swifts-Police when they defeated them 22-8 in a Strand Cup fixture at Madeira Park. The first game was overshadowed by the whistle of the referee, not by his own accord, but ...

Spain are the champions, beat Korea 7-3 in final
RANDBURG - Spain won the Champions Challenge hockey tournament here yesterday when they thrashed South Korea 7-3 in an entertaining final. The result means the Spanish qualify for the elite Champions Trophy to be held in Lahore, Pakistan next Novem...

SA take unassailable lead in series
DURBAN - South Africa wrapped up the Spar Challenge hockey Series against Scotland yesterday when they downed the visitors 3-1 at Queensmead. With the home side having won 5-1 on Saturday, they now have an unassailable 2-0 lead in the best-of-three...

Two bonus points for Pumas
JOHANNESBURG - The Lions, last year's Currie Cup runners-up, got their 2003 campaign off to a winning start with a hard-fought 38-34 victory over the tenacious Pumas at Ellis Park here on Saturday. The Lions led 24-3 at half-time after a sublime p...

SA skipper rewrites Test record books
THE BALL THAT GOT SMITH: Record-breaking South African opening batsman, Graeme Smith's innings of 277 comes to end with this stroke which sent a high catch to James Anderson on the deep-mid-wicket fence off the bowling of England left-arm spinner...

Hotspurs not so hot
DURBAN - Orlando Pirates played classy football when they beat Tottenham Hotspurs 2-1 in an entertaining SA 2010 World Cup Bid Challenge at the Absa Stadium here Saturday. There was no score at the interval. The first goal of the game was scored b...

Bulls stampede to 64-29 win over WP
PRETORIA - Fullback Johan Roets did the damage with a hat-trick of tries and wunderkid Derick Hougaard nailed the coffin shut as the Blue Bulls demolished their traditional foe Western Province to score their biggest win ever with a score of 64-29 ...

Waugh also sets new records as Bangladesh face huge defeat
DUCK! Bangladesh opening batsman, Hannan Sarkar ducks under a Brett Lee bouncer while on his way to a score of 55 on the third day of play in the second cricket Test at Cairns yesterday. (AP) CAIRNS, Australia - Australia's evergreen captain St...

Veron will stay at Man United says Alex Ferguson
LONDON - Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has revealed their Argentina international midfielder Juan Sebastian Veron turned down the chance to leave Old Trafford this summer. Veron has been heavily linked with a move to Chelsea with manag...

Real Madrid scoring on Asian tour
KUNMING, China - Marketing officials from Real Madrid said yesterday that the European champions will pull in $9,1 million from their jaunt through Asia. The star-heavy club, to be showcasing new signing David Beckham, stand to earn about $2,5m per...

Border surfskiers struggle
EAST LONDON - Four Border surfskiers participated recently in the long-distance Mens' Health series race from Scottburgh to Brighton along the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. Duncan Boyd and Graeme Mountfort made up the senior team while Ralph Marillier...

Coria wins second title in two weeks
KITZBUEHEL, Austria - Second-seeded Guillermo Coria cruised past Nicolas Massu 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 in the Generali Open final here yesterday and won his second ATP title in two weeks. It was Coria's third title this year and fourth of his career, and he ...

Yesterday's Newmarket results
FIRST RACE 1 Western Heat .............L Nhlapo 1 4 Ordinance ...............G Figueroa 2 5 Hector............................ C Little 3 6 London Gold.. M Van Rensburg 4 Then came: Hero's Day, Prestodance Winner trained by O Ferraris and bred...

On Option rewards Newmarket punters
JOHANNESBURG - On Option won the main race at Newmarket yesterday, a Merit Rated 96 handicap over 1300 metres for a stake of R55 000. On Option was trained by Paul Matchett and started at 6-1. Second place went to Yiannachi from the Buddy Maroun st...

Yesterday's Kenilworth results
FIRST RACE 1 Who's Your Daddy...... R Khathi 1 12 Siena ...................G Behr 2 8 Adolescence .................G Cheyne 3 10 Lyricall Linda ...........K Neisius 4 Then came: Miss Teenage Dream, Tempera, Caesours Conquest, Woodntitbenice, Pu...

Saturday's Clairwood results
FIRST RACE 14 Dance King ................ B Smith 1 9 Western Prairie....... S Cormack 2 4 Franz Liszt ................ A Delpech 3 6 Bay Mission ...............R Roberts 4 Then came: El Ganador, Toscanini, Brave Lad, Arete, Desert Force,...

African Lion wards off Special Parade
WINNER: African Lion finally won a big race on Saturday at Clairwood Park after running well in the Vodacom July earlier this month. DURBAN - The 9-2 chance African Lion had to survive an objection after beating the four-year-old filly Special ...

Results round-up
CRICKET AUSTRALIA v BANGLADESH Cairns Second Test, third day Bangladesh 1st innings 295 (Sarker 76, Bashar 46, S Hossain 46, Mashud 44; MacGill 5/77, Gillespie 3/57). Australia 1st innings (351/3 o/n) Langer c Omar b Mortaza............. 1 Hayden b...

Schools' sport
WELL DONE: Cambridge students Dylan de Wilzen (10) (left) and Darryn Miles (15) have made the South African Biathle team that will tour France later this year. The boys were selected for outstanding performances at the South African Biathle cham...

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