BACK TO BASICS Local sport in 3 parts There’s nothing like local sport to help you connect with the community. Corporate demands, overly structured game plans and totally rip-off prices go by the way to be replaced with a cheery welcome, lots of space, family friendly prices and much good humour. It’s good just to [Read more]
The Almanacker’s Lament (apologies to John O’Brien)
July 3, 2012 by 4 Comments
“We’ll all be rooned,” said Litza, In accents most forlorn, “This bloody Ratten shits ya, I wish he’d not been born.” Peter_B
So where should I go this week?
June 25, 2012 by Leave a Comment
by Joey Agerholm As a kid I expected to grow up and play sport for a living, now I’d be happy enough just being able to watch it full time. This morning I lay on the couch and imagined myself as a fairly successful sportswriter who gets to pick and choose events to visit and [Read more]
The noble art of booing
June 25, 2012 by 17 Comments
“We wuz robbed. Collingwood couldn’t buy a goal in the last quarter, so that bloody maggot gives Beams a charity 20 metres out. And that home ground free kick bias is ruining the game.” Sorry, I’m just channeling my inner Bluebagger. That sense of entitlement that makes them so obnoxious. I actually couldn’t get that [Read more]
US Open
June 18, 2012 by 28 Comments
This has been a pretty good tournament although not the best by a long way. The Olympic Course is superb: a sandy linksy course with trees – even though that doesn’t make sense. But I say that because it is windy and the ball sometimes runs on the quick fairways and greens and you have [Read more]
David Graham – A Life Redeemed
June 16, 2012 by 7 Comments
Its US Golf Open time, and I felt inspired by Matt Riordan’s wonderful list of his 5 favorite golfers and the typically eclectic Almanacker response, to add my recollection of a forgotten hero of Australian golf. Before the Shark there was Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle, Bruce Crampton (second best golfer in the world for many [Read more]
Come on Jimmy, come on!
June 6, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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. Keiran Deck
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
April 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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]
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