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SAJ Sport: August 2012
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Sunday, 26 August 2012. IT was late in the game. I had the ball in my hands, about 30 metres out from the goals, just off to the right. Kick this for the country and we were back in the game and a chance of making the final; miss and we may as well head back home. Setting myself at the top of the mark, I began my run forward, kicked. Naturally this was cause for celebration, which we did for another hour or so before going to bed at 3am. On the...
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SAJ Sport: April 2012
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Sunday, 29 April 2012. Supporting North Queensland: Round 8. TODAY'S story is brought to you by the letters M, C and G, for that's where most North Queensland fans keep up-to-date with their team's progress. That's a lie of course: I'm willing to wager more on me being the only Cowboys fan at the Melbourne-St Kilda game Saturday night than I would on the Demons being able to beat any team that wasn't formed in the last five years. The first hal...
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SAJ Sport: Come on Aussie, just come on, please?!?
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Friday, 14 June 2013. Come on Aussie, just come on, please? IT'S beautiful really. You, YouTube, a glass of scotch and more batting highlights than you can poke a stick at. Gilchrist, the bowler's Anti-Christ. Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn, all elegance and timing. Steve Waugh, all bloody-mindedness; Matthew Hayden, just bloody for bowlers. Beautiful times, were they not? So what went wrong? Ed Cowan (a late-bloomer himself) made this point:.
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SAJ Sport: May 2012
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Tuesday, 29 May 2012. WENT to my first-ever sporting event at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) the other week. A struggling Melbourne Demons hosted a rebuilding St Kilda in what promised to be kinda dull. The next day I texted a Demons friend who couldn't make it out to the game. She asked me how I enjoyed it and I had to reply that it was pretty shit - and with a Victorian father I've followed it pretty much my whole life. Top of the table c...
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SAJ Sport: September 2012
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Wednesday, 26 September 2012. The Completely Non-Official Guide to the 2012/13 Sheffield Shield: The Sequel. AS promised/threatened earlier, here are the previews for the final three states (by alphabetical order). IN: Aiden Blizzard (SA); Ben Dunk (QLD); Andrew Fekete (VIC); Timm van der Gugten (NSW). OUT: Tom Triffit (WA). Indeed, it seems the only thing that can stop Tasmania playing another final are international call-ups - don't expect to...
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SAJ Sport: RIP Phil Hughes
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Thursday, 27 November 2014. LAST weekend the family went around my brother's place to celebrate his 26th birthday. Friends, family and a vodka-infused boob cake (exactly as it sounds) helped him mark the occasion with the dignity and shenanigans it deserved. On cricket.com.au. Abbott to Phil Hughes. No run, problem here, misses a pull shot and hit, urgent treatment needed. Phillip Hughes is heading off here on a stretcher on a medicab. They...
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SAJ Sport: June 2013
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Friday, 14 June 2013. Come on Aussie, just come on, please? IT'S beautiful really. You, YouTube, a glass of scotch and more batting highlights than you can poke a stick at. Gilchrist, the bowler's Anti-Christ. Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn, all elegance and timing. Steve Waugh, all bloody-mindedness; Matthew Hayden, just bloody for bowlers. Beautiful times, were they not? So what went wrong? Ed Cowan (a late-bloomer himself) made this point:.