Saint66 has REALLY had it with the cross-promotional advertising on televised sport. Who knew that My Restaurant Rules is now an Olympic sport?
The Only Team Old Carlton Knows
January 15, 2014 by 4 Comments
Franc de Borges celebrates 150 glorious years of the Carlton Football Club. For richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health.
Australian Open: Taking no prisoners
January 14, 2014 by 5 Comments
Rod Oaten braved the heat so that you didn’t have to. Here’s his report from day 1 of the Australian Open. Some old-fashioned women’s tennis, and an injury for Hass – or was it?
Leap Year
January 14, 2014 by 4 Comments
Who will leap into the finals after finishing in the lower portion of the ladder last season? Will it be resilient Essendon; much-hyped North Melbourne; unlucky Adelaide; talented Gold Coast?
Ashes Diary 2013-14, entry no.4: The passion of Chris Rogers
January 14, 2014 by 11 Comments
School reports read: ‘Chris is a lovely, polite boy, but the rest of the class doesn’t always need to know pitch conditions in Wellington’. Andrew Starkie evokes beautifully the world of Chris Rogers.
Test win for England
January 14, 2014 by 4 Comments
Perry shines, Australia fades and England grabs the upper hand…there was plenty of interest and spice in the Ashes Test at the WACA that ended on Monday.
Crio’s Question : What causes the mighty to fall?
January 13, 2014 by 3 Comments
Crio ponders what causes the elite performer to unexpectedly turn it up on the turn, and stagger home like a crippled crab? Unexpected ‘Barry Crockers’ and their causes? Dr Freud or Dr Turf?
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.
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