England set for ‘battle’

Report by Sapa-AFP

Sydney – ENGLAND skipper Martin Johnson said yesterday nothing less than the best would be good enough to beat France in this weekend’s World Cup semi-final showdown....

Halfback partnerships will feature in England-France semi-final

Sydney – The old adage that rugby matches are won in the scrum will be sorely tested this Sunday as two of the finest halfback partnerships battle it out in the World Cup semi-final between England and France....

Ex-players say Wallabies cannot win semi-final

Report by Sapa-AFP

Sydney – FORMER All Blacks and Wallabies are agreed that New Zealand will start favourites in their World Cup semi-final here on Saturday....

Australia ‘still a fair way off where we’d like to be’

Sydney – Australian hooker Brendan Cannon says it’s of no real consequence the Wallabies haven’t produced their best so far in the World Cup because their biggest challenge is ahead of them....

Healey on way home

Sydney – Utility England back Austin Healey has been sent home after both Iain Balshaw and Josh Lewsey passed fitness tests....

Dumisa rewarded with EP call-up

By Alvin Reeves

TALENTED batsman Dumisa Makalima has been rewarded for his fine form by being included in the Jumbos team to face Easterns in a Supersport Series cricket fixture in Benoni this weekend....

Olympic lifeline for men’s hockey

Johannesburg – The South African men’s hockey team has been thrown an Olympic lifeline. The team has been given another chance to qualify for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games after squandering a gilt-edged opportunity to qualify automatically in the All Africa Games final against Egypt last month....

England prove too good for Bangladesh

Dhaka – Andrew Flintoff blazed to a half century and grabbed two wickets to guide England to a seven wicket victory over Bangladesh in the third and final limited-overs match yesterday....

Ramsamy mum on SA medal chances

Report by Sapa

Pretoria – OLYMPIC boss Sam Ramsamy does not want to predict how many medals South Africa will bring back from Athens next year....

Santos in third spot after win over Ajax

Cape town – Santos moved into third position on the PSL standings when they beat Ajax 1-0 in a local derby clash at Athlone stadium last night....

Festival of youth soccer kicks off soon

Johannesburg – The Vodacom Amajita SA under-20 football team will be out in search of silverware at the Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) youth championships taking place here from November 29 to December 7....

EP swimmer has set big goals for herself

Swim Chat, by David Glover

THE focus of attention this week is on Velia Janse van Rensburg who recently represented South Africa at both the All-Africa Games in Nigeria and then the Afro-Asia Games in India....

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