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Category Archives: Sport-general
Congratulations Neville Sillitoe
We were thrilled at midnight last night to discover that Neville Sillitoe received an honour. Neville has been around for some time. He ‘discovered’ Peter Norman as Norman was running in Princes Park in Melbourne in the 1960s. He won … Continue reading
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Let’s have another World War!
Sometimes, it feels like 1910 all over again. Then, a confident Germany was the up-and-coming industrial power house, fearing an even more up-and-coming Russia, with the UK and France desperately holding on to their colonial empires. Now, a confident China … Continue reading
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Tennis before larger racquet heads
Noticing my checking of vids of Wimbledon, Youtube has been serving up far too many excerpts of tennis for my own good but I’ve got a bit of a fascination with how the game has changed. Anyway, this is as … Continue reading
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Fire and ice
Last night I came off a series of deadlines and sat in my chair, catching up on a backlog of emails. I also watched David Stratton’s series on David Stratton with some Australian Movies worked into it currently on iView (episode 2) which was … Continue reading
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Collingwood
I wrote these words just before we nearly threw away the 2010 Premiership. [I]t’s hard to figure out what exactly the plan is up forward. In the case of virtually any other club, if a mid-fielder gets the ball and … Continue reading
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The gamebrand’s the thing
It’s well past time to reconsider our communal attitude towards professional sport. We’re subjected almost daily to scandals about drug cheating, gross and usually drunken behaviour by sports people, rorted salary caps and match-fixing by players colluding with bookmakers and … Continue reading
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