National Champions
Women's Rugby BUSA Finals
Sport: Orienteers find their way home
Cross-country is seen as a gruelling struggle, at the best of times, writes Alex Edmans. So what label is given to its near neighbour, orienteering? Its small group of hardened devotees not only endure up to 10km of energy-sapping hills, dense undergrowth and ice-cold marshes, but also have to face the small task of having to navigate between several well-hidden controls, with only a compass, map and control card as companions. The slightest wrong turn or an inaccurate bearing can be fatal, as you then find yourself hopelessly lost, while the seconds keep on ticking away....
Sport: Storming finale to slam-dunkin' season
THE OXFORD Men's Blues Basketball Team put the finishing touches to a dream season during the last weekend of Hilary term by winning the BUSA National Championship at Loughborough University. With their victory in the final over the hosts, the Blues completed their "triple crown" by adding the national title to victories over Cambridge and an Oxford Town side which plays in the first division of the National League....
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Sport: Tabs poised for Pooh showdown
RECENT YEARS have seen a growing number of minor sports in Oxford clamour for the recognition they feel they deserve in the form of half-blue status. The Blues Committee saw fit to reject an application by Oxford's snowboarders on the grounds that the club's members did not compete at a high enough level and the Chess Club since, despite vociferous claims to the contrary, athletic demands on compteitors were insufficient for it to qualify as a sport at all. It remains to be seen what the Powers That Be will make of the latest Tab-initiated scheme to create a new area of Varsity competition....