It’s tough when you grow up in a place where hanging out at the surf is a way of life then, suddenly, work takes you to a place that is land locked and the ocean and waves become things that you can only dream about. I know. It happened to me. Years back I moved from beautiful Queenscliff Beach in Sydney to dreary old London to progress my career and, for the first six months … [Read more...]
“Generosity” – Chris Anstey describes Luc Longley in a single word
Australia has provided it's share of super-talented basketball centres to the NBA and WNBA (the world's premier basketball competitions). Aron Baines, Lauren Jackson, Andrew Bogut, Liz Cambage, Luc Longley and Chris Anstey are just some of the great Australian big men and women that spring to mind. Of the entire crop, Longley was the first. He started the ball rolling when he … [Read more...]
Super body surfing – The Master, Dix Ozier, discusses the why and how of the ancient art – Part 1.
Why should anyone want to learn to body surf? I mean really body surf. I mean its not a real sport like surfing is it? Isn't body surfing just playing around in the surf because you can't ride a board? True body surfing masters go into fits over such heresy! Such ignorance! Of course body surfing is a real sport. And it's a real form of surfing. The experts might even say its … [Read more...]
Sport 2021 – Sports philosopher No 2. Aaron Kearney
It’s hard to summarise the sporting life of multi-award-winning journalist Aaron Kearney. Attempts to do so demand more print space than is possible for the average sporting story. Suffice it to say that Kearney has played, watched, reported on, commentated (T.V. and radio), anchored, written about, produced, organized and facilitated more sports and sporting events than most … [Read more...]
Sport 2021 – Sports philosopher No 1. Peter Fitzsimons
Some day the virus will be gone, and our sporting lives will return to normal. Manly and Melbourne will again battle it out for the honour of being the NRL’s most hated club. Collingwood supporters will still be the butt of jokes of their fellow AFL fans. Multitudes will again, cruelly and not completely accurately, complain about how crap the A League is. But will things … [Read more...]