Archive for January, 2012
The NFL Lines – Super Bowl
Here we are one more time at the big dance. Super Bowls rarely provide a sense of déjà vu (unless you were a Buffalo fan in the early 1990s) but history has repeated rather promptly this time around, with New England and the New York Giants squaring off in a replay of their 2008 showdown. […]
From The Couch: January 31
Image: Rugby League is Back: After a long summer that lasted the better part of 10 weeks, The Great Game, rugby league is officially back. The tennis may just be done, the golf long forgotten and the cricket still sticking around like the stench of rotting prawns, but rugby league is back. It all kicked […]
Confessions of a Hacker: Racking Them Up
Any club golfer worth their salt knows what a cruel mistress the Monthly Medal can be. The tees are set right back, pins cut in awkward spots, rough grown out…. and perhaps most importantly, the inability to simply pick your ball up during a disastrous hole as you might in a stableford competition. Your whole […]
Aussie Millions: So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
Barry Greenstein, to my left, checks and then calls another bet from the aggressive table chip leader on his left. I’m already all in; the last of my chips in the middle in a big three way pot. I’m tired, strung out on sour coffee, a dozen sleepless nights and cold streak at the Aussie […]
Monday Milestone: They Might Be Giants
“Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl” – Bill Peterson, former football coach This Week in History: 2008, February 3 The New York Giants cause arguably the biggest boilover in NFL history to win Super Bowl XLII defeating the New England Patriots 17-14. […]
Sprinting Stars – Miss Andretti
If there are two things we learnt during the Turf Heroes series, they are that (1) a surprising number of people seem to like reading about champion thoroughbreds; and (2) Cliff can’t shut up about such horses. With that in mind, Making The Nut is pleased to bring you a ten-part ‘Sprinting Stars’ series, where […]
The Friday Fast Break: Week 17
New Zealand v Sydney (Friday, New Zealand -10.5 to -11.5) The Breakers lead the NBL once more and have built a three-game win streak and an 8-1 home record. Their average margin of victory in their last three has been 14 and at home have won by an average of 16 points in their last […]
January 27 and 28 Racing Selections
Tips for this weekend cover the January 27 meeting at Moonee Valley tonight (featuring the return of Black Caviar) and the January 28 meetings at Sandown Lakeside and Canterbury. Final report card for 2011 and revised rules for 2012 tips Results for January 21 selections Tips which were either scratched, outside the prescribed track conditions […]
Punting Profiles: John Wren
There are few more important men in the history of Australian racing and gambling than John Wren. Not that those running the game wanted any part of him. Wren took racing and gambling to the masses. He was a working class hero who wrenched racing from the aristocracy and placed it at the feet of […]
Confessions of a Hacker – Seeking Help
Before we get started on what the seeking help reference alludes to, a little primer on how this new weekly column came to be. Once upon a time, in Coffs Harbour on the mid north coast of New South Wales, I was a teenager who played a lot of golf. Never scaled any great heights […]
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