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Last night @SFS wasn’t a game for the ages, but in broader strategic terms there was a fair bit going on.

The Bronx is Burning is a 2007 eight episode ESPN series (yeah, they make drama too. Who knew?) about the famous 1977 Yankees. Due to the tyranny of distance, my interest in baseball is casual but there’s alot I find attractive about the game, and the mythology that surrounds it. By accident [...]

When I started doing this, it was partly to keep a record of the reliability of bookies’ odds. I wanted to do this to (a) test the strength of such predictions and (b) see if the bookies’ odds could be believed in other fields, such as tipping Federal elections. Keen readers of other blogs, the [...]

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 [...]

No need to mention girlies in the latest Nicholson animation.

A long time ago Shaun gave me a log-in to contribute at Sidelined, but I have confined myself to comments box sniping. He’s probably forgotten he gave me the keys so I hope he doesn’t mind when he sees I’ve taken him up. I was moved to action by this op-ed in the [...]

Wassup with that? Smoke? Fire? A trigger for early retirement? A consequence of a night out drinking beer? Or pawn in a political fight involving doping agencies and sporting Orgs, some overzealous and others not zealous enough?
Either way, it’s been interesting to observe all Australian, political, media and sporting classes circle the wagons in [...]

“I only hoped that I wanted to swim half as much as other people want me to.”
So a glittering swimming career ends, at the tender age of 24. As Thorpe has apparently said, ‘I’m a 24 year old, and I’m only just 24 as well.’ I guess it’s a ripe old age if one has [...]

Golly gosh it was good to see recently retired Essendon star Dean Rioli wearing that red and black vest again. Not for Essendon, but for the all-Aboriginal Tiwi Island Bombers at Marrara Stadium in Darwin. They beat the legendary St Marys by 34 points. Ted Egan started off the St Mary’s team five decades ago. [...]