Sport

The South Africa men's hockey team put together a near-faultless first half performance to beat China 5-2 in their key Olympic Qualifier Tournament match in Japan yesterday. The result sets up a key game for SA tomorrow against  log-leaders

Manchester City seized control of the Premier League title race last night after Vincent Kompany's first-half header powered them to a 1-0 win over bitter rivals Manchester United. Kompany headed home from a corner on the stroke of half-time to

The Rock and Surf Super Pro League nationals were held at Port Alfred at the weekend. 959 fish where caught and released over the three day event. The Biggest fish for the competition was a 45.6kg kob caught by Port Alfred resident Ryan

The EP Kings booked a quarterfinals berth in the Vodacom Cup at the weekend with a 29-24 win over the Boland Cavaliers at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. Boland certainly made a game of it - scoring two unanswered tries in the second half after

 World Moto GP champion Casey Stoner won the Spanish Grand Prix for the first time in Jerez on Sunday after holding off Jorge Lorenzo in a close race. The Yamaha rider - chasing his third straight Jerez Circuit victory -stayed on Stoner's

 The Lions were dealt a further blow ahead of their tour of Australasia when veteran Springbok flyhalf Butch James was banned for four weeks by a Sanzar tribunal. James was banned from all forms of the game after charging into a ruck in

Tottenham Hotspur revived their bid for Champions League football by returning to the top four of the Premier League with a 2-0 win over relegation-threatened Blackburn Rovers on Sunday. Spurs have got a better goal difference than Newcastle

 Maria Sharapova earned her first WTA title of the year on Sunday as she blasted her way past world number one Victoria Azarenka 6-1, 6-4 in the final of the Stuttgart claycourt tournament. This was the 25-year-old Sharapova's 25th title of

 Jason Dufner two-putted from 60 feet for a birdie on the second playoff hole to defeat Ernie Els and win his first PGA title in 163 attempts by capturing the Zurich Classic on New Orleans. There was heartache for the Big Easy who closed