Kevin McCallum

Johannesburg

Sports Writer at Freelance

Sports Writer. Muckspout. Cyclist. Still learning not to tweet when angry. All views my own and not my many employers. Except when I say something clever.

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KEVIN MCCALLUM: How sport gives us light in dark and troubling times

1 week ago | businesslive.co.za | Kevin McCallum

This means more. I’ve said and written that a few times over the past couple of weeks. This means more. A Liverpool catchphrase that has become a personal mantra and, judging by the Liverpool beanie Shukri Conrad was wearing in England, that of the Proteas. For Conrad, Temba Bavuma, Aiden Markram, Kagiso Rabada and crew this meant more.
KEVIN MCCALLUM: Why South Africans ‘should never be considered underdogs’

2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Kevin McCallum

The bodies of 14 SANDF troops killed when M23 rebels captured Goma, the capital of North Kivu, were returned to SA in February
KEVIN MCCALLUM: Why South Africans ‘should never be considered underdogs’

2 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Kevin McCallum

No-one saw the magnificent mayhem of day one of the World Test Championship coming on Wednesday because no-one really, if they are honest, knew what to expect. The hype that had been ramped up ahead of the match was met with hype turned up to 11 on the dial on the field. The snark aimed at the Proteas for the manner in which they qualified for Lord’s was answered by the calm, controlled ferocity of Kagiso Rabada.
South Africa have Australia on a slippery slope at lunch

2 weeks ago | kevinmccallum.substack.com | Kevin McCallum

ICC World Test Championship Final. Lord’s, London. Day One: June 11. First innings: Australia: 67/4 (23.2 overs). Smith 26*, Head 11South Africa: Rabada 2-9, Jansen 2-27, Ngidi 0-19, Mulder 0-6South Africa won the toss and chose to fieldLights, camera, action and cloud. The final of the World Test Championship began under gloomy skies at a floodlit Lord’s on Wednesday. Fireworks went bang before the match had even started.
KEVIN MCCALLUM: World Cup travel and the chilling thought of getting Iced

3 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Kevin McCallum

Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. Fifa president Gianni Infantino at a press conference in Doha, Qatar, December 16 2022. Picture: GARETH BUMSTEAD/REUTERS At the draw for the Fifa Club World Cup, Gianni Infantino, Fifa’s president, claimed 4-million fans would travel to the US to watch the tournament and that there would be “5-billion watching from home”.
In review: Education reform, housing debate, phone-free schools

4 weeks ago | vermontpublic.org | Kevin McCallum

As the end of the legislative session nears, work on major reform continues. Plus, the housing debate heats up. And Vermont may soon join a growing list of states banning cellphones in schools. Subscribe to the Vermont This Week podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
KEVIN MCCALLUM: Time to set that loerie free

4 weeks ago | businesslive.co.za | Kevin McCallum

On Thursday, not long after the noon sun had begun to sag slowly to the west, I drove from Norwood up Ivy Road and saw a man staring at a bird. It was a loerie. Inside a cage. He didn’t move. Just stared and then stared some more. I think he was a little stoned. But, caging a loerie or any bird is evil, a sin against those who can fly, a travesty of those who believe in freedom of any form. After my brother died in 2017, I heard a loerie call, and I felt it call his name.
KEVIN MCCALLUM: Two SA golfers walked into the White House ...

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Kevin McCallum

So now we know. Never take a golfer to a bun fight. Hell, don’t even take two golfers and a billionaire golfer to a dumb fight. Cyril Ramaphosa should have guessed he was going to be ambushed by Donald Trump.
KEVIN MCCALLUM: Please, a quiet weekend

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Kevin McCallum

The news at this hour... Sundowns won the Betway Premiership. Again. Formula One drivers can put the F-word back into F1. Liverpool fans booed one of their own. Romania may be about to elect a Trump fan and former football hooligan as president. A giant, Merc-driving rabbit is the new star at the San Francisco Giants. Periods may cause ACL injuries in female athletes. Chiefs won something. Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau are not the best of mates.
KEVIN MCCALLUM: Overwritten criticism of Rabada short of social understanding

1 month ago | businesslive.co.za | Kevin McCallum

Kagiso Rabada’s greatest sin in his recreational drug case has quickly been warped and twisted from being tainted as “unclean” for either having a puff or a sniff to the small nonsense of “what exactly did he take?”. Of the four substances, I think we can safely rule out MDMA and heroin. Of the former, no-one goes to raves any more do they — though a report claims that 2.1-million people in the US used ecstasy in 2023, but, then again, they also voted for Donald Trump and love line dancing.

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Kevin McCallum

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8 Jun 25

What is with the rugby jersey styling?

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8 Jun 25

Sinner gets a dinner tray for coming second.

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8 Jun 25

What a joy to watch. Tennis at its finest.