Penny Heyns inked her name into the folklore of South African sport by becoming the only woman in the history of the Olympic Games to win the 100m and 200m gold medal at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. Heyns was South Africa’s first post-Apartheid gold medallist – another reason to celebrate her this Friday. In [...]
Photoshop fail? The British & Irish Lions team photo includes Gethin Jenkins (back row 11th from left) and Brian O’Driscoll (back row eighth from left) – who were not available to attend the shoot because of club commitments. The actual line-up: a tweeted picture on the day shows Gethin Jenkins and Brian O’Driscoll were not [...]
Dream the Blues is a sports development programme initiated by Chelsea and sponsor Samsung. Over a period of months, coaches from the English Premier League team travelled across the Globe to build the brands as well as building the future of football. Jon Gericke* was invited to witness the programme first-hand.
We’re always on the lookout for new sporting drinking games and, as a result, it was with great pleasure that we stumbled across this gem on Twitter. The user @WelshDalaiLama providing us with a good few laughs and something we’re probably not brave enough to try when the British & Irish Lions square off next [...]
The ArenaSport Commentary Friday promise to you is to keep it short and to the point. Just enough sporting stories to keep you up to date while still leaving you enough time to pack in some work before Super Rugby starts and you knock off at lunch time. Promise: kept. ArenaSport Commentary compiled by Gareth [...]
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The ArenaSport commentary today is a brief one – much like the usual Friday posting – thanks to some serious difficulties being imposed on the writer of this feature with a desperately slow internet connection. That makes it difficult to find the best stories on the web this morning, but I’ve managed to come up [...]
Cricket has played an integral part in the Maritzburg College culture and ethos, even since the school’s first game played in 1870. Their latest international player, David Miller, benefitted greatly from those traditions. He revisited the school and chatted to Lungani Zama. Mrs Orchard remembers it well. It was Valentine’s Day, and her phone suddenly [...]
The rags-to-riches story of Anastasia Ashley is certainly one worth using the Google-machine to find out more about. That’s not the point or place of the Arena Angel post, however, where we celebrate the beauties of sport. The key facts you need to know, but would probably have gathered from the post. She’s a surfer. [...]
British & Irish Lions tour updates, Jose Mourinho, belly putter ban, Twitter rants, ref rants and Premier League awards are where we cast our eye today. Get all the best sporting news delivered daily to you right here in the ArenaSport Commentary. Compiled by Gareth Rosslee Here’s a useful little resource to bookmark for the [...]
