Thursday 12th June 2025

Sport

And the Isis roared – Summer Eights 2025

For the viewing public, and those involved in the racing, Summer Eights 2025 gave some reasons to be fearful. The Thamesis Regatta, the very first novice regatta of the...

In defence of the much-maligned offseason

What will you watch? That’s always the complaint, the second the final whistle blows...

Fencing Novices may be new, but they get the point

Varsity competitions might seem out of reach to many. Sportspeople who fill the ranks...

Lancer-lot: Oxford American Football trounce Cambridge Pythons

There aren't many sports in which 48-0 is a respectable scoreline. American Football is...

7s a winning formula for Brasenose

Jack McKenna reports from the annual 7s rugby cuppers tournament and finds a challenge to the old order

Is proper cricket being cr-IPL-ed?

Monish Kulkarni investigates the effect of increased Twenty20 and finds complaints overblown

A Proteas-e of a cricketing summer

Jack McKenna ponders the summer, and wonders what it holds for England’s cricketers after a mixed winter run

Hotdogs, hotels and heartbreak

Oxford United fan Barney White pores over the state of the Us’ season after last weekend’s dreary loss to Southend

A very New kind of rugby

George Lowe watches Smurfs, Super Marios and Jesuses in a fancy kind of Rugby Cuppers

Grim down the bottom

Jack McKenna takes a look at the lower end of the fast concluding Premier League

No joy for Oxford in hockey Varsity

Martin Pickup describes a painful loss to Cambridge in the men''s hockey Varsity

Interview: Helen Skelton

Sport Relief adventurer, Blue Peter presenter, and charity superstar.

Varsity Ice Hockey

Tabs thoroughly crushed in icy March encounter at Oxford ice rink

Five out of six for Blues after record win

Victorious captain Ben Calverley describes yet another Varsity success from a rampaging OURLFC in early March

A marvellous day at Marston for Oxford’s women

Vanessa Butz and Becky Wyatt toast their football success in March's Varsity game

Muamba – a ‘reminder’ that sport doesn’t really matter?

After a week that's left football fans reeling, Jack McKenna sifts through the reaction

Worcester best St Anne’s in 7th week scrap

St Anne's Captain Matt Nicol surveys the end of the M.G.A.'s Cuppers dream

Oxford’s Aussies rule

Hugo Batten reports from a long day of footy, tinnies and swearing at Parks

Blue Moon, you won’t be standing alone

Ollie Waring identifies the reason why we're all uncontrollably aroused by those Dark Blue blazers

Netballers neuter tame Tabs

Caspar Eliot chronicles the convincing victory after a slow start

Lax defence costs Oxford

Ellie Swinton sees the lacrosse Blues succumb to defeat by a strong Cambridge team at University Parks

Worcester ease into Cuppers final again

Adam Scott Taylor reports as Worcester thrash Lincoln while looking to retain their Cuppers football trophy

The MGA marches on

St Anne's Captain Matt Nicol reports as his side reach their second ever Cuppers final after a nail-biting victory over Teddy Hall

War paint for the win

Ellie Swinton looks at the rituals, superstitions and team-bonding exercises undertaken to maximise chances of that all important Varsity victory

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