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Any other Sideliners going to the Ghana match on Friday? I got my China ticket a while ago and was going to skip this one but I figure Our Harry will probably break his leg between now and then so I should grab my chance.

Australia’s host broadcaster SBS has just launched it’s dedicated online portal for all things Tour de France. The site will host live race commentary, updates, video, text and a discussion forum.
Of course no multimedia effort is complete without a blog or two and this one is no different, with Mike Tomalaris giving us his point [...]

According to a poll of 57 Sideliners, taken over some weeks, and left to run for ages because nobody thought of a better poll!
The question was, ‘the true national winter sport of Australia is …’ The answer ‘Australian Rules, because it’s truly national’, scored 13 votes. Only three Sideliners answered ‘Australian Rules, because the boys [...]

At least at my house it is which is the reason behind the lack of updates. Will get back to regular blogging tomorrow when the Telstra techy arrives to hopefully fix the phone line.

A happy new year and a propserous 2007 to all the sidelined readers, lurkers, commentors, contributors and anyone else I’ve forgot to mention (except the spammers).
A great year of sport is ahead and reading the SMH this morning, I had that first delicious tingle of anticipation for the coming NRL season. The Ashes may [...]

Experience the magic that is Critical Mass - and encourage the State Government (and opposition) to do more to support cycling - and walking and public transport, by riding over that lovely Bridge thingummy in Sydney.
5:30pm Friday 24 November
Meet: Hyde Park Fountain (north end)
Arrive: In your own, human powered, individual way, or with help from [...]

Mickey Commercial briefly emerged from retirement to tell us about the manner in which the Poms have appointed of a special poet for the Ashes. David Fine approached the Pommy Arts Council and suggested himself for the role, and, to the awe and envy of starving poets everywhere, actually managed to score himself payment for [...]

Live for sport? Can string a sentence or two together and already are, or interested in, blogging? Then why not blog for Sidelined.
We are looking for people to cover all types of sports. Motor sports, women sports, hell even horse racing or even farnarkling.
If too much sport is barely enough email shaun (at) sideline.com.au.

Just a quick note for your television viewing pleasure….or not. Tonight’s subject on SBS’s Insight program will be on doping in sport.
INSIGHT brings together Olympians, athletes, admitted drug cheats, sports administrators, and the anti-doping agency to ask whether sport can ever be drug free.
THE CHEATING GAME will be broadcast on TUESDAY OCTOBER 17 at 7.30pm [...]

Welcome one and all to Sidelined, a collaborative sports commentary blog. As mentioned in the about page:
The Sidelined contributors are all Australian sportslovers from a wide variety of other Aussie blogs who come together here to stop arguing about everything else and only argue about sport.
Yes, we live by Roy and HG’s mantra that too [...]