By Anne Federowytsch Adelaide’s East End is renowned for its fine dining, designer clothing stores and classy nightspots but Sunday 17 January saw the adjoining roads and parklands turned into an UCI Pro-Tour cycling track for the Tour Down Under Cancer Classic warm-up event. Professional cyclists from all corners of the globe had begun descending [Read more]
The Sportsman or the Scientist?
January 28, 2010 by 3 Comments
The Sportsman or the Scientist: who do we revere? Milo or Pythagoras: which one do we cheer? * Newton or DiMaggio: which one got the girl? Edison or Baggio: who lit up the world? * Darwin’s worm or Tiger’s club: which one do we prize? Einstein’s rule or Ali’s glove: which one makes us wise? [Read more]
Footy: My range of injuries lead me to reflect on cursed stars
January 27, 2010 by 155 Comments
By Jeffrey Paterson Over the last few weeks of school holidays, I’ve been wondering if my fingers and hands will hold up this footy season. Ever since I’ve started playing footy I’ve had 4 broken fingers and I’ve dislocated 5 fingers at least 4 times each. Other than my hand injuries I’ve had a couple [Read more]
Footy: Weighing up just which club is Geelong’s true rival
January 27, 2010 by 163 Comments
By Susie Giese It truly baffles me what can be considered a rivalry these days. It seems every week the television stations are promoting a “clash of arch rivals”. Granted, the VFL/AFL has been around for 113 years, so that gives clubs ample times to make plenty of enemies, but do all the rivalries [Read more]
Footy: The troubles and triumphs of Richo, Part 2
January 26, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Domenic Favata 1997-2001 The next few years were mediocre years for Richmond, but solid seasons for Richardson. He was carrying the Tigers while the club failed to set a stable foundation; they had three coaches in three years and languished outside the eight. (Twice in four years they finished ninth.) Richardson had to cope [Read more]
Footy: The lowdown on a massive trade week
January 26, 2010 by 29 Comments
Trade week is always one of the most exciting times of the offseason for an AFL fan, and the 2009 trade week was a particularly exciting one. I’ve decided to break down each of the 15 trades that took place during the week.
Tennis: Seven’s deadly sin
January 26, 2010 by 87 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz The events of Day 8 at the Australian Open cannot be allowed to pass without comment. Not about the departure of Australia’s last two representatives, Stosur and Hewitt; with both coming up against the top seeds, their losses were unsurprising, if not inevitable. Not about Jo-Wilfried Tsonga’s five set marathon win, as [Read more]
Cycling: How I got an insiders’ view of the Tour Down Under
January 26, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Anne Federowytsch The lift opened at level three and revealed the lively front desk of the South Australian Tourism Commission’s office. It was the first Monday of the New Year and my first shift as a volunteer for Australia’s biggest cycling event, the Tour Down Under. I arrived on the dot at 9am and [Read more]
Footy and Gaelic football: Irish gnash teeth on introduction of the mark
January 26, 2010 by 6 Comments
Monday, 25 January 2010 Depending on who you listen to, it will either bring some beauty back to the game and revive a much-loved skill, or be “an unmitigated disaster” that will rob the code of its identity. “Hands in the back!”, “deliberate!” and “30 seconds!” are all reasonably recent additions to the AFL supporter’s [Read more]
Bat to the Future (or Here One-Day, Gone the Next)
January 25, 2010 by 14 Comments
by Andrew Gigacz Cricket’s big issue of 2010 is the future of the one-day international. Whatever your preferred medium of cricket coverage, chances are the undercurrent flowing beneath it will be the debate about how the Twenty20 form of the game will shape the landscape of the sport over the next decade or two. And [Read more]
Tennis: My big day out at the Open
January 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
To anybody who saw Dan Silkstone’s ‘Around Melbourne Park in Six Hours’ report in Saturday’s Age my effort might seem like a pretty feeble imitation, but here goes: My day at the Open on Friday kicked off with Peter Luczak and an Oz of Indian background called Rameez Junaid play German Phillip Marx and Slovak [Read more]
Footy: The triumphs and troubles of Richo, Part 1
January 25, 2010 by 141 Comments
By Domenic Favata Matthew Richardson is a Tiger legend, and a legend of the AFL. He’s known for his spectacular leaps, goal kicking and shows of emotion. He was a player who on his day could win a match off his own boot. He could kick a match-winning goal and then stop one on the [Read more]
Footy: How I seduced my wife (with a little help from Max Rooke)
January 25, 2010 by 6 Comments
By Richard Naco It was Saturday 11 June 1995 when sheer dumb luck introduced me to the most amazing woman in the world. It was the Matisse exhibition at the National Gallery (in Canberra), and although this was beyond the normal scope of my activities, I took the advice of friends who had ventured forth, [Read more]
Footy: Linga a worthy leader of my All-Ranga team
January 24, 2010 by 50 Comments
By Adam Bulman Cameron Ling, the new Geelong captain, is famous for being one of the ugliest and most popular players in the AFL, due to his red hair, burnt, creased face and his skill and tenacity on field as well as his friendly and down-to-earth nature off it. The man known as the Paddle [Read more]
Footy: How I got back my passion for the Saints
January 24, 2010 by 3 Comments
By Luke Mather I bought back into the Saints with about 15 minutes remaining in last season’s prelim final against the Dogs. Thankfully we won. Seven days later the result wasn’t as satisfying but that was probably a good thing. My love for St Kilda and the AFL in general has always run deep. My [Read more]
Tennis: My lowdown on the Open so far
January 23, 2010 by 289 Comments
By Domenic Favata Well, we’re just about to start the round of 16 and things are starting to heat up. There will be mouth-watering battles coming up, none better than the Hewitt v Baghdatis tonight. The pair will meet for the second time in a month, the last time being in Sydney, where Baghdatis won [Read more]
Footy: Which coaches are sitting pretty?
January 22, 2010 by 172 Comments
The players have had their turn and now it’s time for the coaches. Who is on the AFL coaches’ pretty list? Well, only three are worthy.
Footy: I’ve got my number
January 22, 2010 by 278 Comments
By Jeffrey Paterson Number 36 is not highly fought after at any club, really. Simon Goodwin, Dane Swan, Aaron Davey and Dustin Martin are the players that spring to mind when I think of the AFL players who don the number 36. Also it’s the number I don for my team the Katunga Swans, although [Read more]
Footy: It couldn’t get any better for a Cats fan, could it?
January 22, 2010 by 207 Comments
By Susie Giese I will admit it. I am a footy tragic. A completely untalented footy tragic, much to my chagrin. You’ll run into your run-of-the-mill fanatic who can remember every stat from the last hundred games their team played (and sometimes the games of other teams, too). There are people who can recall a [Read more]
Footy: Tigers to do it the Hard way
January 22, 2010 by 70 Comments
By Adam Bulman Let’s be blunt: Terry Wallace’s tenure as Tiger coach was a totally atrocious time for the Richmond Football Club, one that will be remembered badly, or preferably not at all. Just off the top of my head, I can think of many mistakes: Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls and Cleve Hughes in the 2005 draft, [Read more]
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