Posted on June 08, 2020
All young cricketers need is a little help, a little hope and someone who believes in them.
Posted on June 05, 2020
Assupol Tuks's under-11 cricket team has been dominant in the Northerns club league which led to them being crowned champions for the last two seasons.
Posted on June 04, 2020
Athletes with hopes of maybe competing at next year's Tokyo Olympics are nowadays getting more advice than they need or want while they are training. Some have even become "video stars".
Posted on June 03, 2020
The Adidas/Tuks sprinter, Akani Simbine's "long sprint to freedom", started for real yesterday when he got to challenge his coach's stopwatch for the first time in ten weeks on a golf course in Kempton Park.
Posted on June 02, 2020
South Africa’s athletes are being advised to forget about competing this year, and instead start preparing for the 2021 season, given that the COVID-19 pandemic looks set to force the cancellation of all sport till at least late this year.
Posted on June 02, 2020
The 10 weeks of the Covid-19 lockdown have helped Kaylene Corbett a hopeful Olympian in the making to learn how to live the moment.
Posted on June 01, 2020
Sport at the University of Pretoria is not only about winning, but also about achieving what is best for the athlete.
Posted on May 28, 2020
Getting to play Varsity football is a big dream for many aspiring stars as it is a rare opportunity to showcase their talent on television.
Posted on May 27, 2020
Andrew Nel is officially a second-year mechanical engineering student at Tuks, but when he has free time there is nothing he loves more than to be "commandeering his forces".
Posted on May 26, 2020
Gandhi Jafta is a woman with a mission every time she walks out to bat no matter which team. Runs, the more, the better, is what it is about for her.
Posted on May 25, 2020
The batsman misses. Stumps flies through the air. There is a wild celebration. That is precisely what mini-cricket is about.
Posted on May 21, 2020
When a few Tuks fencers decided in 1950, it was high time to start their own club they would not have known the impact their initiative was going to have on the sport.
Posted on May 20, 2020
South Africa's top swimmers are in dire need for water not to drink, but so they can resume their training for next year's Olympic Games.
Posted on May 19, 2020
It won't be wrong to refer to the Tuks athletics track as to where athletes get to fulfill their speedy aspirations.
Posted on May 18, 2020
It is often said, "cometh the hour; cometh the man". Ruan de Swardt was, without a doubt last year the "man" for the Assupol TuksCricket team.
Posted on May 14, 2020
In the latest instalment of Extra Time we speak to SA women’s hockey goalkeeper Phumelela Mbande who shares her passion for the game and talks candidly about transformation.
Posted on May 14, 2020
Taekwondo is one of the sports where the unthinkable becomes a reality.
Posted on May 13, 2020
Coaching cricket and strategising how to beat the best has become part of parcel of the Assupol TuksCricket head coach Kruger van Wyk's life.
Posted on May 13, 2020
One of the challenges facing most team sports in South Africa is the many players from far off rural areas that fall by the wayside without ever getting to fulfill their potential.
Posted on May 12, 2020
76 is an age where most might consider starting to tone down on their aspirations, but then again the Tuks athletics coach Hugo Badenhorst has never been most people.
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