Rodney Hartman's one-man investigation into Springbok rugby has turned up a startling gem of information, so important a discovery, that all the pieces in the puzzle ...
Rodney Hartman wonders whether Cheif Mwelo Nonkonyana's positions as an MP and Safa's No. 2 are a good thing. . .
Rodney Hartman thinks the game needs leadership and development - but both have been lacking.
Rodney Hartman thinks no honest, sane, sport-loving person would schedule the Soweto Derby and the Currie Cup final on the same day, but that's exactly what's happened. ...
Hello, what's this? At the top of the inbox, fresh in, is an item whose subject field reads 'South Africa's legspin prodigy'.
It could be 15 years before the Olympic Games is staged in South Africa, but the mere fact it's possible is an exciting prospect altogether, writes Rodney Hartman. ...
THE extremes of the 2010 World Cup are best illustrated when viewed from South Africa and England.
Of all the dangers that lurk in Iceland the one Bafana Bafana must avoid at all costs is being trampled underfoot by the opposition.
Rodney Hartman is not impressed with Bafana Bafana's "new" crises. They've been in a state of emergency for years, he says.
The 2016 Olympic Games hosts will be named tonight, but here Rodney Hartman remembers Cape Town's failed bid 12 years ago and wonders what it would have been like ...
Safa's AGM probably reveals less about football and more about the eccentricities of public life in South Africa, writes Rodney Hartman.
Sport is not just about competing and winning and losing. It goes into some dark little corners of the psyche that we didn't think existed.
Peter de Villiers is one lucky son of a gun. This Springbok team is so good that even his auntie could coach it to success, says Rodney Hartman.
Morne Steyn has now made the transition from darling of Loftus to sweetheart of every place else.
Another spellbinding week in cricket's soap opera has turned up the usual suspects.
It was dumb of the Springboks to wear white armbands of protest during Saturday's Test match, says Rodney Hartman.
As rolling campaigns go, the plot to unseat Peter de Villiers has been spectacularly translucent, writes Rodney Hartman.
It is not common practice for ink-stained watchdogs in the corridors of power to applaud officialdom.
From the outset he was different, operating in world of his own with an uncanny knack for machine-like efficiency.
SO, Fifa have decided to give away tickets to fill the Confederations Cup stadiums. Jolly good, I'll take six, thanks.
A lot of women's cricket teams are preparing for big tournaments these days by playing against men.
The British & Irish Lions say they are having trouble with their legs. This is a perfectly understandable - rugby players, after all, use their legs quite a lot. ...
It was just over eight hours into the race, some way in the approach to Cowie's Hill, that Rodney Hartmans's right leg started packing up.
I don't wish to sound like an idiot, but how do you teach someone to climb a mountain? Do you say "watch your step" or "don't look down" or "make sure you don't ...
Ever since it dawned on them that they were in the Super 14 semi-finals, the Bulls have been in crisis.