Archive for March, 2013
The Best New Releases
Push The Sky Away NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS – Mute This is the fifteenth album from this most prolific of Antipodean bands but it represents a significant change in musical style from their back catalogue. This change in direction is driven largely by the departure of Mick Harvey after 25 years with The […]
Racing’s Kiss of Death – March 15 and 16
This week’s selections cover the March 15 meeting at Moonee Valley, as well as the March 16 meetings at Bendigo and Warwick Farm (featuring the Group 1 Randwick Guineas). Results for March 9 selections Tips which were either scratched, outside the prescribed track conditions or too short in price Scratched – Toffler, Laser Hawk Track […]
The Fantasy King: Round 1
By Mick 'the King' Adams So round one is in the books and as usual it threw up a lot more questions than it answered. Not surprisingly fantasy scores were a little down as many teams struggled to find a rhythm and really get their attack going. As a result, some of the changes to […]
Try Line Picks – FREE Making the Nut Round 2 Selection
Titans – Line: 3.00 Bet Units: In a top tier match against the Sharks, the Titans showed enough to all they will be a better team in 2013 – the pack they boast is excellent with Bird, Myles, Taylor exceptional raters; their interchange is NRL best with Taylor, Bailey, James and Falloon who was great […]
The Forgive Files – March 9
This week’s edition of The Forgive Files takes us to the March 9 meetings at Flemington and Warwick Farm. Flemington Glass Harmonium: He set a strong tempo early on (the final 600 was only covered in 35.84 seconds) when jumping from 1400 metres to 2000 second-up. While 2000 metres is his optimum distance, he has only […]
The Naughty Corner
Shane Watson, James Pattinson, Mitchell Johnson and Usman Khawaja walk into a bar… The barman looks them up and down, leans forward, tosses a cloth from one hand to the other, starts polishing a highball glass and casually addresses the group. “Shouldn’t you guys be doing your homework?” Australian cricket’s horror tour of India appears […]
The 2013 Willie M Medal: Round 1
Image: For the fourth year, the Willie M Medal is back. This year, it will standalone, apart from From The Couch where it will shine like a Ben Roberts stinker to all that is mediocre and hapless in rugby league. To the uninitiated, this is the award that pays homage to the rubbish, the average, […]
From The Couch: Round 1
Image: Carnage at Cronulla: It has not been a good offseason for rugby league and it seems the off-field drama will not subside now the season has started. Last week the Cronulla club was thrown into a state of carnage – at stake is its very existence and at fault are those men charged with […]
All to play for
"Win and we are through, if not bad luck,” George Bailey, Tasmanian Tigers captain With a round to play in the 2012-13 Sheffield Shield, George Bailey’s comment could apply to just about every team in the competition. After Victoria and Queensland cleared out to the lead before Christmas, the last few weeks have seen a […]
Monday Milestone: Capital
This Week in History 1913, March 12 The federal capital of Australia comes into being when Canberra is born. “The seat of Government of the Commonwealth … shall be in the State of New South Wales, and be distant not less than one hundred miles from Sydney.” – s125 Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Slip across […]
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