Breakfast Headlines

Springbok coach Peter de Villiers will have to fill a huge void on left wing when his side takes on the Wallabies in Durban on Saturday. Bryan Habana's out with a hamstring injury and could be replaced by Jongi Nokwe. Ruan Pienaar is also with the squad. De Villiers has hinted at some other possible changes when he names his match 22 at noon...

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We could see Percy Montgomery make way for Conrad Jantjes at fullback. Former Bok fullback, Justin Swart, seems to agree...
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Wallabies players James Horwill and Rocky Elsom are struggling with injuries and have missed training.
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We finally have something to smile about at the Beijing Games. Long jumper, Khotso Mokoena grabbed a silver medal yesterday, with a jump of 8.24 metres. Cuba's Irving Saladino grabbed gold with a jump of 8.34 metres. Mokoena says he couldn't have done it without the support back home...
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South Africa's 400 metre hurdler LJ van Zyl f! inished 5th, more than a second behind gold medalist Angelo Taylor, as the US grabbed all the medals.
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Our 3000 metre steeple chase finalist, Ruben Ramolefi finished 14 seconds behind the winner Brimin Kipruto from Kenya.
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Russian pole vaulter, Yelena Isinbayeva is aiming for more world records and olympic medals after raising the bar to 5.05 metres to win gold yesterday.
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Benni McCarthy's with the Bafana Bafana squad ahead of tonight's friendly against Australia in London, while SAFA accuses Sundowns of exaggerating an injury to striker Katlego Mphela. He injured himself in a warm-up ahead of the weekend's MTN 8 semi-final first leg. Sundowns withdrew him from the Bafana squad, but a Bafana docter has declared him uninjured and fit to travel.
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Mahela Jayawardene scored a half-century to guide Sri Lanka to an eight-wicket victory over India in the first one-day international. The Sri Lankan skipper scored an unbeaten 61 fo! r his 47th half-century to help his team reach the 147-run tar! get with more than 15 overs to spare. They lead the five match series 1-0.