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BBK Unplugged podcast

Get behind the biggest sporting stories and hear from the sporting world's biggest names, with BBK Unplugged podcast.

Renowned Sunday Times sports editor Bareng-Batho Kortjaas (BBK)
and his revolving door of sporting experts, take you through the stories behind the scoreboard.

SportsLIVE is a MultimediaLIVE production, a division of Arena Holdings.

Sports, cricket, rugby, soccer, football, tennis, sportsmen, sport, goal, South African sport
Weekly English South Africa Sports · Sports
90 Episodes
76 – 90

Bok Squad Special: Full analysis & big predictions

Sbu Mjikeliso hosts former Bulls lock Mthunzi "Fudge" Mabeta and sports analyst Lunga Kupiso in an unmatched Springbok 2019 Rugby World Cup squad announcement special where they took a deep into Rassie Erasmus's 31-man squad that's headed for Japan. Fudge clarified the technicalities that go into the lineout, which he…
28 Aug 2019 51 min

Football Extravaganza: Chiefs, Pirates, Sundowns

The new Premier Soccer League season began with clinical performances from the traditional PSL Big Three – Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Mamelodi Sundowns – all began the season with impressive victories over Highlands Park, Bloemfontein Celtic and SuperSport United, respectively. The Big Three laid the marker down early in…
7 Aug 2019 39 min

Scorching Lorch, Hot Herschel & Phumelela Mbande

The football season that's about to begin could not as for a better appetizer than the Soweto Derby during the Carling Black Label Cup. But does it truly serve as a yardstick? Thembinkosi Lorch, who scored another scorching goal – adding to his sizzling Bafana Bafana Africa Cup of Nations…
31 Jul 2019 32 min

#BaxterIN, Frans Steyn & Mpho Mbiyozo

There's much ado about plenty since South Africa closed the chapter on its finest performance at the Africa Cup of Nations of the past decade in Egypt and plenty of it has to do with the future of Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter. We take a look at the implications…
24 Jul 2019 43 min

Greatest Sports Day Ever & Rassie Erasmus plans

Sunday July 14 will not be a day that's easily forgotten. How can it? When it had the longest and possibly top two most thrilling Wimbledon men's final of all time, contested by the grass court king Roger Federer and modern great Novak Djokovic? And what about the Cricket World…
17 Jul 2019 35 min

Bafana Tuck Egypt In & Rugby Future

Bafana Bafana crashed the party in Egypt. Not only did they cause mass depression for the Africa Cup of Nations hosts but they created a storm in the Egyptian FA, which led to the resignation of their president Hany Abo Rida. Rida didn't go down alone. He fired the team's…
10 Jul 2019 43 min

Proteas future & Baxter blunder

Cricket's future is on the line and some drastic decisions need to be made to turn the pathetic Proteas around and to get Cricket South Africa back on an even keel. The Proteas lost to major tournament rivals England, India, New Zealand and Pakistan, not forgetting Bangladesh, in the Cricket…
3 Jul 2019 49 min

Prisoners beat Police & Afcon Special

South African sports has gone through the most in the sporting world this month, can Bafana Bafana bring some respite? Their Africa Cup of Nations tournament did not get off to the best possible start, losing 1-0 to Ivory Coast on Monday but there seems to be light at the…
26 Jun 2019 41 min

Prisoners beat Police & Afcon Special

South African sports has gone through the most in the sporting world this month, can Bafana Bafana bring some respite? Their Africa Cup of Nations tournament did not get off to the best possible start, losing 1-0 to Ivory Coast on Monday but there seems to be light at the…
26 Jun 2019 41 min

Sports Broadcasting: Irvin Khoza, Rambo & a New Player

Premier Soccer League chairman Dr Irvin Khoza spoke to SportsLIVE podcast host Sbu Mjikeliso about the ICASA public hearings into the draft sports broadcast regulations that threaten to shake up the broadcasting game. Dr Khoza insists that there is no research proving that the "masses" are being deprived of local…
19 Jun 2019 38 min

Burger Hands, Miguel & the Proteas Soap Opera

In the second episode of the SportsLIVE Podcast Sbu Mjikeliso is again joined by sports journalist Daniel Gallan via Skype from the UK, who lifts the lid on the soapie kind of week that's unfolded since news leaked that AB de Villiers made a minibus taxi-style late U-Turn after asking…
12 Jun 2019 43 min

Major Wonder – Mabunda’s Bushiri Complex

In the first episode of the SportsLIVE podcast we review the Proteas’ first two Cricket World Cup games and what went horribly wrong there. We chat to sports scribe Daniel Gallan, based in the UK and was at the massacre at the Oval where Bangladesh beat SA by 21 runs…
5 Jun 2019 31 min
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