Posts Tagged "Thunder"

A year or so ago, the IPL Twenty/20 cricket had the appearance of a huge meteorite likely to smash away the world of cricket as we’ve known it for over a century. The signing of Moises Henriques, the dashing NSW all-rounder, for the Kolkata Knight Riders for $455,000, is a sign that the IPL may [...]

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Ogilvy lets special round slip as storm hits PGA

By Wayne Heming, 5 Dec 2008

 

Geoff Ogilvy didn’t need to be told he’d blown a special round when he opened his assault on the storm-disrupted Australian PGA Championship at the Hyatt resort on Thursday with a solid 67.

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Fiji focused before, and subsequently after, their 52 point loss against Australia on just one thing – hope. Hope for a solid showing against the world champions. And hope for an upset of the highest order.

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Some marketing guru has come up with the ‘Flury’ from Townsville, oops, I mean ‘Fury‘. The punch lines have already begun. Is the FFA really this stupid?

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I was in a pub the other day, watching the cricket from India where some of the faithful were giving Ricky Ponting’s side such a forceful ear bashing, they probably heard it all the way in Mohali. Fast forward a few days and Kangaroos coach Ricky Stuart says: “You get a feeling that there are [...]

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Diamonds lift game to beat England

By Larine Statham, 9 Oct 2008

 

Australia have brushed aside a near last-start loss to score a comfortable 43-33 win over England in the second netball Test.

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No, not Melbourne. A little further north than that: Chattanooga, Tennessee, where I was born. If the folks up there paid close attention to rugby instead of the NFL, and if they knew something about the game of rugby, they’d surely opine that the Wallabies were in for a whuppin’ on the coming tour.

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The player Wayne Bennett feared would waste his career in reserve grade because of laziness, hopes to share one last premiership and a few more hits before retiring.

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Kiwi record irrelevant says coach

By Adrian Warren, 23 Jul 2008

 

No New Zealand team has won in Australia in the inaugural trans Tasman netball season but NSW Swifts coach Julie Fitzgerald has dismissed the significance of the statistic ahead of next Monday’s grand final in Sydney.

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‘Dream Team’ sent flying out of finals series

By Samantha Broun, 16 Jul 2008

 

Stoic Melbourne Vixens centre Natasha Chokljat says she’s shattered and her teammates are still in shock after their trans-Tasman netball season came to a premature end.

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Vixens gone, Thunderbirds line-up Magic

By Larine Statham, 15 Jul 2008

 

The Adelaide Thunderbirds are one step closer to meeting the NSW Swifts in the trans-Tasman netball grand final after defeating the Melbourne Vixens 53-48 at ETSA Park tonight.

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Swifts have chance for home final

By Samantha Broun, 9 Jul 2008

 

The NSW Swifts have a chance to secure a home grand final when they take on minor premiers Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic in a trans-Tasman netball semi-final on Sunday.

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Vixens happy to be on the move

By Sam Lienert, 7 Jul 2008

 

The Melbourne Vixens are unfazed by the likely prospect of playing all their finals away, after today booking a spot in the trans-Tasman netball competition’s final four.

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Swifts surge to second

By Melissa Woods, 1 Jul 2008

 

The NSW Swifts leapt into second spot on the trans-Tasman netball league ladder with an emphatic 62-49 win over the Melbourne Vixens at Vodafone Arena tonight.

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ANZ Championship round 12 preview panel

By Samantha Broun, 21 Jun 2008

 

Preview of round 12 of the ANZ Netball Championship (all times AEST).

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