SEPTEMBER 18 - SOUTH AFRICAN Jake White and New Zealander Jake McGaw will coach and play for the Barbarians

and Bledisloe Cup titles, will line up in a Barbarians team that will be coached by White, who guided South

Africa to World Cup victory last year.  

  SEPTEMBER 18 - SEPP BLATTER has claimed that South Africa is ready to host the 2010 World Cup, ending

that I have been given makes me a happy man today, and as I am leaving tonight I am convinced that South

Africa will organise a great World Cup."  

There had been growing reservations among FIFA executives, it had been reported, that South Africa would

But Blatter has dashed their fears and wants South Africa to begin concentrating on hosting the event

  SEPTEMBER 18 - AUSTRALIA is hoping that its 2018 World Cup bid has been given a boost ahead of England after the county's most senior football official, billionaire Frank Lowy, was given a place on FIFA's World Cup organising committee.

chairman will serve a four-year term as the 31st member of the panel which oversees the 2010 tournament in South

Africa, it was announced today.  

May that the 2018 tournament would likely be held in the Northern Hemisphere, after the 2010 event in South

Africa and 2014 in Brazil.  

  SEPTEMBER 16 - BRIAN ASHTON (pictured), who guided England's Rugby World Cup final last year, is to become director of coaching at the University of Bath, it was announced today.

controversially replaced by former captain Martin Johnson despite having narrowly led England to defeat against South

Africa in Paris last October.   

 SEPTEMBER 9 - FORMER Australian vice-captain Adam Gilchrist and Sri Lankan star Kumar Sangakkara will tell cricket's powerbrokers tomorrow the sport's future growth is tied to the Olympics.

The top two teams of the domestic T20 competitions in India, Australia and South Africa and one side

Australian captain Ricky Ponting,  former skipper Steve Waugh and South African captain Graeme Smith

 SEPTEMBER 8 - LONDON 2012 tier-one sponsor Adidas today signed a new multi-million dollar deal to sponsor Russia's football team as they target the former Soviet states as its biggest market in Europe.

Adidas has already agreed deals with FIFA to be an official sponsor at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa

  SEPTEMBER 4 - A MAJOR row has broken out in South Africa over the treatment of its Paralympic athletes

the "ugly" official attire selected for the team to wear at the opening ceremony on Saturday and that South

It follows a disappointing Olympics when South Africa won only one medal, thanks to the long jumper Khotso

Butana Komphela, the chairman of South Africa's Parliament on sport, hit out at Sascoc for being insensitive

"South Africa needs to know and we need to see the faces of these arrogant and insensitive men and women

AUGUST 30 - NAIROBI is planning to bid for the 2015 All-Africa Games and the 2018 Commonwealth Games

eventually the capital of a free Kenyan republic in 1963.Nairobi is the most populous city in East Africa

host the 2014 Games by Glasgow, has already promised that it would bid again for 2018 and Durban is South

Africa is also expected to put itself forward.Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean is also due to decide

which would athletes from countries not born at altitude at a major disadvantage.But Johannesburg in South

Africa did stage the 1999 All-Africa Games, and at 1,753m (5,751 feet) is even higher.The biggest international

May 20 - Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius (pictured) hopes to compete against the top stars at the World Championships in Berlin despite his boat accident earlier this year, he has said.

  After failing to make the qualifying times for last year's Beijing Olympics, the South African

  He said: "I would like to enter the individual one and we don't have any sub-45 runners in South

Africa and it's going to be quite hard to qualify for the relay."

  Pistorius' preparations for this season were jolted when he crashed his boat in February in South

Africa.   He said: "It's slowed me down a little bit but I'm very lucky and feeling pretty good

  THE 2012 Olympics will be a great opportunity for the British security trade to showcase itself, industry leaders claimed today.

Olympics gave a figure of 6,500 security guards at the Games, compared to 45,000 for the 2010 World Cup in South

Africa.  

 AUSTRALIA'S bid to host the 2018 World Cup today received a powerful endorsement in London today from Mohamed Bin Hammam, a member of the FIFA Executive Board.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter had said that he wanted a European country to host the 2018 World Cup as South

Africa was staging the 2010 edition of the tournament.  

 MIKE FENNELL, the President of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), today encouraged Abuja's bid to follow Glasgow and host the 2018 Games.

bid was comprehensively defeated by the Scottish city last November, including claims of racism after Africa

Durban in South Africa and an Australian city still to be chosen have also expressed an interest in bidding

  THE race to host the 2018 World Cup is set to get even more crowded with three other countries ready to join the bidding it emerged today.

1986, have expressed an interest in hosting the tournament again as have Japan, who staged it with South

It is widely predicted that with 2010 tournament to be held in South Africa and the 2014 event in Brazil

Blatter said: "We are now playing in South Africa and South America, and Australia is also in the Southern

 AUGUST 15 - ENGLAND, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are among 10 countries set to bid for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.

 They could face opposition from Australia, Italy, Japan and South Africa.  

    THE Prime Minister has already labelled it the "decade of sport" and England are the favourites to follow the 2012 Olympics by hosting the 2018 World Cup and, as DAVID OWEN reports, deals could be done at the highest level to ensure that happens

competition, as is widely expected, the 2022 tournament would stand to be in Asia, North/Central America or Africa

stability, to return to football’s prosperous European heartland after two tournaments away in South

Africa (2010) and Brazil (2014).