Greg Hurvitz

In 2004 a young John Smit is appointed Springbok Captain under new coach Jake White. The South African Rugby world is somewhat stunned and surprised because they know little of this new Bok captain, the 50th in history. The Boks win the Tri Nations and there no complaints, just compliments. In 2008 our longest serving […]

Looking at Sports Leader and all other sports-related websites we do not see enough of the poorly defined “Cinderella” sports , which I would define as netball, hockey and perhaps swimming. For some reason these sports attract a low degree of sponsorship which keeps them pigeoned holed as “Cinderella” sports. I spoke to Mimi Mthethwa, […]

I am, if you have not noticed by my past articles, a rugby enthusiast. I have had the privilege of coaching this game at some very competitive and talented levels. I usally revel in the July rugby week which is the U18 Craven Week, named after SA rugby legend Dr Danie Craven. However I am […]

The first Super 15 has come and gone, Sanzar made their TV rights money and there are complaints abound at its elongated format. I am happy that the Reds won the tournament, not only because I called them as the champions after week four, but because the have played consistent, high quality rugby. The rugby […]

We continue to hear of reports of bribery and corruption in Fifa. Why should it be immune? And like I always say, where there’s smoke there’s fire. We have Mr Jack Warner who’s being supported at home, but who resigned from Fifa, which means we will in all likelihood never find out the real truth […]

I have long held that our sports commentators are pretty weak. It is an evident fact to all that to be on TV, particularly for SuperSport you simply have to have played the game at a high level. I can name only two South African commentators that deserve to be given my attention, Bob Skinstad […]

So this weekend, as predicted by many, the Sharks did not have it in the tank to take out the Crusaders at home in Christchurch and are out of the Super 15. We’re now left with only the Stormers in the competition … oh no! How could it be that we only have one team […]

In the modern day and age of immediate satisfaction we sometimes, as sports coaches, overlook our own job — to coach. To coach means to develop, to develop means to take a specific interest in a person who is also your player and build this person’s character and skills — this means caring as well. […]

Today Ricky Ponting resigned as the captain of the Australian cricket teams, ODI and Test cricket. Now as Saffers we are known to have a love-hate relationship with the Aussies, that’s probably because they’re what we want to be. They are what we know we can be if certain crucial quarters pull the right finger […]

Today is the second semi-final of the Cricket World Cup and the national broadcaster, the one which is in such managerial disarray, is not broadcasting the match. Probably the bigger of the two semi-finals to cover, although they would not know that at the time of contract negotiation. What would have happened if the Proteas […]

So on Saturday the same old same old, hey? And How! I started getting worried on Wednesday when a friend said to me, of all the opposition, he would have picked New Zealand. Then I read on Facebook about the certainty with which SA supporters were treating this fixture, thinking to myself that this is […]

I am almost certain (well I hope so) that if you are roughly 18 years old or older I do not have to remind you of the 1999 Cricket World Cup — the seventh edition of the premium platform for world cricket — with the SA Dream Team, defined by Dr Ali Bacher as the […]