Updated: 8am GMT -- 2004/04/03
Sport
Coaches fire up teams for big soccer clash
JOHANNESBURG - Word around football circles is that there is no rivalry as fierce and intense as the one be tween Kaizer Chiefs and Ajax Cape Town and today's Absa Cup Last 16 clash could further lend credence to that perception. Already Chiefs and ...
New lease of life for Ntontela-Makepula bout
By Mesuli Zifo EAST LONDON - The previously doubtful international junior bantamweight clash between Lunga 'Mad Dog" Ntontela and Hawk Makepula scheduled for the Orient Theatre here next month has been given a new lease of life to proceed. The figh...
Time of reckoning for Bucks
By Mesuli Zifo EAST LONDON - Bush Bucks soccer coach Mlungisi Ngubane was an interested spectator when Basotho Tigers came from behind to beat a spirited Blackburn Rovers at Mdantsane's Sisa Dukashe Sta- dium four weeks ago. Besides being a soccer f...
Queenstown is ready to host Bulldogs' match
By Brian McLean EAST LONDON - Approximately 120 VIPs and guests will attend today's Vodacom Cup rugby match between Border Bulldogs and the Leopards in Queens town today. The match, which coincides with the annual Queen's College rugby and hockey fe...
Border cricketers rewarded
By Peter Martin CRICKETWINNERS: Border Bears players who garnered awards at yesterday's end of season function at Mercedes-Benz Park are, back row from left, Laden Gamiet, Tyron Henderson, Justin Kreusch, and in front, Mark Bruyns and Steven Pope. Ch...
England in trouble on second day
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - England were 73/4 in their first innings at lunch on the second day of the third Test against the West Indies here yes- terday. But by tea time England were in desperate straits on 162 for eight wickets. Only Graham Thorpe...
Proteas to play two Tests in Sri Lanka
JOHANNESBURG - The CEO of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, Gerald Majola has released the confirmed fixtures for the South African cricket team's tour to Sri Lanka in July and August this year. The series will comprise two Tests and five li...
Arsenal pursuing treble
LONDON - Arsenal midfielder Fredrik Ljungberg is well aware of how much it meant to the club the last time they lost a FA Cup semi-final to Manchester United. And the Swede is determined he and his team- mates will not have to suffer the same bit...
One change to Sharks XV
DURBAN - Sharks coach Kevin Putt has sprung a surprise by opting at the last minute to stick with Russell Winter at eighthman ahead of Shaun Sowerby. Putt had made it known through the buildup week that he intended to select Sowerby, a former Sha...
Highs outweigh lows this season
THIS past week has been a week of records, milestones and achievements. Verinder Sehwag became the first Indian to score a triple century with 309 against Pakistan. Australia whitewashed Sri Lanka 3-0 and in the process Shane Warne moved to within t...
SA hockey men off on Australian tour
JOHANNESBURG - With their Athens Olympic participation still in the balance, the South African men's hockey team are carrying on regardless. The team embarks on a tour to Australia next week in preparation for the Olympic Games which they qualifi...
Boland beat Pumas
PAARL - The Boland Cavliers overcame a first half deficit to pip the Pumas 15-14 in a Vodacom Shield rugby match here last night. The visitors led 7-3 at the break. Scorers: Boland Tries: Ashwin Bock, Jonathan Conversions Solly Goose...
Acid test for Crusaders
SYDNEY - The chances of the Canterbury Crusa- ders winning their fifth Super 12 rugby championship this season hinge on how they perform against the in-form ACT Brumbies in this weekend's seventh round of matches. The Brumbies lead the southern...
Streak given the sack
LONDON - Heath Streak was yesterday axed as Zimbabwe cricket captain and replaced by wicket-keeper Tatenda Taibu, it was re- ported here. According to the BBC, all-rounder Streak was alleged to have made several demands to the Zimbabwe Cricket Un...
Flair, entertainment at SA Swimming Champs
By Luxolo Mantambo EAST LONDON - The fifth and the final day of the SA Swimming Championships at the Joan Harrison Complex here did not produce any record-breaking events but flair and entertainment were the order of the day. However, full credit h...
Chester's chirping
The sour sneer on Fleming's 'clock' THE South African cricket team managed a victory to salvage pride against the Sheepshearers. A sweet victory in the context of the tour. Summed up not in Graeme Smith's modest acknowledgements at the end, but by th...
Chiefs on top
DUNEDIN, New Zealand - Lome Fa'atau scored the last try in a nine-try cliff-hanger to give the Waikato Chiefs a 36-31 win over the Otago Highlanders in a Super 12 rugby match at Carisbrook here yesterday. The Chiefs started with a penalty try and...
Duminy saves WP in second innings revival
CAPE TOWN - It was a day of out with the old and in with the new on the third day of the SuperSport Series final between Western Province and KwaZulu-Natal at Newlands here yesterday. Province were in a spot of bother at 126/5 but new wunderkind JP ...
Mdantsane's Tornado meet Moroka Swallows today
By Mesuli Zifo EAST LONDON - Mdantsane's soccer pride Tornado have lost out on promotion to the First Division coastal stream but have pledged to make up for that by beating Premier Soccer League (PSL) giants Moroka Swallows this afternoon in Johann...
Boland bowlers toil in the sun
PAARL - What started as an easy-going end of season romp for both teams turned into hard work for the Boland bowlers as they completely lost the initiative on the opening day of their SuperSport Shield match against Eastern Province here yesterday....
A rugby derby match of note
EAST LONDON - A derby match of note takes place at Madeira Park in Queenstown today when local teams Old Collegians and Swifts-Police clash at 1.30pm. The match has been brought forward to accommodate the Border Bulldogs versus Leopards Vodacom Cup ...
Hello summer, arrivederci inverno
TALES FROM THE ISLE OF DOGS with BARRY COX THIS is a significant week in the northern hemisphere. Signifying the approach of the always- anticipated summer, the daylight savings scheme meant that all clocks were turned one hour earlier last Sunday m...
Wolf Whistle and Mawing face huge task at the Met
CAPETOWN - Fresh from their triumphs in last Saturday's Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates, Mike de Kock and Weichong Mawing will be pinning their hopes on Wolf Whistle in today's R1,5 million J&B Met at Kenil- worth. But t...
Horse sickness scare
JOHANNESBURG - Properties in the Kalbaskraal and Durbanville-Klipheuwel areas in the Western Cape have been placed under quarantine because of a suspected outbreak of African Horse Sickness, SABC radio news reported yesterday. The death toll a...
Forecast betting (Cape Town)
RACE 1: 2-1 Oh Joshua, 4-1 Halidom, 5-1 De Gaule, 7-1 Josiah, Irish Reserve, 8-1 Mr Luck, 10-1, Little Gee, Diceman - upwards RACE 2 12-10 Something Else, 40-1 Son Of Sam, 5-1, Black Kite7-1 Kilconnel's Gold, Twenty Eight Black10-1 Niente, Elemen...
Met selections (race 8 at Kenilworth)
Daily Dispatch 2 Wolf Whistle 3 Yard-Arm 12 Sports Warrior 5 Monet Computaform 3 Yard-Arm 2 Wolf Whistle 9 Sharief Song 12 Sports Warrior Speed Rating 3 Yard-Arm 11 Cousin John 5 Monet 8 Shoes Of Silver David Mollett 3 Yard-Arm 7 Red Badge ...
Arlington results
1Maiden Juvenile Plate, R31000, 1 300m: 10 ROYAL ELECTORATE .C Roberts 1 4 Crimson Cathy........ L Mofokeng 2 7 Karoo Heritage...........A Eddery 3 6 Fast Beat.....................W Uys 4 Winner trained by: Alan Greeff and bred...
Today's Gauteng forecast betting
RACE 1: No forecast betting RACE 2: No forecast betting RACE 3: 12-10 Put Foot; 15-10 Fellow Man: 5-1 Social Connection, Caligraphy; 10-1 upwards RACE 4: 15-1 Nyasaland; 2-1 Fruit Of The Loom; 4-1 Divine Passion, National Legacy; 5-1 Zvakare; ...
Woodruff out to earn first prize
By David Mollett JOHANNESBURG - Trainer Geoff Woodruff will set a J&B Met record when he saddles five runners for today's big race at Kenilworth, but it is Yard-Arm who is expected to land the R937500 first prize for owner- breeder Mike Rattray....
Results Round-up
UNION HIGH FESTIVAL HOCKEY April 1: Girls: Union High Invitation 0 Gill 1, Stirling 1 Lowveld High 2, Volkskool 3 Despatch 0, Pearson 10 Umtata High 0, Cambridge 0 Riebeek 1, Union High 1 Hudson Park 0. April 2: Despatch 3 Umtata 0, Volkskool 1 Stir...
