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...

Oxford women triumph at Varsity Athletics

Caspar Eliot reports on a glorious win for Oxford’s women athletes and a loss for the men

Axle to grind for Oxford

James Nottage reports on a dominant Cambridge’s success in the Varsity road race

Catz’ cuppers stick-up

Becky Wyatt heralds a hockey treble for St Catherine’s after this weekend’s Cuppers finals

Treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen

With the Olympics rapidly approaching, James Taylor analyses how to ensure success for Team GB at London 2012

Summer Eights 2012: Thursday

James Nottage rounds up the second day of racing on The Isis

Summer Eights 2012: Wednesday

The highs and lows of the first day of the competition

Debate: Rain will ruin this Trinity

Jack McKenna and James Nottage have it out over this drizzle-infused term

Don’t look back in anger, or indeed at all

In a return to the sports pages Tom Goulding attempts to find some meaning in post-Premier League tea-leaf stirring

Gonna run this town tonight

University cross-country runner James Taylor gives an expert view on where the best running is to be had in Oxford

Cricket cuppers overflows with rain

George Lowe reports on the opening rounds of a washed-out, bowled-out Cricket cuppers

Tri hard, to some success

Xander Ryan relays a punishing day's Triathlon Varsity up in Northamptonshire

Atalanta’s new hunting party

Ellie Swinton gives a take on the Atalanta's Society's bold new initiative

7s a winning formula for Brasenose

Jack McKenna reports from the annual 7s rugby cuppers tournament and finds a challenge to the old order

Is proper cricket being cr-IPL-ed?

Monish Kulkarni investigates the effect of increased Twenty20 and finds complaints overblown

A Proteas-e of a cricketing summer

Jack McKenna ponders the summer, and wonders what it holds for England’s cricketers after a mixed winter run

Hotdogs, hotels and heartbreak

Oxford United fan Barney White pores over the state of the Us’ season after last weekend’s dreary loss to Southend

A very New kind of rugby

George Lowe watches Smurfs, Super Marios and Jesuses in a fancy kind of Rugby Cuppers

Grim down the bottom

Jack McKenna takes a look at the lower end of the fast concluding Premier League

No joy for Oxford in hockey Varsity

Martin Pickup describes a painful loss to Cambridge in the men''s hockey Varsity

Interview: Helen Skelton

Sport Relief adventurer, Blue Peter presenter, and charity superstar.

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