Netball participation numbers are dropping, which is a problem for women’s fitness in Australia and New Zealand as traditionally netball has been the sport with the highest participation rates for women. A friendly lurker (thanks, R.) sent me a link… Read More ›
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Seeya Warnie
So Shane’s retiring. Enjoy your mooted commentary career, and try and behave yourself. Georgina has a post up at LP, and Shaun has one up at Sidelined. A lot of the commentary has been about his sexual infidelities, which don’t… Read More ›
Damir, Damir, Damir
Just when the world of tennis seems to be boring and predictable (Williams, Federer, Federer, Williams), you can always count on Damir Dokic to liven things up a bit. JELENA Dokic has again been forced to rubbish the claims of… Read More ›
I’m unAustralian
I don’t give a stuff about the Melbourne Cup. I don’t bet on it, and I don’t deliberately watch it. As I’m not part of a socialising workplace, neither am I a lady who lunches, I’m able to do this… Read More ›
May my Kiwi readers forgive me
An hour ago I was standing on the promenade at Coogee above where Willie Mason was sunbathing below, skylarking (loudly) with a few fellow Kangaroos. How did I know they were Kangaroos? They were wearing their team shorts. Wasn’t that… Read More ›
Friday garden-blogging, blogroll wrangling etc
Scabious, aka the Pincushion Flower Quite a few of you enjoyed my post on a picture of Saturn’s rings a few days ago. Well, a new blog I’ve discovered has an excellent post on the following day’s Astronomy Picture Of… Read More ›
Sidelined
Hello, my name is tigtog, and I have a sports-viewing addiction. I apologise for not mentioning this earlier. I’m not as heavily addicted as some (I can give it up anytime, honest!), but I do enjoy a bit of biffo… Read More ›
Last week’s footy
A nailbiting rugby union club final finish between Randwick and Sydney Uni.
We were sitting in the section of the stands that included what I will call the Loony Uni supporters (if that’s not what they’re named they should be).
The footy image stream is at my Flickr page: first picture here-[link]
What a week: Irwin, Thiele and now Brock.
I just heard on the radio that Peter Brock has been killed in a racing crash.
All the boys I went to a country town high school with drove V8s, and all of them looked up to Brockie. He stood above the perennial Ford-Holden wars in terms of his racing hero status, partly because of his cool, calm demeanour – Brock was the Bjorn Borg of Australian motor racing
Sexualised sports uniforms turning girls off sport
That is a key finding of a bipartisan Senate inquiry into female participation in sport and recreation.
TIGHT lycra bike pants and full body-suits could be a cause of teenage girls dropping out of sports.
A Federal Government report has recommended clubs give teenage girls the option of wearing looser-fitting comfortable clothes, to avoid them becoming body-conscious and abandoning organised sport.
Hoyden About Town 