Blues streak past lacklustre Brookes
The Oxford Blues thrashed rivals Brookes in the second annual Xchanging Varsity football match, with a streaker stealing the headlines once again. A Brookes fan, believed to be the same…
Between rock and a hard piece
Will Upton discusses the similarities between sport and music. Drugs are used in professional music. Of course some of them, notably alcohol and recreational drugs, are responsible for interminable improvised…
Update: Trenton Oldfield found guilty
The rogue swimmer who sabotaged this year’s annual Oxbridge boat race has been found guilty of causing a public nuisance. Trenton Oldfield, 36, yesterday pleaded not-guilty to charges having forced…
The science behind Bolt’s effortless sprint
Everybody has watched Usain Bolt casually breeze past the finish line in his races – a little grace, a little smile and he’s done it again, the gold dangled mercilessly…
What will be the legacy of London 2012?
Amidst the happy-clappy Union Flag waving frenzy that has been London 2012, the cocktail of panic and overwhelming cynicism that characterised the build-up to the Games was knocked back with…
Where the John Terry verdict leaves the FA
‘It is therefore possible that what he said was not intended as an insult, but rather as a challenge to what he believed had been said to him. In those…
Olympics sweep into Oxford with record-breaking Quidditch event
This week, the largest UK Quidditch event to date was held in Oxford ahead of the Olympic Torch’s arrival in the city. Around a hundred of players from Australia, France,…
Is cheating really a bad thing in our children?
A recent BBC study showed that eight-to sixteen year old children see little wrong with cheating due to a ‘win-at-all-costs’ culture imposed by their friends and parents. Over a third…
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