Cav's Place

After initially finding it probable that Romania will once again fail to have any team in the Final Four of the EHF Women’s Champions’ League, last month I restated that assessment but also hoped to be proven wrong. And today I was, CSM Bucharest finally finding a way past Esbjerg, after having met and lost […]

Last month I was saying that Rapid won’t find it easy to get past Viborg, so Romania may well be left without any team in the Final Four of the European League, and that proved to be the case, the matter being pretty much settled in the away match, which they lost by nine goals. […]

In the Champions’ League, things sure went well for CSM Bucharest this time around, their easy victory against Ikast coupled with Ferencvaros winning against Odense meaning that they clinched second spot and advance straight to the quarter-finals. And to think that CSM had started the season by losing against Ikast and after six rounds had […]

I could have written another comment about the Olympic Truce being violated and the lack of any real action taken against the culprits, even when the resolution was supposedly adopted by consensus, but I did that in 2024 and little has changed, so now that the 2026 Winter Olympics have formally started, I just want […]

After a particularly good end of the 2023-2024 season, which I wrote about at the time, and one more participation last season, in the second competition from Sapporo, Noriaki Kasai once again tried to compete in the Ski Jumping World Cup, still in Sapporo, but unfortunately failed to qualify both times. There were an unusually […]