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Glenn Mitchell has written a wonderful piece on the Carlton Football Club website about former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies and his love of the Blues. Menzies was Prime Minister from 1939-41 and 1949-66. Mitchell writes how a car ramp was installed between the Heatley and Harris Stands at Princes…
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Clarke abandons teammates and fans
Allan Border famously banned wives and girlfriends from travelling with the Australian cricket team on the 1989 Ashes tour of England. Border insisted that winning had to come first, and that’s what happened. He still cops flak about the decision from some of the (ex) players’ wives, apparently. However, it…
March 9 2010, 1:42am | Comments »
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Michael (pictured left) was joint captain of the Mount Gambier team that defeated a Warrnambool side in the under 14 “Mashup Cup“. The competition rules required at least five girls to be on the field for each side at any given time.
March 4 2010, 5:30am | Comments »
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Isn’t it refreshing to see a rising young sports star who is untainted by any controversy. The Cooma snowboarder has won Australia’s first gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Aged 23, she comes from a Mormon family, doesn’t drink or do drugs, and apparently doesn’t even drink coffee. While…
February 19 2010, 6:39pm | Comments »
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Isn’t Google Earth amazing? This is a satellite view of our neighborhood. This post is a gripe about the tennis courts being locked. You can see them towards the top left in the open paddock. When we moved here and for more than a year afterward the courts were always…
February 13 2010, 1:32am | Comments »
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The Australian reports the father of spoilt brat tennis player Bernard Tomic has threatened his son will play under a Croatian flag. At the same time as Tomic junior was criticising the night-time scheduling of his second-round encounter against the world number 14 14 as “ridiculous”, John Tomic was arguing…
January 29 2010, 10:29pm | Comments »
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Alternative cricket uniforms required
The International Cricket Council (ICC) ought to make itself meaningful by sorting out the confusion of colored uniforms clashing in one-day internationals. It’s ridiculous to see players from Australia and Pakistan in virtually identical strips. They may as well be wearing whites. It’s not Pakistan’s fault either. Australia used to…
January 26 2010, 1:59am | Comments »
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Twenty-twenty cricket (T20) promises to revolutionise cricket as we know it. The game is fast and action packed. It’s finished in about the same time as a football match. I think it’s good for the game. Instead of threatening test cricket, as some people have suggested, it could be the…
January 24 2010, 2:26am | Comments »
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The greatest VFL performance ever
Possibly the best performance ever by a VFL/AFL team in the home and away season occurred in round 13, 1983 when Fitzroy defeated North Melbourne at the Junction Oval. It was first versus second on the ladder, more than half way through the season. Fitzroy totally obliterated the Kangaroos to…
December 27 2009, 3:36am | Comments »
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