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Two to Go In Super Rugby?

Sometimes bigger is not better. Super Rugby has found that out the hard way. Instead of learning the lessons from the competitions in Europe, who soon realised when the game went professional that too much rugby was harmful to the

Have National Olympic Committees A Future?

Every two years all of those countries who compete at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games become aware of their National Olympic Committee, the athletes are fully aware of these bodies, but many armchair fans are less aware. As of

Van Basten Leaves Fans Flat-Footed

What do you love about the sport you follow? Think about it for a minute before reading on. Is it the atmosphere? Or is it the excitement and skill? Or the fact that you can rely on it to deliver

No Winners in Junior World Cup Team Change

Can there be anything worse than qualifying for a World Cup or an Olympic Games and then not being allowed to participate? We saw this in Hockey with South Africa’s men’s and women’s teams who qualified for Rio by the

Do You Know We Are Here?

“All of a sudden it’s a World Cup, a Commonwealth Games, or an Olympic Games, and all of a sudden everyone wants to be on board the Kookaburras train” was a comment made by the Kookaburras Rio goalkeeper, Andrew Charter