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/ 10 December 2004
To those who cheered the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision to ban the insufferably unsporting Sourav Ganguly for two Tests after his shenanigans with over rates in a one-day game against Pakistan, the inexplicable overturning of that decision before South Africa’s tour was simply more depressing confirmation of the extent to which Indian television money has a chokehold on the game.
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/ 10 December 2004
It has been nine months since Najim Abdullah Hamid was shot dead as he drove up to a United States military checkpoint on his way home. Despite repeated requests by his relatives, no one from the Iraqi or US military authorities has agreed to investigate or accept responsibility. His death, on March 7, has gone unnoticed save in the family’s small apartment in Saydiya in south Baghdad.
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/ 10 December 2004
Like that tatty old pair of socks in the back of your cupboard you keep meaning to throw out, Glenn Hoddle just keeps coming back when everything else is in the wash. I guess he’s not smelly and he still looks okay, but, like those socks, he’s darned full of holes as a manager.
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/ 10 December 2004
In their 67 years in football Pirates have produced some of the best players in South Africa (Jomo Sono and Kaizer Motaung, for example) and won the league title more than any other team. They’ve annexed the Premier Soccer League twice since its inception just over a decade ago and seem on course to equal Sundowns’ record of three PSL crowns.
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/ 10 December 2004
The British Grand Prix, threatened with cancellation in recent months, will stay on the formula-one calendar for the next five years at Silverstone. Jordan team owner Eddie Jordan confirmed the deal was reached on Thursday between the British Racing Drivers’ Club — owners of the Silverstone circuit — and formula-one chief Bernie Ecclestone.
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/ 10 December 2004
The South African Rugby Players’ Association on Thursday welcomed the arbitration award handed down by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). This arbitration award originates from the fact that at the end of 2003, then Springbok coach Rudolf Straeuli made certain undertakings to a number of players.
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/ 10 December 2004
The Australian Rugby Union announced on Friday that Perth have been chosen as the fourth Australian team for the expanded Super 14 rugby competition in the 2006 season. They join Australia’s three teams in the current Super 12 competition — ACT Brumbies, NSW Waratahs and Queensland Reds.
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/ 10 December 2004
At Lviv railway station, just after 7am last Wednesday, every one of the city’s old stones seemed damp and chill. There weren’t many people around, but every fourth person going about their business here in western Ukraine wore Viktor Yushchenko’s orange colours. Few places have been the nexus of as much evil as Lviv station, from where the Nazis sent tens of thousands of Jews to death camps.
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/ 10 December 2004
Mashonaland representatives who proposed a no-confidence vote against Zimbabwe Cricket chairperson Peter Chingoka and the board were threatened with legal action by Chingoka on Thursday. They claimed Zimbabwe Cricket acted unconstitutionally in renaming itself, and wasted money without proper consultation.
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/ 10 December 2004
One Ethiopian child in 10 is an orphan, according to a report by the United Nations, the government and the Save the Children NGO. The HIV/Aids pandemic, appalling poverty and dire health conditions had left 4,6-million youngsters without parents.