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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...

Varsity: Heartbreak at Craven Cottage

Oxford 3 - 5 Cambridge

Rugby: SEH v Keble

Teddy Hall 46 - 36 Keble

Football: SEH v Worcester

Teddy Hall 0 - 1 Worcester

Cricket preview

It's not going to be a quiet season...

Just not cricket: unusual sports

Do you take part in a less orthodox summer sport? Get in touch.

College football round up, 7th and 8th weeks

PREMIER DIVISION Teddy Hall 3 Oriel 0 Last week, SEH regained some form by beating Oriel 3-0. It was a good attacking display, in...

Varsity Fives-A double report on all the highlights of the day

Report 1: by James DuboffLast week saw the massive Oxford dynasty descend upon Eton, all guns blazing, raring to go and greet the Cambridge...

Blues Athlete of the Week: Sam Humphry-Baker

Club: Oxford University Rugby Football Club College: Saint Edmund Hall Year/Course: 3rd Year Materials Science Position: Centre How long have you been involved with...

Boat Race: One month to go

In British University sport there is nothing comparable to the boat race. World class athletes putting in 1,200 hours of training, a crowd that...

Teachers discouraging state school applicants

Teachers’ conceptions of Oxbridge are a major obstacle to applications from the state sector, according to a report published by the Sutton Trust last...

New CD Releases

Do you like rock music?  British Sea Power   4/5An impassioned baritone, declaiming over music both anthemic and intimate. The best of ‘80s indie cross-bred...

London Marathon Man

The nipples and inner thighs were daubed with Vaseline, the tummy full of energy bars, and I was ready to go. The moment had...

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