Friday 6th February 2026

Sport

Town and Gown share the spoils in boxing showdown

There’s something very satisfying about watching people try to beat the living daylights out of each other.

Publicity or progression: The Battle of the Sexes 

Women’s tennis does not need exhibition matches to command attention.

Will running a half-marathon fix you?

Running has undergone a paradigm shift; no longer a punishment in PE class or your parents’ Sunday morning escape, running is a lifestyle: a personal brand.

Trump, tennis, and test cricket: Winter’s sporting woes

Wherever you look, sport in all its myriad forms appears to have stumbled into a great mess over the Michaelmas vac.

Archers narrowly miss target

Oxford's archers fail to beat Cambridge in an extremely close Varsity match.

Oxbridge IQ system slammed

Newcastle don claims that IQ is flawed in favour of higher social classes.

Summer Eights victory for Balliol

Balliol seize headship after outstanding effort

Dark Blues in Varsity win

Oxford put in an impressive performance at Varsity athletics

It’s just not cricket

Billy Kenber gets behind the wheel, spending a day karting in the Varsity Race

Pembroke finish OXILP’s Cuppers hopes

Cricket Cuppers: Pembroke 165 - OXILP 138-9

Queen’s reach semis

Cricket Cuppers: Queen's 189 - Magdalen 73

Keble graduate goes native

BBC star Richard Massey talks to Adam Wynne about cricket in the South Pacific,  Zulu stick fighting and how tribal life isn’t that different from Oxford

Double delight for Oxford tennis

Oxford's men's and women's teams serve up strong results

Eights to dominate fifth week

Jack Pitt-Brooke looks forward to summer eights

VIDEO: Summer Eights

All the action and comment from Summer Eights.

All Blacks star to play for Blues

An international rugby star will be playing for Oxford’s Blues in next year’s Varsity match in December.

Guevel dominates Varsity kickboxing

Ring should have been covered in sand, not canvas.

It’s just not cricket: Ice Hockey

Discover the wonderful world of midnight ice hockey.

Oxford pummel Tab kickboxers

Oxford 5 - 1 Cambridge

Wednesday cricket washout

For a summer sport, cricket’s language and rhythms are largely dictated by rain.  Covers coming on, light drizzle, covers coming off and Rain Stopped...

New wins with hero Howell

New 207-4 - 171 Balliol

SEH leaps to athletic victory

Resounding win with 202.5 points

Exeter tumbles out

Somerville 139-4 - 136 Exeter

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