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- 11/20/09
| Name: | bill pennington (no, not that one) |
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| Location: | Australia, but reasonably peripatetic |
| Member since: | June 26, 2004 |
| Last visit: | November 20, 2009 |
owlhouse has posted 94 links and 1638 comments to SportsFilter and 11 links and 611 comments to the Locker Room.
Roy of the Rovers: A look back at the values of yesteryear. Maybe you have to be British.
posted by owlhouse to soccer at 01:22 AM on September 17 - 5 comments
More Scandal for F1: Nelson Piquet was ordered to 'deliberately crash' his Renault at last year's Singapore Grand Prix, leaked transcripts reveal.
posted by owlhouse to auto racing at 01:52 AM on September 11 - 4 comments
Ashes 2009 Pointscore Final: Find out who wins inside!
posted by owlhouse to fantasy at 02:10 AM on August 24 - 6 comments
Ashes 2009 Pointscore: Update after Edgbaston and Headingley. Only one Test to go - with the series tied at 1-1, it's getting nervous out there, and in here, too.
posted by owlhouse to fantasy at 06:37 PM on August 15 - 5 comments
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 on July 28 - 10 comments
Charmed? I'm with Rod Stewart when it comes to weddings.
In case you don't know: "Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
posted by owlhouse at 09:12 PM on November 19
Given how the previous thread on Robert Enke's untimely death went a little bit out of control, I thought this brings home some of the sadness in the man, without too much sentimentality.
posted by owlhouse at 07:42 PM on November 19
A little girl goes into a pet shop and asks to buy a pet bunny rabbit. Montreal by 21. The shop assistant looks at her and smiles, asking her "Would you like a floppy eared bunny or a white bunny?". Saskatchewan by 12. The little girl thinks for a moment before replying. Calvillo. "I don't actually think my python gives a shit." Saskatchewan.
posted by owlhouse at 07:27 PM on November 19
He was once the world's fastests and most dangerous bowler. But then he was ruled out of a cricket tour because of genital warts. Now he isn't going to Australia because the surgeon stuffed up his liposuction surgery.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan.
posted by owlhouse at 03:47 PM on November 19
The Observer's alternative sports awards.
And can I say that Ireland were ripped off? Fudge Platini with the rough end of a baguette.
posted by owlhouse at 06:45 AM on November 19
...and Uruguay make up the last of the 32.
posted by owlhouse at 08:27 PM on November 18
Algeria beats Egypt 1-0 to advance to the World Cup finals next year. Greece beats Ukraine 1-0 in Kiev to go through as well.
Other games in progress.
posted by owlhouse at 03:21 PM on November 18
A new report out in Australia says Government funding should be spent on high participation sports that 'reflect the national ethos' and not elite athletes.
Predictable whining from the Australian Olympic Committee. Confusion over what 'national ethos' means.
posted by owlhouse at 03:02 PM on November 17
I don't care what treatment he uses. I had to sell him and buy someone else instead. Used my damn wild card this week, too.
Not that it will do him or my team any good, mind you.
posted by owlhouse at 02:53 PM on November 17
Platini - Full-blown Nazi
He was just following Reichsmarshall Blatter's orders.
posted by owlhouse at 07:28 AM on November 17
Here's a link.
posted by owlhouse at 09:26 PM on November 16
There's probably a bit of both, but rugby was the game of the establishment (read: right wing), and hence by association with the Vichy regime. Rugby League was always more working class (read: socialist and communist) and provincial, and is still stronger in the regions in the south of France where the original maquis were based.
posted by owlhouse at 09:09 PM on November 16
Get well soon, Matt.
In hindsight, it was pretty funny when they asked me what kind of music I liked best.
A friend of mine had the same choice when he received MRI treatment for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. He picked the most depressing songs of Leonard Cohen, just to wind up the radiography staff.
posted by owlhouse at 06:52 PM on November 16
Thanks for posting, yerfatma.
I saw the Guardian's headline earlier and wondered if the article was about rugby rather than football. In France there is still simmering resentment between the two rugby codes, with some of the the Union hierarchy portrayed as collaborateurs, while the Game of XIII sided with the Resistance.
posted by owlhouse at 06:48 PM on November 16
RIP UGA VII
The real Sonny Seiler appeared as the judge in the movieof Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil while UGA V played the part of UGA IV
And was played by my neighbour and great character actor, Jack Thompson.