This Saturday the 2008 AFL Draft will take place
It’s when your AFL club picks the best young talent available and for many its one of the most anticipated days in the AFL calendar.
If your club is struggling — the Draft promises rebirth — a Chris Judd, a Lance Franklin or a Clive Waterhouse can change [...]
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Monthly Archives: November 2008
AFL Draft 2008: The hype, the hope and pick 81
November 27, 2008 – 12:00 pm
Collingwood sacks cheersquad: economic downturn or natural selection?
November 26, 2008 – 2:00 pm
The papers report today that Collingwood has sacked its entire cheersquad.
People wishing to rejoin the cheersquad for the 2009 season have been asked by the Magpies to reapply for the position.
While this may be seen as a move to clean up Australia’s most notorious fan base (Pies fans will argue that passionate is the correct [...]
Don’t mess with the Haka
November 24, 2008 – 11:45 am
Crikey Sports moment of the weekend has to go the amazing against all odds victory by the Kiwis over the Kangaroos in the Rugby League World Cup final on Saturday night.
An upset of Bradybury-esque proportions, the Crikey Sports desk was at a loss to understand how Australia allowed the much loved New Zealand community now [...]
First Test: Aus vs. NZ — Roy, rain and rendition
November 20, 2008 – 10:22 am
Here at Crikey, Summer begins not with the first day of December, but with the first delivery of the First Test at the Gabba.
New Zealand, for so long our bullied and tormented little brother, faces an Australian team in transition — and for the first time is potentially vulnerable.
Question marks exist over many aspects of [...]
Australia falls for the John Daly freakshow one more time
November 17, 2008 – 4:20 pm
The news that the Australian Masters has signed American John Daly as one its ‘drawcards’ for the 2008 tournament beginning at Huntingdale GC in 10 days’ time shows just how far the Australian golf scene has sunk.
For Daly, now ranked 774 in the world, has not been hired for his talent. He’s been hired because [...]
Things really are crook when Poms say: bring on the Ashes
November 13, 2008 – 10:32 am
I know we keep banging on about the cricket, but these are troubled times we find ourselves in. Things are so bad that the English are now lining up to sink the boots in to Ricky Ponting’s wounded warriors. Like hyenas circling a lame lion, the Poms are now coming over all brave and stout-hearted.
The Guardian’s cricket writer [...]
Australian cricket faces its most telling period since 1985
November 11, 2008 – 1:13 pm
Whereas a Test series starting against New Zealand in Brisbane - in November – would normally attract only marginally more interest than that accorded last night’s harness meeting at Globe Derby, the upcoming matches against the Kiwis will take on a special significance in light of what has transpired in India over the past month or two.
Having had a bust-up with [...]
The Gambhir charade shows why cricket needs a crisis summit
November 6, 2008 – 12:52 pm
In a few hours from now, we’ll know if Gautam Gambhir’s name appears on the Indian team sheet for the Fourth Test, starting today in Nagpur, in defiance of a one-match ban handed down by the International Cricket Council this week.
If the Indian opener, with the backing of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, does [...]
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