Too weary to get on his bike and get to the ground, Earl O’Neill draws a line and watches his Monaros get picked apart by the Bombers.
2014 NBA Finals: San Antonio Spurs vs. Miami Heat. Game 1: Fighting Heat with heat (and Game 2).
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Nursing his two-week old son whilst taking in the NBA finals. Paul Campbell reckons that it doesn’t get much better than this.
AFL Round 12 – Review: The game takes many forms
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JTH thanks Her Majesty for the celebrations.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 4 -“Two World Wars & One World Cup….”
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What do St Kilda and the English football team have in common? Dennis Gedling lets you know with this tale of solitary success in the 1966 World Cup.
Where were you when Gary Gilmour took 6/14 in the semi-final at Headingley?
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Tell us where you were and what you were doing on June 18, or the morning of June 19 (Australian time), 1975, when you heard of Gary Gilmour’s 6/14 to smash England at Headingley, and get Australia into the first World Cup final.
AFL Round 12 Geelong v Carlton: Not Winning Isn’t Losing
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Damien “Dips” O’Donnell beautifully captures the tension of a nail-biting finish.
AFL Round 12 – Melbourne v Collingwood: Pugnacious Pies Defeat Defensive Dees
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Collingwood won, but even the Floreat Pica scribe Paul O’Connell struggles to find positives in a dour, defensive struggle. Somehow he manages.
Leadership Matters (reprised)
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Malcolm Ashwood runs the ‘rulebook’ over good and bad leadership in sport. [This piece has been generating comments again – so we thought we’d bring it back – Ed]
AFL Round 12 – Port Adelaide v St Kilda: Talent at and near Adelaide Oval
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Mike D saw Port Adelaide win twice on the weekend. His wife shook her head.
Five Corowa races, two protests, one OA
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Glen D enjoys an afternoon at the Corowa races but needed a win in Adelaide to save the day.
AFL Round 12 – North Melbourne v Richmond: Sleeps with the Chickens
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Matt Watson may have had a glimpse into Brad Scott’s half-time address, as his son Angus shook them all night long.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 5-The Greatest (1970)
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Dennis Gedling celebrates perhaps the greatest national team of all time, when Brazil rode their unique attacking flair to success in the 1970 World Cup.
Stubbsy’s Wesley Hill Woollen Footy Jumper
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TR has a bit of a country footy jumper collection going. This one brings back memories of a painful defeat by a cross town rival and of country clubs that have ceased to be.
AFL Round 12 – Fremantle v Adelaide: Beautiful as Grace Kelly
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Dave Brown got a BT free telecast, but oh boy, wowee, the Adelaide Crows footy factory was shutdown by the Fremantle shop steward Ross Lyon once more.
AFL Round 11 – Melbourne v Port Adelaide: A game for points, or the point of the game
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Long-time Centralian and great character, Paul Fitzy Fitzsimons reflects on the significance of the Round 11 game at Traeger Park.
A brother’s jumper
June 10, 2014 by 11 Comments
Vin Maskell clings to the memory of a football jumper he will never see or touch again.
Coleraine Football Club: Bill Bailey
June 10, 2014 by 10 Comments
Wool-grower Bill Bailey played for the Maroons in the late ’60s, and his woollen footy jumper still serves him well.
Top 100 World Cup Moments (From the Aussie P.O.V.): 6-Hot Stuttgart Nights (2006)
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It is the 2006 World Cup, and the Socceroos overcome some familiar Croatian faces to reach the last 16.
AFL Round 12 – GWS v Essendon: Sluggish
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Sun-bathing Sam Laffy summons the energy to file a match report from a beach in Split, Croatia. Of course.
AFL Round 12 – Melbourne v Collingwood: Rivalry runs deep
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A dull game gets Luke Reynolds to thinking about the extent of the Melbourne-Collingwood rivalry, and how it even impacted on the selection of the AFL’s Team of the Century. In response he has picked his own team, and is calling for the Percy Beames Bar to be re-named the Dayne Beams Bar. Luke has also picked a superb alternative Team of the Century. [Discussion welcome. Additional suggestions encouraged – Ed]
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