Crio urges tipsters to wait and check out track conditions on Saturday afternoon…but is prepared to make a few predictions regardless.
Junior Footy: The Journey Begins
October 25, 2013 by 2 Comments
Wesley Hull’s previous piece introduced us to footy in far North Queensland and the work of the Footys4all Foundation. Now he takes us back to his suburban beginnings with the moth-eaten Magpies.
Money Value Carnival Preview – And so the end is near!
October 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Salmeister previews the Cox Plate and other Money Valley mayhem. He reviews the ascension of the Almanac’s own St Ange to the Socceroo’s gig (well he is on ABC Insiders, and so is our glorious leader, so Ange is as good as family).
Infographic: The Socceroos and Ange Postecoglou
October 24, 2013 by 1 Comment
With Ange Postecoglou appointed as the head coach, the Socceroos welcomes only the third native-born manager of the team since 1970. Cobba Stevens reckons we’re in good hands. (And supplies one of his handy infographics on Ange’s predecessors.)
Footy Grounds of Tassie: a Driving Tour
October 24, 2013 by 6 Comments
Richard Jones visits some of Tassie’s finest footy grounds.
AFL Grand Final: Bad Sex
October 24, 2013 by 13 Comments
The Grand Final left Matt Zurbo mightily unsatisfied.
Fight animals
October 23, 2013 by 1 Comment
Matt Watson comes out swinging and lands more punches than Mundine in a month. He is sick of the charade of dodgey promoters and scam contests. See if you agree with “IronMike’s” reasons for why the sweet science is on the ropes.
One off the Bucket List
October 23, 2013 by 4 Comments
For a long-term Reds fan, this is a pilgrimage to Lourdes – a visit to Liverpool’s home ground. Thinking he would have to settle for just a tour, Sam Steele is delighted to find himself at a match, with the top-liners on show. But this realisation of a dream leaves him wondering – are the glory days gone?
Footy Almanac Melbourne Cup Eve Lunch to Talk Nags and Pick the Trifecta
October 23, 2013 by 7 Comments
JTH explains the Almanac Melbourne Cup Eve Lunch at the All Nations on Nov 4. Check it out – and bookings are essential.
Post Seasonal Affective Disorder
October 23, 2013 by 8 Comments
Kerrie Soraghan is a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Medicine with this ground breaking research. The consistent use of Bulldogs case studies suggests that this affliction runs deep in Kerrie’s family.
When the School Bell Chimed
October 22, 2013 by 2 Comments
Damian Balassone offers a poem to enchant and beguile. Filly, figment or female? You be the judge.
Sam Stosur: Is she not pretty enough?
October 22, 2013 by 27 Comments
Phil Dimitriadis is perplexed. Why doesn’t Sam Stosur get the recognition she deserves?
Test cricket preparation: Ashes encounter on the doorstep (or wherefore art thou, everybody?)
October 21, 2013 by 9 Comments
What has Cricket Australia been thinking? It’s been difficult to understand which hemisphere everybody is in, let alone how form is shaping up. David Wilson takes a look at the preparation of the national Test squad and finds only a forget-a-thon of tiddly-winks.
Around The Bay in a day – you can do it!
October 21, 2013 by 7 Comments
What is it like to cycle 219km in a day? Steve Fahey set himself the challenge of the full Around the Bay ride on Sunday and beat a last-minute tyre fault, heat and wind to make it home. And incidentally answer the question – which is worse, cycling 210km or running a marathon?
Crio’s Question: One Man’s Rubbish is……..
October 21, 2013 by 4 Comments
The goal square full of streamers. The desperate search for discarded tickets when the protest siren sounds. Colour and movement or the disposable society? Crio asks us to reveal our true allegiances: oral expressive or anal retentive?
McKenzie has Wallabies moving in the right direction
October 21, 2013 by 1 Comment
Tim Ladhams has been sweating over a hot plasma screen all weekend, monitoring several sports for the Knackery. To his trained eye the Wallabies cup is becoming half full, after Robbie Deans spilled most of the contents over recent years.
Waiting to go into bat
October 21, 2013 by 11 Comments
Luke Ridgewell’s cricket report is the funniest and truest thing you will read this week. No wonder Woody Allen loves baseball. Cricket, baseball and neurosis are synonymous.
Evoking Avoca
October 21, 2013 by 5 Comments
Our rural racing correspondent Glen Davis journeys to Avoca for Cup Day.
Comeback kids prove their Socceroo credentials
October 21, 2013 by 2 Comments
Roundball reporter Tim Ladhams offers his customary magisterial overview of the weekend’s A-League fixtures. Ten minutes with Tim will make you too a candidate for the Socceroos coaching position.
(Half-way) Around The Bay In A Day
With a “cuddly” physique, only two training rides, and the wrong kind of bike, Glen Potter was definitely battling the odds to ride 100km. Emergency Myki in hand, he discovers the joy of the peloton, the horror of Mount Martha and the true meaning of “headwind”. [A highly enjoyable tale, you’ll feel like you were there – Ed.]