Flamboyant boxing promoter Don King has agreed to pay former world heavyweight champion George Foreman -million if he gets back into the ring. Foreman, now aged 55, shocked the boxing world a decade ago when he climbed back into the ring to win the world title for a second time after beating fellow American Michael Moorer.

Hard-hitting South Africa cricket all-rounder Lance Klusener says the tourists are all but reduced to sleepless nights trying to find an elusive weakness in Stephen Fleming’s game. Fleming’s influence on the series was clear after his masterful 108 in Christchurch on Tuesday.

The South African Standard Bank one-day international team currently on tour in New Zealand have donated two signed cricket bats to be auctioned in Wellington to raise funds for the victims of the recent storms and floods that lashed the southern and central North Island and the northern areas of the South Island earlier this week.

New Zealand’s Super 12 hopes are resting with the ”Super Two” as the Auckland Blues and Canterbury Crusaders set out to maintain their grip on the tournament. Boasting backline depth that other teams can only drool over, the Blues are the favourites to repeat last year’s championship success.

A 10-man Ajax Cape Town showed tremendous fighting spirit when they held on to defeat Jomo Cosmos 1-0 in a Castle Premiership match that was marred by wet and cold conditions played at Tembisa’s Makhulong stadium on Wednesday. Ajax were reduced to 10 men when their veteran right wing Josep Ngake was sent off in the 48th minute.

Llewellyn Herbert will be looking to post an Olympic A standard qualifying performance, pocket some Absa incentive and get the better of high-riding hurdlers Okkert Cilliers and Alwyn Myburgh in the third Absa Series meeting of the season at the Pilditch Stadium in Pretoria on Friday night.