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 boxers Gown and out

Monish Kulkarni watches Oxford University Amateur Boxing Club's finest as they take on the Town in the Union Debating Chamber

Mario Balotelli spotted queueing up for hall

With the transfer deadline creating its annual flurry of chaos, madness and completely unsourced rumours, Ollie Waring examines it from an Oxford perspective

Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: will it ever happen?

It would be the biggest fight of the last twenty years, pitting two of the greatest against each other, but has yet to even get near being fought. Monish Kulkarni asks why.

How to get the Oxford Blues

Want to join the sporting elite and look dashing in a Dark Blue blazer? Caspar Eliot explains the options.

Rugby League snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

James Nottage watches OURLFC let a half-time lead slip, as they host UWIC at a blustery University Parks

B-ballers come close, but no cigar

James Nottage beats the frost while watching Oxford University Basketball Seconds take on their Light Blue rivals at a humid Iffley Road

Darts And Respectability

Deputy Sports Editor Tom Goulding takes a look at the camaraderie surrounding the nation's fastest-growing sport.

The Mike Richards Interview

Ollie Waring and Ellie Swinton chat to Mail on Sunday deputy Sports Editor and Oxford alumnus Mike Richards about Mario Balotelli, the Olympics, and whether transfer rumours really come from 'some bloke down the pub'

Cherwell Sport gets the inside scoop

Ellie Swinton and Ollie Waring talk to Mike Richards, deputy sports editor of the Mail on Sunday

Twenty-Twelve: New Year, New You

Ollie Waring points us gently in the direction of some New Year's resolutions

Defence against the Darts Arts

Ex-sporting purist Matt Nicol reports on a most unlikely conversion.

Unions at his Beck-ham call

The Oxford and Cambridge Unions are reportedly both vying to secure David Beckham as a speaker this term

Mo Farah for Sports Personality of the Year

Mark Dyble backs a serial winner and potential future-great

Darren Clarke for Sports Personality of the Year

James Nottage explains why a nice guy shouldn't finish last

Mark Cavendish for Sports Personality of the Year

Cherwell Sport discuss who they think should take the trophy tonight; first up, Caspar Eliot puts forward the case for the Manx Missile

A SPotY of bother for women’s sport

Ellie Swinton discusses the lack of female nominees for this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year award

Dominant Blues conquer Cambridge in Varsity Rugby

OURFC enjoy a successful day at Twickenham, as wins for the Blues and U21s secure a 4-1 victory in the overall Varsity series against Cambridge

Sports Debate: Women’s sport is irrelevant

This week's debate sees the outgoing Cherwell editor take on a sport deputy editor

Thrills, spills and goals galore

Tom Goulding examines why this seasons Premier League season has the potential to be the best yet

Cherwell sport get their skates on

In the final installment of our obscure sport series, Adam Fellows takes to the ice of Oxford

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