Posts Tagged "1980s"

With finals in the two biggest sports in the land taking place, every weekend in September is filled with drama, excitement and tension. It’s the time of the year where legends and infamy are forged.

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Where to from here for Australian basketball?

By The Crowd, 26 Jan 2009

 

As the 2008/2009 NBL basketball season draws to a conclusion, many Aussie basketball fans are asking, “who cares!”

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Three weeks ago, I took advantage of the holidays to slip up to my old home town of Orange and visit a few rugby mates. I spent a couple of days with Des Taylor, a relentless flanker who played with Wallabies David Codey and James Grant for Orange City and Central West in the 1980s [...]

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Marriage proposals, anniversaries and foot faults

By Jim Morton, 3 Jan 2009

 

If opening day is anything to go by, Pat Rafter Arena will witness its fair share of love, quirks and controversy in the years to come.

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Ex-mafia boss says tennis a top target for fix

By AFP, 2 Jan 2009

 

Former mafia crime boss Michael Franzese says top-level tennis matches are being influenced by gamblers and the sport would be his prime focus were he still in the business of impacting outcomes.

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A defining moment in the birth of Australia and New Zealand as nations has been been the Anzac spirit, which has seen many Australians and New Zealanders die together on foreign battlefields in wars where we have fought for the same cause.

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Wayne Bennett has incredible respect as a rugby league coach, but if he can manage to get the Kiwis even close to the Kangaroos on Saturday night, then it will probably be time to bump him up from King to God.

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Ricky Ponting and his team have defeated everyone but this dogged opponent – the court of public opinion. It seems unlikely he will ever win, for every time he gets close, the goalposts are moved.

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Manu Vatuvei didn’t have to be particularly brutal last weekend to score four tries against England in a pool match in Newcastle that really meant nothing.

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When it comes to reporting on Adelaide United’s exciting fortnight ahead, we at The Roar have been leading a one-website rearguard against the fog of indifference afflicting the mainstream media. Well, according to one of my regular readers-friends, who I will keep anonymous and who sent me this email last weekend.

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End of winter means family are no longer strangers

By David Wiseman, 11 Oct 2008

 

For sports fans, this is the calm after the storm, a quiet spell until the cricket gets serious, which this year is in late November. The last six weeks were pretty good to us. The regular seasons of the football finished and then ramped it up a few notches with a month of finals football. [...]

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No talk of retirement as Skaife eyes sixth Bathurst

By Guy Hand, 3 Oct 2008

 

Holden hero Mark Skaife has shunted any retirement talk off the public agenda for the foreseeable future, saying he remains as motivated as ever to conquer Bathurst for the sixth time next week. More on Bathhurst The Enforcer says omen points to a colourful winner Holden V8 teams facing cash squeeze

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China’s 2008 gold medalists were old enough

By Graham Dunbar, 2 Oct 2008

 

China’s Olympic gold medal gymnasts at the Beijing Games were old enough to compete, but the team that won the bronze medal in Sydney eight years ago still faces questions, the international gymnastics federation said today.

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Retired Melbourne legend Robbie Kearns says the current Storm side cannot be considered among history’s great rugby league teams unless they win this year’s grand final.

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Sydney Swans co-captain Leo Barry took pleasure from the performance of the heavily scrutinised Swans veterans, as both young and old produced the goods in a 35-point elimination final victory over North Melbourne tonight.

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Jamie Carragher believes the current Liverpool team have a tougher task than any in the club’s history as they chase the Premier League title.

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Is Hackett better than Salnikov?

By The Crowd, 17 Aug 2008

 

In less than 24 hours we will know if Grant Hackett has won his 3rd successive 1500m freestyle gold medal, and title of the ‘greatest 1500m swimmer in history’.

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Who’s going to win “Gold, gold to Australia, gold!”

By Spiro Zavos, 7 Aug 2008

 

Norman May, born in 1928 and educated at Sydney Boys High School, coined the memorable call, “Gold, gold to Australia, gold!” when he described Australia’s win in the Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay at the Moscow Games in 1980s.

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I’m still holed up London, although unlike most of the antipodean journalists in town, I’m not hunting down Sonny Bill Williams. I’d suggest they try well known backpacker’s watering hole The Church. It’s gotta be worth a shot.

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Why would the IRB intervene on the side of the NRL in the Sonny Bill Williams affair? The fact David Gallop, the chief executive of the NRL, has made a second plea for help, after being quickly dismissed on the first occasion, indicates once again that he just doesn’t get what is happening. Gallop softens [...]

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