The dusty clay of Paris is almost upon us, get ready for long rallies and lingering camera shots of fashionable Paris people you don’t know but could imagine enjoy lots of red wine with blue cheese as they drag on long cigarettes in bourgeois coffee shops. Stereotype alert. Continue reading French Open Preview 2018
The news had come through from the local Track & Field Club; I’d been selected to run a leg of the 1982 Commonwealth Games Relay as the Queens Baton wormed its way up the coast to Brisbane. I was 12 years old. There was one problem, I was a sprinter, the 100m, 200m and occasionally under sufferance the 400m. The distance I had to run with the baton through my hometown of Budgewoi was a little under 3km, oh no. Continue reading My adventures with the Commonwealth Games Baton
We love our athletes to be squeaky clean. Compete hard but fair, represent the jersey with pride and honor, accept blame for the loss and disperse credit for the win, kiss the wife or hubby for the cameras and go home and thank Mum for cooking a delicious lamb roast. Continue reading It’s just not cricket
The NRL sure must enjoy controversy, what do they say, any news is good news. Are they actually trying to recruit fans or alienate them? What till you hear this. Mathew Lodge, a former player who had his contract registered with the NRL this season to play for the Brisbane Broncos in 2015 harassed two women on a Upper west side street in Manhattan, NY. Continue reading The NRL is a disgrace
Next Thursday the St George Dragons and Brisbane Broncos kick off the 2018 NRL season at Jubilee Oval which means its time footy fans to enter those tipping comps and fill up your Sportsbet account. Melbourne shellacked an injury riddled Cowboys in last year’s Grand Final, lets take a look at what your team has done in the offseason and where they might go: Continue reading NRL Season Preview 2018
Halep vs Wozniacki
This is an unlikely final, not for the fact that we have the number 1 and 2 seed up against each other but that in the second round Wozniacki was down 5-1, 40-15 in the 3rd to Croation Jana Fett and escaped, Halep also saved match points in a 9-7 third set nailbiter over Angelique Kerber in the semi finals. This is the luck you need to win Grand Slams; points are won in inches, sometimes the biggest points. Continue reading Australian Open Finals Preview 2018
Santa Claus has eaten all your biscuits and you’ve already broken three New Year’s resolutions, which means its time for the season’s first Grand Slam event. Continue reading Australian Open Preview 2018
My first memory of sport is running around the soccer oval as a 6-year-old scoring goals for the other team, yay! As for watching it on the TV, I remember holidaying up at the Shoal Bay country club as a kid watching my favorite team Liverpool lose the FA Cup Final to Manchester United, not yay! Continue reading Why we love Sport
Sloane Stephens vs Madison Keys
I can safely say nobody, and I really mean nobody saw this final coming. Sloane who had a ranking of 934 a month ago due to a long injury layoff has worked her way through this draw and survived a marathon 3 set thriller over Venus in the semis. Then we have Madison Keys who has dealt with injury concerns of her own and has come into the US Open with a pedestrian 11/8 match record this season. They’ve only played once, in Miami back in 2015, Sloane won 6-4, 6-2. Continue reading US Open Finals Preview
Twenty-six rounds have been played and we’ve reached the finals, my pre-season Grand Final prediction of a Raiders v Cowboys battle was way off, although the boys from the North could still make the big one, though its unlikely as they’ll have to come from 8th spot. Continue reading NRL Finals Preview 2017