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Like many cricket fans, Channel Nine's loss of the cricket rights after 40 years is making me nostalgic as well as relieved. For a…
Like many cricket fans, Channel Nine's loss of the cricket rights after 40 years is making me nostalgic as well as relieved. For a…
The game speaks of eternal beginnings – and never endings. Cricket, by its very creation, suggests time aplenty, with kept fields, ponderous sessions and…
As the sun rises today over Coogee's Wedding Cake Island, this nation will be one soul less. One icon less. One legend less. One…
It was the spring of 2005 and all of Australia were in a excited mood. The summer of cricket was just around the corner…
The retirement of Kevin Pietersen has already resulted in a spate of articles in newspapers around the cricketing world, featuring his highs and his…
World Series Cricket changed the game for the better, but the sport is unwilling to recognise it. Back when Kerry Packer ruled the roost…
Upon viewing the recent Channel 9 mini-series Howzat, it got me thinking about the relationship between football and sports broadcasting, something I feel hasn't…
"As for that agent, that David Lord bastard ... I'm going after him too". The words from Kerry Packer during the superb first episode…
“Hello Australian Cricket Board of Control, my name is Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer and I’m here to tell you how to play cricket. More…
In a new book, Tony Greig, Love War and Cricket, Greig's son Mark Greig provides an insight into the excitement around Kerry Packer's World…
In a new book, Tony Greig, Love War and Cricket, Greig's son Mark Greig provides an insight into the excitement around Kerry Packer's World…
In a new book, Tony Greig, Love War and Cricket, Greig's son Mark Greig provides an insight into the excitement around Kerry Packer's World…
[caption id="attachment_43466" caption="Chris Sandow celebrates his try during the round 21 NRL match against the Canterbury Bulldogs. AAP Image/Action Photographics, Renee McKay"][/caption] Talk about…
[caption id="attachment_43466" caption="Chris Sandow celebrates his try during the round 21 NRL match against the Canterbury Bulldogs. AAP Image/Action Photographics, Renee McKay"][/caption] Talk about…
[caption id="attachment_43466" caption="Chris Sandow celebrates his try during the round 21 NRL match against the Canterbury Bulldogs. AAP Image/Action Photographics, Renee McKay"][/caption] Talk about…
On Thursday, in the plastic posh environment of the North Sydney Leagues Club, a wonderful gathering of sportsmen and women and journalistic talent in…
TV rights for sport have become the ‘uber’ source of revenue for sporting codes in Australia. In the past, gate receipts, sponsorship, club membership…
In cricket, as in life, there is truth to the enduring words: "A house divided against itself will not stand." Jesus said it, Abraham…
In another post, Midfielder mentioned that back in the 1970s, Kerry Packer had offered a deal to the then Australian Soccer Federation (ASF) to…
Like many cricket fans, Channel Nine's loss of the cricket rights after 40 years is making me nostalgic as well as relieved. For a…
2019
I don’t think people have ever fully understood how powerful Packer was and how much he controlled Australian cricket fo…(more)