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Sweet 8 pound 6 ounce new born baby Jesus! NASCAR’s Talladega Nights prayer

Crikey Sports tips the hat to Pastor Joe Nelms for his Ricky Bobbyesqe prayer at the weekend’s NASCAR race in Nashville, Tennessee.

Cadel Evans: You beauty!

This morning’s papers across the nation were a victorious hue of yellow as Cadel Evan’s historic Tour de France victory edged out the death of Amy Winehouse to command the lead.

AFL Rd1 2011 – Dogs V Bombers – A disgraceful disgrace

Crikey’s Senior Sports Correspondent First Dog on the Moon has described the Western Bulldog’s performance against Essendon today at Etihad Stadium as “weak and also disgraceful and weak”. He was unable to comment further although he did draw this not very good cartoon. A larger version of it is here.

Seriously, Oprah … WTF … I’ve had enough

I don’t care about Oprah. I don’t like Oprah. I think her show is garbage and everything that Oprah has to do with Australia has made me cringe.

The Monday Wrap: Cantona on banks, Knockout of the year and a little bit more

Welcome to a new Crikey Sports hopefully regular Monday item where I put a whole lot of unrelated crap from over the weekend from the world of sport in one spot.

Ice Ice Baby: the NHL is getting into the swing of things

Just over a month into the season the NHL is getting into the swing of things.  And as promised last week, here is a wrap of what has happened so far. In the Eastern Conference – Philidelphia leads the way in the Atlantic Division, Washington is miles clear in the Southeast and Montreal tops the [...]

Paul the octopus: the greatest psychic animal of them all

Today the world mourns the death of a simple mollusc who captured the peoples’ hearts by accurately predicting the results of football matches.

Why Mark Cosgrove is a hero to the big boned

So which other sports people have — despite being horizontally challenged — succeeded at the highest level of their chosen craft?

Why Nine should be sin-binned for its NRL broadcasting efforts

Nine’s last ditch attempt at justifying the ultra-protectionist sports broadcasting laws is far more amusing than any of the fluff they offer up as so-called comedy.

Why hate good old Collingwood forever?

Wow. I’ll never forget the first 2010 AFL grand final and not just because of the unexpected and rare draw. I’ll remember it as the day I realised just how hated the Collingwood team and its supporters are by rival fans. As a Collingwood fan since 2002 I thought all the light hearted banter from [...]