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...
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The inescapable exhaustion of the tennis season 

The fatigue is inescapable as the tennis season draws slowly towards a close. Players...
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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,...
Sport Natalie Tan -

Ethics versus economics: The WTA Finals in Riyadh

I am a tennis aficionado. I follow tennis year-round, and each tournament has a...
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Cherwell tries: real tennis

Tamsyn Woodman tries her hand at the real sport of kings

Netballers in double Varsity win

Hannah McKay watched the Blues outclass Cambridge again after the Roos secured a narrow win

Swapping Wahoo for Wembley

Bradford City fan Max Dixon put all thoughts of Oxford aside as he made the trip to Wembley for his club's special day

Interview: Sir Trevor Brooking

The FA's head of youth development Sir Trevor Brooking shares his vision for the future of the national game with Edward Lowe

Footballers should learn respect from rugby

Will Dufton is shocked at the way college footballers treat their referees and urges them to learn from rugby players' example

Cherwell tries: Motorsport

Alex Hawkins-Hooker joins the Oxford University motorsport team on one of their test days as they prepare for this term's racing

Football Cuppers down to last four

Josh Platt rounds up the quarter-final action which left New, Worcester, Lincoln and Wadham one win away from Iffley

Interview: Paralympian David Smith

Edward Lowe hears the remarkable story of the Paralympic gold-medal winning rower David Smith

Swimmers make a splash in Varsity win

Oxford's swimmers stormed to a record breaking margin of Victory in the pool, beating Cambridge 117-63

The Secret College Footballer: Rivalries

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

No debate as town conquers gown at Union

Alex Hawkins-Hooker reports on this year's edition of the traditional Town vs Gown boxing contest

Government rattles football’s cage

Lucy Purslow examines the potential consequences of the government's latest threat to football clubs, which comes in the wake of last year's Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee report into football governance

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
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