Archive for October, 2012
US Tour Diaries #2 – Tuscaloosa, Atlanta and Nashville
Continuing on the same theme as for the opening instalment of the tour diaries, a winners/losers synopsis of the happenings in Tuscaloosa, Atlanta and Nashville sits below. Try to contain your excitement. WINNERS · Everything about Alabama Crimson Tide football. They have a monstrous 110,000-seat stadium which has sold out every game for almost 25 […]
Punting Profile: the Computer Group take Vegas
It is the early eighties. Bon Jovi are new, raw, and rocking. Leg warmers are in. Computers are in their infancy with the personal computer still a decade away. In these times, computing technology lives in the rarified domain of mathematician and the scientist. The city is Las Vegas. And a young man named Michael […]
Monday Milestone: Tip Off
This Week in History: 1946, November 1 Officially the precursor to the NBA begins, and is regarded as the birth of professional basketball in the United States. The lights. The atmosphere. The excitement. Bill Russell rebounding in the paint, Dr J soaring above the rim. That signature hook shot from Kareem Abdul Jabaar. Magic Johnson […]
US Tour Diaries #1 – Walking In Memphis
Put on my blue suede shoes and I boarded the plane… touched down in the land of the downtown blues, in the middle of the pouring rain a nice little sunset. As alluded to in a couple of recent columns, part of Team Making The Nut (namely Nick and yours truly) are now past the […]
The NFL Lines – Week 8
Nick Tedeschi and Cliff Bingham bring you their week 8 NFL tips live from Memphis, fresh (we're using the term liberally here) from about 28 hours in transit to the US and an evening of BBQ ribs and 'Big Ass Beale St Beers', which are served in recepticles which resemble buckets. As a consequence, we're […]
Bloods transfusion
Mitch Morton may well be the least likely premiership player to come out of the Sydney Swans’ famous win over Hawthorn late last month. The former Eagle arrived in the Harbour City by way of Richmond and his 76-game career has been heavily punctuated by trades at the end of the 2007 and 2011 seasons. […]
Punting Profiles: Puggy Pearson – Crash or Crash Through
By Nick Tedeschi and Tim Napper Modest Beginnings Walter Clyde Pearson got the nickname ‘Puggy’ at the age of ten when he crashed through the floorboards of a half-completed church face first, disfiguring his nose to the extent that for the remainder of his life he looked like a cross between an old-time prizefighter and […]
Monday Milestone: Pudge
“Bottom of the twelfth, in stepped Carlton Fisk. Old Pudge. Steps up to the plate, you know, and he's got that weird stance. And BAM! He clocks it. High fly ball down the left field line! Thirty-five thousand people, on their feet, yellin' at the ball, but that's not because of Fisk. He's wavin' at […]
Choc calling the kettle black
"I thought they wiped all the Aborigines from Tasmania out," Anthony Mundine gives yet another indication that boxing is bad for your brain. The Australian Government’s decision to mandate a national curriculum came too late to save Anthony Mundine from his own stupidity. I’m going to throw it out there and say I already […]
October 20 Racing Selections
Tips for this Saturday cover the meetings at Caulfield (featuring the Group 1 Caulfield Cup) and Randwick. This will also be the last such column for at least a month (courtesy of an overseas trip) and potentially the finale for Sting’s Racing Selections more broadly. There comes a point where you have enough data/ evidence […]
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