'Professional rugby is tough and it certainly isn't any fun'
HERE'S a modern idiom for you - old sportsmen don't die, they get a job in television!
HAVING boned up on my orthopaedics and biokinetics and got a handle on rotator cuffs, AC joints and anterior cruciate ligaments over a good number of years, even I was taken aback to come across a shocking new rugby injury.
New names and fresh faces a feature in all the teams
There is something just so special about Newlands rugby stadium, perhaps my favourite venue in all the world.
They apparently have T-shirts on sale in Hamilton with the slogan "AC is the new DC."
OS DU Randt's career at the heart of the scrum spanned 13 years and 80 tests and was book-ended by a pair of winning Rugby World Cup finals.
The Sharks appeared to have been shaken by the ferocity of the Bulls' initial defence and it will be a worry for coach John Plumtree that they backed off the fight in their opening game of the Super Rugby season
A FEW recent snippets of news relating to professional rugby served to emphasise the stalemate into which South African rugby has got itself over the Southern Kings.
Competition that captures the joie de vivre of student life kicks off tomorrow night with the accent on an innovative new scoring system
