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This is kind of long, but the rugby league season is still a month away so what else are you going to do? If I do say so myself, I was a gun tee-baller as a kid for the Toronto Tigers. Modesty does not prevent me from mentioning I was selected as 1st base for [...]

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 of birth I’m [...]

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 SMH by [...]

It’s summer, so my perusal of the Realfooty page of The Age is sporadic, but it’s a good time of year for thinking about the future. As some of you are aware, the AFL has just conducted its draft picks. The selectors rank the aspirant draftees at national draft camp, just after season’s end, and [...]

Distinct values that didn’t coalesce that well this weekend in the rugby league (aka in our house as “that heretic code”) Test match between the Kangaroos and the Kiwis. (Australia 30 – New Zealand 18) Willie Mason, the one-man remedy for any slow news day, mouthed obscenities at certain Kiwi players while they were performing [...]