VWFL Premier Round 1 – Darebin v Diamond Creek: How’s that for first impressions?

A magnificent autumn Saturday and some VWFL action is too much for E.regnans to turn down. Darebin and Diamond Creek put on a show.

AFL Round 1 – Of carts and horses

E.regnans’ stream-of-consciousness response to the start of another AFL season. The Golden Goose that is the AFL and Howqua River.

Junior Almanac: ‘Yumoon Flat’ and ‘Super Fart Face Never Wins’

We’re always looking for our junior almanackers to come to the fore. Some superb junior almanac submissions from Buddy Oon and Buddy Yum.

ICC World Cup 2015 Semi Final – New Zealand v South Africa: Sport as Art as Tool

You want creative: try this match report from E. Regnans.

ICC World Cup 2015 – Semi Final time: limits stretch only so far

E. Regnans identifies a crash or crash through, high risk high-rewards approach from teams in this World Cup, He thinks India might be the one. But I suspect he will be happy with contests where the ball talks and wickets matter.

ICC World Cup 2015: Following without seeing

E Regnans’ 2015 ICC World Cup cricket coverage has been sans visual coverage so far. The written word and the internet has sated his cricketing appetite thus far. And butter chicken… (includes the #TimeHonoured E Regnan’s Butter Chicken recipe for free. You’re welcome).

ICC World Cup 2015 – England v Bangladesh: The adventures of colony march

David Wilson with a scene-setting description of this clash of World Cup minnows; England v Bangladesh, Adelaide.

ICC World Cup – New Zealand v Australia: Woodface

ERegnans has had enough of MJ Clarke with his moaning and bully boy tactics. Has he got a Woodface as well as a tin ear? A game with four seasons in one day but in the end it’s only natural for BB McCullum’s kiwis.

ICC World Cup 2015 – Ireland v West Indies: The arrival

E.Regnans relays the World Cup description from a Derry front bar as the Irish chase down a big target set by the Windies.

ICC World Cup 2015 – India v Pakistan: Kohli as ever (of course, of course)

E Regnans with cricket, philosophy and the way the bouncy Adelaide Oval has become an Indian homeground. Fate, chaos and good bounce. [Creative – Ed]

57 Mt Pleasant Street (part 4): it’s the fun, stupid

“It can’t be that simple, can it?” E.regnans on the one link that binds all sports across all countries across all the years. Sport reporting has never been so existential.

Part time professionals: Win-Win-Win (Another Day Meanders By)

The Million Dollar Question: the shut-in professionalism of modern day football or the more rounded benefits of part-time football?

SCG Test, Australia v India – Day One: Playlist

E.regnans turns to music and video to describe Day 1, SCG, Scenes 1-5.

SCG Test, Australia v India – Call for writers

The Sydney Test begins on Tuesday. The is the last Test match until June in the West Indies. Prospective story-tellers, get on board. All welcome.

Celebrating Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize 2014: footy

Richard Flanagan’s magnificent work: “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” was awarded the Man Booker Prize 2014 for fiction in London. This novel, of and by a Tasmanian, includes footy. To celebrate, here is a wonderful school yard scene; “and then began the magic of kick to kick…” [Great to read Paul Daffey’s reference to this Almanac thread in his Sunday Age column today (4-Jan-15)]

MCG Test, Australia v India: Day Three – The struggle (within, without)

A solitary ERegnans takes in Day 3 at the MCG and muses on life, cricket, arrogance and all that stuff.

MCG Test, Australia v India: Call for cricket writers

Almanackers old and new are invited to submit their stories of the 2014 MCG Test. What did you notice? Where were you? Let us know your preferred day.

SPD Smith: shake it off

E.regnans spots similarities between the bearing of SPD Smith and that of Taylor Swift.

Gabba Test, Australia v India – Day One: From the sauna, 57 Mt Pleasant Street

Slippery Stan and BJ pull no punches in their wrap-up of day one at the Gabba from 57 Mt Pleasant St. “Well apart from the toss, the over rate and the leaking of runs in the last hour, [Smith] did beautifully…”

Gabba Test: writers’ schedule (get involved)

The second Test starts on Wednesday. It’s true. Almanac writers are called upon to follow up stellar Adelaide Test efforts with a pre-Christmas surge to Brisbane. Get involved. Nominate a day. Carn Test cricket.