In the Cage and Beyond: Victor Hugo’s UFC Journey
Victor “Striker” Hugo won his entry into UFC last year in Dana White’s Contender Series. UFC is the biggest championship platform for mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters. We spoke with…
Jayden Seales Interview: Pacer Sets Sights on Test Return
Jayden Seales is eying up a return to test cricket this summer, after a barnstorming start to life in Sussex. After he was forced to withdraw from a stint by…
How the Sussex Tennis Society is Bringing Women Back into Tennis
With two undefeated players, zero losses, and the champion title of both the BUCS South Eastern League and Cup, it’s safe to say that the University of Sussex Women’s Tennis…
Erling Haaland Isn’t That Good
It’s opinions like these that make my parents regret not putting me up for adoption. But listen, if you’ve made it to even just this sentence without spitting on this…
Sports at Sussex: How Breaking a Sweat Breaks the Bank
Flashback to September, when you walked around the Freshers Fair – the sports hall was a room lively with opportunity, where society presidents and club captains spritely sold the dream,…
From Whitehawk to the World Cup: The Story of Imran Kayani
Playing in the 7th tier of English football on a pitch more suited for a blue run at a ski resort than a football pitch, to playing in a world…
Society Spotlight: Women’s Basketball
Basketball is regarded as a widely-popular sport across the world, and Sussex University is no exception to this. Resilience, unity and triumph are core skills required , and the Sussex…
Construction Workers in a Velodrome: Cricket’s Last Olympic Outing
In 2028 – 128 years, two world wars and one Stuart Broad after its previous iteration, Cricket will once again be an Olympic sport. The Los Angeles Games will play…
Society Spotlight: Sussex Swallows
Considered one of the newer sporting societies here at Sussex, the Swallows are an all-inclusive, non-competitive cheerleading game-day squad. Composed of around forty women, the team spans across all levels…
The Return of Rafa
With the first grand slam of the year on the horizon, tennis fans are turning their eyes down under, where players will be looking to start their season in style.…
Melting Alps: How Climate Change Discourages Skiing
Icy patches, muddy slopes and reduced snow coverage – the tolls climate change has taken on the Alps worsen skiing experience. The white mountains still await the sun’s radiant touch…
The Swimmer of Auschwitz
Words by Bec Nicol Alfred Nakache’s story is one that leaves you with your jaw dropped and a tear in your eye as you learn what one human can experience…
Will the Seagulls flock to new heights in 2023?
Words by Bec Nicol 2022 saw fantastic gains for Brighton & Hove Albion F.C, starting the Premier League with a victory over Manchester United. Following this, Brighton saw several other…
British Tennis Players Head Down Under
Words by Bec Nicole It’s that time of the year again for tennis fans, as the 2023 Australian Open gets underway with the main draw scheduled to start on the…
Things are getting messy with Messi and Barcelona
Words By Charlie Batten With the Coronavirus pandemic halting football for a time and preventing fans from stadiums, I think it’s safe to say we were expecting a fairly quiet…
Skating the gap between street and park
By Luke Mitchell Many students at Sussex will be of an age where they remember the first Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game on the Playstation One, along with subsequent entries…
Cricket World Cup: A Spectator View
By Rhys Benjamin The World Cup kicked off with explosively, with hot favourites England recording a comfortable victory over South Africa at The Oval. The West Indies dismissed Pakistan for…
England’s Run to CWC Victory
By Cahal Bakaya In the weeks preceding the 12th ICC Cricket World Cup held in England, little attention was dedicated to putting cricket in the nations heart by the media…
High hopes for Sussex’s student sport clubs after last year’s success
Finishing only five points short of a top 40 place, Sussex ended the 2016-17 year in their highest ever position in the BUCS league table, sitting 41st and well clear…
Agony at The Amex as Brighton crash out of playoffs
Brighton Hove & Albion 1 – 1 Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday win 3-1 on aggregate As 24,000 blue and white flags swung across The Amex it seemed even the sun…