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Link Love: Project 2010
If you’re looking for one of the most comprehensive sources of 2010 World Cup news on the Web, click over to Project2010, and feast your eyes!
The site is busy, spunky, already very-well filled out, and represents the best of the local (”co.za”) online World Cup offerings. It’s got big-time SA football sponsors like KickOff Magazine, and will be well-positioned to reap a few rewards come the big event.
Keep it up, Project2010!
Date: September 3rd, 2006 |
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Le Roi Bresilien Assumes Throne
The Monsignors of South African soccer have spoken, and the nation is in awe. Of their rank, but rank, excesses, that is. Carlos Parreira has been confirmed as the new national coach, and is to earn a breathtaking $150,000 per month, at current exchange rates, for the next four years. Tax free. The many previous Rois of Bafana Bafana are now well and truly dead (it was thirteen in ten years at last count, wasn’t it?) - long live the Roi!
Date: August 29th, 2006 |
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What’s Happening in the Tri-Nations?
Your Correspondent has been gone for so long (OK, just a week), that he feels as though the Tri Nations should be over by now. And look - it is! To every South African’s relief, no doubt. Now we have what amounts to a two-test home series against New Zealand (who thumped the Boks and the Wallabies to take the title), and a one-off vs. Australia. Seen from that perspective, the sport on offer actually promises a few thrills.
Best South African rubgy roundups: Keo.co.za | iAfrica | News24
Date: August 20th, 2006 |
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Cast the Last of the Proteas vs. Sri Lanka, Test One
Will South Africa’s cricket side get an away-from-home win? It’s not easy to do in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where the likes of Muttiah Muralitharan haunts the wicket. Here’s how you can find out:
Fixture schedule: SA United Cricket BoardLive match scores on the web: Cricinfo.comTV schedule: Supersport
Date: July 29th, 2006 |
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Brazilian Piper Set to Call SA Soccer Tune
You know the old saw - “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” This will hopefully not apply, however, to the next four years of South African soccer, which is about to welcome Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira into its hot-and-cold clutches, if various rumors swirling in the local media can be credited.
Date: July 23rd, 2006 |
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Homeless World Cup: Three Weeks (and a bit) to Go!
Random update on the Homeless World Cup: just about three weeks to go until Cape Town plays host to hundreds of people from all over the world, who sell streetpapers like The Big Issue for a living.
Date: August 31st, 2006 |
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While We’re At it, What’s Happening with 2010?
Your Correspondent, renowned 2010 junkie, has suffered through World Cup news withdrawal for over a week, and is now about to go out there into the online wilderness and get his fix. Wish me luck!
[5 min later] Hmmm…
Date: August 22nd, 2006 |
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Weather Whips SA Hither, Thither
The sun has reluctantly decided to show itself again in Cape Town, but the cold front that has menaced us for the past week has shipped off to other parts (without taking the cold along with it, alas), causing snow to fall in Soweto, of all places, as well as flooding in Knysna.
I’m sure that, despite the chill, Mr. Danny Jordaan and company over at the 2010 World Cup offices are breaking out into a sweat. Imagine the Cup’s final match - which is normally held sometime in July - being played under a light dusting of …
Date: August 3rd, 2006 |
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Cape Town’s Rugby Museum Holds Vast Treasures
It’s surprising how many tourists come to South Africa on a rugby footing. True, we’re an on-again, off-again rugby world power, with a semi-glorious history (let’s not forget that the Springboks, as the national side are known, were “whites only” for about a century) - and then there’s the power of sport to compel people to do all sorts of wacky things, like buy overpriced televisions and travel halfway around the world.
At any rate, if rugby’s your game, then the thing to do in Cape Town is spend some time in the SA Rugby Museum, housed in cramped quarters in the Sports Science Institute of South Africa, right next door to the hallowed grounds of Newlands Stadium (which, today, is also used for soccer events).
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History of the Pigskin
Date: July 25th, 2006 |
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Springboks Escape Utter Humiliation This Time
South Africa’s Springboks, last week’s sorry excuse for a rugby team (they lost their first Tri Nations test match, against Australia, 49-0, in one of their worst defeats ever), magically morphed into this week’s reasonably-perky union footballers, falling to a far-superior All Blacks side in Wellington by just a whisker less than half their opponent’s score.
Translation: two years ago we won the Tri Nations, last year we came (a very close) second, and this year we’re going to be dead last.
Further ruggerama: Live Match Blog (BBC) | International Rugby Board | KEO’s …
Date: July 22nd, 2006 |
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