Archive for February, 2012
The Sledge: Clean up Australia – Deport the Billionaires
Australia’s mega-rich are a bunch of pricks. A mendacious, miserly bunch of ruminants who wouldn’t give five bucks to a starving Digger for a bowl of soup and a twirl on two-up. In the United States, the rich donate an average of 15 per cent of their income; in Australia it is less than 1 […]
Phil Fires at Pebble Beach
By Andrew McKenzie Phil Mickelson started the final round six shots off the pace of overnight leader Charlie Wi at The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro Am this week. But after a jump-start to his final round and a stumble from the leader, remarkably he found himself with a two-shot lead after just six holes. He […]
Confessions of a Hacker – Five-foot putts
I speak on behalf of many (though undoubtedly, not all) club golfers when I say that five-foot putts are a menace to society. Short enough to you feel like you’ve failed if one fails to drop, but long enough for that to happen on at least a semi-frequent basis. Throw in the possibility of being […]
From The Couch: February 13
Image: Independence Day: Finally. Our day of independence has arrived. After a three-year war and 14 years of peace, rugby league in Australia can grow to become all it can be. It was an historic day. News Limited and the ARL are out. The dawn of a new era has begun. The war is over […]
Monday Milestone: Last Man Standing
"So I might as well stay out of the way and be in last place and hope that some people get tangled up" – Steven Bradbury This Week in History: 2002, February 13, Steven Bradbury is the toast of his nation after accidentally becoming the first Australian Winter Olympic gold medallist. Australians aren’t exactly […]
Sprinting Stars – Apache Cat
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 […]
20 of the Best – Brisbane Broncos
As we wait for the season to get underway, the Making The Nut team will take a look back over the last 20 years to name the 20 best players at all sixteen teams. Merged teams will take account of both clubs pre-merger and the only rule is that a player must have played at […]
February 11 Racing Selections
Tips for this weekend cover the February 11 meetings at Caulfield (featuring the champion Black Caviar in the Group 1 CF Orr Stakes) and Rosehill (featuring the Group 2 Expressway Stakes). Final report card for 2011 and revised rules for 2012 tips Results for February 4 selections Tips which were either scratched, outside the prescribed […]
No Second Chances
We’ve all wanted our time again. A mulligan. A do-over. Call it what you will. Unlucky for all of us, we so rarely get the chance. Unless we’re Gwyneth Paltrow, that is. In the 1998 rom-com/pile-of-shit-chick-flick, Sliding Doors, Paltrow – through the character she played – got the chance to take two. And we got […]
A Rivalry for the Ages
By Andrew McKenzie Another Australian Open has been run and won. New heights in standard were reached, in what was a fantastically exciting tournament. At least in the men’s section that is. The women’s final turned out to be another anti-climax mirroring previous years. This would certainly be of some concern for tournament organisers. No […]
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