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SAJ Sport: August 2012
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Sunday, 26 August 2012. IT was late in the game. I had the ball in my hands, about 30 metres out from the goals, just off to the right. Kick this for the country and we were back in the game and a chance of making the final; miss and we may as well head back home. Setting myself at the top of the mark, I began my run forward, kicked. Naturally this was cause for celebration, which we did for another hour or so before going to bed at 3am. On the...
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SAJ Sport: May 2012
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Tuesday, 29 May 2012. WENT to my first-ever sporting event at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) the other week. A struggling Melbourne Demons hosted a rebuilding St Kilda in what promised to be kinda dull. The next day I texted a Demons friend who couldn't make it out to the game. She asked me how I enjoyed it and I had to reply that it was pretty shit - and with a Victorian father I've followed it pretty much my whole life. Top of the table c...
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SAJ Sport: September 2012
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Wednesday, 26 September 2012. The Completely Non-Official Guide to the 2012/13 Sheffield Shield: The Sequel. AS promised/threatened earlier, here are the previews for the final three states (by alphabetical order). IN: Aiden Blizzard (SA); Ben Dunk (QLD); Andrew Fekete (VIC); Timm van der Gugten (NSW). OUT: Tom Triffit (WA). Indeed, it seems the only thing that can stop Tasmania playing another final are international call-ups - don't expect to...
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SAJ Sport: June 2013
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An occasionally updated look at the big, bad world of sport. Friday, 14 June 2013. Come on Aussie, just come on, please? IT'S beautiful really. You, YouTube, a glass of scotch and more batting highlights than you can poke a stick at. Gilchrist, the bowler's Anti-Christ. Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn, all elegance and timing. Steve Waugh, all bloody-mindedness; Matthew Hayden, just bloody for bowlers. Beautiful times, were they not? So what went wrong? Ed Cowan (a late-bloomer himself) made this point:.
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SAJ Stuff: 22/02/2015
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Sunday, February 22, 2015. Ten Years On: Home Again, But Not For Long. SHE didn't keep in touch. Did enjoy writing and voicing the ads though. We eventually came to an agreement with the wage; more importantly for me was that I could fly over to London if I got an interview to become a guide. It would be a flying visit that would cost at least a couple of thousand dollars, but in my mind the payout would be worth the risk. AND so I spent the Australian summer ...
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SAJ Stuff: 02/12/2012
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Thursday, December 06, 2012. 30 years ago, I was living in my first house, was recovering after plastic surgery on my right hand and left foot, and still had two months before I stopped being an only child. 25 years ago I was in my fourth house, second year of school and was the oldest of three boys. 20 years ago was house nine, my final year of primary school - and the last time I was at the same school at the same time as any of my three brothers. Today I've...
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SAJ Stuff: 08/02/2015
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Sunday, February 08, 2015. Ten Years On: Bonjour, et bienvenue à l'Europe. IT WAS one of the greatest thrills of my life - well, one of the greatest you can have on a tour bus. Through the windows of his hotted-up kombi-van. At any rate we made it into the rest stop for blessed bladder relief and Paris itself with no problems, deciding to celebrate by going out for a drink. There was Jason, Cat and myself; we had a random Canadian that was dossing in our r...
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SAJ Stuff: 15/02/2015
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Sunday, February 15, 2015. Ten Years On: The British Isles. FOR two months travelling around Europe the Real World was like your credit card bill: you knew it was there and that you would eventually have to deal with it, but it was nice to get away from it for a while. Leanne and Hamish at Chepstow Castle, Wales. Luckily they still had a spare bed. I kept dancing and thought nothing of it. I would like to point out for the record that the only effort that has ...
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SAJ Stuff: 15/03/2015
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Sunday, March 15, 2015. Ten Years On: The Training Trip. SCENE: the Park Crescent Conference Centre, London. A would-be tour guide, eager to avoid the palaver of his first interview. Matty J was actually the second person I already knew on that training trip. Back in 2005 when I travelled around I came across Laura a few times - she was the person travelling back from Pamplona with Tash in the Greatest Love Story Never Told. Naturally I kept an eye out for thi...
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SAJ Stuff: 22/07/2012
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A look at life, the universe and everything. Monday, July 23, 2012. Of Religion, Atheism and Fanatics. WATCHED The Blind Side. On the idiot box tonight. A nice enough movie, with Sandra Bullock managing to portray a feisty yet caring mother to perfection. Had my late grandmother been rich, American and from the South rather than relatively poor, Australian and from the Deep North I could see her being pretty similar to Bullock's portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy. Do you know what? To use a personal example, ...
