So Stacey Jones gets one of Herr Helen’s people’s awards that are completely meaningless to anyone except for a few tree huggers.
Given what he’s done in the last month, he should be given a knighhood, the freedom of Auckland, and a couple of Northland townships thrown in.
Sir Stacey has a ring about it … and [...]
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Interesting stats from the Granny Herald about who watched what on the goggle box in 2005.
The top ranked sports event was the NFL Superbowl – in one respect not a big surprise but the 98% Yank and 2% everyone else is a little bit intriguing.
I would have expected soccer … I mean, football, to rank [...]
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Talk about making every post a winner … an Irish jockey did except it was the wrong one!
He thought he’d won the race, started celebrating and by the time the REAL winning post was passed, so was our jockey friend.
It’s happened in New Zealand – more often in harness racing when they go round so [...]
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See yesterday’s post.
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Sorry, nothing witty or sporty to say.
It is the day after Boxing Day. Read yesterday’s post if you really must.
In any case, I think it is sad that I should even be thinking about writing a post in the middle of the holidays.
What’s worse, is that you are actually reading this!
It could be worse [...]
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You expect that there is some litigious lawyer (is there any other type?) waiting to sue someone because Boxing Day sport isn’t about, um, boxing.
It’s more like Day Two of Xmas rather than Day Tua. (I kind of like that last sentence!)
However, Boxing Day is more like horse racing, the Sydney Hobart yatch thingy, [...]
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So Xmas may have come and gone, but what would I have wanted under my Chrissy tree from a sporting point of view?
1. Success for the Warriors – given the Kiwis rousing display in the Tri Series, surely we can expect more from the Warriors under Ivan The Great? Given that the Tigers [...]
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OK, here’s the last of the what they think stories, this time from our mates across the ditch.
The Ockers certainly had a few things to celebrate, none more so than the success of the Socceroos. As an aside, now that Soccer is no longer soccer in Oz, does that mean they are now the [...]
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Here’s something for those of you who still that rugby and the AB’s matters a toss outside a few poxy islands in the South Seas (according to the Welsh RFU team’s Aussie coach).
As an aside, he originally said NZ was just two poxy islands in the South Seas. He was quick to apologise as [...]
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Don’t know about hard, but definitely at it.
A bad day at the races definitely beats any day at the office. It was pretty sad when I needed an inquiry to give me a second collect for the day (albeit very deserving!) and it was the LAST race.
The trick to punting is to analyse the [...]
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