Monday 22nd June 2026

Sport

Branding the beautiful game: How the World Cup logo signifies the commercialisation of football

As billions around the world gear up for the beautiful game to touch down in not one, but three cultural superpowers, there has been an overriding sense of disgruntlement...

It’s impossible not to be Romantic about football 

It’s impossible to not be romantic about football, and by that I mean Romantic...

Goodbye football: Welcoming political tension to the centre stage of the World Cup

It’s been four years since England men lost to France at the quarter finals...

The women who turned the tide

Summer 2024 Annie Anezakis has just been elected OUBC Women’s President, Lilli Freischem is celebrating...

Stanislas Wawrinka: The real deal?

Emma Alexander looks at tennis star Stanislas Wawrinka’s shocking Aussie Open win

Confirmed: Varsity Football back at Craven Cottage

The Varsity football match returns to Craven Cottage for a 3pm kick-off on 6h April; Boat Race Day

Taylor named new rugby captain

26 year-old Aussie Jacob Taylor has been named the new Blues Rugby captain, replacing the retiring John Carter

‘Quenelle’ controversy a cause for concern

Anelka’s gesture is further proof of football’s problems with racism, argues Jacob Rabinowitz

Women’s Blues give Brookes a bashing

Elliot Chester reports on a comprehensive Women’s Blues victory over their noisy neighbours

Hockey Blues start Hilary term unbeaten

Chris Knowles and Oliver Sugg report on the start of the Blues Hockey Hilary term

Blues unbeaten in Dublin tour

Ezra Rubenstein rounds up a successful winter Irish excursion for Blues football

Is Italian football entering a new era?

Gruffudd Owen asks whether Clarence Seedorf’s appointment at AC Milan is the sign of better things to come

Time to savour the romance of the FA cup

Jonny Minshull-Beech champions the importance of the world’s oldest cup competition

Swimmers make a splash in Spain

Holly Winfield reports on Oxford University Swimming Club’s eventful winter training camp

David Moyes: the chosen one?

Jacob Rabinowitz analyses Manchester United’s newfound mediocrity

The trials of being a sportsperson

Chris Knowles explores the physical and mental challenges of professional sport

The Sporting Bio: Rich Smith – Football

In the first of a series of sporting biographies, Ben Szreter profiles Oxford’s most gifted sportspeople

The Premier League’s World Cup hopefuls

Gruffudd Owen assesses the World Cup chances of the Premier League’s English, Spanish and Brazilian stars

Undergrad retains England youth rugby place

Gus Jones of St. Catz and London Wasps has been named in the England U-20s squad for the forthcoming Six Nations.

Is the Swann-song justifiable?

Jonny Minshull-Beech provides a criticism of Graeme Swann's retirement mid-Ashes

So we’ve lost the Ashes, now what?

Samuele Volpe discusses the failings of the England cricket team this winter: what we can expect in the remaining two tests of the series.

Carter leads Blues to fourth win in a row

Samuele Volpe recaps an enthralling game at Twickenham which saw the Oxford blues victorious yet again

England responsible for own fate in Brazil

Jonny Minshull-Beech argues that neither the group nor the weather can be blamed if England flounder in Brazil

Rugby’s Southern Hemisphere still dominate the Home Nations

James Reid provides a retrospective on Rugby's Autumn Internationals

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