New team, same patterns
There had been a bit of angst from a different direction during the week, and that was that the much vaunted bowling line-up, while being impressive, had not taken enough[…]
Monthly Archive: January 2015
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Mellow Yellow
The tendency for New Zealanders to get wound up by a cricket match at Westpac Stadium is really quite something. And when people get wound up they tend to lose[…]
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Deflated and Loathing in Arizona with our NFL Guru Hamish “Girvana” Girvan
The 2015 version of the greatest show on turf kicks off in Glendale, Arizona this Monday lunchtime (NZ time). The traditional build has possibly been the strangest ever. First up[…]
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Sporting Pictures of the Week :- 30 January
With all the talk about Tom Brady and deflate-gate etc, should we be concerned about what’s going on at the Australian Open? Steven Defour is a former Standard Liege footballer[…]
The Williamson Era
We had been told Brendon McCullum was going to be rested at some stage, and this fixture always seemed the most likely. The narrative was that it gave Williamson a[…]
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The Premier League; beyond the halfway point
By Martin Hearnden After a really fun FA Cup weekend it is probably a good time to draw breath and have a quick and nasty look at this season’s Premier[…]
Sporting Picture Special
This picture deserves a slot on its own, rather than part of the weekly pictures of nonsense on a Friday. On 16 December 2014, nine gunmen affiliated conducted a terrorist[…]
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The all-time Despicable Australia XI. Part 2
Part two of the Despicable Australian XI. This time, and oversupply of wicket-keepers and some very strange bowlers Greg Matthews: For a couple of years in the late 1980s Greg[…]
The Tongariro Crossing
The Lonely Planet lists the Tongariro Crossing as one of the best one day walks in the world and after completing the traverse during the Christmas break it’s hard to[…]
