Wednesday 28th January 2026

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Cricket: Pembroke vs Anne’s

Pembroke 165-9; St Anne's 167-2

Putting the Oomph in Barbados Rally

Oxford Motorsport    

Cricket: New vs Balliol

New 98 ; Balliol 99-4

Cricket: ChCh vs Magdalen

Christ Church 117-2 ; Magdalen 115

Varsity heartbreak: interview

Midfielder James Kelly was devastated to lose a pulsating match 5-3, but is optimistic for the future.  

Varsity: Heartbreak at Craven Cottage

Oxford 3 - 5 Cambridge

Rugby: SEH v Keble

Teddy Hall 46 - 36 Keble

Football: SEH v Worcester

Teddy Hall 0 - 1 Worcester

Cricket preview

It's not going to be a quiet season...

Just not cricket: unusual sports

Do you take part in a less orthodox summer sport? Get in touch.

College football round up, 7th and 8th weeks

PREMIER DIVISION Teddy Hall 3 Oriel 0 Last week, SEH regained some form by beating Oriel 3-0. It was a good attacking display, in...

Varsity Fives-A double report on all the highlights of the day

Report 1: by James DuboffLast week saw the massive Oxford dynasty descend upon Eton, all guns blazing, raring to go and greet the Cambridge...

Blues Athlete of the Week: Sam Humphry-Baker

Club: Oxford University Rugby Football Club College: Saint Edmund Hall Year/Course: 3rd Year Materials Science Position: Centre How long have you been involved with...

Boat Race: One month to go

In British University sport there is nothing comparable to the boat race. World class athletes putting in 1,200 hours of training, a crowd that...

Teachers discouraging state school applicants

Teachers’ conceptions of Oxbridge are a major obstacle to applications from the state sector, according to a report published by the Sutton Trust last...

New CD Releases

Do you like rock music?  British Sea Power   4/5An impassioned baritone, declaiming over music both anthemic and intimate. The best of ‘80s indie cross-bred...

London Marathon Man

The nipples and inner thighs were daubed with Vaseline, the tummy full of energy bars, and I was ready to go. The moment had...

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