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Skills, Thrills, and the X20

Having decided that sporting mediocrity will always triumph over academic success, I quickly bin that off and pore over the events of the game...

When you want to play sports but you’re lowkey just a chill guy

...it’s easy, at least for me, to prefer the comfort of sitting down in a warm library over going out into the cold to run about in a field or on a ground.

Growth, but at what cost?

It was a simple but clear signal; women’s football ‘isn’t football’. They were less important than the men, and so had to make do...

The epic highs and lows of uni hockey

No matter how ridiculous it seems that someone would volunteer for death by Google Sheets, ours is not to reason why...

Holding down the Fort(ress)

This week, Cherwell reached out to a titan of St John's, and indeed, Oxford sport: Ian Madden. Madden has been a groundsman at the St John's ground for 17 years, and a groundsman for 40.

Somewhere between a rock and Arteta’s “nice place”: Oxford United versus Arsenal in the FA Cup Third Round

The FA Cup third round is here: Man City banished a weakened Chelsea; Man United saw off Everton and now Arsenal will clash with a perilously underestimated Oxford United. 

Looking ahead – Cricket in 2023

Speaking of the Australians, they arrive in the summer for one of the most hotly anticipated Ashes series in memory.

The palace gates are opened: watching Spain vs Morocco live from Rabat

The entire city took to the streets in revolutionary fashion. It was a race to Morocco’s Telecom Tower in Hay Riad.

Oxford, it’s World Cup time!

"Whether you can list all the winners since 66’ or you just learned today that project Mbappe isn’t the French spinoff of project runway. It can be enjoyed by all."

Why I’m not watching the World Cup

If your answer to this is that football is just a game and should not be about politics, then I say that is exactly the point.

Will the full-time whistle be blown on Rugby Union?

"A recent survey published by the Statista Research Department shows that from 2016 – 2021 participation in senior rugby in the United Kingdom has nearly halved."

Is a winter World Cup feasible?

"Hosted in Qatar, this year’s World Cup has been pushed to the winter. Why? Because the average Qatar summer sees temperatures of 40-50 degrees celsius."

How high can Victor Wembanyama reach: Seeing the LeBron successor live in Paris

"But the year-abroad Gods have brought me to Boulogne-Levallois in order to see him play out the remainder of the season for Metropolitans 92 in the LNB Pro A."

When the Red Bull beat the Prancing Horse

"On the whole, 2022 has been of great importance to F1 due to it being the first season under a new sweeping set of aerodynamic regulations introduced to improve racing."

When it’s Arsenal, there’s no such thing as celebrating prematurely

"The obvious fact is Arsenal are performing better than they have in a long time and it's making a lot of people quite happy."

Choppers’ Corner: Back in Business

"Remember to be kind to your coxes, patient with your novices, and don’t bring your nice shoes to a crew date."

Katerina’s Ultimate Ranking of Oxford sports

"This is the very official and very empirical ranking of college sport as per the expertise and excellence of the deputy editor for the Cherwell Sports section."

(Women’s) football: the past, the present and hopes for the future

"Interest, support, strong passionate sentiments of support from prominent individuals – that is recent but professionalism, grit, and determination that has been displayed by the Lionesses is certainly not."

Still in the shadow of the men: the uphill battle for women’s sports

"Truthfully speaking, my flimsy gender parity test isn’t even necessary to see that the most successful women’s sports are those which occur in the presence of the men’s equivalent."

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