Sunday 8th March 2026

Sport

OURFC crush Cambridge to sweep Varsity 2026 

Stepping out onto the field carrying the weight of a historic rivalry is one thing; winning the battle is another. Yet that is exactly what Oxford’s Blues did last...

A matchweek with the OURFC Blues

Oxford is starting to wake up, a couple of cars and the occasional runner dotted about the roads.

Away day blues: The impact of unfamiliar territory

With Varsity season fully underway, conquering the complications of an away day is key to a successful display of Oxford’s sporting superiority.

Off the bench, on the mend

Oxford’s eight week termly orbit cares little for the inconvenience of an injury or...

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.

Varsity Ice Hockey

Tabs thoroughly crushed in icy March encounter at Oxford ice rink

Five out of six for Blues after record win

Victorious captain Ben Calverley describes yet another Varsity success from a rampaging OURLFC in early March

A marvellous day at Marston for Oxford’s women

Vanessa Butz and Becky Wyatt toast their football success in March's Varsity game

Muamba – a ‘reminder’ that sport doesn’t really matter?

After a week that's left football fans reeling, Jack McKenna sifts through the reaction

Worcester best St Anne’s in 7th week scrap

St Anne's Captain Matt Nicol surveys the end of the M.G.A.'s Cuppers dream

Oxford’s Aussies rule

Hugo Batten reports from a long day of footy, tinnies and swearing at Parks

Blue Moon, you won’t be standing alone

Ollie Waring identifies the reason why we're all uncontrollably aroused by those Dark Blue blazers

Netballers neuter tame Tabs

Caspar Eliot chronicles the convincing victory after a slow start

Lax defence costs Oxford

Ellie Swinton sees the lacrosse Blues succumb to defeat by a strong Cambridge team at University Parks

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