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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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Ever since the final whistle blew in the FA cup two weeks ago, Chelsea’s post-season threatened to bemuse. In perhaps the most muted success since Wigan won the cup but descended to the Championship, Chelsea’s stubborn win at Wembley saw their players alternately celebrating a season saved and confessing it couldn’t plaster over a season […]
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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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Mixed netball college league. Regulations. Only one boy allowed on the court per team at any one time. Boys are only permitted to play in three positions: wing defence, centre and wing attack. “I sconce anyone who is a boy in the girls’ netball team”, a rugby player, male, once scoffed controversially to a mixed netball […]
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Manchester City’s 3-2 defeat to their bitter rivals United in April, it represented a clash between the top two sides in the country this season. What we also saw was a stand-off between the league’s two-standout goalkeepers: de Gea for United, and Ederson for City. At the start of the season everyone would have put […]
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As an institution, the Commonwealth is odd. It is a voluntary association of 53 nations lead by the Queen, who is only head of state in 16. Five have different monarchs. Most members are former British Colonies, although the two most recent editions, Mozambique and Rwanda, have no historical ties with Britain whatsoever. Furthermore, membership […]
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Trinity Term is here and a new summer season of sport begins, making the next couple of months as fine a time as any to get outside in the sun for an hour or two a week and get active! With Varsity matches for Netball, Hockey, Football, Fencing, Rowing, and Real Tennis all taking place […]
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After a comprehensive win over former undefeated WBO champion Joseph Parker, Anthony Joshua could hardly have done more to stake his claim as the world’s best heavyweight boxer. Fighting at his lowest weight in four years, Joshua delivered a controlled, dominant performance to ensure a unanimous points victory, demonstrating more composure and technical skill than […]
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“I am very sorry.” Glum-faced Australian fast bowler Cameron Bancroft, who was last week spotted by the television cameras illegally tampering with the ball on the field of play with a yellow strip of sandpaper – an offence which has since prompted crisis in Australian cricket – gives a sombre statement to the world’s press. […]
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