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Stung Swans' unfinished business against Dees
22 Mar 2011So disastrous was Sydney’s last AFL match against Melbourne that the Swans made a pact to never let such a hiding happen again. In round 17 of 2010, the Demons crushed a strangely distant Sydney line-up by 73 points, leading by as much as 91 before the Swans flattered themselves with the last three goals. [...]
Play unafraid against Germany, says Osieck
16 Mar 2011Socceroos coach Holger Osieck insists his men should walk unafraid into their friendly date with Germany, shrugging off the memory of a 4-0 World Cup mauling. Osieck on Tuesday named a 17-man squad for the March 29 fixture in Moenchengladbach, 10 of whom were part of the team scarred by a horrific result against the [...]
Fog of uncertainty shrouds Big Bash tournament
12 Mar 2011Time is running short for the establishment of next summer’s reinvention of the domestic Twenty20 competition, with a host of fundamental tournament details still to be agreed upon. A second two-day Cricket Australia board meeting in as many months has been unable to cut through the myriad of issues surrounding the event’s creation, many of [...]
Ricky Ponting the viceroy as sun sets on empire
21 Feb 2011Nowhere in world cricket is Australia still considered the most formidable team around. Nowhere, that is, except in the formalities ahead of the 2011 World Cup on the subcontinent. There were shades of the last days of the British empire about Australian captain Ricky Ponting’s role at the tournament opening ceremony in Dhaka, as leader [...]
Forget falafel, GWS Giants are apple pie
18 Feb 2011When Eddie McGuire trawled through possible foods to sum up the AFL’s Greater Western Sydney experiment, he might just as easily have settled on apple pie as falafel. The club being built at Blacktown and housed at Breakfast Point near Concord shares much in common with the American college experience, a deliberate choice on the [...]
Sheedy offers flags and fat contracts to join GWS
17 Feb 2011Geelong’s Jimmy Bartel and other out of contract AFL aces should be lured to GWS by thoughts of premierships as well as money, according to Giants coach Kevin Sheedy. As the league’s 16 established clubs brace for another round of poaching across 2011, Sheedy argued the pitch of many Melbourne clubs to keep their best [...]
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