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Mar 4, 2026Mar 3, 2026HTBS

The 2026 Boat Race Fixtures: The Story So Far

Jul 6, 2025Jul 5, 2025HTBS

HRR Semi-Finals – Champions Chase Their Crowns

Jun 26, 2025Jun 25, 2025HTBS

HRR 2025: Getting Straight And Ready

Apr 11, 2025Apr 10, 2025HTBS

Paddling At Putney

Apr 7, 2025Apr 6, 2025HTBS

Tideway Week: The Lull Before The Storm

Mar 29, 2025Apr 27, 2025HTBS

And Then There Were Eighteen…

Nov 30, 2024Nov 29, 2024HTBS

Throwing Coxswains To The Winds

Apr 5, 2024Apr 4, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race II: Paper Meets Water

Apr 4, 2024Apr 17, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race I: On The Waterfront

Apr 1, 2024Apr 1, 2024HTBS

A Gut Feeling About The Boat Race?

Feb 26, 2024Feb 25, 2024HTBS

The 2024 Boat Race Fixtures: 12-Weeks of Warming Up, Part I

Nov 21, 2023Nov 20, 2023HTBS

University Challenge*

Apr 2, 2023Apr 2, 2023HTBS

P to M On Couch And Box

Apr 7, 2022Apr 7, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part II – During

Apr 6, 2022Apr 5, 2022HTBS

A Boat Race Day Album: Part I – Before

Apr 1, 2022Mar 31, 2022HTBS

A Tideway Week Album: The Cambridge Men

Mar 25, 2022Mar 24, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Reading the Runes

Mar 9, 2022Mar 30, 2022HTBS

Turning Blue: The 2022 Boat Race Crews

Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race Fixtures: Beating the Blues?

Dec 22, 2021Dec 21, 2021HTBS

The Can Tabs and the Can’t Tabs: The Cambridge Men’s Trial Eights

Nov 23, 2021Nov 22, 2021HTBS

The 2022 Boat Race: Throwing Down the Pogie

Aug 27, 2021Aug 26, 2021HTBS

News from Cambridge

Apr 5, 2021Apr 4, 2021HTBS

A Little Bird Told Me…

Dec 26, 2020Dec 24, 2020HTBS

No Humbug: The Spirit of The Boat Race Yet to Come

Apr 7, 2019Apr 6, 2019HTBS

Oxford – not the best crew in Oxford (to be fair, Cambridge wouldn’t be either)

Apr 12, 2018Apr 11, 2018HTBS

Rob Baker New Chief Coach of CUBC

Jan 12, 2018Jan 12, 2018HTBS

The Rowers Conference

Dec 8, 2017Dec 8, 2017HTBS

Cambridge Trial Eights

Apr 1, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Tomorrow’s Oxford–Cambridge Boat Races: The Results?

Mar 16, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Weigh Enough*?

Feb 23, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

The 2017 Boat Race* Fixtures: The Story So Far

Jan 9, 2017Apr 5, 2017HTBS

Tabs On Trial: Girl Power

Mar 31, 2016Mar 31, 2016HTBS

‘The Boat Race is a little bit my own Olympic Games’

Mar 26, 2016Mar 26, 2016HTBS

Tideway Week: That Saturday Feeling

Mar 26, 2016Mar 26, 2016HTBS

Tideway Week: Very Good Friday

Mar 11, 2014Apr 26, 2014HTBS

Battles with the Blues

Aug 25, 2012Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Women’s Boat Clubs Appoint New Chief Coaches

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