Ashes Review: Over no. 78 and the Seinfeld moment – how an over of nothing told us everything about the series.

January 13, 2014 by 13 Comments

Perceptive analysis from Sean Curtain who analyses the over in which England did less than nothing, thereby symbolising their five test ‘effort’.

Northern Territory Football League Round 13 Wrap-Up

January 13, 2014 by 4 Comments

Jackson Clark offers a comprehensive summary of the weekend’s action in the Northern Territory Football League. Some familiar names and some that will surely become familiar.

Football is a funny game (on missing Before the Game)

January 13, 2014 by 9 Comments

Footy is as much about what happens around it. Aussie80s will miss the crew at Before the Game who found the wavelength of so many footy fans.

Passion Killers

January 12, 2014 by 8 Comments

Peter Baulderstone swelters in Perth’s heat and ruminates on why we watch sport and what we take from it. He thinks that 50/50 Internationals show the ICC believes “too much cricket is never enough”.

Lazy media days of Summer

January 12, 2014 by 12 Comments

Tony Robb reckons media coverage of summer sport is as predictable as “night follows day”. Let us know your favourite media beat-up staple: “best ever pre-season”??

Big Bash : Stars demolish Strikers

January 11, 2014 by 3 Comments

Brilliant photos from Peter Argent and bowling from the Melbourne Stars. The Adelaide Strikers were inept. Phil Hughes has “technical issues” (who knew?) And Rulebook’s love child Callum Ferguson can’t even get a game.

Diva demands

January 11, 2014 by 5 Comments

Basically this piece in the Herald Sun got me thinking. It was about some of the crazy demands and requests celebrities have when they are on tour. This got me thinking if I were famous what would my demands be? After some thought Danni’s Diva Demands include: A Swarovski crystal tiara. 3 Maxibons. A packet [Read more]

60 Years Ago (1954) – A New Era for the Yallourn Blues

January 10, 2014 by 6 Comments

Footy historians gather round. Roger Spaull tells the story of the Yallourn Footy Club’s involvement in the new Latrobe Valley Football League in 1954.

Motlop cops nine-week suspension

January 10, 2014 by 5 Comments

Jackson Clark reports that Daniel Motlop’s football career was on a knife’s edge this week when he was threatened with a life ban.

Australian Open: DNQ

January 10, 2014 by 2 Comments

Swish Schwerdt asks: What was Spaniard Oscar Hernandez doing trying to qualify for the Grand Slam of the Asia-Pacific?

Tennis: Follow a Stranger

January 9, 2014 by 2 Comments

After his first visit to the Australian Open last year, Swish Schwerdt hit on a method of keeping the interest up all year long.

Ashes Summary (or ‘Why I Should Have Listened To My Brother’)

January 9, 2014 by 5 Comments

On the morning of Day One of the First Test in Brisbane, my brother made the confident prediction that Australia would comfortably win the Ashes. I didn’t believe him; partly because he is 15 but mostly because nobody in the world can polish a turd like my brother.

Crio’s Racing: Follow the Money

January 9, 2014 by 8 Comments

Magic Millions is hogging the limelight, but down south Crio also has his eye on the Flemington chances.

Sydney Test – Day 3: Travelling well

January 9, 2014 by 14 Comments

John Harms wins the fight for the car radio and considers the Ashes summer as it comes to its end.

Bing Lee: still launching them (photos by Peter Argent)

January 8, 2014 by 1 Comment

Brett Lee in full flight. Peter Argent captures the veteran at the Adelaide Oval.

Black Cats

January 7, 2014 by 4 Comments

Daryl Sharpen reports on a classic knock (a triple century in a 50-over match, no less) down New Norfolk way. [Very amusing from D. Sharpen, yet again. Includes reference to Peter Hudson – Ed]

The last ball of the last Test

January 7, 2014 by 7 Comments

Vin Maskell with the ultimate metaphor.

Farewell Skull: a legacy of knowledge and smiles

January 7, 2014 by 37 Comments

Matt Zurbo celebrates the very human Kerry O’Keeffe in this tribute.

Getting on with it: in praise of netball

January 6, 2014 by 6 Comments

Rick Kane has come to understand and appreciate the game of netball, especially since the Moomba Park Under 15s premiership victory.

Crio’s Question : Rating the Under-rated?

January 6, 2014 by 10 Comments

Crio thinks that Younis Khan (who?) is an under-rated cricketer. Name your under-rated competitors in any sport, and help us shed light on why they never get the attention of the ‘stars’.