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Wallabies vs Poms preview

November 7, 2009 – 5:13 am

Matt is the editor of GreenandGoldRugby.com
The Wallaby team to take on England this weekend was named today, and what flutter of excitement it’s caused. There might only be one new starter and a few positional swaps in it, but what a change it signals.
From the makeshift security of The Earl (AAC) and Ryan Cross being [...]

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Tasmanians unite to free Jason Krejza

November 6, 2009 – 3:32 pm

Here at Crikey we get a truckload of press releases. So so many. Concerned Tasmanians for Jason Krejza must be the greatest of them all.

By Leigh Josey | Tagged | Comments (0)

Andre Agassi: No more heroes any more?

November 1, 2009 – 8:29 pm

Is Andre Agassi’s name even Andre Agassi?
It’s worth asking considering other revelations contained in Agassi’s autobiography titled Open published next week. Thanks to sensational serialised extracts from the book, media outlets all over the world have been happy to give Agassi’s book fantastic free publicity. The five-times Grand Slam champ’s confessions that he used crystal meth, [...]

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Lock stocks: the new Achillies Heel?

October 26, 2009 – 9:22 am

Matt is editor of GreenandGoldRugby.com
Robbie Deans must feel like the boy with his finger in the dyke – just as you get one hole plugged, another crack opens wide. Or at least, I hope he sees it that way, because I believe there’s a good chance that the Wallabies are going to get blindsided on [...]

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Jim Stynes tweets cancer

October 23, 2009 – 4:48 pm

Jim Stynes’ journey from the green fields of Gaelic football to the heart and soul of the Melbourne football club was never as tough as the challenge he faces now.

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UFC Australia vs. The Moral Minority: Let’s get it on, c’mon!*

October 20, 2009 – 4:50 pm

Combat sports have always made easy fodder for mainstream media pundits, so a multi-million-dollar outfit like the UFC hitting our shores was always going to attract more than its fair share of fist waving and moral indignation. But I didn’t expect it to start so early.

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Family ties: the curse of sports fans

October 19, 2009 – 8:23 am

A few weeks ago, I did something far worse to my four-year-old son than hitting him with a wooden spoon. I took him to his first football match.
Striking him with a kitchen implement probably wouldn’t cause as much long term mental trauma as introducing him to a world where people agonise about ‘their’ sports team’s [...]

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News to quit NRL? Is this good for the game?

October 8, 2009 – 12:06 pm

Would the NRL thrive without the influence of News Ltd?

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Do sports journos actually watch sport?

October 7, 2009 – 8:50 am

It happens quite often with every sport — and every fan can remember calling bullshit on a story they’ve seen, heard or read, when it must have seemed that they were at a different game that said journalist.

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The Saints who didn’t quite reach heaven

October 2, 2009 – 4:40 pm

What is it like for fans who get so close then fall so far? Nearly one week on, two Saints fans put their continuing grief into words.

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