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Image credit: Facebook. Description: Wayne Rooney playing for England. “A fudge,” “completely wrong,” “cheapens the shirt,” “a complete mockery of football”; these have been some of the reactions of former England players and journalists to the news that Wayne Rooney will be coming back from retirement for a friendly against the USA on 15th November. […]
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Image credit: Liam Frahm. Description: Rugby match between Oxford and Canada The Oxford University Rugby Football Club Men’s Blues gave an excellent account of themselves but ultimately failed to continue their good run of form against a challenging Canadian national team, losing 26-20. The Canadians came to a buzzing Iffley Road stadium at 7:15pm on […]
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Image Credit: SUNIL GROVER Manny Pacquiao, professional boxer and politician, and currently serving as a Senator of the Philippines, has accepted an invitation to speak at the Oxford Union on the 5th November. As reported by The Philippine Star, this event will precede a likely US press tour to announce his fight against Adrien Broner […]
Continue ReadingImage Credit: Wadham College Facebook – Description – Wadham Cuppers winning team Cuppers, for those of you not yet fluent in Oxford jargon, is an intercollegiate competition played in a wide range of sports, from shooting to powerlifting, every year. Football Cuppers gives colleges the opportunity of extra playing time, cross-division competition and the chance […]
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Image Credit: Tom Davidson/Varsity Ski (Used with Permission) The organisers of the Varsity Ski trip have announced the ski races that will take place at this year’s Varsity trip in Val Thorens-The Snow Games. The primary focus of the Games is on the Blues’ Races, where three male and female teams from each University battle […]
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Image Credit: Linacre Ladies That Lift/Linacre College 71-year old Oxford University professor and grandmother Dr Catherine Walter reached 1st place at the European weightlifting competition, Masters 7. Dr. Walter, who lectures in Linguistics at Linacre College, won 1st place across three lifts – squats, deadlift and bench press- at the championship competitions in Dublin this […]
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Image Credit: Mike Peel (CC BY-SA 4.0) Oxford University RFC men have narrowly lost to the Madagascar national team in a match that was decided after the 80th minute. Despite being denied a victory on the opening match of their tour, OURFC will be encouraged by a performance that saw the lead change hands and […]
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Image Credit: Edwin Martinez (CC BY 2.0) Serena Williams behaved poorly in the 2018 US Open Final. She lost her cool. On balance, she probably did deserve to be called on a violation for her outburst against umpire Carlos Ramos. But the salient question is not whether or not she deserved it according to the […]
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Image Credit: Oxford University Yacht Club Members of Oxford University Yacht Club have completed one of the toughest offshore races in the world: the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. The race covered 1,805 nautical miles and took the Oxford crew just over 13 days to complete. The crew finished at 1:30pm on Saturday 25th […]
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Image Credit: Ronnie Macdonald (CC BY 2.0) Recently, Mesut Özil announced his retirement from international football at the relatively young age of 29, citing racism as the reason for his decision. I think I can safely say that his decision to quit caught a lot of the football community by surprise. Sure, we thought, there […]
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Pictured: Action from the Women’s Varsity lacrosse match from February 2018 I am walking through the University Parks beneath clear and deep blue sky, among trees of pine and sycamore, mottled oak and marvellous copper beech. There is a light breeze in the air and birdsong can be heard all around. I’m with Bella, co-captain of Oxford’s Mixed Lacrosse […]
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Rowan Janjuah has selected his best XI for the season. Do you agree? For me, the principle of the PFA team of the year is problematic for two reasons. Firstly, it is announced on match day 35 of 38. Whilst that’s only leaving 3 or 4 games unaccounted per team, there are so many seasons […]
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Pictured: the Hertford A and Pembroke teams pose for the cameras after a hard-fought final Pembroke capped off a flawless Mixed Cuppers tournament run today at Lady Margaret Hall with a thumping 5-1 victory against Hertford A in the final. After winning all seven of their Pool B matches, then beating Oriel A by five […]
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Image Credit: Connor Thirlwell Keble seized the Head of the River in the Men’s division, and Pembroke in the women’s, to conclude a delightful week’s rowing on the final day of the Summer Eights Competition on Saturday afternoon. Keble M1 and Pembroke W1, after bumping themselves to the top spot on the Wednesday, delivered consistently […]
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Sports Editor Connor Thirlwell, who doesn’t row, wonders about rowing, and why people do it I high-tail down past Christchurch Meadows to the Boathouse Walk for some light research. It’s a bright, blue-sky mid-morning, to be filled in a few days’ time with the fervour of the Summer 8s rowing competition. It starts on Wednesday […]
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Football reporter Rowan Janjuah believes VAR should be here to stay Mark Hughes, at the end of Southampton’s crucial game with Everton (which ended 1-1, sadly for the Saints) came forward in his press conference and openly criticised the refereeing decisions which, he argued, cost him the win. His tone was not fiery or passionate. […]
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OxStu offers an impassioned introduction to a much beloved garden sport In 0th week, I fell in love, or, more aptly, was sent madly through the hoop with a precise mallet stroke (that works!), with croquet, one of the great garden sports. To the unsuspecting passer-by, croquet might seem innocuous, at best a picturesque element […]
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OxStu studies Oxford’s ‘winning draw’ against Cambridge and a 3rd division league college clash. At around mid-day I am patrolling the boundary and studying play. It’s a chilly, overcast Wednesday in University Parks, laced with a stiff north-westerly breeze. This changeable spring-time weather is a nemesis to cricket, always threatening rain. Later in the […]
Continue ReadingFollowing Arsene Wenger’s departure, Rowan Janjuah discusses the potential candidates who could succeed him. ‘Arsène who?’ read a once pertinent Evening Standard headline n 1996, a question that will never again be asked in the Premier League. Such is the legacy that Arsène Wenger has left not only at Arsenal, but for English football in […]
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