Former Bafana Bafana captain Steve Komphela is set to rejoin the South African senior national football squad’s technical staff. Komphela is reported to be earmarked by Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter to serve as one of his assistants. Komphela is unemployed at the moment after failing to agree to new terms with the management of Manning Rangers, where he was the head coach.
A golfer who was born a hermaphrodite was banned from a woman’s tournament because her birth certificate lists her gender as male. Instead, 40-year-old Danielle Swope will play in Saturday’s qualifier for the Fort Wayne Men’s City Tournament. ”I have respect for the men for at least giving me the opportunity to play. The women I don’t have any respect for,” Swope said.
Everton’s £50 000-a-week carrot to entice Wayne Rooney to stay put at the debt-ridden Goodison Park is no joke, the club’s owner Bill Kenwright has insisted. Kenwright told Sky television he hopes English football’s hottest property will sign the new five-year contract.
Todd Hamilton thought he did not belong up with the golfing elite. Now he knows he does. The softly spoken 38-year-old American won the British Open on Sunday, completing a rags-to-riches story that saw him spend years in Japan struggling just to scrape a living out of the game. It was payback time at Troon as he took on the best players in the world.
Ernie Els came within 2,4m of lifting his second British Open title and taking his Major championship tally to four. But his birdie putt on the 72nd hole at Royal Toon slipped centimetres wide, forcing the world number two into a playoff with unheralded American Todd Hamilton.
South African athletes won three more gold medals for a total of 10 when the 14th African Athletics Championships ended in Brazzaville on Sunday. The men’s javelin throwers made a clean sweep of the medals, while Llewellyn Herbert and Geraldine Pillay added the others in the 400m hurdles and the 200m respectively.
One would have thought that after last year’s fiasco the organisers of the Blue IQ half-marathon would have learned a thing or two, but this year’s race — which started and finished at Mary Fitzgerald Square in Newtown, Johannesburg, on Sunday — was no better.
Godfrey Khotso Mokoena added a gold medal in the triple jump to his long-jump silver at the 10th IAAF World Junior Athletics Championships in Grosseto, Italy, on Sunday. That brought South Africa’s medal tally to six — two gold and four silver — which saw the country placed joint fifth behind the United States, Russia, Kenya and Belarus.
American Tyler Hamilton’s retirement from the Tour de France will not change the way his Swiss Phonak team regard their leader, according to team manager Jacques Michaud. The 33-year-old American sustained a back injury from a crash that led to his retirement from the race early in Saturday’s tough 13th stage.
Springboks rugby coach Jake White does not share Australia’s complaint that the All Blacks are overly aggressive but he is surprised at the lenient response to recent incidents. He was speaking after the Springboks arrived in Wellington on Monday for Saturday’s Tri-Nations Test.