by Steve Alomes I had been on what might have been a busman’s holiday. You can now travel the world by sporting big events, or even as a casual participant player (have golf clubs, will travel). My journey was a little different. It involved different cities, other activities, a little dutiful art gallery [Read more]
Sports of All Sorts
May 21, 2012 by 10 Comments
Sports of all sorts By Anastasia Dimitriadis Grade 6 As a little child, sport has always and still [Read more]
For the love of professional sport
May 17, 2012 by 6 Comments
For the love of professional sport It’s easy to be cynical towards professional sport. I can be and I sense your average Almanacker (those old enough to be cynical) is a true believer who fears something is being lost. That our sports stars, clubs, franchises and competitions, have become distant, unaffordable, inaccessible, compromised, bastardised, less [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]
Scarf
May 8, 2012 by 6 Comments
I went to my second Super Rugby fixture last Friday night, and I wouldn’t be lying if I said I enjoyed it more than my first. There were plenty of tries, there was skill shown by both large and small, and the kicking for goal (I’m pretty sure that’s not the correct turn of phrase) [Read more]
Snooker with George
May 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
Every Wednesday morning I walked across the road and played snooker with George. On Saturdays I watched the local cricket … George lives with his sister in a sparse weatherboard home. The front fence is high and the gate is hard to open. Every room has different carpet, different wallpaper. Nothing matches. George [Read more]
Downhill Skateboarding
April 23, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Kieran Deck Downhill skateboarding came to Wollongong this weekend. Click here to view.
I should stick to writing
April 18, 2012 by 7 Comments
And there I was: doe eyed, mic in hand, looking straight into the spotlight, the camera pointed straight at me, words coming out of my mouth in a baffled slur before I could even think about what I was saying. Welcome to my nightmare, the worse experience of my life. Okay let me fill [Read more]
Rain, Hail and Winning
April 11, 2012 by 21 Comments
by Damian O’Donnell I’m here again, sitting in my deck chair in the shade of a gnarly old gum tree. The twisted and tortured limbs make it look a bit crotchety. My view is across the Lake Fyans road and the Stawell racecourse to the sleepy Grampians on the horizon. I’m staring across the [Read more]
Bubba Golf prevails
April 11, 2012 by 13 Comments
High above, in a stately Georgian pine, a bird merrily tweets away. It’s the only noise that can be heard. We are in a cone of silence that only a place like Augusta National can create. Down below, thousands have congregated for that most tense of sporting finales, a playoff to decide the Green Jacket. [Read more]
Cycling World Champs – Night 4
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Track Cycling World Championships – Night 4 Patrick O’Keeffe April 8th 2012 The penultimate night of competition at the 2012 Track Cycling World Championships was really something to behold. Devastated at missing out in the Women’s Sprint the previous night, Anna Meares produced a stunning turnaround to claim the Kierin world title. Cameron Meyer [Read more]
Let’s Get Physical
April 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Track Cycling World Championships – Night Three Patrick O’Keeffe April 7, 2012. The night is all about Anna Meares and Victoria Pendleton. This is where the drama is, the excitement and the tension. Meares and Pendleton don’t like eachother, by all accounts. This rivalry is intensified in the first of three sprints in [Read more]
McIntyre’s Olympic Legacy
April 5, 2012 by 7 Comments
Fifty-six years on, there’s not so many Melbournians who can claim to have seen their city’s momentous Olympic Games. Consider then Peter McIntyre, whose entry won the competition for the Olympic Pool design. Not only did Peter’s successful tender earn him the right to oversee the 2002 renovation and extension 50 years after his original blueprint, he’s still [Read more]
What Baseball Does to the Soul
April 5, 2012 by 4 Comments
Craig Little alerted us to this New York Times piece. Colum McCann, author of “Let The Great World Spin”, has a baseball story with universal themes. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/what-baseball-does-to-the-soul.html?n=Top/News/World/Countries%20and%20Territories/United%20States?ref=unitedstates
Leaving it all on the track
April 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Leaving it all on the track Patrick O’Keeffe It is a Sunday afternoon in Melbourne. I am at the Hisense Arena, standing in the middle of a recently constructed cycling velodrome, watching competitors from numerous countries preparing for the 2012 Track Cycling World Championships. The championships will be commencing in Melbourne on Thursday [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]
Crio’s Question: which individual can drag you to a contest?
March 27, 2012 by 10 Comments
by Chris Riordan News and Sport was silently on a TV in the corner. “I reckon I’ll go and watch a Storm game”, said Robbo, glancing up over a post-cricket drink. “D’ya like League?”,pestered a team-mate. “Nah…but Billy Slater’s on fire. He’s gotta be worth going to watch.” Sounds fair enough to me. We’ve had [Read more]
Death Tracks; Beyond Motordrome
March 23, 2012 by 13 Comments
The spectre of danger, even death, has done little harm to motorsport’s mass appeal. But the attrition rates of the ‘motordromes’, which predated the Great Depression, were something else. As a world champion racer of penny farthings, it’s quaintly absurd that engineer Jack Prince’s second stab at fame would be to kick start the most [Read more]
New Zealand – Part 2. Bungy!
March 20, 2012 by 1 Comment
by Kieran Deck The dawn sun rutilant on the lake sparks and sets-off the cicadas again. I wake early, still buzzing with the excitement of being in another country. This feeling is at odds with the pessimism I hold for today’s activity: bungy jumping. It strikes me that I’m nervous in the car, somewhere [Read more]
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