Nursing his two-week old son whilst taking in the NBA finals. Paul Campbell reckons that it doesn’t get much better than this.
2014 NBA Finals: San Antonio Spurs vs. Miami Heat. Game 1: Fighting Heat with heat (and Game 2).
June 11, 2014 by 2 Comments
The Sporting Web: Vulture Capitalism; Spurs Culture; Dodgy Vets and Legendary Schmoozers
June 5, 2014 by 5 Comments
Peter Baulderstone is suddenly uninterested in the AFL for inexplicable reasons. He introduces some articles from US sports websites about greed, strategy, gambling and beer. Always an interesting combination.
NBA Finals – My Crystal Ball
May 23, 2014 by 5 Comments
Raj Singh thinks this has been one of the great NBA playoff series of all time. His crystal ball tell him the final will come down to a replay of last year’s Spurs v Heat, but it will be tight.
Very Excellent Adventures Remembered.
March 10, 2014 by 2 Comments
Yvette Wroby is back from six months travel in the USA. Here she covers the four major sports and everything else in her excellent adventure, which she shares with her Almanac family.
Yvette does the Celtics and meets the Aussie Brigade
February 16, 2014 by 2 Comments
Yvette Wroby’s Excellent American Adventure continues. This time it’s beer and pies with Boston’s Aussie Brigade, and taking in the Celtics and the Spurs at the Gardens.
US Sports : Must Try Harder
January 21, 2014 by 5 Comments
Andrew Fraser has enjoyed(?) a fact-finding tour to sacred US sporting places which has resulted in this playfully (I think?) parochial piece of comparative sporting culture.
NBA finals: Merciless Beasts
June 22, 2013 by 2 Comments
In the dying moments of the NBA finals, Archie Butterfly witnesses the cruelty of the sports gods in Tim Duncan’s ‘Sarajevo moment’.
A Beaut Old Ute
November 13, 2012 by 5 Comments
A Beaut Old Ute. Guy drives a faded cream WB Holden ute, with a motor that sounds like knuckles and oil. It’s been used, abused, for work, for fun, yet has a shiny steel skull for a gearshift, and little shiny skulls for door locks. He maintains the thing. Hard work and function, the [Read more]
Defining moments in a basketball life
May 12, 2012 by 3 Comments
In life, there are what I like to call “defining moments”. Sometimes these defining moments pass you by, and at the time you don’t even notice. You may not ever notice. But there are many defining moments – some small, some large – which find you stopping for a moment, or even longer, to reflect. [Read more]
Kentucky’s Uncivil War
March 29, 2012 by 3 Comments
The footy season starts in earnest this weekend, but here in Louisville all attention will be paid to an historic college basketball game – for the first time, the University of Louisville Cardinals will play the University of Kentucky Wildcats in the NCAA Final Four. Wallabies vs. All Blacks? Collingwood vs. Carlton? Try more like [Read more]
Who said white boys couldn’t fly?
January 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Peter Argent This shot is of a competitor doing a reverse lay-up during the “3-Ball basketball tournament”, which was a part of the Bay Sports Festival held from Boxing to Proclamation Day (December 26-28) in the Adelaide seaside suburb of Glenelg. This young man was up with the birds.
Homicide’s credibility, worth pays price for social network self gratification
January 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
By Michael Scibilia For a man with a lot to say, Corey Williams’ medium of choice is an odd one. The Melbourne Tigers import was the centre of attention during his side’s clash with Perth on Friday night, entering the game on the back of accusations that he’d defaced a courtside banner belonging to the [Read more]
Nightmare in Sleepy Hollow
August 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
by Daniel O’Sullivan There is a particularly vivid nightmare that has been keeping Cats fans awake all season. The dream takes place in the summer months when the desperation for new football stories becomes so all-encompassing that Dane Swan’s latest tattoo disaster gets saturation coverage. After much conjecture and innuendo surrounding his future, Geelong’s favourite [Read more]
Basketball: For this Lakers fan, it’s all in the timing
February 10, 2010 by 7 Comments
By Brad Carr Many of sport’s moments come down to an element of being ‘in the right place at the right time’. An adage that has proved true for many players, occasionally it holds for a supporter also. I’ve followed the Los Angeles Lakers since 1988. At that time, when basketball was in its Australian [Read more]
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