The first week of April will see the World Track Cycling Championships commence at Hisense Arena in Melbourne. It may not get the coverage of yore – road cycling is riding the crest of a popular wave – but Australia once boasted a hero of the boards every bit as extraordinary as Cadel. By common consensus, in the [Read more]
Pool Sunset
March 16, 2012 by 3 Comments
Words and picture by Martin Reeves “As he emerged from the water, the swimmer’s lane-rage of moments ago dissipated as he glimpsed the setting sun over Fitzroy”.
The Inside Lane
March 16, 2012 by 6 Comments
“Get the inside lane.” That’s all he could think of. “Make sure you get the inside lane.” The cut grass between his toes was damp; spring on a Montmorency morning. The sun shone crisply through the eucalypts’ leaves. He was standing at the centre of his universe.
Is motor racing a sport?
March 14, 2012 by 4 Comments
John Harms asks the same old question that pops up each year at the North Fitzroy Arms: is motor racing a sport? http://tatts.com/news/2012/3/14/john-harms-on-the-australian-grand-prix
Choose your poision – the Top 8 Swedish style
March 13, 2012 by 14 Comments
by Rob Scott The Swedish ice hockey (Elitserien) regular season came to a thrilling conclusion during the week as the top teams battled for places in the playoffs (slutspel) and the bottom teams tried to avoid relegation. Positions were so tight that almost every goal scored during the final round resulted in a change [Read more]
Wollongong Surfer
March 12, 2012 by 7 Comments
Photo by Keiran Deck A perfect way to spend a long weekend.
New Zealand Trip Pt. 1
March 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Had my recent trip to New Zealand’s North Island been graphed on its intensity levels, it would have looked similar to the electrocardiogram of a healthy 21-year-old; high peaks and moderate troughs. This was fitting because the reason for our visit was to celebrate my 21st birthday. The sweet lung-lolly found in rural New [Read more]
Who Do You Think You Are?
March 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
As I jumped on the tram immediately after work on Friday, the familiar thrill of Friday Night Football was back. The worries of the five previous working days were swiped away with my Myki as I shook off the dust of the CBD and crawled towards Brunswick St. The clear air of the weekend descended [Read more]
A MEXICAN VENTURES INTO RUGBY TERRITORY …. IN MELBOURNE !!
March 4, 2012 by 1 Comment
By Richard Jones It was never going to be an easy assignment. A Victorian venturing forth to take in his first, live look at a transplanted northern states’ code in Australian Rules heartland. But I agreed to accompany our English son-in-law, his Dad who’s out in Oz on a summer holiday and sundry Queenslanders and [Read more]
Sport and friendship
March 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Knowing people comes in handy. I once got free tickets to a show at the National Gallery of Victoria because I knew a guy who worked behind the information desk. I hadn’t seen him for about three years, but he didn’t mind, in fact he seemed to revel in dishing out free goods. I didn’t [Read more]
In search of a winning score
March 1, 2012 by 33 Comments
By Jeff Dowsing It’s fair to say the rocky relationship between sport and music is an obvious yet strangely elusive one. Venture into any changeroom and protagonists will be plugged in, psyching themselves for battle. What are they listening to? I dare say nothing that relevant to sport. Sure, rousing abstract tunes made for [Read more]
Leave your team and get to the track!
February 29, 2012 by 12 Comments
by Steve Fahey Don’t go to the footy or cricket this weekend !!! Yes, you read right. This lifelong sports nut is exhorting you to not attend the footy or cricket this weekend in Melbourne. Why ? Because I am suggesting that you insteadattend the Olympic track and field team trials at Lakeside Stadium [Read more]
Almanackers take on the Big Issue
February 28, 2012 by 2 Comments
by Vin Maskell It looks like there are two Almanackers in the current edition of The Big Issue. Andrew Starkie has a story set in Warrnambool in the mid 1980s called Pick Your Battles, about school-bullying and boxing lessons from Dad. Not sure if it’s already been published on the Almanac site. Here’s how [Read more]
Duck hunting
February 9, 2012 by 12 Comments
People are inventive. They have found many ways to pass the time. Sport is one of them. But sometimes sport is more than that. People have also found ways to elevate the soul. Some play Bach and watch David Gower. Others have their souls elevated by fiddle-music, Ford pick-ups, the squeal of a pig, and [Read more]
Never too far away
February 7, 2012 by 4 Comments
by Pamela Sherpa Towards the end of last football season, my daughter, Tashi, feared that stress was adversely affecting me. She suggested that I should go on a relaxing holiday and get away from the frustration of sport. What a good idea ! We planned to meet in Cambodia in January after she had been [Read more]
Standin’ on the Outside Lookin’ in
February 6, 2012 by 5 Comments
Sorry for the lateness of my missive but a combo of bathroom demolition and junior golf pennants has taken much of the weekend and drained my spirit despite a gripping 3.5/2.5 victory by the Belco kids over the visitors from Goulburn. For the uninitiated junior pennants is a match play format like the President’s Cop. [Read more]
Bonding with Rafa
January 31, 2012 by 6 Comments
by Joey Agerholm Do yourself a favour and Google the following words…. “Federer as Religion Experience by David Foster Wallace” and then read the essay that shows up in the search results. It’s a much better read than this piece will be. He argues a good case, and I’m persuaded, but if watching Roger [Read more]
Hit Me Again: Djokovic vs. Nadal
January 31, 2012 by 21 Comments
Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, the tennis served as an eminently companionable side show to my flannel-centric summers. I fondly remember Kooyong and White City grass courts. Newk, Muscles, Eddo, Phil Dent and, yes, even JA, were a welcome support cast filling in the gaps between test matches. The tennis was as [Read more]
Giant showdown
January 24, 2012 by 10 Comments
by Michael Parker One of the by products of currently only working part time is more time to indulge in sport on TV. And when One HD isn’t giving us old episodes of M.A.S.H or Cops, it occasionally still serves its original purpose of televising sporting contests. It has given me the chance to [Read more]
2012 Australian Open: Day 2
January 19, 2012 by 8 Comments
It’s that time again to get the racquet out of the wardrobe and dream about how good you were in your youth. The Australian Open is here again in all its glory, and after a previous week of winter weather a ferocious sun is out, ready to burn spectators and players to a crisp. I [Read more]
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