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...scramble to stop their star players and coach from signing lucrative contracts with talent-hungry European teams, South African officials on Wednesday scrapped a long-held commitment to racial quotas for their national sports teams. That plan was one of the cornerstones of President Thabo Mbeki's push to integrate sports in a sports-crazed nation, and help close the huge racial schisms left by decades of apartheid. "Quotas are out," the sports minister Makhenkesi Stofile said in a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday attempting to explain the reversal. "We are not going to decide who must be on the team...
...government's commitment to racial quotas has unraveled rapidly since the World Cup final on October 20. Back home, the Springboks' winning coach, Jake White, bluntly told reporters that South Africa's racial politics were driving him out of the country. White is largely credited for creating a near-flawless World Cup team, and is in talks to become England's national rugby coach. In addition to White, two star Springbok players have already signed large contracts with French teams...
...coach White and some of his players, the government's decision to drop racial quotas has came too late. The sports minister Stofile said the new government plan would be to develop star black rugby players. That might require huge financial resources, however, including rugby training at poor, black-dominated high schools. Such an initiative would surely require years of investment and commitment - and in politics, that's an eternity...
...What we were trying to accomplish with adding Stanford and the preseason tournament, it sounded great six months ago,” head coach Tommy Amaker said on the eve of his Harvard debut. “But now that we’re a few days away and knowing we have such a long way to go with the team and we’re unhealthy, maybe it wasn’t such a great idea...
...according to the media, this will not be the season Harvard snares its first league title. The Crimson was picked to finish sixth in the league—the same as its final standing last season—by the 16-voter poll despite the arrival of new coach Tommy Amaker. Cornell was picked to win the league after finishing third in the Ivies last season. No team other than Penn and Princeton has won the league since 1988, when the Big Red grabbed the crown. Cornell grabbed 10 of 16 first-place votes and finished with 119 points overall...