Rob Houwing, Sport24 chief writer WP Rugby and by extension the Stormers are, I believe, the biggest losers in many respects from the nail-biting "transfer window" over South African professional rugby players that ended at midnight on Thursday ... even if it is really just the continuation of a scarily well-developed trend at Newlands.SIGN UP…
Jurie Roux (Gallo Images) SA Rugby on Friday confirmed across-the-board pay cuts for players, staff, administrators as finer details of the Industry Financial Impact Plan to save up to R1.2 billion from the budget were revealed.Register your interest for the British & Irish Lions tickets in South Africa 2021The plan was collectively designed and concluded…
Michael Rhodes (Getty Images) Heinz Schenk - Sport24 The local rugby community is on tenterhooks this week, waiting with bated breath to see whether the controversial "escape clause" - negotiated as part of SA Rugby's Covid-19 cost saving plan - will decimate playing stocks or be a storm in a tea cup.Register your interest for…
John Mitchell (Gallo Images) Former New Zealand head coach and current England defence chief John Mitchell believes some good may come for rugby union from the coronavirus if it creates "greater professionalism" thanks to a concentration of talent at fewer clubs worldwide, including Super Rugby. Even before Covid-19 saw this year's edition of Super Rugby…
Kade Wolhuter (Gallo Images) Western Province Rugby on Friday announced the signing of promising young players flyhalf Kade Wolhuter and loose forward Keke Morabe.Wolhuter is a product of Paul Roos Gymnasium and represented Western Province at youth level, starring in the 2019 Craven Week before signing with French club Montpellier last year.The 18-year-old returns to the…
As longevity science has entered the wellness zeitgeist, experts have worked to popularize the idea of healthspan over lifespan—the number of years you thrive, not just survive. And when it comes to the components that drive long-term health, muscle plays an outsize role, Gabrielle Lyon, DO, a family medicine physician and author of Forever Strong
3 min read HEART FAILURE. RECTAL cancer. Brain bleeds. Each of the people in this package of stories might not be alive today without a key medical innovation that took many years, millions of dollars, and countless setbacks and breakthroughs to get quite right. Who are the next people to be saved? Survivors Stories 1.
When the hair rises on the back of your neck through a process called piloerection or something hurts so much your primitive response prompts you to run away, your body can completely block out pain to deal with the survival scenario at hand. “Beautiful” is the word Luke Henderson, PhD, uses to describe this process