Thursday 4th December 2025

Sport

50 years of women’s cross-country Varsity

The 50th anniversary of women’s cross-country in the Oxford-Cambridge Varsity Competition is set to be celebrated on Saturday 6th December. The event will be held at Roehampton Vale, the...

The inescapable exhaustion of the tennis season 

The fatigue is inescapable as the tennis season draws slowly towards a close. Players...

Inside the little-known world of Oxford’s real tennis club

Real tennis? What, as opposed to fake tennis? No, real as in Real Madrid,...

Ethics versus economics: The WTA Finals in Riyadh

I am a tennis aficionado. I follow tennis year-round, and each tournament has a...

English football finally delivers in Russia 2018

An unprecedented level of engagement made this World Cup one to remember.

Gary Lineker – ‘the media scrutiny is far more intense compared to 30 years ago’

Speaking ahead of the World Cup, Gary Lineker opens up on football punditry, the British press, and what would merit a good performance for the England team

Oxford men seal emphatic victory at Lord’s

Matty Hughes bowled 132 not out as Oxford romped home

Oxford coach calls for clarity in funding of university cricket

Graham Charlesworth said: "It’s potentially good news, but we’re not quite sure what the detail looks like."

Oxford eight joins Wasps rugby academy

It follows a successful run out with the England sevens team in April

Keble and Pembroke win Summer VIIIs headships

Both crews rowed over on Saturday afternoon to seal their respective headships

Summer VIIIs: the lowdown

Our full guide to the pinnacle of the college rowing year

Gnodde and Hughes inspire record-breaking win

The records tumbled in The Parks on Friday, as Oxford's men romped to a T20 Varsity win

Claire Taylor: “there needs to be a continuous development of the game”

Taylor, the first woman to be named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year, says the game cannot solely rely on watershed moments for growth

The weekly chopper: fourth edition

Worcester and Catz look shaky ahead of the Eights Week run-in, as Exeter’s push for two sets of blades hots up.

An epitaph to Stoke’s Premier League stay

Relegation is painful, but it’s been quite a decade for the Potters

The weekly chopper: third edition

Wolfson women anticipate a summer of success, as Teddy Hall M2 (or was it M1?) are left red-faced

Nigel Owens: ‘I don’t want to be a celebrity’

Nigel Owens talks about his experiences with mental health and whether rugby has a problem with ‘lad culture’

“It was the kind of stuff that I thought had been banned in the 1960s for having no taste”

St Peter's master Mark Damazer was unimpressed by Teddy Hall rugby fans' choice of beer in last week's Cuppers final

Cuppers Finals Day: Pembroke and Hall lift trophies

All the thrills and spills from a dramatic day at Iffley

The other footballers

"The players on this college football team have simpler motivations: camaraderie, love of the sport, and the prospect of beating Cambridge."

TMS commentator Dan Norcross: ‘I remember that rich, crackling sound through the radio’

Test Match Special commentator, Dan Norcross, says that the show was the sound of his childhood

“You have to really fight even to get a game”

Former Somerset spinner and Corpus alumnus Michael Munday says English cricket’s troubled relationship with leg spin is set to continue

Pembroke prevail on penalties to reach Cuppers final

Pembroke won the shoot-out 4-1 to take a place in the final against a mixed Wadham and Brasenose team

Oxford student places 10th in London Marathon

Eoghan Totten will be the first Oxford athlete to earn a full blue in marathon

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