sidelined

“Meet Mark. A tall, dark, handsome Australian tennis pro. He has everything. Everything, except …

… a world ranking ever to be in double figures again. No, sorry. Wait. Everything, except someone to share it with.”
And so, sort of, begins Age of Love the dating reality show starring Our Poo [...]

Lote Tuqiri has contacted Wallabies selector Michael O’Connor to apologise for his act of stupidity at a NSW Waratahs drinking session - but this time he left his phone off loudspeaker.
Tuqiri was a goose but isn’t it O’Connor who should be apologising?
What on earth is a selector doing trash talking a player to [...]

A post by the Divine Miss Crazybrave Zoe reminded me that I’ve been intending to update Sideliners about my son’s burgeoning soccer career. Particularly as he’s got a shiner to show for yesterday’s efforts (and no, it was not from me whacking him - he copped a ball in the face off a kids’ boot. [...]

Enough about tipping. It’s the ANZAC week, and that always stirs my emotions. I will spend the morning laying a wreath and then will come home to watch the Essendon-Collingwood game. It’s a day James Hird has made his own, and as it may be the last season we will ever see him play, it’s [...]

Apropos of my previous post, I have gone and signed the boy up to soccer. He very sweetly said that he wanted to play close to home, and assured me that if he didn’t like soccer he would return to AFL [the one true code]. So, how could I resist that logic?
Off I trundled, chequebook [...]

Dear Sideliners, sorry, I have not posted much at all lately. Been too busy to even think about sport. But now I have a problem, that only you can solve.
Five loves AFL, more than can be said even in a lengthy blog post. Last year I forked out and signed my son up for Auskick. [...]