Haje Halabi mourns and celebrates a country footy legend.
Asia-Pacific Team of the Century
September 20, 2013 by 22 Comments
Damian Balassone has come up with an Asia-Pacific team to be reckoned with. Do you agree with his selections?
AFL Preliminary Final – Hawthorn v Geelong: Brown and Gold bunnies
September 20, 2013 by 25 Comments
The Kennett Curse won’t be broken tonight.
AFL Preliminary Finals – Preview: Is that rain I’m detecting?
September 20, 2013 by 26 Comments
Who wins the preliminary finals and why? Leave your thoughts here.
And, under grey skies, and sprinkles of rain, JTH has some thoughts of his own.
The Real Semi-Final Weekend Preview – Feeling a bit dusty!
September 20, 2013 by 3 Comments
Sal Ciardulli has the good oil – on Dusty Martin, the Bombers, last weekend’s vanquished, the People’s Finals, and this weekend’s racing. Need a tip? Sal’s your man.
ODI cricket review: How did your favourite player fare?
September 20, 2013 by 2 Comments
It may have been a meaningless one-day series, tacked onto the tail-end of an Ashes tour, and England may have rested many of its players, but a win’s a win! Smokie rates the players.
Cricket: One Day International Series Review
September 20, 2013 by 6 Comments
Believe it or not, Australia have just played England in a 5 match ODI series. And won. Not many people this side of the world noticed. Who better than Luke Reynolds to bring you up to speed.
Almanac Art: Footy Fun Day
September 20, 2013 by 7 Comments
You may have seen Jack Riewoldt riding to school on his bike this week. School kids are celebrating Footy Fun Day, or Footy Colours Day, this month by wearing their team colours in support of a charity.
Murderball – it’s a killer of a game
September 20, 2013 by 3 Comments
After watching the Wheelchair Rugby Tri-Nations tournament while in Sydney, Ramon Dobb is hooked on Murderball.
AFL Finals Week 2 – Geelong v Port Adelaide: Kenny, Travis and the love of the game
September 19, 2013 by 9 Comments
“The Wrong Dreams of the dullards and egotists and meglomaniacs of footy look even further from the mark than they already did” writes John Harms in describing the restorative powers of the first round of the finals in this piece about the Cats past few weeks.
AFL Finals Week 2 – Sydney v Carlton: A blue road trip
September 18, 2013 by 3 Comments
Tony Reed rode the rollercoaster that was Carlton’s season all the way to the end.
Almanac Rugby League – NRL Finals Week 1: Sharks v Cowboys – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…..7?
September 18, 2013 by 1 Comment
Peter Hulthen contemplates the Cowboys unfortunate loss.
Crio’s Racing: Atlantic Jewel at The Underwood Stakes
September 18, 2013 by 22 Comments
There’ll be no “cotton wool champ” dung flung at Atlantic Jewel after the champion mare was a surprise Acceptor on Wednesday for The Underwood Stakes which has gathered one of the best WFA fields seen in Melbourne for a long time.
Writers block during the finals: I blame KISS
September 18, 2013 by 11 Comments
Much to ponder – Chappy and the MRP, the Alvarez-Mayweather fight, the Kennett Curse – but an inability to put those thoughts on paper. KISS made a fortune out of writers block, why can’t Iron Mike?
AFL Round 23 – St.Kilda v Fremantle: Once again, Saints look to next year
September 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
No strangers themselves to sensation, the St Kilda players found sensation overtaking them, like it or not, before they’d even pulled on a boot to meet Fremantle in Round 23, writes Brian Matthews.
AFL Finals Week 2 – Sydney v Carlton: Class of 2013
September 18, 2013 by 5 Comments
Class of 2013, please be seated. Mr Judd, Henderson, Jamison, Walker, Murphy, Simpson and Robinson may leave the room. Last week I was ambivalent about the class’ attendance in the end of year celebrations. This week, I’m just very, well, as you can see I have my angry face on. Students, if the lucky dip [Read more]
The club fan buries its de-listed
September 18, 2013 by 6 Comments
The fate of the de-listed played (with a nod to Henry Lawson).
The Story of Peter Reville – The Champion of the Brown Coal Mine
September 18, 2013 by 8 Comments
The story of former Brown Coal Mine and South Melbourne premiership player Peter Reville, who was suspended for 20 weeks after snapping in the 1934 Grand Final.
AFL Finals Week 2 – Sydney v Carlton: If the road is easy, you’re going the wrong way
September 17, 2013 by 4 Comments
Saturday night and as the temperature dips I’m swept up in a sea of people pouring into Olympic Park. The hopeful, the confident, the desperate and the drunk, all wanting a win. This is most definitely The Last Chance. In just over two hours some of us will be singing, the rest shambling out looking [Read more]
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