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"pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse, playing cricket is not" - Keith Miller
- Member Since:
- November 2012
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- Sydney
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- St George Illawarra/Milwaukee Bucks/Australian Cricket Team
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- Rugby, League, Football, Cycling, Cricket, Tennis, AFL,
Latest Articles
Durant is a superhero, but not super enough
6 days agoMuch has been written about Kevin Durant’s recent superhero efforts in keeping his Oklahoma City Thunder team within striking distance of the Memphis Grizzlies in their western conference semi final series. But Kevin Durant is not superman; he is far more human than that. No, if we are going to hyperbolise his wonderful, yet so [...]
Panthers and Raiders show how to weather the Storm
13 May 2013Good poets borrow but great poets steal. And so it was that last night the Penrith Panthers, in their fetching traditional chocolate soldier garb, stole many a verse from the playbook published a week earlier by the Canberra Raiders. The book is titled ‘How to defeat the Melbourne Storm’ and from now on it will [...]
Is Faulkner our all-round answer?
3 May 2013During that 2005 series, all rounder Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff was responsible for some of the most heartbreakingly frustrating (because he is English) yet horribly impressive (because he was) all round cricketing performances witnessed by this writer. This laconic Lancashire man is descended from Norse invaders, and like some mead swilling Viking marauding his way through [...]
Nuggets v Warriors: a wild west showdown to savour
3 May 2013To be described as being ‘unconscious’ in the NBA does not refer to one having to lie down after hitting one’s head on the boards, it refers to a shooter that seemingly cannot miss. And up until game five of their absorbing first round playoff clash against the Denver Nuggets, the Golden State Warriors had [...]
Acceptance, not tolerance for gay athletes like Jason Collins
2 May 2013In 1947 the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team did what was then the unthinkable, they started a player of African American descent at first base in the opening game of the Major League Baseball (MLB) season. In doing so that player, Jackie Robinson, broke the deplorable colour line that had relegated black baseballers to ‘coloured’ leagues [...]
Lest we forget, sport is not war
26 Apr 2013Along with the traditional ANZAC Day matches in both the AFL and NRL, the Fremantle Dockers will pay tribute to ANZAC in the Len Hall Tribute Game to be held on Friday night. Hall was a member of the Light horse Brigade who fought at both Gallipoli and Beersheba during WW1. He survived the nightmare [...]
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