Driven Past Point: All you need is sport

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Published on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 15:34

Written by Sajjad Karamsi

Jammie Plaza last week witnessed various sports clubs seductively hawk their wares to unsuspecting wide-eyed Freshers.

Some of these clubs are well-organised, have weekly or fortnightly sessions, plan popular internal leagues, and help make their members better sportsmen. Other clubs languish in mediocrity, with poor attendances at all the events, and a small core (usually the club’s executive committee) representing them.

This year VARSITY wants to help develop the state of sports at UCT. We want to be there to cover all the sports events, from the internal leagues, inter-res games, all the way to the sportsmen and -women who play at a national or international level.

For this to happen, we need the support of the clubs. We need your updates: your fixtures, results, and photographs. The revamped VARSITY website (varsitynewspaper.co.za) will prove to be an excellent showcase of different clubs activities. None of this can happen without the clubs’ support, and we need all marketing or media representatives of UCT sports clubs to consistently send through these updates. We at VARSITY Sport promise to try our best to ensure we provide the best coverage to all UCT sports.

VARSITY, being a developmental agency, also aims to improve students’ writing skills. To all those students who walk around spouting random sporting facts, and claim to know all there is to know about cricket/soccer/rugby/judo, translate this into writing for VARSITY.
There’s really no point trash-talking while watching sports in your res TV room or at Pigs. If you can transform this into coherent analysis, VARSITY will help develop your skills as a writer, and will publish your work.

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The uproar over the Luis Suarez racism issue has been dominating headlines the last week. Blinding yourself to racism because you support Liverpool is quite nauseating. While I believe that Suarez isn’t actually inherently racist, he needs to stop acting like a spoiled brat.