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Skills, Thrills, and the X20

Having decided that sporting mediocrity will always triumph over academic success, I quickly bin that off and pore over the events of the game...

When you want to play sports but you’re lowkey just a chill guy

...it’s easy, at least for me, to prefer the comfort of sitting down in a warm library over going out into the cold to run about in a field or on a ground.

Growth, but at what cost?

It was a simple but clear signal; women’s football ‘isn’t football’. They were less important than the men, and so had to make do...

The epic highs and lows of uni hockey

No matter how ridiculous it seems that someone would volunteer for death by Google Sheets, ours is not to reason why...

Holding down the Fort(ress)

This week, Cherwell reached out to a titan of St John's, and indeed, Oxford sport: Ian Madden. Madden has been a groundsman at the St John's ground for 17 years, and a groundsman for 40.

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...

Boat Race to return to River Thames in 2022

"The Boat Race will return to London this year, taking place on the traditional Championship Course on Sunday 3rd April 2022."

The Changing Face of Olympic Sport

"Tokyo 2020 (+1) was the opportunity for five new sports: skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing, karate, and softball/baseball. In addition, more events were included, such as BMX freestyle, and mixed gender relays in swimming and triathlon. So how successful were these new events?"

Row, Row, Row Your Boat Gently… Across the Atlantic Ocean.

Most of us here in Oxford will be talked into giving rowing a try at some point, be that dabbling in the odd college...

Talking to Tom Mitchell, Team GB Rugby 7s captain

"Achieving your goal feels great, and not achieving what you set out to get is painful for a while. But both outcomes contain emotions that only last for a while."

It’s coming to Rome: The Italian response to Euro 2020

"in order to win you need more experience, hard work, respect, and, most importantly, humility. The humility to realise that football does not have a home, but rather chooses one."

Taming the lions: What Southgate’s emotionally intelligent leadership can teach a divided nation

"From gestural activism to nationalistic bigotry and xenophobia, in the face of it all, Southgate has shown integrity, humanity and strength of character, and the trophy his team are fighting so graciously for is indelibly carved with the mark of respect."

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."

Fitness, fans and focus: OURFC prepare for The Varsity Matches on the 4th July

"It has been the case for every other sports club in the university that this has been a strange and difficult academic year, but OURFC have the chance to cap it all off with two wins over the Tabs in front of a crowd of dark blue in Leicester. "

Clash of Titans – and Logan Paul?

Earlier this month, Tyson Fury and Joshua Anthony agreed to participate in an historic fight to take place on the 14th of August in...

University return to sport: club Presidents react

After a remote Hilary, Cherwell asked Oxford University’s sports clubs about their plans for reopening. “You can't really get close to someone while you're on...

Sexual violence in Oxford Sport: in conversation with Sofia Baldelli, President of Atalanta’s Society

CW: sexual violence and rape Sarah Everard’s tragic passing in March of this year and the ensuing interest in the @everyonesinvited Instagram account, which shares...

Manchester, football and the Glazers: the background to the Manchester United fan protests

Old Trafford, the Theatre of Dreams, has seen many iconic moments of footballing history. And yet, fans flooding onto the perfectly manicured pitch in...

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