The Boks sprung onto the Millennium Stadium turf with grace and agility. Somewhere between this entrance and no side some Svengali in the crowd convinced them that they were in fact hippopotami on a mission to move around like the Grand Hotel in the 1923 Tokyo earthquake. Fluidity evaporated faster than molasses in the Arctic. They were in luck however as the Welsh side suddenly took an interest in Tai Chi and the kind of altruism not seen since Christ took on the sins of man. The inescapable truth of it all was that the Boks were bad but Wales were worse. Wales have now been beaten 4 times in one year by the same side. Sad sad days indeed!In New York mixing it of another sort took place in Madison Square Gardens. Joe Calzaghe and Ray Jones Jnr stood close enough to each other to dispute whose air was being stolen from who. In a brutal and uncompromising encounter Calzaghe took an unhealthy interest in the stitch design of the canvass he stood upon. So impressed was Joe that he had to pass on it's intricacies to Jones in the form a signed pattern just below the latter's left eye. Jones, it is now understood, has employed a seamstress to ensure the design remains forever on his boat race. After 12 rounds Calzaghe retained his title and remains unbeaten after 46 fights.