Browsing Category: "Sport"
Ian Thorpe a drug cheat?
Sport March 31st, 2007
SMH: “Thorpe’s drug test ‘positive’“
This one will be interesting. Thorpe is an Australian Hero and now it looks like he was taking persian rugs…the irony of it all.
Did someone say “Indian Bookmaker”?
Sport February 2nd, 2007
England beats Australia. I bet the odds the Australian team got may have in theory received on England winning would have been phenomenal. The stench ghosts of Marsh and Lillee continue to haunt the team, even though fatso the magic wife porker has retired.
Tags: Cricket
Vale Peter Brock 1945-2006
Sport September 8th, 2006
Peter Brock, veteran racing car driver, many, many times winner of the Bathurst 1000 has died today doing what he loved doing most: racing.
According to the SMH, Brock was behind the wheel of a car competing in the Targa West rally and crashed into a tree at Gidgegannup, outside of Perth at lunch time today (Friday 8 September).
I may have been a Dick Johnson supporter in my youth, but like many Australian’s I deeply admired the King of the Mountain. For many years it was a family ritual that on a particular Sunday in September we would all sit in front of a television set for the day and watch “the great race” as it unfolded, no mean effort the race itself goes for roughly 8 hours. And year after year one man continued to win on a regular basis: Peter Brock.
Although in recent years, his interview on Denton in particularly may have turned away some fans, he will still always hold the position in the hearts and minds of Australian’s as our greatest ever Touring Car Driver.
My thoughts and condolences to his family at this time.
September glory
Sport August 28th, 2006
The score says it all:
Fremantle 18.10 (118) West Coast 8.13 (61).
The underdogs whip the silvertail, drink driving, gangster socialising Weagles.
GO THE DOCKERS!
Italy 1 Australia 0, Australia robbed.
Sport June 26th, 2006
At 12:52 am WST, Australia loses to Italy in the last second by a dodgy penalty in the goal box awarded to Italy.
Simply, we were robbed. I wonder how much Italy paid the referee.
Tags: World Cup
Update: Australia agrees, we were robbed.
Here we go, here we go, here we go…..
Sport June 23rd, 2006
In response to Aaron
Sport June 14th, 2006
Watch the World Cup in Ascii
Sport June 14th, 2006
There’s nothing quite like watching the World Cup live via Telnet and rendered in Ascii 
(via el Reg)
Tags: World Cup
YOU BLOODY BEAUTY!
Sport June 12th, 2006
The Score says it all:
Australia 3 v Japan 1
GO THE SOCCEROOS!!!!!!!
Next stop: Brazil.
Now that’s a Six Pack
Sport March 21st, 2006
Yikes. Australian runner Sarah Jamieson, who got a Silver in the 1500m at the Commonwealth Games. It’s the first event I actually watched at the games on TV. I’d decided to have a break from the computer tonight. It lasted about 20 minutes.
The race though was quite entertaining. The hype before hand was that Australia had never won a medal in this event. But I just couldn’t get over Jamieson’s Six pack while watching it. The English girl who won the event looked nothing like this. Indeed, none of the other girls did. My wife rang me (she’s away for work at the moment) after the race and asked me whether I’d seen the six pack on Jamieson. I’d love to have a six pack like that As for Jamieson, she’d be an interesting girl to know. Let’s just say she’d be quite dominant in any relationship I’d think.
(photo credit: the front page of The Age.)
