As in the trespass of many other male preserves, women are increasingly taking up fly-fishing. The question is: why? It’s not as if women weren’t always there, but female fly-fishers were considered eccentric and therefore not much worth the bother.
Last week Sepp Blatter told my colleague Jim White: “Football is the most powerful force in the world.” And according to the Federation Internationale de Football Assoc-iation (Fifa) chief, the most important people in football are the players.
South Africa’s top four batsmen showed their class with a half-century apiece against India A in Arundel on Sunday in what was the Proteas’ last match before next week’s first Test against England.
Tuesday night in downtown Boston and, despite the familiar vista of collars, ties and dress suits swapping business cards over cocktails, the Modern bar was virtually unrecognisable to a regular. Why are large groups of black people being persuaded to go to bars and nightclubs previously frequented only by whites?
Olympic champion Ian Thorpe created another slice of swimming history on Sunday when he became the first person ever to win three consecutive world titles at the same distance when he led an Australian 1-2 in the men’s 400 metres freestyle race.
World no. 1 Serena Williams has joined her sister as an injury victim, pulling out of this week’s Stanford WTA women’s event with knee pain.
Rubens Barrichello used his emotional and tearful win at the British Grand Prix to hammer out a message to his critics — there’s more to Ferrari than Michael Schumacher.
South African allrounder Jacques Kallis will miss the first cricket test against England starting on Thursday to be with his sick father.
Over a dozen mortar shells fell midday on Monday near the US embassy in the war-wracked Liberian capital Monrovia, but landed in the sea nearby without damaging the compound.
It is straight back to business for the Sharks team after their mid-season break at the end of Super 12 in May.