December 6, 2023
The Bulls are in action in the Champions Cup over the next two weekends. Injured Bulls captain Ruan Nortje is hoping to make a return to action before Christmas when his team take on their arch-rivals, the Stormers, in a United Rugby Championship match in Cape Town on December 23. Nortje, who is the co-captain
READ MOREThe television match official from the Rugby World Cup final stepped away from the international game “for the foreseeable future” on Monday, blaming a “torrent of criticism and abuse online.” English official Tom Foley made a series of big calls in the title match between New Zealand and South Africa in October in Paris, including
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Sydney was hit by a wild thunderstorm on Saturday night. The storm led to a music festival being evacuated and the delay of an A-League football match. Thousands of attendees at the Good Things music festival were told to evacuate Centennial Park as the thunderstorm swept through the city around 8:30PM. The lightning strikes also
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Damian Willemse will turn out at inside centre in place of the injured Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu. Stormers coach John Dobson has picked a star-studded team, full of Springboks, for the United Rugby Championship match against Zebre Parma in Stellenbosch on Saturday. Recent World Cup winning Boks Damian Willemse, Manie Libbok and Deon Fourie have all been
READ MOREVincent Kompany does not look like a man who is feeling the pressure. His Burnley team is last in the Premier League standings and faces Sheffield United on Saturday in a game that could be crucial in the battle to avoid relegation. While Kompany acknowledges its significance, he refuses to be weighed down by the
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With 3.7 million Australian households struggling to put food on their tables, Woolworths has pledged to match every dollar donated by customers to the OzHarvest Christmas Appeal. Until December 26, Woolworths customers can choose to round up their shop to the nearest dollar at self-checkouts, add a 50 cent token at the full service lanes
READ MOREThe United Nations ambassadors of the United States and North Korea sparred at the Security Council on Monday over Pyongyang’s first spy satellite launch and the reasons for growing tensions in a rare, direct, public exchange between the adversaries. After a nearly six-year absence, North Korea again started sending its U.N. envoy to Security Council
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MADRID (AP) — Brazil forward Rodrygo has been the target of racist abuse on social media following the World Cup qualifying game against Argentina. “The racists are always out there,” Rodrygo, who is Black, said in a message posted Thursday. “My social networks have been invaded with insults and all kinds of absurdity. It’s all
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Players with the Argentina football team left the field and ran towards fans as crowd trouble and clashes with police delayed their game against Brazil at Rio’s Maracana Stadium on Tuesday night. Footage here, provided by match attendee Felipe Matos, shows the Argentina players being drawn to the flashpoint in the crowd, between their fans
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Disney+ Hotstar set a new peak concurrent user record of 59 million during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup final between India and Australia on Sunday, breaking the previous record of 53 million during the semi-final match between India and New Zealand on November 15. The platform, which is streaming the tournament for free to
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