World Sports Betting Western Province Women are brimming with confidence ahead of their first home matches of the season in the Hollywoodbets Pro Series this weekend. The Girls In Blue will host the Fidelity Titans Women at WSB Newlands for both the Hollywoodbets Pro50 and Pro20 fixtures. Play on both days is set to start at 10am and will be livestreamed on Cricket South Africa’s YouTube page. Batter Faye Tunnicliffe remains positive, emphasising the team’s eagerness to perfo

Franco Smith. www.inpho.ie Glasgow Warriors coach Franco Smith says his players are “hitting their straps” as they head into Friday night’s big United Rugby Championship clash with the Vodacom Bulls. Smith’s team have scored 13 tries in their last two matches while recording bonus point victories at home to Dragons RFC (49-0) and away to the Ospreys (42-17). That has taken the 2024 champions up to third in the table, just three points off the top. Now comes the Scotstoun show

The South African Men’s selection panel has confirmed that Proteas Men’s stand-in T20 International (T20I) captain David Miller and fast bowler Gerald Coetzee have been ruled out of the upcoming white-ball tour of Pakistan. Miller, who was set to lead the T20I side in the three-match series from 28 October to 1 November, has been sidelined after scans conducted on Wednesday confirmed he had sustained a grade 1 right hamstring strain during training in the build-up to the tour

The Vodacom Bulls have made eight changes to their line-up for Friday’s Vodacom United Rugby Championship fixture against Glasgow in Scotland. This follows last week’s one-point win against Connacht. Among the most significant changes are the inclusion of seasoned players like Marcell Coetzee and Ruan Nortje, which adds muscle and leadership with the latter appointed captain. There has been a front row overhaul with Gerhard Steenekamp, Johan Grobbelaar and Mornay Smith steppi

Alex Mann. www.inpho.ie One of Alex Mann’s goals for this season is to try and smile a bit more and he certainly has good reason to do so at the minute. The Cardiff Rugby flanker has just been named in the Wales squad for the autumn internationals on the back of a Player of the Match display in last weekend’s United Rugby Championship victory over Dragons RFC at Rodney Parade. So plenty of cause for celebration. Yet, as he readily acknowledges, that doesn’t always come easily

The Hollywoodbets Sharks will be looking to close out the first stage of the season on a high against Scarlets this Saturday before the Vodacom United Rugby Championship pauses for the autumn international window. Head coach John Plumtree has made minimal changes to the side for this week’s match against the Welsh team at Hollywoodbets Kings Park. Eben Etzebeth leads the team with one rotational change to the pack where Emmanuel Tshituka and Phepsi Buthelezi swap jerseys, whi

While the DHL Stormers, Vodacom Bulls and Lions will look to kick on from their victories in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship last weekend to build on their campaigns, the Hollywoodbets Sharks will be desperate to end their winless streak in round five of the cross-hemisphere competition. With the Springbok squad all set to report for duty in the UK on Monday for their five-week Castle Lager Outgoing Tour, the domestic franchises will be hoping to get the most out of the

Ahead of the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 Final, Herbert Mensah, President of Rugby Africa, the continental governing body of rugby in Africa, participated in the “Journey of Women’s Representation in Rugby Leadership” panel at the 17th World Rugby General Assembly in London, United Kingdom. Organized by World Rugby, the global governing body of rugby, the assembly brought together 134 national unions and regional associations to focus on progress, leadership, governance and

Tyrone Ryan. Carl Fourie/Sunshine Tour Tyrone Ryan embraced the modified stableford format of the Blu Label Unlimited Challenge and claimed the lead on 22 points after Wednesday’s first round at both the Gary Player Country Club and Lost City Golf Club courses. Ryan played the challenging Gary Player Country Club in the first round and teed off the 10th hole as he worked his way into a nine-point lead. But it was the format and how it translated to his strategy on the golf co

The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) has unveiled the nominees in the Men’s Categories for the CAF Awards 2025, celebrating the continent’s top performers among players, coaches, clubs and national teams. The impact of players and coaches on the African and global game has been immense for the period under consideration of 6 January to 15 October 2025 and these nominations reflect those who have made major contributions to football on the continent. A panel of expert

The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced that a record 135 international players from a record-tying 43 countries across six continents are on opening-night rosters for the 2025-26 season. Among the record 135 international players are more than 55 players who were either born in Africa or have at least one parent from Africa, including 2021 NBA champion and two-time Kia NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) Giannis Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee Bucks; Greece; ties to Nigeria)

Amorim has his Man Utd lift-off moment as Liverpool flirt with crisis If Manchester United find success under Ruben Amorim there is no question that Sunday’s victory over Liverpool will be looked back upon as the moment things clicked. Man Utd's first league win at Anfield since January 2016, securing back-to-back Premier League wins for the first time under Amorim, provided a psychological boost that should increase belief in the project inside and outside the club; the visi

Dylan Richardson. www.inpho.ie Dylan Richardson is living something of a double life at the moment, but he’s more than happy to do so. Growing up in South Africa, he spent the formative years of his career playing on the flank, representing the land of his birth in that position at U20s level. He then converted to hooker towards the end of his time with the Hollywoodbets Sharks while working under his current Edinburgh Rugby coach Sean Everitt. Now he’s been reunited with Eve

Albert Mciteka. Sunshine Tour Every week, the Sunshine Tour showcases the men who grew up dreaming of greatness and who live out those dreams on the fairways. But this year, the Tour decided to also shine a light on the men or women who stand alongside them – the caddies. At every prizegiving on the Sunshine Tour, the winning golfer’s caddie is also welcomed forward and awarded a medallion in recognition of the role he or she played in that victory. It’s a public recognition

A superb all-round performance, highlighted by outstanding contributions from Laura Wolvaardt and Marizanne Kapp, propelled the Proteas Women to the top of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 standings after a comprehensive 150-run Duckworth–Lewis–Stern (DLS) victory over Pakistan in their penultimate league stage match in Colombo on Tuesday. Wolvaardt (90 off 82 balls, 10x4, 2x6), Kapp (68* off 43 balls, 6x4, 3x6) and Suné Luus (61 off 59 balls, 8x4, 2x6) produced a batti

After an exciting weekend of United Rugby Championship rugby, URC StatMaster has identified the top players from Round 4 along with the overall top team and player performances from the league so far. Top Players From R4 Carries: 21 Dave Heffernan (Connacht Rugby) Defenders Beaten: 7 JC Pretorius (Lions) Line-outs Won: 10 Ruben van Heerden (DHL Stormers) Metres: 110 Mirko Belloni (Zebre Parma) Passes: 97 Jamison Gibson-Park (Leinster Rugby) Tackles: 32 Mama Xaba (Vodacom Bull

Peter Matkovich, the acclaimed co-designer of the award winning La Réserve Golf Links, Heritage Resorts, has a very clear message for the golf world as this course prepares to host the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open for the second time later this year: “Word will continue to spread about just how good this golf course is”. From 18-21 December, the Indian Ocean’s first and only contemporary links will once again take centre stage on the DP World Tour and Sunshine Tour as the host

Jarrod Taylor. www.inpho.ie Jarrod Taylor’s rugby career will come full circle when he lines up against the Hollywoodbets Sharks in Durban this weekend. It was at the Hollywoodbets Sharks that he began his journey into the professional game, linking up with their Academy while still at school. That proved to be a brief stay ahead of a move to Cape Town to play for Western Province in the Currie Cup while studying at Stellenbosch University. Then, in February 2024, he took the

Africell CEO, president and founder Ziad Dalloul (left) and NBA Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer Mark Tatum sign the expanded agreement at the NBA’s global headquarters in New York City. The brand collaboration between Africell, Africa’s only US-owned mobile network operator and NBA Africa in Angola has taken a leap forward with the widening of its scope to include all four of Africell’s African operating markets with the addition of the Democratic Republic of

The Uefa Champions League resumes with the best of the best locking horns once more on Matchday 3. There will be emotional reunions for the likes of Thomas Delaney, Noa Lang, Eric Dier, Jorrel Hato and Hugo Ekitiké and another chapter written in the great rivalry between Real Madrid and Juventus. Here we take a look at the key facts and stats from every fixture as the league phase continues. Tuesday Barcelona v Olympiacos (6.45pm) The only previous Uefa competition matches be