Australian teams are noticeably absent from the upper reaches of the Super rugby ladder after three rounds, but the Brumbies and Waratahs return home from South Africa with genuine cause for optimism.

Australian Super 14 rugby heavyweights the Brumbies and Waratahs each got a nasty wake-up call in South Africa during a spectacular round which featured a glut of tries.

India defeated South Africa by an innings and 57 runs in the exciting Kolkata Test on Thursday to retain her No.1 Test ranking. What turned the Test into a cliff-hanger was the last wicket stand between Man of the Series Hashim Amla and no. 11 batsman Morne Morkel.

World football body FIFA has cut ticket prices for South Africans in a bid to allow the hosts to fill the stadiums during Africa’s first World Cup in June, media reports said on Saturday.

Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla slammed unbeaten centuries to help South Africa seize the momentum on the opening day of the first Test against India on Saturday.

The planet’s biggest single-sport event begins on 11 June and makes 2010 the most important year in South Africa since 1994. Some have even coined the FIFA World Cup as South Africa’s “second miracle”.

Movies about real life events or people many times leave me wondering if a specific scene or moment in time was exaggerated for effect. With the wealth of information available via the Internet it is an argument that can be solved with some degree of certainty – usually.

World Cup 2010 host South Africa fears no fall-out over the deadly ambush on Togo’s football team in Angola, saying the attack will not affect its staging of FIFA’s June showcase.

It is not often that the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards – an annual cringe-fest, replete with leaden gags and squirming athletes – provides much insight into the inner workings of a sporting team, but such a moment occurred on Sunday.

61,551 fans saw the All Blacks get beaten by the Barbarians (with 7 South Africans and four Australians giving the side some flair and toughness) by 25 – 18. For all the complaints about ‘what’s wrong with rugby’ this festival match drew a crowd four times bigger than the London rugby league Test between England [...] Read article

For a guy who has never played in Australia’s old National Soccer League, New Zealand Football chief executive Frank van Hattum is sounding very old soccer at the moment.

The crucial 2010 FIFA World Cup draw is upon us, so join The Roar’s live blog on Saturday morning from 3:45am (AEDT) as we discover who the Socceroos will face in the group stage in South Africa.

France play New Zealand on Saturday with a fantastic chance to claim a second antipodean scalp after having already seen off world and Tri-Nations champions South Africa.

As a rising star his budding skills helped France along the route to World Cup glory 11 years ago.

Every now and then when trouble’s a-brewing, the ability to reminisce seems to go on the up. Of the good old days when opposition players were best chums, the games were hard but fair, and sport was always the winner.

Dear Thierry, I’m terribly sorry I had to do this through a letter, this is not easy for me at all, honestly. The way you behaved the other night has pushed me past a point of no return. Why did you do what you did?

A recently published book by Chuck Korr and Marvin Close, entitled More Than Just a Game, tells the story of how the political prisoners of South Africa’s infamous Robben Island turned football into an active force in their struggle for freedom.

D-day looms for New Zealand’s All Whites. They are one game away from World Cup qualification for the first time since 1982, and they face a do or die clash in Wellington on Saturday in a similar scenario to what the Socceroos faced in November 2005.

After defending Pakistan as a cricketing nation on Kersi Meher-Homji’s recent piece entitled Are The Pakistan Cricket Controversies Really Justified, I thought I would give a short overview of the makeup of the ACLT20 teams by nationality*.

The awarding of the 2016 Olympic Games to Rio de Janiero means that there is one final link in the chain to pull into line. Or to use the words of Steve Waugh when talking about a tour of India, “the final frontier.” And that final frontier is Africa. Or to be more precise, South [...] Read article