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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
64 – 84

Boks Are World Champions (feat. Whiteley & Kankowski)

The Springboks arrived in the country to heroes welcome at OR Tambo International Airport, where scores of fans sang songs of jubilation, displaying an utterly joyous side of South Africa. We hear directly from the leaders of the pack that made history by delivering the third Rugby World Cup to…
6 Nov 2019 40 min

Bakkies Botha: "Siya Will Lift the Trophy"

SportsLIVE caught up with 2007 Rugby World Cup-winning Springbok Bakkies Botha ahead of the 2019 final between the Springboks and England. Bakkies faced England in the '07 final and gave his views on the big clash, England coach Eddie Jones's influence on him and his teammates, plus his prediction that…
1 Nov 2019 6 min

THE SHOWDOWN: what to expect from the 2019 RWC final

Not many predicted that the Springboks would face England in the Rugby World Cup final in Japan this year but, according to Sunday Times UK rugby writer, Stephen Jones, these are the two best teams of the tournament and they face of in a final for the ages. It's a…
30 Oct 2019 43 min

Tim Sukazi: "TS Galaxy are the Barcelona of Africa"

TS Galaxy founder Tim Sukazi is known as a straight-talking, shrewd football and legal mind. The former player agent visited the Tiso Blackstar Multimedia studios to chat about what went into his thoughts in founding TS Galaxy, the GladAfrica Championship club that made history by beating Kaizer Chiefs and winning…
23 Oct 2019 53 min

Team SA: Despair in Doha (feat. Peter Stemmet)

Team South Africa came back from the IAAF Athletics Championships in Doha last week without a single medal, which was in stark contrast to the 2017 performance in London, where the team finished third in the medal standings? What in heaven's name happened? We have Al Jazeera sports journalist, Peter…
16 Oct 2019 54 min

Becoming an award-winning sports Journalist feat. Junia Stainbank

For this episode we were joined in studio by accomplished multiple award-winning sports journalist Junia Stainbank, who spoke to SportsLIVE podcast host Sbu Mjikeliso on what it takes to become a top sports journalist. Stainbank won a hat-trick of SAB Sports Media Awards television sports journalist-of-the-year awards in his career…
9 Oct 2019 43 min

"Mark Alexander must step down" over Etzebeth - Claassen

The leader of the Khoisan Defiance Campaign, Sammy Claassen, whose organisation laid the complaint regarding Eben Etzebeth's alleged racial assault in Langebaan with the SA Human Rights Commission, called on SA Rugby president Mark Alexander to step down. This after Alexander stood in support of Etzebeth, who is facing mounting…
4 Oct 2019 39 min

More than Rugby Part 2: The Nkosi & Nomlomo journey

While Springbok captain Siya Kolisi leads the Springboks at the Rugby World Cup, becoming the first black African to do so, the #SportsLIVE podcast charts the journey of players that come from places like Zwide, where Kolisi is from, and other rural Eastern Cape locations. What does it take for…
2 Oct 2019 45 min

More than Rugby - Part 1

SportsLIVE podcast host Sbu Mjikeliso spent a week in Japan where he witnessed the Springboks lose to the All Blacks in a game that the South Africans controlled and bossed for large chunks. But they were hit by two All Black counter-punches from which they could never recover, although they…
25 Sep 2019 50 min

RWC Preview: Kaplan on refs & Herschel Jantjies

The wait is over. The 2019 Rugby World Cup kicks off this weekend and the tournament comes out swinging with South Africa facing New Zealand in one of the competition's opening round matches. It's going to be a box office affair in Yokohama and SportsLIVE host Sbu Mjikeliso will be…
18 Sep 2019 41 min

Kaizer Chiefs Top & Ntseki the very cheap option

South Africa took plenty L's during the international window when no African country wanted to play a friendly against Bafana Bafana because of the xenophobic violence sweeping across the country. It's an indictment on how South Africans have treated foreign nationals of late and in the past and we had…
11 Sep 2019 35 min

Aphiwe Dyantyi: Separating Fact From Conspiracy

Springbok Aphiwe Dyantyi tested positive for three banned substances, which was confirmed by his B sample that came back positive for multiple banned drugs, including steroids. This obviously sent social media into a spin and split the country into multiple different directions. Dyantyi stood by his initial comments, which were:…
4 Sep 2019 31 min

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
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