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Posted: 09 Mar 10 | As a sportswriter, I naturally get lots of emails, and if they have anything to do with sport in our area, I usually run them as a story. |

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Lock Eddie out in the cold

Posted: 03 Mar 10 | Australia has been poorly represented at the Winter Olympics. |

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The aura of Torah

Posted: 23 Feb 10 | Torah! Torah! Torah! These words have always spelt disaster for the Americans, and so it was when snowboarder Torah Bright won gold in Vancouver last week. |

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Aussie benchmark too high

Posted: 17 Feb 10 | Before he was driving around in a bus in a dress in Pricilla, Terence Stamp played a powerful villain in Superman 2. |

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Posted: 09 Feb 10 | It's amazing that the year isn’t even six weeks old, yet we already have our Idiot of the Year - the loser who ran onto the field to tackle Pakistan cricketer Khalid Latif in the 20-20 match in Perth. |

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It just is cricket

Posted: 12 Jan 10 | Not long ago, we had a He Says She Says debate about whether or not cricket was TV to sleep by. |

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2009: And the winners are....

Posted: 05 Jan 10 | 2009 was pretty fine in many ways, so it’s time to hand out some awards. |

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It’s just un-Australian

Posted: 08 Dec 09 | Now there’s an over-used saying if ever there was one. What does it mean? It’s just an expression to describe anything you don’t like. |

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I can't believe Zinadine Zidane

Posted: 26 Nov 09 | I can't believe Zinadine Zidane saying Thierry Henry isn’t a cheat after the French star’s blatant handballing knocked a justifiably indignant Ireland out of the 2010 World Cup. |

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You’re coming with us, little bro

Posted: 20 Nov 09 | Do you remember when you were a kid and you were excited because you were about to go out and play with your friends, but then your mum said you had to take your little brother or sister along? |

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You’re coming with us, little bro

Posted: 18 Nov 09 | Do you remember when you were a kid and you were excited because you were about to go out and play with your friends, but then your mum said you had to take your little brother or sister along? |

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Never give up on marsupials

Posted: 11 Nov 09 | You should always have faith in your countrymen - this is something I learned on Saturday night when I went to bed at half time of both the rugby league and rugby union international matches. |

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And the winner isn’t.....Sydney

Posted: 27 Oct 09 | So what would you say about this kind of father: At Christmas time, he buys a heap of presents, but instead of giving them to his own kid, who loves and thinks the world of him, he gives them to a kid on the other side of town, who doesn’t even want them. |

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Masters are an inspiration

Posted: 21 Oct 09 | I, like many other people, found the World Masters Games very inspirational, especially with the success of athletes from our area. |

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Bring on the lads from PNG

Posted: 14 Oct 09 | I was heartened to hear rugby league legend Mal Meninga endorse the eventual entry of a team from Papua New Guinea team in the National Rugby League via the Queensland Cup. |

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Back Chat with Josh Gidney

Posted: 08 Oct 09 | Having been to Brazil recently and become a big fan of the country, I was delighted to hear that Rio de Janeiro will become South America’s first host of an Olympics in 2016. |

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Don’t dump the bump

Posted: 23 Sep 09 | I’m disappointed to hear that due to fear of concussions and their repercussions, “the bump” is in danger of being eradicated from Australian rules football. |

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Leading by example

Posted: 02 Sep 09 | In an attack on Pauline Hanson and the One Nation party, former Federal Opposition Leader Kim Beazley once said “It’s one thing to have views, it’s another thing to have solutions.” |

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Hard Ashes to swallow

Posted: 26 Aug 09 | The year was 2002, and I was with a group of friends watching a World Cup soccer match between England and Argentina, and one of the friends said: “I’m going for Argentina, because there’s nothing worse than a winning Pommie.” |

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In praise of havin’ a go

Posted: 19 Aug 09 | I once asked respected journalist and former Wallaby Peter Fitzsimons why he chose an Aussie rules team as a recipient of a government grant when he was on a selection panel, and he said it was “Because they embodied the all-Australian notion of ‘have a go ya mug!”. |

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