Farewell to a true Athletics Great
By The Spotter A beast called Le Bron James rolled over the Celtics in game seven of the Eastern Conference NBA final today. A few hours earlier we lost a NZ[…]
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Don’t Wait for the Council’s Money; Get Door Knocking
By The Spotter I think we’ve been carted around this fantasy before: Auckland and it’s big, beautiful and empty dream of a waterfront stadium. Not that Kev Cowcocky in Dunsandel will probably give a[…]
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Did you see that?
By The Spotter Every now and again, someone, somewhere in sport will do something just a bit out of the ordinary. Something that us mere mortals reminisce over years or decades later. This is a completely random homage[…]
The Brilliant BeeGee
By The Spotter Infinite full moons ago, there was the well-known Kentucky fried chicken advertisement with the super-sized kids in the back of the car (Unintentionally ironic? Hard to entertain the notion it may have[…]
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Are the Blues up for it?
By The Spotter The Blues will be up shit street 2018 without a Super Rugby play-off shovel if they can’t motivate themselves to turn around their fortunes against a team that[…]
Stand up to Such Absolute Garbage
By The Spotter I can’t stand idly by and let this happen. Not on my watch and certainly not while I’m on this site and writing. I’m talking about the mindless abuse[…]
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The Rise of the Banal, the Fall of the Creative
By The Spotter A fair proportion of the originality and levity of the past in top-line sport is now goneburger. Professionalism and big business has seen to that. I’m not one who cares about having hundreds[…]
Ivan Mauger- One of the Greats.
By The Spotter When a moderately-sized institution gets authorised to spend $1.7 million on the purchase of memorabilia belonging to a single individual, you know for certain that that person must have achieved[…]
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When Good Golds Go Bad
By Paul Montague You may have won the gold but you’ve pretty much lost a whole nation. Sam Gaze…what have you done? It’s a downright shame for you and all your[…]
The Comm Games- A Lot More Yeah Than Nah
By The Spotter Tonight from 10.20pm we could just see something incredibly special from the Athletics. Tom Walsh recently stated he’d like to expunge from the record books the drug-tainted 23.12m Men’s Shot[…]
