Wednesday 24th June 2026

Sport

Branding the beautiful game: How the World Cup logo signifies the commercialisation of football

As billions around the world gear up for the beautiful game to touch down in not one, but three cultural superpowers, there has been an overriding sense of disgruntlement...

It’s impossible not to be Romantic about football 

It’s impossible to not be romantic about football, and by that I mean Romantic...

Goodbye football: Welcoming political tension to the centre stage of the World Cup

It’s been four years since England men lost to France at the quarter finals...

The women who turned the tide

Summer 2024 Annie Anezakis has just been elected OUBC Women’s President, Lilli Freischem is celebrating...

From the top, the only way is down

Monish Kulkarni looks at the reasons behind England's test series defeat to Pakistan in Dubai

David Hemery: The Extended Interview

Caspar Eliot speaks to Olympic 400m hurdles champion and 1968 BBC Sports Personality of the year David Hemery

The toughest job in world sport

With all the current talk about the 'poisoned chalice' of the England job, James Nottage takes a look at a position that really separates the men from the boys

The Olympics — Cann she do it?

Ellie Swinton speaks to English international badminton player Elizabeth Cann about her plans for 2012 and beyond

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

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