INNOVATIONS IN SPORT I’m sure many readers were as fascinated as I was by the article in The Age’s sport section some time ago about the inventor of the penalty kick, William McCrum. You don’t really tend to think of something like the penalty kick as having had an inventor. I think […]
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Round Six was marked by a strong showing from some of AFL commentary’s more experienced hands. “That there is the story of the game right there,” noted Wayne Carey emphatically on Triple-M after the Carlton-Swans match, apparently intent on verbally emulating one of the more rustic characters from the vintage TV sitcom, Greenacres. […]
I was actually looking for something else Dept. I’d decided to make the next compilation of my old newspaper column material about sport and media sport coverage – in the ongoing “No Money for Old Rope” series exclusive to this site – from the earlier version of my (only) current column, From The Cheap […]
This is the last of the stuff I hadn’t already collected from a series of columns I wrote about media coverage of sport in The Age newspaper from 2008-2010, entitled Lost in Transmission. (You can find the other compilations scattered around this very Blodge.) Once again, for me it brings back a lot […]
Further extracts from a series of columns I wrote for The Age newspaper, entitled Lost in Transmission, about sport coverage on TV and radio from 2008-2010. It’s the stuff I still thought was funny out of that run, occasionally with a word or so changed for clarity. This one covers the columns from the first […]
Once again, this is material excerpted from a column I used to write for The Age newspaper from 2008-2010, entitled Lost in Transmission, which featured reviews of sport coverage on television and, occasionally, radio. While previous compilations of newspaper material on this site have mostly tended to one-liners and paragraphs, this one also incorporates longer […]
(Couldn’t find my weekly column posted on line on the Fairfax sites this week, so here it is.) AN ENIGMA IN A CONUNDRUM INSIDE A CRUMPLED FANTALE WRAPPER They used to have this hit song, many hundreds of your Earth years ago, by some guy called Edwin Starr. Kids, you’ll have to […]
