Archive for December, 2012
The NFL Lines – Week 15
Well, week 14 was quite the disaster for Making The Nut’s NFL office. Nick has retained a small profit on the season, but Cliff is curled up in the foetal position in the corner, concerned that if the Mayans are on the ball, he has very little time left to extricate himself from quite the […]
Remembering Eureka
It seemed like a good idea at the time. I’d been overseas for about a year. I was missing home, missing Australia. A Southern Cross tattoo – yeah, I thought: that’s what I need. So I got the ink. That was 12 years ago, when Eureka symbolised independence, the underdog, and something uniquely Australian. […]
Monday Milestone: Punter
This Week in History: 1995, December 10 Ricky Ponting makes his first Test cricket appearance and makes 96 on debut. “I’ve got mixed emotions about my knock at the moment. 96 is a good score but it would have been nice to get 100” – Ricky Ponting that day in 1995 Have you ever considered […]
The NFL Lines – Week 14
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Nick keeps backing Miami, while Cliff keeps being the kiss of death for the Bears (they are 1-4 ATS in the games he has backed them, despite sitting in equal first in the NFC North). With the playoff picture still far from resolved, the boys […]
Eureka! Making the Nut Christmas Giveaway
You could win a copy of Peter Fitzsimons’ “Eureka: the unfinished revolution” signed by the author. You may not be aware of this, but Peter Fitzsimons – prolific writer, columnist, raconteur and TV interviewer – happens to be a Making the Nut fan (notwithstanding Nick Tedeschi’s strident anti-Rugby Union stance). We have two free copies […]
Farewell to The Rat King
It is Monday morning, Sydney time and Ricky Ponting will almost certainly play his last Test innings at Perth in a few hours. And I feel more than a tinge of sadness, despite the bad feelings I have often had towards him. There was once a time when Ricky Ponting did little but infuriate me. […]
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