Category Archives: sport

Mountain Biker gets taken out by buck

Does exactly what it says on the tin: Says YouTube user mscmcc: Mountain Biker, Evan van der Spuy of Team Jeep South Africa got taken out by a RED HARTEBEES at amountain bike race at Albert Falls Dam. Check out this crazy footage which was taken by team mate Travis Walker on his GoPro Camera [...]

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It’s all kicking off…

Ah. The perils of supporting England in the Rugby World Cup. Actually, there really aren’t very many of them. It isn’t that important to me: after all, this is just rugby, it’s not football. But there’s always someone that suggests that because I’ve moved to SA, I must support the Boks. Yeah right, because when [...]

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Fourteen nil

File this one under “best pre-season friendly scorelines ever”: That’s a nice confidence booster ahead of the start of the season on Saturday. Can’t. Stop. Laughing.

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Frozen Divers’ Faces

From The Telegraph: Sports photographer Ezra Shaw, employed by Getty Images, captured divers’ faces frozen in concentration during the men’s 3m springboard preliminary round at the 14th FINA World Championships in Shanghai, with hilarious results. Concentrated gravity + concentrating minds makes for some oddly disturbing images. That’s Sweden’s Jonathan Joernfalk. More faces only a mother [...]

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When we were top the league

Yes, Sheffield football is currently suffering, but I was recently reminded by a friend on Facebook that there was a time – however brief – when my beloved Sheffield United were top of the Premier League league – and Man U were bottom: Fans of the Manchester club may want to look away rather than watch that [...]

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