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- Member Since:
- February 2012
- Based In:
- Melbourne
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- Collingwood
- Favourite Sports:
- Cricket, Football, League, Rugby, AFL, Tennis,
Latest Articles
Will cricket cash in on broadcast rights?
3 Mar 2013Last Wednesday night there was a fantastic cricket match on at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. You may or may not have been watching. You may have not even known it was on. It was however, the Australian domestic 50 over cup final, or the Ryobi Cup as it is officially known. The game was a [...]
The rise of the Melbourne Renegades
21 Jan 2013It wasn’t meant to end this way. The table-topping Melbourne Renegades were knocked out of the Big Bash League by eventual champions the Brisbane Heat at Etihad Stadium. Brisbane’s victory was largely thanks to the innings of Luke Pomersbach, who smashed 112 runs of just 70 balls, yet only 15 runs was the difference between [...]
A-League lacking compatibility with Asia
30 Nov 2012While last week’s announcement of a new, $160 million TV deal for the A-League was a big step forward, another development from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) was not helpful. Recently, the AFC stripped the A-League of one of its spots in Asia’s premier football competition, the Asian Champions League, due to the league not [...]
Heskey signing is paying big dividends
18 Nov 2012Alessandro Del Piero’s move to the A-League is easily the biggest thing in Australian football since John Aloisi converted that penalty against Uruguay at the Olympic Stadium almost seven years ago. But the signing by Newcastle of one of England’s most lacklustre performers may turn out to be just as big a coup for the [...]
The 2012 redemption of the Melbourne Storm
22 Oct 2012April 22, 2010 is a date which sends shivers down a Melbourne Storm fan’s spine. At around 3.00pm, then NRL chief David Gallop called a press conference. Not many could have foreseen what was about to occur. The Melbourne Storm were stripped of their 2007 and 2009 NRL premierships, their 2006, 2007 and 2009 minor [...]
Hodge and Maxwell defection heats up rivalry
18 Jul 2012And so another cross-town sporting rivalry begins. Sport is made famous by its rivalries, but even moreso by the ones that happen in the one city. The most famous are Arsenal versus Tottenham and Manchester United versus Manchester City. In Australia we have Carlton taking on Collingwood as our main cross-town rivalry. The new rivalry [...]
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