Archive for the 'Sport' Category

Top 10 finish would be great

August 14th, 2008

I had a feeling before this Olympics Australia would finish in the top 10 in the medal count. This is a bit lower than we have in the last few Olympics, but still a great result.
One of the reasons I felt this way is because of few of our medal hopes pulled out just before [...]

Golf and life

June 30th, 2008

I just had another round of golf. I noticed something interesting in about the guy who was playing on the hole in front of me. He loaded up his ball and tried to smash it all the way to the green every time. Most of the time it went about 150 metres and into the [...]

Worshipping sports stars

January 6th, 2008

I was watching an interview with Sachin Tendulkar on the cricket coverage yesterday. It was interesting to hear what his life is like in India. He can hardly leave his home in India as he is so popular and people mob him wherever he goes. From the interview it sounded like he preferred to be [...]

Eagles by a point

March 31st, 2007

The West Coast Eagles (my AFL team) have beaten the Sydney Swans tonight by 1 point….again. I don’t know how much more of this my heart can take. I am sure I started following the Eagles for relaxation, it doesn’t seem like it at the moment!
It reminds me of back in the 1990s when I [...]

Chosing your role models carefully

March 20th, 2007

Many people are under the impression that because someone plays sport for their country or they play sport at an elite level, they are automatically role models for our kids to follow. I do not agree with this line of thinking.
I think we need to realise that sports people are no different to anyone else [...]