The Voice of Forty Summers: Richie Benaud, perhaps the greatest ever cricket commentator, is hanging up the microphone after this (southern) summer.

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Roy of the Rovers: A look back at the values of yesteryear. Maybe you have to be British.

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More Scandal for F1: Nelson Piquet was ordered to 'deliberately crash' his Renault at last year's Singapore Grand Prix, leaked transcripts reveal.

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Beyond Sport: What can athletes do to make the world a better place? Olympian Ian Thorpe tells it like it is, and exposes Australia's dirty little secret.

posted by owlhouse to culture at 10:40 PM - 10 comments

Sledging: The Best Insults in Cricket: With the Ashes almost upon us, The Independent reviews some of the best efforts at 'mental disintegration' used on the cricket field.

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Doon With The Toon: Newcastle fail to survive in the English Premiership. Devastated Geordies had some minor consolation because northeast rivals Middlesbrough also join them in the second tier next season.

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From Canada to Australia, and From Rugby to Australian Rules: Mike Pyke's singular journey as a professional footballer.

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One Step Closer: AFC Wimbledon, a club formed by supporters when the League hierarchy moved their team, are promoted again. Now only one division away from a return to the League. Grown men cried.

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Jamaica's Champs: The nursery of World and Olympic champions like Don Quarrie and Usain Bolt. Asafa Powell, not so much.

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Manny Being ... er, Bradman?: Manny Ramirez tries his hand at cricket. You're not supposed to use that side of the bat, mate.

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Cricket Tragedy: A terrorist attack in Pakistan aimed at the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team leaves at least eight dead. The second Test is cancelled.

posted by owlhouse to other at 02:20 AM - 19 comments

It's Valentines Day: Six sporting love stories from The Guardian.

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Laver Says He's Not The Greatest: As the first Grand Slam of the year begins in Melbourne, a look back with the only player to have won all four Grand Slams in a single year. Twice. As an amateur and again as a professional. And he thinks Roger could do it...

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Beyond 12,000: Sachin Tendulkar of India is now the highest scoring batsman in Test cricket.

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Baseball versus Cricket: While the NLCS and ALCS occupy our minds, over in England they took a pub table debate and put it into practice. What if a team of professional cricketers took on a baseball team on the diamond? Who would win?

posted by owlhouse to baseball at 05:20 PM - 9 comments

How Football Explains America.: Or doesn't. Patriots with high blood pressure please avoid.

posted by owlhouse to football at 03:50 AM - 16 comments

Cheating Eight Year Old: Player banned from an Under 10 tournament for 'receiving instructions' from her father through a headset.

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The Decline of Commentary: in cricket, but probably applicable to all broadcast sports. Osman Samiuddin takes ex-players to task. A well-considered rant.

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Pink Balls: used for the first time in cricket. A trial to see if a single type of ball is suitable for all forms of the game.

posted by owlhouse to other at 11:37 PM - 15 comments

Billy Beane Gets Into Football: And wants to find out if sabermetrics can be applied to the English Premier League. Will Moneyball work in the beautiful game?

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Soccer Is As American As Apple Pie: The Guardian's Jeff Wells responds to some false assumptions about The Beautiful Game in the USA.

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Crossing The Great Divide: The kids from blue collar Matraville High School thought they'd enter the elite State Rugby Union competition. Just for fun. See inside for what happened next.

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Dancing Monkeys: Steven Wells asks why we can't have sports journalism where you don't have to check your brain at the door.

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It's More Than 30 Years Ago: But the older I get, the better I was, even in a bar brawl. Legendary cricketers (Sir) Ian Botham and Ian Chappell still slugging it out.

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New World Order?: Hot favourites the All Blacks as well as Australia out, France and England advance at the Rugby World Cup.

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