After shattering the Three Peaks Challenge record earlier this month, expert trail runner AJ Calitz has become the inaugural winner of Red Bull LionHeart after an intensive two-day event on Cape Town’s Lion’s Head.
Do you think there is a good chance of Chelsea drawing with Manchester City on Sunday? BEcause if they do, along with just two other sports predictions this weekend, R100 will become R1,000 for you. That’s right – click for more..
Yes, that’s right, superhuman endurance trail runner, Ryan “Hedgy” Sandes will be on air with Seth at 11am this morning. Besides chatting about his freakish running abilities, Seth will remind Ryan of his (Ryan’s) days as a surf bum. Seth was there, man… But why not tune in before at 10am anyway – let Seth’s […]
Kenichi Ito is the fastest man on all fours. Ito is a 30-year-old Japanese athlete known to many as “Monkey Man,” and he has just set a new world record for a four-limbed sprint: 100 meters in 17,47 seconds.
Yesterday evening, Red Bull Media House screened the South African premier of the Jordy Smith surf film, Bending Colours. And it was spectacular. Shot and directed by Kai Neville, Bending Colours documents Jordy’s radical approach to the sport, and delivers more than a handful beautiful wave riding shots via some truly excellent cinematography. Snippets of […]
Zambia’s football association president, Kalusha Bwalya, has said that the African champions have accepted an apology over the shocking stoning of their team bus following an international friendly in Jozi on Wednesday night.
Armchair and real soccer critics were doing their heads in on social media networks last night after Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a seriously ridiculous bicycle kick goal from about 30 metres out.
At least two Zambian football team players were injured last night after their game against Bafana Bafana at the FNB Stadium in Soweto when Bafana Bafana supporters stoned the team bus after the match.
I just read an article on channel24 and I’ll be honest, I’m confused. Oscar’s ex is saying that he is basically a player and that his new FHM model babe, used to stalk her. She is also very close to ‘revealing’ what Oscar used to ‘do’ to her. Riveting stuff. Click through for photos of both girls.
Together with International Lions and Irish rugby legend, Brian O’Driscoll, tech entrepreneur Ray Nolan recently launched Ultimate Rugby – the first ever global rugby app and online community which brings fans up to the minute news of all professional games around the world.
Red Bull’s marketing strategy seems to be, “I see what you did there. Hold on while we do something 1 000 times more awesome and post it on YouTube.” Well, they’ve nailed it again with the craziest Rube Golberg machine ever. Bigger and more intense than ‘ol Rube could ever have imagined.
Wow, Lance Armstrong sure knows how to troll the internet. You gotta see this pic he posted on Twitter this weekend, with the words “Back in Austin and just layin’ around … ” Click through to see pic.
Actually, I’ve got two Multiple predictions for you. The one makes you R1,700 if you put down R100 and they all come true – and the other makes you R2,200! Click through to see the multiples!
Austrian sky diver Felix Baumgartner has been convicted of punching a lorry driver during a road-rage incident in 2010. Baumgartner was driving in Salzburg when he overtook a queue of four cars waiting at a roundabout, only for his car to become wedged in front of the other drivers.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if Cricket South Africa came to the party early and extended Gary Kirsten’s contract as national coach? There’s no guarantee that they will.
British moral fabric eroded further on Monday when a video was uploaded to YouTube showing a man teaching his three-year-old son how to sing vile chants about Robin Van Persie.
One of South Africa’s most prominent cyclists, David George, has been caught with his hand in the needle jar, testing positive for the banned performance enhancing drug, EPO. He faces a charge of doping, and the scorn of people wearing spandex in coffee shops, everywhere. Thus spake the CEO of the South African Institute for […]
After 9/11 the New York mayor contemplated cancelling the New York marathon, but they decided not to, saying the race would be a symbol of strength and unity for New York and indeed America. Sadly, this was not the case following hurricane Sandy.
Lance Armstrong might want to consider selling his private jet (above), as it looks like the insurance firm who paid out all his Tour de France win bonuses, want their money back. They were always talking about it, but now they’re REALLY doing it..
Western Province Rugby have issued a public apology for the actions of a few players during the provincial rugby side’s ticker tape through Cape Town following their victory over the Sharks in the 2012 Currie Cup Final. A number of players tossed R50 notes to fans who had lined up to catch a glimpse of […]
Sharks coach John Plumtree says that Western Province labeling the hosts as favourites for this Saturday’s Currie Cup final is nonsense. Really? The Western Province team selected for the final has six players that are still eligible for the U21 team (including the whole front row), has an average age of 23 and finished third […]
It seems Cycling South Africa is more concerned about prizes and competitive cycling, than safety on our roads. Surely the ACTUAL law should be more important than a SPORT’S law? Or do you only take something seriously when your now-fallen saviour Lance is involved? Read on…
Nestor Guillen on Sunday equalled the world record for the most number of red cards handed out during a soccer match, er, brawl, when he sent off 36 players in a Paraguayan junior league match.
And just like that, fourteen years of Lance Armstrong’s career have been wiped from the record books. In addition to losing his titles, the International Cycling Union has banned Armstrong from the sport for life, citing “insurmountable evidence” that Armstrong used performance enhancing drugs over the course of his career, and in every one of […]
South Africa’s Julian Boulle was announced as the first winner of the World Wingsuit League (WWL) Grand Prix late last week.
Earlier this week, we reported on Lance Armstrong being dumped by Nike. Other endorsements lost by him in the past week include Trek, Giro, FRS, Honey Stinger, 24 Hour Fitness, Anheuser-Busch, and Radio Shack.
It’s official: Lance Armstrong will step down as the chairman of Livestrong, his cancer-fighting charity, so that the group can focus on its mission, and not on its founder’s problems.
Lance Armstrong’s former team mate Tyler Hamilton said in a BBC radio documentary yesterday that during the 1999 Tour de France, Armstrong paid a motorcyclist to deliver the banned bloodbooster EPO to him.
On Saturday, the second leg of a qualifying match for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations took place between the Ivory Coast and Senegal in Dakar. But the game had to be abandoned before the end due to violent riots by Senegalese fans.
Last night, at about 8pm local time, an Austrian by the name of Felix Baumgartner rose 128 000 feet into the air and jumped, free-falling 128 000 feet from the stratosphere. Part of the Red Bull Stratos project, this is the highest skydive ever attempted. He even landed on his feet. We’ve got the video.