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And the Isis roared – Summer Eights 2025

For the viewing public, and those involved in the racing, Summer Eights 2025 gave some reasons to be fearful. The Thamesis Regatta, the very first novice regatta of the...

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In defence of the much-maligned offseason

What will you watch? That’s always the complaint, the second the final whistle blows...

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Fencing Novices may be new, but they get the point

Varsity competitions might seem out of reach to many. Sportspeople who fill the ranks...

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Lancer-lot: Oxford American Football trounce Cambridge Pythons

There aren't many sports in which 48-0 is a respectable scoreline. American Football is...

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Xchanging integrity for champagne

Xchanging will be sponsoring this year's football and cricket cuppers competitions. Josh Platt accuses Oxford sport of selling its soul

Which footballers are which drugs?

One of the sport's age-old questions

Snow news day for Oxford sport

Last week's snowfall brought about the inevitable raft of cancellations and postponements, but Oxford's rowers, cross-country runners and swimmers battled through

Cherwell tries: surfing

Edward Lowe braved the chilly Atlantic waters and joined the Oxford surfing club on a weekend trip to Newquay

The secret (college) footballer: The snow

Having devoted an entire season of Thursday afternoons and evenings to the sports grounds and curry houses of Oxford, our anonymous man on the inside is better placed than anyone to reveal the sordid truths of life at the ugly end of the beautiful game

An athlete or an aesthete?

Tom Daley is the latest sports star to have attracted criticism for his media commitments, but Josh Platt doesn’t see the problem

The untold story of the sporting year

Sick of review of the year articles reminding you of how great ‘Wiggo’ was at the Olympics, at the Tour, and everywhere else he rode? Samuele Volpe takes a look at the some less well-known stories from a remarkable sporting year

Hockey blues hold off Hawks

Alex Copestake reports on a victory which sees the blues hold on to their top spot

The secret (college) footballer: The Fans

Priced out of the Premier League

Josh Platt takes issue with the extortionate prices charged by top flight clubs, and advocates a boycott

New rugby league side arrives at Iffley

Edward Lowe gets the lowdown on Oxford Rugby League, a new side set to join Championship One

Let them take drugs

Will Dufton relishes the thought of a sporting world populated with testosterone-fuelled Ã¼bermen

Simply sensational: Alan Hansen speaks to Cherwell sport

Josh Platt talks to BBC football pundit and former Liverpool player Alan Hansen about his career in broadcasting and his predictions for this season

Darts: more than just a pub game

Badly dressed fat men with a taste for beer can be sportsmen too

SPOTY: It’s not (just) about the sport

The BBC's Sports Personality of the Year has been criticised by some for being little more than a popularity contest. Tamsyn Woodman doesn't see the problem.