by Sue Currie We’ve sent the Pakis packing The Open now is shut The hot cross buns are in the shops And school is going back. The silly season’s ended The NAB Cup’s nearly here It’s time to meet our new boys And bag the umps again. Pre-season’s nearly over We’re members once again It’s [Read more]
Tennis: Still awaiting the Aussie charge
February 1, 2010 by 1 Comment
by Dan O’Sullivan As another Australian Open winds up and the great Roger Federer flies back to Switzerland to collect yet another cow to go with his 16th Slam (are the Swiss still doing that?), the inevitable question will be asked, where was the Aussie charge? The predictable poor showing by the locals can probably [Read more]
Footy: My Scoresheets
February 1, 2010 by 187 Comments
By Steve Healy I have a football hobby: scoring. It’s pretty much using a bit of paper with teams and game notes, and writing the scores in boxes, while writing down goal kickers and the quarter by quarter scores. I’ve been doing this for years, but I’ve only kept them in a folder since 2007. [Read more]
Footy: The troubles and triumphs of Richo, Part 3
January 31, 2010 by Leave a Comment
By Domenic Favata 2002-2006 As Matthew Richardson got older, the better he got. Injuries still hampered him but he continued to provide the goals and spirit that Richmond desperately needed. Richmond were struggling, they had failed to back up their finals appearance from 2001. Sometimes Richo’s tantrums on the field were blooming more often as [Read more]
Racing: Nicconi shines on day that will shape autumn markets
January 31, 2010 by 5 Comments
By Chris Riordan The Lightning Stakes lived up to its reputation as a “good horse’s race” when Nicconi bloused Wanted with a whirlwind finish at Flemington. The roll-call has been enhanced by recent winners’ subsequent success abroad, and the Lightning victor looks suited to the pathway trodden by Takeover Target, Fastnet Rock, Miss Andretti and [Read more]
Winter Olympics: Seductive Sigulda sweeps me off my feet
January 30, 2010 by 10 Comments
By Tim Ivins With the Winter Olympics just around the corner and with me experiencing a white winter for the first time, I decided to take advantage of the conditions and experience something that would be impossible in Australia. The four man bobsled. For those of you who aren’t quite sure what that entails, cast your [Read more]
Footy: Billy Miller on Arden Street
January 30, 2010 by 3 Comments
What a way to count down to the season … one of Melbourne’s favourite musicians and Saints fans, Billy Miller (late of the Dingoes), has made short films on the 12 grounds of the old VFL clubs. We start here with North Melbourne’s Arden Street Oval.
Footy: The off-season has gone on long enough!
January 28, 2010 by 2 Comments
By Steve Merry In the season proper, footy fans are spoilt for choice. There is football everywhere. Newspapers are littered with articles, photos and charts. Radio stations such as SEN discuss footy endlessly. Pay television channels provide us with a host of shows on the subject, and then, to fill in the gaps, they run [Read more]
Cycling: The Tour Down Under through a fan’s lens
January 28, 2010 by 1 Comment
You want colour and movement? Here’s a link to Anne Federowytsch’s album from the Tour Down Under. http://www.photovations.com/ims/album.php?u_id=5318uKg0o x x x x
Tennis: It’s not the same without Damir
January 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Did someone say Damir Dokic? Amid all the talk about fashion and Prince William’s bald spot, we miss him.
Tennis: Leconte as a commentator? Allez! Allez!
January 28, 2010 by 7 Comments
Not being your bona-fide modern tennis fan, it takes something out of the ordinary for me to sit and watch the Australian Open for extended periods. Mine is the world of grass courts, Lecoste shirts, Dunlop Volleys and ‘serve and volley’ games. Aside from the latest Damir Dokic rant, I rarely take notice. But Channel [Read more]
Cycling: A fan’s perspective on following the Tour Down Under
January 28, 2010 by 1 Comment
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]
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