Bismarck du Plessis (Twitter/@MHR_officiel) While stating he's happy in France, Springbok hooker Bismarck du Plessis admits he'd like to play for the Cheetahs again some day.Du Plessis played for the Cheetahs in 2003 but says he'd like to play alongside former team-mates Ruan Pienaar and Frans Steyn again.The 79-Test veteran has been on Montpellier's books…
Handre Pollard, Siya Kolisi (Getty Images) South Africa-based stars of the 2019 Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok squad were told on Friday that they can start contact training after being unable to play since March because of the coronavirus.Register your interest for the British & Irish Lions tickets in South Africa 2021However, whether the champions will…
Sharks v Stormers (Gallo Images) South African rugby is one step closer to a return to action, with franchise teams allowed to resume full-contact training from next week.The country's eight franchises have been hard at work doing non-contact training for the past five weeks.SA Rugby CEO Jurie Roux says an announcement of a playing schedule…
Yorkshire’s Duanne Olivier bowls during Day 1 of the County Championship match against Somerset in Taunton on 10 September 2019. Alex Davidson/Getty Images A heavily-delayed English county season begins at the weekend with the first round of four-day matches.Familiar SA faces like Duanne Olivier and Marchant de Lange will be present, potentially with others to…
SA all-rounder Dwaine Pretorius provided the most tornado-like batting showing at the 3TC cricket festival.Centurion favourites Aiden Markram and AB de Villiers also grasped the opportunity for significant runs.Glenton Stuurman, from reasonably unfashionable Oudtshoorn, looked nerveless and guile-laden as a seamer. The usually popular but necessarily deserted famous grass banks at SuperSport Park were a…
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two