Blues Stung
It was a physically huge midweek Wasps side designed with one thing in mind: destroy and win. How wrong they were. Despite the scoreline Oxford, with short periods of exception, were easily the better side playing brilliantly lucid and technically glowing Rugby.
Sport: Peter's on Pulse
As Arsene Wenger will tell you from bitter experience, it isn't always wise to talk about power shifts too early in the season, but Teddy Hall must nevertheless be starting to look over their shoulders.
Sport: Hands on?
Last Saturday, Oxford University Handball Club held their first tournament at Iffley Road Sports Centre as part of the National League South. They were joined by three clubs from the south, namely Great Dane/London HC, London Heathrow HC and Southampton University HC.
Sport: Running Rhodes of success
Queens and Trinity have dominated college athletics for the past few years, but on Sunday it was the turn of the newly-formed Rhodes Scholars team to take away the Chevasse trophy and with it the Cuppers title. The aim of having a Cuppers event on the track at this time of year, as former OUAC president Laurence Chandy said, is to 'try to swipe Freshers from rowing'. And it appears to have done its job with scores of freshers competing in the event, many hoping to win selection for the Freshers Varsity Match competition against Cambridge to be held at Iffley Road a week on Saturday. ...
Sport: On The Game...
The recently developed test for the designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG, has uncovered the deep rooted drug problems in Athletics. While the recent positive tests of Dwain Chambers, the fastest man in Europe and favourite for next years 100m in Athens, and a large number of the American Olympic team may come as a surprise to some, drug cheats are not a new phenomenon. From the eastern Bloc 'women' to more recently Olga Yegerova, Athletics has been dominated by cheats. ...
