Those Worrying Warriors
From The Spotter Once again fans of the NZ Warriors in the NRL have been left feeling desperate and confused. They’ve now been witness to a three-year term of relative[…]
Monthly Archive: September 2014
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Joining the Dots re hidden stories etc
We are a week out for a General Election and the Sunday Star Times chose to lead its paper today with a story about how they were not allowed to[…]
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5 Random thoughts from last night’s Test Match
1. Another bizarre substitution last night when Patrick Tuipolutu went on for Jeremy Thrush (who had a storming game) for the last desperate 3 minutes to earn another test cap.[…]
All Blacks v the Boks. The Wellington special
Tonight the All Blacks take on the Springboks in Wellington in another Rugby Championship test. Through high exposure these are no longer the cherished events they were. Here are four[…]
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Sporting Pictures of the week :- 12 September
The Lucky Country. The final of the Sydney club rugby competition last weekend. What do British Antarctica scientists do during downtime? Play cricket obviously. This is what last weeks 2.43m[…]
Under The Pump
Metaphorical terms in sport are OK in moderation, but they are better when they are not overused, and when they actually make some sense. What is this pump that teams[…]
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Golden Point Podcast 11 September
It’s Week One of the NRL Finals series. Here’s Stephen Gallagher with the weekly Golden Point podcast.
Golf. Hip online trendsetters
The dismantling of sports coverage in New Zealand takes another step. SKY Television has announced that they can’t be bothered have relinquished rights to their previously extensive golf coverage. In[…]
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“To Streak or not to Streak” – that is the question.
The case for Everyone looks and laughs and thinks it’s great, and then what do we get? Yes that’s right a bunch of do-gooding wowsers condemning the act of someone[…]
The Evolution of Tennis
By The Spotter Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, and not so quiet please ladies and gentlemen, it’s the ATP tennis tour train; present stop the U.S.[…]
