Captain’s Corner: Oxford Lancers
"American Football is a team game. Some players will touch the ball more than others, but we can’t succeed unless all eleven players are doing their job."
Beating the Blues – is it possible to overcome the 5th week blues?
The 5th week blues are an infamous and universal part of the Oxford experience. They are as renowned as crewdates, formals, and bops -...
Captain’s Corner: OULTC
"Cherwell spoke to the new Blues captains of the OULTC, Jack Pickering, captain of the men’s team, and Sama Malik, captain of the women’s team."
Captain’s Corner: OUAFC
Cherwell spoke to the new Blues captains at OUAFC, Iona Bennett and Roza Bailey who co-captain the women, and Harry Way who captains the Men's team.
Captain’s Corner: OUBbC
"If you're athletic, you can do well at basketball but at the same time there's so much intelligence to the sport, and you can really study it, its tactics and plays for example."
OUBbC: Swishes and switch-offs mark a day of the weird and the mundane
Oxford 101-50 Lincoln
Free throws in basketball are a closed skill. A closed skill is a skill that when used, there is nothing dynamic, nothing...
A story brews by the hoops on Iffley Road: The Oxford University Basketball Club
In the Acer Nethercott sports hall on Iffley Road, there are men bouncing balls and talking about ‘the Blues’. They toss a ball at...
OURFC men’s team victorious, women’s team defeated in The Varsity Matches 2021
"Though the weather was soon to change, as lightning gradually approached Mattioli Woods Welford Road, the Dark Blues’ performance refused any kind of change."
Football Varsity preview: “We are full of confidence going into Saturday”
"It doesn’t matter what has happened previously; if you win the Varsity you know it’s been a good season."
‘A far cry from high kicks and pom lines’: introducing Oxford’s cheerleading scene
First of all: do you think people's perception of cheerleading is skewed by the High School movie tradition, or more recently by the Netflix...
Life as a rugby blue: from the Varsity Match to a virtual Trinity
Tell us about yourself: where you’re from, what subject you’re doing, and how you got into rugby?
I'm Jasper, a second year physicist at Oriel,...
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...
Counting Blues
I guess being a fresher means that week 5 blues hit you the hardest. I was sitting in a lecture the other day, a...
Final year blues
All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.
I’m inclined to believe that Jack would have had a quarter life crisis
regardless of the...
