Sport

Will running a half-marathon fix you?

Running has undergone a paradigm shift; no longer a punishment in PE class or your parents’ Sunday morning escape, running is a lifestyle: a personal brand.

Sport Sophi Hayes-Hoyle -

Trump, tennis, and test cricket: Winter’s sporting woes

Wherever you look, sport in all its myriad forms appears to have stumbled into a great mess over the Michaelmas vac.

Sport Arun Lewis -

From ergs to euphoria: college rowing at Oxford

College rowing is an exercise in delayed gratification; the suffering of winter morphs into blades come Trinity.

Sport Arun Lewis -

You, too, can ski: at the cost of your ego and bank balance

Varsity isn't cheap by any stretch of the imagination.

Sport Sophie Shade -

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The Tour de Ski: Something for winter sports fans

Every year cross-country skiers from around the world begin a gruelling few days of competition in order to be crowned champion of the Tour...

Finding my Religion: Notes from a Leeds United supporter

The car pulled to a momentary stop and I stepped quickly out onto the wet concrete. (Leeds City Centre is always wet). I was...

Boxers Prepare for Two Monumental Shows

This term, Oxford University Boxing is set to host two massive events. Firstly, an annual staple on the Oxford sporting calendar: the historic Town...

150 years of rugby at Oxford

Oxford rugby dates back to the sports infancy. As many will know, the Oxford University RFC is one of the most renowned amateur clubs...

Top Ten Sporting Moments of 2019

1st June: Liverpool become Champions of Europe Unlike many of the events on this list, if you ask anyone where they were on 1st June,...

“Bikram”- Review: The fad variant assumes corpse pose

As a die-hard yogi since the age of eleven, I was quick to judge the idea of the new Netflix documentary Bikram as being unfair. I...

Queering Sport

Tena Thau on her failed attempt at netball, and why we should rethink how we play sports.

Boat Race Ready?

The past week saw some highly important races in the world of university rowing – Trial Eights. Each of the four clubs: OUBC (male...

Cambridge Dominate in Convincing 15-0 Men’s Varsity Win

A crowd of over 22,000 were at Twickenham on Thursday afternoon to watch a resounding Cambridge victory in the 138th Men’s Varsity Match. In miserable...

To ski or not to ski: is the Varsity Trip worth it?

On the final Friday of Michaelmas term every year, Broad Street becomes quite a sight to behold – picture hundreds of exhausted, rather dishevelled...

Running Santas come to town

Santa was, evidently, training for his December circuit around the world last Sunday, Oxmas Eve, with a 5k in University Park. Over 200 Fathers...

Road to Euro 2020

In England’s eight Euro 2020 qualifiers, 10 different players have scored. Both Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling have a goalsto-games ratio better than 1,...