1.⁠ ⁠Best & worst of SA sport in 2025

2.⁠ ⁠⁠Ashes wrap

3.⁠ ⁠⁠AFCON preview

4.⁠ ⁠⁠Favourite sporting moment 2025

5.⁠ ⁠⁠Fast Five Fun Facts

1) The Rollercoaster Ride – Highs That Had Us Dancing, Lows That Had Us Crying into Our Braai Sauce! What a wild year for Mzansi sport! We went from choking on dust to sipping champagne. Let's dish the dirt with a cheeky grin: The Absolute Best Bits (Pure Goosebumps Stuff).

2.⁠ ⁠⁠Oh England, bless your cotton socks! You rocked up to Australia – a place where you haven't won a Test in forever – with a team that's missed the last WTC final, barely any players who've toured Down Under... and then had the cheek to talk about a 5-0 whitewash? The arrogance! Australia had lost just ONE match all year (the WTC final to... us Saffas ). And what happened? Pat Cummins' boys dismantled you in record time – retaining the Ashes 3-0 in only 11 days of cricket! Shortest Ashes series ever, and England looked shellshocked.

3) Ho ho ho... wait, it's AFCON time! Bafana Bafana are off to Morocco for a proper holiday thriller – three group games crammed into one week, like a festive braai backlog!

Bafana ranked 11th in Africa, 61st overall – realistic expectations? With Hugo Broos' magic, a quarter-final would be massive, semis a dream, but don't rule out more!

Squad vibes: 5 from Sundowns, 8 from Orlando Pirates (Buccaneers taking over!), 6 overseas stars... and ZERO from Kaizer Chiefs. Amakhosi fans, is this a problem? Drama alert – Chiefs drought continues!

4) Epic Moments Mash-Up: Pure Sporting Poetry (With a Side of Drama!) Picture this cheeky collage of 2025 magic:

• Temba Bavuma strutting on Lord's outfield with the WTC mace – fresh off hobbling through his innings while the Proteas demolished Australia... right as the Aussies were busy thrashing England at home. Savage timing!
• Carlos Alcaraz clinching the French Open – just as Jannik Sinner's mom thought her boy needed one more point. Mum's heartbreak, Carlitos' glory – tennis brutality!
• Schoolboy Rugby Madness: K-Day derbies and Craven Week finals – those young lions tearing up fields, future Springboks in the making. Raw passion!

These moments? Chef's kiss – sport at its dramatic, heart-pounding best!

5) Fun Fast Five Facts: Quick-Fire Trivia to Impress at the Braai!Let's rapid-fire some bangers:

1. Most wickets in a calendar year (Tests)? Shane Warne's legendary 96 in 2005 – spin wizardry unmatched!
2. Who has won AFCON the most? Egypt – the Pharaohs with a record 7 titles!
3. Has Mo Salah ever won an AFCON? Nope! Two finals (2017 & 2021), two heartbreaks. This year's his big shot!
4. Which club has the most representation at AFCON 2025? Sudanese giants Al Hilal with 11 players, but shoutout to Orlando Pirates (9) and Mamelodi Sundowns flying the SA flag high!

Nqobile Ndlovu, a sport's research analyst from Cash n Sport talks about the following three topics:

1) Which sporting codes are the most popular in South Africa from a viewership perspective?

Football (soccer) reigns supreme as the most popular sport in South Africa, captivating millions with its grassroots appeal and massive followings. The iconic Soweto Derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates is the ultimate showdown—one of Africa's biggest rivalries, drawing enormous crowds and nationwide hype. But there's plenty beyond the derby: rugby union (especially among Springboks fans) and cricket round out the "Big Three," uniting the nation in passion. Other crowd-pullers include athletics, netball, golf, and swimming.

2) Which codes generate the highest revenues?

While football boasts the largest fanbase, rugby and cricket often generate higher commercial revenue through broadcasting deals, sponsorships, and international tournaments like the United Rugby Championship and SA20 cricket league.

3) Woman's sport in South Africa, from a commercialisation and and viewership perspective.

Women's sport is surging! Viewership is climbing, with teams like Banyana Banyana (football) and the Proteas Women (cricket) expanding fanbases and excelling internationally. Netball remains hugely popular at grassroots level, while rugby's Springbok Women are breaking records. Commercially, it's an undervalued gem—growing audiences attract sponsors, but there's massive untapped potential for investment in broadcasting, merchandise, and equal media spend to fuel further growth.

4) Great sporting families.

The Barrett brothers—Beauden, Scott, and Jordie—are rugby royalty from New Zealand, the only trio to start a Test match together for the All Blacks, with over 200 caps combined and multiple World Cup appearances. Venus and Serena are the sibling champions of tennis.

5) Fun Fast Five Facts

Questions and facts related to the subjects.

1) Rugby World Cup Draw - Rankings are officially meaningless toilet paper – prove me wrong!

2) The Ashes 2nd Test – Is Bazball Dead? - England’s ego project just got humiliated by actual Test cricket – Bazball = Braindead

3) Women in sport – required to do more for less - Equal pay? Nah, women deliver bigger moments for pocket change and zero respect

4) Athletes who’d dominate other codes - Jonty Rhodes, Elise Perry. Curtly Ambrose. Ian Botham.

5) Fun Five Fast Facts (now properly unhinged) - 5 Sports Facts So Dirty You’ll Need a Shower After

The first three questions were for Lewis Manthata, SA School's cricket selector!1) What are the cricket weeks? Set the scene.2) Pathway to schoolboy cricket, life after school3) Players to watch at these weeks.4) Bucket list sporting events5) Fun fast five facts

1) Nedbank golf challenge, 43rd time, how the tournament has changed

2) Cape Town 7s, how the global 7s scene has changed

3) Review of the Autumn series, who are the winners and who are the losers.

4) Best Sporting Franchises

5) Fast Fun Five Facts (FFFF). Which are the only two club teams to win the Hong Kong 7s?

1) Proteas smash India 2-0, amazing

2) World cup football, rugby and cricket draws

3) Technology in sport, ruining the game of rugby?

4) Great sporting comebacks. Capriati, Manchester United, Foreman,

5) Fun fast five facts, who was the first use of technology in cricket, Who managed 7 runs off one ball?

Rugby wrap of the weekend including World Rugby Player of the year, Springboks over Ireland in five card trick, England crash and burn in the Ashes in Perth, Proteas bossing India in Guwahati, Sporting teams fall from grace, Fun fast Facts. Who has a highest test score of 99?

A preview of the Ashes from a neutral point of view, the World Rugby awards, Bafana Bafana on the up, sporting meltdowns, Fast Fun 5 Facts (FFFF).

In today's episode we cover the rugby on the weekend, England/All Blacks, Italy/Springboks. Proteas epic victory at Eden Gardens. The cost of marathon running. Strange sponsorships in sport. Fast five facts (Fun!).

Why are there a lack of black batters in both the men's and women's game in South Africa, we speak to special guest and old friend Nqaba Matoti who works as a talent scout for Cricket South Africa. Greatest coaches of all time, who are yours? And the ongoing feature, sidestepping each other, stumping each other - fast fun five facts!