Cav's Place

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 […]

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 […]