Posts Tagged ‘Sport’
A Bolt out of the Beijing
Posted by: Mick on: 21 August 2008
Had to stay up tonight to watch some history.
History in the form of the freak of nature that is Usain Bolt.
If anyone stayed up on Saturday night, you would have seen Bolt win the 100m, in a stroll. He looked like he slowed down to win the highlight of the track in 9.69 seconds. A [...]
Olympic Pronunciation
Posted by: Mick on: 13 August 2008
- In: Sport
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I’m loving the Olympics right now.
I didn’t think I was that interested in it coming this time. I didn’t feel there was much hype about it or build up.
I have great memories of past Olympics. All the way back to the ‘Moscow..Moscow…tra la la la la la la’ theme from the 1980 Olympics (I was [...]
Gilchrist, the best? Pull the other one.
Posted by: Mick on: 19 November 2007
I’ll probably be shot for this, but I DON’T LIKE ADAM GILCHRIST.
Never have. Never will.
Even right back to the beginning when he was brought in to replace Ian Healy. I thought it was crap that Heals was dumped before the first test in Australia and didn’t even get to farewell his home crowd at the [...]
Cricket is back. Get me a Beer and a Bar-bee. It’s gonna be a long summer.
Posted by: Mick on: 1 November 2007
- In: Sport
- 2 Comments
The squad for the Test Match against the Sri Lankans has been announced.
Player State Age
Ricky Ponting (captain) TAS 32
Adam Gilchrist (vice-captain) WA 35
Stuart Clark NSW 32
Michael Clarke NSW 26*
Matthew Hayden QLD 36
Brad Hogg WA 36
Michael Hussey WA 32
Phil Jaques NSW 28* (to replace Langer)
Mitchell Johnson QLD 25* (to replace McGrath)
Brett Lee NSW 30
Stuart MacGill NSW 36 (to replace Warne)
Andrew Symonds QLD 32
Shaun Tait SA 24*
A lot of speculation [...]
Gutted
Posted by: Mick on: 23 September 2007
- In: Sport
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Like a Fish.
The Eels have done it to me again.
They get my hopes up.
They play inspiring exciting football.
They give me a reason to believe.
Then they give me nothing.
We’re out.
The game before the Grand Final.
Again.
5 times in 10 years we have fallen over at the game before the Grand Final.
The one time we made it? We [...]
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