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...

Blues 2 – 0 Birmingham

Ben Szreter and Tom Phelan report on a Blues football revenge mission

Friday fight night doesn’t go to plan

Jack Prescott was ringside for the first big night of the year for the University’s amateur boxing club

Hockey season gets interesting

Christopher Knowles updates us on the recent goings-on at the hockey club.

Top of the JCR Premiership hotting up

Ben Szreter discusses the tense battles emerging in this year’s JCR top division.

An American werewolf in Wembley

Visiting student Elliot Chester spent Tuesday at England v. Germany, and explains his revelatory experience.

MT13 college rugby season review

Man-in-charge Sean Morris examines this term's rugby winners and losers.

Swimming Update

Gruffudd Owen fills us in on the recent meets of the Swimming club.

Baseball team consistently inconsistent

Elliot Chester summarises a topsy-turvy day for the Oxford Baseball side.

Sports’ awards celebrate successful year

Samuele Volpe sums up last week's gala sporting awards' ceremony.

British Quidditch Cup Review

Matthew Western provides a comprehensive review of this rather esoteric sport's national championships.

Last gasp Blues rescue a point

Samuele Volpe takes us through last week's tight and tense Blues football game which ended 2-2.

Rugby girls hammer Cardiff

Mairi Robertson sums up last weeks dominant BUCS league victory.

Blues run Russians close

The weekend saw Russia narrowly beat the Blues' Rugby Union side in a pulsating encounter in Iffley. Gruffudd Owen was there.

Boxing update

Jack Straker informs Cherwell of the upcoming challenges faced by our Amateur boxers.

Rugby League team beginning to sparkle

Matt Slomka reports from Oxford University Rugby League HQ on a big victory against local rivals Northampton.

Fencing team get the point(s)

Reuben Cohn-Gordon of Oxford fencing discusses the highs and lows of the season so far.

Blues v. Russia: The Lowdown

Cherwell's sport provides the essential big-game preview as the Blues Rugby team take on the 19th best team in the world.

College football 4th week round-up: Hotting up

Resident college football expert Ben Szreter runs through the last week's winners and losers.

Exeter student recalls mountaineering adventure

Exeter College's very own Patrick Gartland was lucky enough to climb Mt. Kilamanjaro earlier this term, he wrote this of his trek to the peak of Africa's highest mountain.

Blues netball: 4th week update

Gruffudd Owen caught up with the netball squad to catalogue some promising early season signs.

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