• The Chris Burger/Petro Jackson Players' Fund, that fabulous institution that helps raise funds for players afflicted by serious head, neck and spinal injuries, co-hosted an event in which members of the public could braai with the Springboks this week.
The event, however, didn't pass without a moment Millennials would describe: "totes awks".
A local crooner, Kurt Darren, was getting an item from the stage when the MC out of the blue asked him to sing a song. Darren sang Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud. Only problem is, the opening line of the song goes: When your legs don't work like they used to before...
• Wallabies head coach Michael Cheika took the unusual step of calling Jack Quigley, a man who wrote an 800-word rant on Facebook after Australia's defeat to Scotland last week.
He pinned the rant on the dressing-room wall in Brisbane where his team played Italy yesterday.
"I spoke to the gentleman and gave him a ring, because why not?" Cheika told reporters, after Quigley said he was willing to head to Brisbane and address the squad. "I think that's important, that you talk to the fans. When we come out to press conferences and say we want to make the fans proud, it's not lip service. We do. We're not perfect at it sometimes."
• "It was a last-minute decision to just run over him," Springbok tighthead prop Coenie Oosthuizen said about spectacularly running over French backline substitute Nans Ducuing in Durban last week. "It is a split-second decision.
"Looking back, I perhaps could have stepped. Straight and hard lines are always the better lines, for me."
• Oosthuizen appeared on TV host Dan Nichol's show this week revealing he knows his way around a kitchen. Oosthuizen said once his playing career is over, he would not mind appearing on Come Dine With Me or MasterChef.
"Whatever you guys think, I know a thing or two about preparing food," said the 28-year-old told Nichol...