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...

Lax defense costs Oxford in Varsity warm-up

Ellie Swinton witnesses a close run defeat for the women's lacrosse team against Cambridge

Shake-up in the Premier League

Michael Peet looks at the recent developments in England's top tier

The imperfection of Muhammad Ali

Cherwell Sport looks at the bee's sting

Cherwell Sport tries out Korfball

Continuing our tour of Oxford’s more unusual sports, Caspar Eliot goes Dutch as he tries out Korfball

Keble curtail Anne’s ascendancy

Ollie Waring describes the troubled renaissance of the St Anne’s 3rd Mens football team

Oxford Blues sting Wasps

Caspar Eliot watches the Oxford Rugby Team continue their Varsity build-up with a solid victory

Crossbar Challenge-Week 2

Keble are the second team to step up to the CherwellTV Crossbar Challenge

The pen is mightier than the ball

Ellie Swinton describes her affection for the language of the football pundit

Tales from the deep: Cherwell Sport tries out Octopush

Continuing our tour of unusual sports, Caspar Eliot swallows a lot of water as he trains with the Octopush team.

Hockey Blues fall to Exeter

Matt Nicol reports from Iffley Road as Oxford's men took on the reigning champions

Cherwell Sport goes caving

First up in this term’s compendium of unusual sports, Vicky Lim discusses the highs and lows of caving

Is rowing worth it?

Cherwell’s Sport debate assesses the p-rows and cons of the iconic Oxford sport

Michaelmas term sport preview

Matt Nicol looks ahead to what Michaelmas 2011 has in store for sport fans

Summer 2011 Sport Round Up

Adam Fellows looks at all that we’ve missed in the world of sport over the long vacation

BUCS Athletics at the Olympic Stadium

Caspar Eliot writes about what can quite legitimately be called the opportunity of a lifetime

A Fresher’s Guide to Sport at Oxford

In the next few weeks pre-season starts in earnest for those capable of representing the University (known as Blues teams) as they attempt to shed the pounds of summer excess in preparation for the season ahead. Whether you are capable of such lofty heights or would just like to partake in some fun competition, here are Cherwell Sport’s top 10 reasons to get involved in sport at Oxford.

Britain at the 2011 Athletics World Championships

With the World Athletics Championships in Daegu approaching and London 2012 on the horizon, Cherwell Sport examines Britain’s best medal hopes.

English cricket shows football the way forward

The recent performances of England's national teams couldn't be more different. Cricket could teach our footballers a thing or two

Substance over style

The traditional squabbling between English clubs rarely leads to success on the field. Eventually, pragmatism prevails

The gospel according to Joseph

Steffan Blayney on the Moz-terious ways of Joey Barton

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