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The Oxford Sirens, Oxford University’s competitive cheerleading squad, has been going from success to success, with their all-girls Level 2 team placing first in a national competition back in February and the entire squad performing their inaugural showcase just a few weeks ago. Continuing on from this success, the Sirens hosted the largest Cuppers competition […]
Continue ReadingOn Sports Fed’s ethos and excellence vs. participation: We’re quite lucky in that the college system provides us with an inter-menial sports structure so we have to do very little to fission across the University campus. Unfortunately what it does mean is that the colleges tend to keep to themselves so we don’t have a […]
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Their 1-0 win over Crystal Palace sealed it – with three games to spare, Chelsea won the Premier League for the fourth time in 11 years. Their triumphs didn’t stop there – six Chelsea players were in the PFA Team of the Year, Eden Hazard was crowned Player of the Year, and José Mourinho received […]
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Forget the Boat Race, forget Varsity, forget Cuppers finals. Saturday 30th May marks what promises to be one of the most fresh and thrilling events in the Oxford University sporting calendar. In a few days, the University Korfball Club will take on Isis, a local Oxfordshire team, in the first ever Town vs Gown korfball […]
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For a brief moment, the NBA playoffs seemed destined to be underwhelming. Six of the eight first-round matchups ended within five games. The Wizards and the Grizzlies basically murdered basketball in the cities of Toronto and Portland respectively, as the two teams collapsed so drastically that both are left pondering the possibility of reconstructing their […]
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As we’d expect from an event that was once used as a marketing vehicle for milk, most of us see the League Cup as being less prestigious than the FA Cup. Nonetheless, the former still attracts a lot of attention. Both are treated as major trophies and the final of both competitions is a big […]
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Twenty-nine teams entered, but only one emerged victorious. No, it wasn’t Teddy Hall, who were trying to repeat as champions after winning it all in 2014. It wasn’t New, who escaped a challenging group unscathed and seemingly with all the momentum on their side. Nor was it Oriel, who entered the tournament as league winners, […]
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On the 12th July 2015, a new set of Wimbledon victors will be decided and declared. If you’re an eagle-eyed reader, and a big fan of tennis, you might be puzzled by that sentence. Previously, it’s been impossible for the final to happen so late in the year because – for a scarcely believable 115 […]
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Saturday 21st March 2015. This day, “Super Saturday”, was arguably the most entertaining chapter in Six Nations history, featuring a record-breaking 221 points scored, a best-ever 27 tries, and a massive 55-35 victory for England against France. An unprecedented number of people tuned in to watch the action on TV. The spectacular nature of the […]
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League: Harry Aaronson 17-year-old rugby league player writes in defence of his sport There are many stereo-types of rugby league players: Northerners, thugs and soft. Whilst some of these stereo-types may be true, others are definitely false and when you look at the game that is rugby league, you cannot help but think that it […]
Continue ReadingJon ‘Bones’ Jones, reigning champion of the Ultimate Fighting Championship light-heavy weight division, was arrested last week following a hit and run incident on April 26th. Following the incident, Dana White (President of the UFC) announced on Fox Sports Live that Jones would be stripped of his titles, and indefinitely suspended from the championship. He […]
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The notion that ‘practice makes perfect’ is the second biggest well-intentioned lie that people tell on a regular basis every single day – right behind ‘Santa Claus is coming to town’ and just ahead of ‘surely they won’t kill off everyone on Game of Thrones’. Perfection is an ideal; an almost mythical state of existence […]
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Every year, three matches of Calcio Fiorentino – a bizarre and archaic type of football – take place in Florence’s Piazza Santa Croce. The mini-tournament, featuring a team from each quarter of the city, attracts around 1500 Italian spectators who arrive keen to see choking, head-butting, and the other “assertive” tactics that the rules of […]
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Almost halfway through this league season, Arsenal stood in sixth-place. Discontent amongst the Arsenal fans, which had been brewing for many years (exacerbated by exorbitant ticket prices), arguably came to a head on 7th December last year. At that time, after their team had lost 3-2 at Stoke, Gunners fans booed, shouted “out” and yelled […]
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No – Alice Richardson I am a feminist. I went to an all-girls school and was raised by a mother who attended that same school a generation earlier. That school was the one Emmeline Pankhurst chose to send her two daughters to. I believe in the power of women from all walks of life and […]
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On how she has achieved so much whilst so young: I’m not entirely sure; in my head, I don’t move very quickly! I do work really, really hard – I train 5 days a week now, which is tiring, especially balancing it with uni – but once you’re used to it it’s OK. I work […]
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With the summer fast approaching and the sun trying hard to raise temperatures, it’s that time of year again: time to dig out the mallets, crack open the Pimms and settle into the croquet season in Oxford. Croquet Cuppers 2014 is heralded by Oxford University’s Croquet Club as having been the biggest University sporting event […]
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