For those of you who have better things to do than lie on your couch with beer in hand and chips on stomach for an entire weekend (if that's possible). To keep you in the loop around the water cooler and so you don't embarrass yourself at next weekends braai, the sasportsblog team brings you a wrap up of the past weekends sport.
No doubt it was a big weekend of sport and we can't blame you for losing your focus momentarily. Obviously the opening ceremony of the XXIX Olympiad was Fridays highlight. Mention seen Natalie Du Toit carry the flag brought a tear to your eye and something about the Team SA's shocking green shoes should keep you in the conversation and for added effect Kirsty Coventry as a Southern African medal winner (silver in the Women's 400m Individual Medley) should go down like Klippies and Cola in Pretoria after a Bulls victory.
Saturday saw the Boks return to winning ways with an empathic 63-9 mauling of the hapless Pumas. Depending on the type of people at the braai you can swing from the rebirth of the Springboks, citing wonderful performances against the much vaunted Argentinian scrum (be sure to mention The Beasts performance, a simply shake of the head and mutter Beast should do the trick) and smoothness returning to the backline (Fourie Du Preez's calming influence on Butch the debate), to the why Argentina even bothered sending a side and how it has robbed us of Jacque Fourie and Bakkies Botha for Saturdays big clash against the All Blacks.
Sunday saw the emergence of a new and perhaps unexpected challenger to Tiger Woods crown as the most dominant golfer of his era - Irishman Padraig Harrington, after he triumphed at the US PGA Championship by two shots. If anyone had said a golfer would win 3 out of 6 majors in 2007/2008, all the smart money and the considerably less intelligent money would have been on Tiger, but enter the Irishman! Oh what a tussle awaits when the stripped one reenters the fray! But once again the discussion here will centre around will Sergio Garcia EVER win a major, it's looking less and less likely as his mind increasingly resembles Steve Harmison's in the closing holes.
Monday (well Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday too) saw the implosion of the SA Cricket team handing KP (God how I hate that name) his first victory as England captain. The first innings collapse was pretty pathetic. De Villiers and Amla gave us a little hope on day 3 and 4 but in the end we where comprehensively beaten. Oh well at least we won the series 2-1. Here the conversation will inevitably turn to what a p%@ss Kevin Pietersen is and rightfully so.
Finally the weekend also saw the start of the season in England with the traditional opening fixture the Community Shield. Man Utd won he game 3-1 on penalties but seriously if your party gets to this sort of talk it's time to leave or else divert the conversation the way of the the draw for the 2008 MTN 8 knockout - the Pretoria derby of Sundowns against Supersport and the big Soweto clash of Chiefs vs. Swallows - be sure to pepper this conversation with the question to start an endless argument will Supersport (and what the hell throw Ajax Cape Town in there too) be able to repeat last years form?
Then sit back and watch the lads argue it out just don't blame us if the evening ends with boys having to be separated by wives/girlfriends/lovers!
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