Nothing like a holiday
Rodney Hartman's one-man investigation into Springbok rugby has turned up a startling gem of information, so important a discovery, that all the pieces in the puzzle ...
The man who calls the shots...
Rodney Hartman wonders whether Cheif Mwelo Nonkonyana's positions as an MP and Safa's No. 2 are a good thing. . .
Safa are to blame
Rodney Hartman thinks the game needs leadership and development - but both have been lacking.
The art of double dating...
Rodney Hartman thinks no honest, sane, sport-loving person would schedule the Soweto Derby and the Currie Cup final on the same day, but that's exactly what's happened. ...
A news item to savour
Hello, what's this? At the top of the inbox, fresh in, is an item whose subject field reads 'South Africa's legspin prodigy'.
Our Olympic dream is rekindled
It could be 15 years before the Olympic Games is staged in South Africa, but the mere fact it's possible is an exciting prospect altogether, writes Rodney Hartman. ...
It's all in our attitude
THE extremes of the 2010 World Cup are best illustrated when viewed from South Africa and England.
A giant clash of minnows
Of all the dangers that lurk in Iceland the one Bafana Bafana must avoid at all costs is being trampled underfoot by the opposition.
If they beat Iceland, can we chill again?
Rodney Hartman is not impressed with Bafana Bafana's "new" crises. They've been in a state of emergency for years, he says.
Would getting Olympics have changed us?
The 2016 Olympic Games hosts will be named tonight, but here Rodney Hartman remembers Cape Town's failed bid 12 years ago and wonders what it would have been like ...
Business as usual in soccer
Safa's AGM probably reveals less about football and more about the eccentricities of public life in South Africa, writes Rodney Hartman.
Arrogance worthy of contempt
Sport is not just about competing and winning and losing. It goes into some dark little corners of the psyche that we didn't think existed.
So who needs a coach?
Peter de Villiers is one lucky son of a gun. This Springbok team is so good that even his auntie could coach it to success, says Rodney Hartman.
Playing to the gallery
Morne Steyn has now made the transition from darling of Loftus to sweetheart of every place else.
It's a soapie of note
Another spellbinding week in cricket's soap opera has turned up the usual suspects.
Not a good move
It was dumb of the Springboks to wear white armbands of protest during Saturday's Test match, says Rodney Hartman.
Give the man a break
As rolling campaigns go, the plot to unseat Peter de Villiers has been spectacularly translucent, writes Rodney Hartman.
Let's be fair and give credit where it's due
It is not common practice for ink-stained watchdogs in the corridors of power to applaud officialdom.
A fellow we used to know
From the outset he was different, operating in world of his own with an uncanny knack for machine-like efficiency.
Front row would be nice
SO, Fifa have decided to give away tickets to fill the Confederations Cup stadiums. Jolly good, I'll take six, thanks.
Let's hear it for the girls
A lot of women's cricket teams are preparing for big tournaments these days by playing against men.
Time to get them pumping
The British & Irish Lions say they are having trouble with their legs. This is a perfectly understandable - rugby players, after all, use their legs quite a lot. ...
An injury on the down run
It was just over eight hours into the race, some way in the approach to Cowie's Hill, that Rodney Hartmans's right leg started packing up.
Bulls and AmaTuks on way up
I don't wish to sound like an idiot, but how do you teach someone to climb a mountain? Do you say "watch your step" or "don't look down" or "make sure you don't ...
Time for a good crisis in rugby
Ever since it dawned on them that they were in the Super 14 semi-finals, the Bulls have been in crisis.