Sport

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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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“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,...