Cav's Place

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 […]

I don’t know how it’ll be from the group phase, but the qualifying rounds for the Women’s EHF European League weren’t on TV, and while I looked up Rapid‘s and Minaur‘s matches on-line last week, after they both lost by six goals, Minaur away and Rapid actually at home, I didn’t even bother to check […]

It’s been ten years since I last wrote about women’s football, but I tend to follow the major national team competitions when they’re televised here, so I’m not comparing with what I saw back then, or with the differences in the level of professionalism that I was pointing out, when I say that I was […]

Even though the announcement was made back in February and last year’s winners spoke out against the change right away, I just now learned, thanks to happening to see something about Mladenovic also speaking out, that the US Open is once again spearheading the sport’s continued march in that same awful direction by pretty much […]

If you also include the 2019-2020 edition, which was canceled at that stage, CSM Bucharest‘s run in the EHF Women’s Champions’ League ends in the quarter-finals for the seventh time in a row… And this comes at the hands of Team Esbjerg for the third time in four seasons, last week’s first leg actually being […]