- 02:45 AM
- 11/08/09
Australia beat England, and Australia beat France.
posted by owlhouse at 04:27 PM on November 07
Yeah, a bit of a surprise result, as Melbourne were going so well.
Kevin might be mellowing in his old age.
posted by owlhouse at 04:22 PM on November 07
Which proves my point about Australians just talking a tough game.
Well, fatty, there's being tough on the ball, and then there's Kevin Muscat.
posted by owlhouse at 05:28 PM on November 06
Wasn't he carrying his California prescription with him?
posted by owlhouse at 04:55 PM on November 06
"That's not the kind of player I am."
Unfortunately Ms Lambert, it is. Heat of the moment retaliation is one thing, but what you did was premeditated, repetitive and vicious. If you did it on the street, you'd be in court.
If any one of my players behaved like that, they would never play for the club or association again.
posted by owlhouse at 04:50 PM on November 06
like Owlhouse's exaggerated unhappiness over another Yankees title
I'm glad most of you got it.
posted by owlhouse at 03:08 PM on November 05
Can I be first to say Fuck the Yankees?
Thank you.
posted by owlhouse at 06:09 AM on November 05
the emirate bought themselves a race just to say they had something some larger countries Dubai didn't.
Fixed it for ya.
Interesting, too, is the proxy rivalry being played out in the battle for global sports sponsorship between Emirates and Etihad.
posted by owlhouse at 03:07 AM on November 05
Good on the Tongans for replying with the Siva Tau. They still got hammered, though.
posted by owlhouse at 04:09 PM on November 04
Holden - what dviking said about how the odds are presented these days. It's kind of like the metric system. Much easier than when I used to work for a bookmaker, and had to calculate things like a bet of two dollars fifty each way, at odds of 13 to 8, just using my head!
posted by owlhouse at 03:41 PM on November 04
Horse wins race. I had ten each way on it. Woo hoo, the drinks are on me.
Hey, just one per person, and no doubles. What do you think I am, made of money?
posted by owlhouse at 06:08 AM on November 04
Whoever came up with this idea deserves a Nobel Prize.
Probably.
posted by owlhouse at 05:34 PM on November 03
Not such nice creatures, indeed. Down here, they kill.
posted by owlhouse at 07:51 AM on November 02
Tomorrow it's The Day That Stops A Nation down here.
Here's some betting advice, for those tempted to get on the punt.
posted by owlhouse at 06:42 PM on November 01
I think this is potentially more embarrassing than the crystal meth revelations.
posted by owlhouse at 05:15 PM on October 31
Guys, you can get tacos in places like Luang Prabang in Laos and Lake Toba in Sumatra, so I'm guessing they're easy to find wherever Montoya might be.
posted by owlhouse at 05:36 PM on October 30
This shows a type of uniform optimization in basketball.
If only chicobangs was still around...
posted by owlhouse at 09:37 PM on October 29
I heard that it also makes your hair fall out.
posted by owlhouse at 03:34 AM on October 28
Why can't I get a grant to study something like this?
posted by owlhouse at 04:16 PM on October 27
The seemingly never-ending season moves into another phase.
posted by owlhouse at 08:20 AM on October 25
My home team wins something, somewhere.
posted by owlhouse at 07:02 AM on October 24
Meanwhile, a club that once asked my uncle to be a Director, is in even more trouble.
He said no. Wisely it seems.
posted by owlhouse at 05:28 AM on October 22
I'm a saddo then, Steve.
Pretty common sense rule really - outside interference, drop ball.
posted by owlhouse at 09:51 AM on October 18
Frank McCourt getting divorced? I thought he was already dead.
Angela's Ashes. What? Oh.
posted by owlhouse at 10:25 AM on October 15
Cite, please.
I read it on a linked article on Deadspin. You will forgive me if I can't find it immediately, as the connection here in Kalaymyo doesn't allow me to access many parts of the interwebs right now.
The University of Florida's athletic program turns a profit (as high as $7.8 million in 2008
Good for them, however my point was more about the opportunity cost of pouring money (whether from sponsorship, endowments, ticket revenue) into 'amateur' sports, which is more or less just a form of entertainment. I don't blame the university, but there's a bigger problem out there.
posted by owlhouse at 09:56 AM on October 12
I just read that the University of Florida spends $89 million a year on its football program. For an amateur sport, run by an institution of higher learning.
Give me $89 million a year and I could run the entire tertiary education system of the country I'm now in. And here they need education, not football.
posted by owlhouse at 06:18 AM on October 09
...closely followed by a team of Wall Street execs advising the EU on financial management, no doubt.
posted by owlhouse at 06:09 PM on October 05
In a tournament no-one cares about, Australia beats New Zealand in the final of the Champions Trophy.
posted by owlhouse at 05:10 PM on October 05
Calm down, rogerd. No-one's saying the Kiwis didn't deserve to be there - you may have missed the point. Tournament organisers would have preferred South Africa to be there, instead of being knocked out in the group stages. TV companies (and bookmakers) would have preferred India or Pakistan, of course.
Big boys? Probably no-one wanted Australia either, given the time differences with TV, and the fact that nobody down here can be bothered watching it on cable in the middle of the night. And England? You're having a laugh.
posted by owlhouse at 05:38 PM on October 04
Melbourne beats Parramatta 23-16 in the NRl Grand Final, but Storm coach Craig Bellamy is not a gracious winner.
posted by owlhouse at 05:22 PM on October 04
Not worthy of an FPP, but the Curious Case of Freddy Adu.
Just how old is he? Some interesting comments on the blog from people who seem to know, but won't disclose their sources.
posted by owlhouse at 06:59 PM on October 03
You know that headphone thing that Brownie's always wearing? My guess it's a direct line to the Samaritans.
/explains a lot.
posted by owlhouse at 06:44 PM on October 03
In a match up that tournament organisers and TV companies were probably dreading, New Zealand will take on Australia in the Champions Trophy final in South Africa.
posted by owlhouse at 06:42 PM on October 03
...and scholarships for children of IOC members.
/signed Official Secrets Act, can't reveal any more.
posted by owlhouse at 10:35 PM on October 02
At least beach volleyball will return to its spiritual home.
posted by owlhouse at 06:12 PM on October 02
Who's your money on, Owls, and where's your heart?
Money says Melbourne, heart says Parra. My son's an Eels fan, and they're the fairy tale story having made the Grand Final from 8th place.
posted by owlhouse at 04:21 PM on October 01
Down here, it's Rugby League Grand Final time.
Not as big as the Superbowl, but we like it.
posted by owlhouse at 09:23 AM on October 01
think (Post)Modern Olympic Games
Apple's already working on the iGames.
Violence bad, whisky good.
Whisky good, violence good.
- signed Rangers and Celtic fans.
posted by owlhouse at 07:48 PM on September 30
I'd prefer Tokyo, mainly for time zone reasons. But it doesn't look like everyone there is fully committed to the future of the Olympics.
posted by owlhouse at 05:37 PM on September 30
Maybe he should go and see Dr Sepp BLADDER!
I'll see myself out...
posted by owlhouse at 08:48 AM on September 30
One of my favourite bush quotes about the ingrained distrust of anything amounting to public displays of faith is:
"When your neighbour quotes the Bible, count your sheep."
posted by owlhouse at 06:05 PM on September 29
As compared to those oh so wordly folks in the small towns and the outback of your country, I suppose. Most small town people in America embrace the faith and fellowship that living in a small town affords them, and I for one am glad they do.
The difference being that here there is less reliance on a particular Bronze age creation myth and medieval superstition in order to get by, and an tendency not to force that belief upon others. I, for one, actually think that makes for a better community.
posted by owlhouse at 05:35 PM on September 29
In most, if not all, places in the US of A he could be arrested for indecent exposure. When you consider that in many of the states that is a sex crime, he would then be stigmatized for life, tracked wherever he wants to live, forbidden to live within certain distances of schools, and his neighbors told of his past history
Wow, you really don't like referees over there. In my country, all we do is chant "Whos' the Bastard in the Black"?
posted by owlhouse at 05:28 PM on September 29
Jesus will protect them from injury. He's omnipotent and all powerful. That's why nothing bad ever happens to people like Tim Tebow.
posted by owlhouse at 08:56 AM on September 29
Well, I'll walk into it.
Just thinking that this could only happen in America. And I don't mean that in a Don King-type good way. If a high school sports teacher had tried this down here, he'd be sacked immediately - and we don't even have constitutional separation of church and state. More importantly, he wouldn't have even tried it in the first place. The students would have objected and told him to get stuffed, or something worse. The rest of the teaching staff would have pulled him aside and told him to keep his own beliefs out of school. The same situation applies for most of western Europe. The rest of the developed world outside the US is increasingly secular and has an inherent distrust of anything to do with religion, particularly the public display of it.
Why? Because I think American culture is different. Church going in your country still rates at levels not seen in Australia since the 19th century, and most of the flyover states have only a small immigrant or non-Christian population. Belief in things like the devil and miracles are somewhere near the figures for rural Romania. From what I've seen, it's possible to live in small town America and be completely culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Ninety two per cent of you have never owned a passport. If there's anything that should be called American exceptionalism - this is it.
/stands back
posted by owlhouse at 03:00 AM on September 29
Q: Why don't Baptists believe in pre-marital sex?
A: Because it might lead to dancing.
posted by owlhouse at 10:37 PM on September 28
I'm with Ian Healy's comment to Ranatunga on that one.
That's the first thing I thought of, too.
posted by owlhouse at 05:07 PM on September 28
No more Mr Nice Guy. England skipper Andrew Strauss toughens up, and refuses to allow a runner for his South African counterpart.
posted by owlhouse at 09:18 AM on September 28
Helluva race it was, too.
It was shown here on delay following the Singapore F1. I was too tired to wait up for it. Bugger, sounds like a fantastic effort by Evans.
Not enough to make up for his disappointment in last year's TDF, though. That's the one he wants.
posted by owlhouse at 05:31 PM on September 27
I guess I can wear that Lions jacket now.
posted by owlhouse at 05:26 PM on September 27
And next week's NRL Grand Final will be between Melbourne and Parramatta.
posted by owlhouse at 09:18 AM on September 26
Geelong wins the AFL Grand Final.
posted by owlhouse at 08:03 AM on September 26
It's AFL Grand Final Day down here. St Kilda against Geelong. A look back at 150 years of history.
posted by owlhouse at 06:45 PM on September 25
It's the biggest sports awards night of the year, with everybody dressed up and on their best behaviour.
So of course you give the vox pop job to a drunk footballer...
posted by owlhouse at 12:42 AM on September 25
Apparently, sex is good for you.
And for the team. Single players shouldn't feel left out, either.
posted by owlhouse at 06:13 AM on September 24
Someone's not happy after the weekend AFL results.
"Hope is tyranny".
posted by owlhouse at 11:03 PM on September 23
Home team advantage? Two words:
Montreal. 1976.
Technically that's a proper noun and a number, but you know what I mean. Pedants.
posted by owlhouse at 05:04 PM on September 23
SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle
Twenty years at the top of his game - India's Sachin Tendulkar.