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...

Wish you were here XI

A review of the players who didn't make the 17-man squad

Blues in the pink as Brighton lax lustre

Sam Johns visits the seaside with the Blues Lacrosse team and reports on success against some Pathers

Oxford don’t tread water

Tom Booth reports on some excellent results from the British Universities swimming championships

The Tables have turned

Chris Lambert and Harry Whittle describe an exciting 7-5 win for St Catz

Stash: All the gear and no idea

Jonny Woods gives us an insight into the wonderful world of sporting stash. Does it serve a purpose other than to look ‘cool’ in Park End?

Disability sport not looking so grey anymore

James King speaks to Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson about her experiences in disability sport and what we can expect at London 2012

Aussie rules ok?

John Federssen gives us the low down on Oxford Aussie Rules

Blues battered at Shark End

Ralph Turner reports on a difficult night for the Blues against an impressive Sale Sharks side

On your marks, get set

Nick Hasle dives right into an over-chlorinated Swimming Cuppers

A game of two halves is better than one

Jonny Woods reports on how sporting dynamics at St Hilda’s have changed since the college became unisex

Cuppers: It’s a knockout

Cherwell Sport hears from the winners and losers from an eventful first round of football cuppers

The ups and downs of sport this term

Halfway through the sporting season Jonny Woods considers this term’s successes and failures so far

Oxford women net an emphatic victory

Newly appointed netball correspondent Alex Harding reports on Oxford’s impressive win

Not quite stuck in the mud

Oliver Moody reports from the quagmire that was an entertaining, but chaotic, cross country cuppers

For King and Country

David Timmins on the progression of archery since we last fought France

Brookes just don’t like us. Do we care?

Jonny Woods demonstrates how last week's friendly was a good indicator of Oxford�s one-way sporting rivalry

From the player’s mouth

Cherwell Sport gets a run down of the second week of college sport from the players on the ground.

Tales from the deep

David Hyman on one of the stranger sports you can play in Oxford

Blues stung by angry Wasps

James King watches the first major Blues fixture of the season, at the Iffley Road Stadium

Blues can’t shut out Brookes

Ralph Turner watches a day of intense drama at Iffley Road, both on and off the pitch

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