Saturday 18th April 2026

Sport

Oxford’s women fight back to win first Boat Race in almost a decade

The Boat Race’s recent history has proved to be a morbid affair for Oxonians. Cambridge, boasting triumphant form, has returned year after year to defend a long streak of...

‘We’re all writing for screenshots these days’: In conversation with Jonathan Liew

When the call connects, Jonathan Liew spends the first five minutes asking me instead about whether you can get through an Oxford tutorial having not read the book your essay is about and what the news diet for students my age looks like.

OURFC crush Cambridge to sweep Varsity 2026 

Stepping out onto the field carrying the weight of a historic rivalry is one...

A matchweek with the OURFC Blues

Oxford is starting to wake up, a couple of cars and the occasional runner dotted about the roads.

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

Oxford forward in England squad for Hong Kong Sevens

Will Wilson, a three-time Blue, said he was “absolutely stunned” at his selection

Cricket Australia’s punishments are ludicrously harsh

Contradictory laws are no basis for bans which defy precedent and common sense

Twickenham extends Varsity agreement

The agreement was extended ahead of 100th Anniversary of the Varsity Match at the National Stadium

Oxford win women’s Varsity match on penalties

Oxford won 4-2 on penalties after a 3-3 draw.

Oxford win men’s football Varsity

Oxford won the match 3-0 after a dominating attacking performance

Cambridge win the Men’s Boat Race

Cambridge were the odds on favourite coming into the race

Cambridge win 2018 Women’s Boat Race

The Cambridge crew entered the race as favourites and were dominant throughout the race.

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