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Three quarters of the WNBA playoffs have gone exactly how I want them to. Phoenix beat Seattle (two Aussies against one); Indiana beat Connecticut (one Aussie against Satan's own team); San Antonio beat Sacramento (one Aussie---assistant coach Sandy Brondello + 2 ex-Liberty stars against no Aussies and no ex-Libs).
Now we just have to beat Detroit and my basketball year will be complete. Seriously, I didn't think we'd make the post-season so for the Liberty to get past the first round would be a second miracle. I love what Shamika Christon, Janel McCarville and Loree Moore have been doing in the post-season. I'm so stoked for the 2008 season. The New York Liberty is going to be insanely good.
This year's WNBA ...
Posted by Justine at 23:19, August 27th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport |
Because today I must share the negativity, a list of my current hates:
Referees who only seem to see the fouls committed by my team
Bill Laimbeer ((Though I do love hating him. Don't ever change, Bill! You were eerily calm and unaggro during today's game. A game where you don't get a technical foul is a just plain wrong.))
Friends who are always late---especially when we're meeting for dinner and I'm starving and the stupid restaurant won't seat us until the entire party is there
Restaurants that won't seat you until the entire party is there---What gives? The table is empty and just sitting there. We'll order stuff. Lots of it! You'll make more money off us if you seat us straight away. ...
Posted by Justine at 17:48, August 26th, 2007 under Basketball, Ranting, Sport |
Can you hear that screaming? That's me yelling myself hoarse with joy because we
beat Detroit in Madison Square Garden last night.
BEST. GAME. EVER.
Almost all the punters predicted Detroit would sweep us. Ha ha ha! Instead Detroit played awful. It was like they'd been cursed. And after an awkward messy first half we played great.
Of course mean old
Bill Laimbeer didn't say a word about how well the Liberty played he just went on about his own team's suckiness. Whose fault is that, Bill?
Now I think we're a more than even chance to take Detroit on their home court and I'm cranky that me and Scott're going to be at smelly
DragonCon cause it means we will ...
Posted by Justine at 9:59, August 25th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport |
Washington won their game which meant they were one game ahead of us, but we won our game, which meant we're tied, but we've beaten them 3 times this year so we go through to the playoffs!
YAY!!!!!
Let's go, Liberty!!!
Posted by Justine at 18:55, August 19th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport |
I've been a
New York Liberty season ticket holder since 2003 (though I saw my first game in 2000) and this year has definitely been the most discombobulating. We started off with that
5-0 winning streak then later in the season we had the horrific 0-7 streak and looked to be no chance for the playoffs. Yet here we are one game left and if we win we're in. In fact, even if we lose we could still make the post season---if the
Washington Mystics lose their game.
This year I have seen the Liberty lose an astonishing number of games they should have won. They'd have a lead at the end of the first ...
Posted by Justine at 10:39, August 18th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport |
Posted by Justine at 12:07, July 31st, 2007 under Bloggery, Cricket, Sport, Sydney/Australia, Whingeing, Writing life |
From this
sensible article on cheating in sports by JERÉ LONGMAN for the New York Times:
Fausto Coppi of Italy, who won the Tour de France in 1949 and 1952, was once asked if he ever fueled himself with amphetamines.
"Only when necessary," he said.
How often was that?
"Most of the time," Coppi replied.
The Tour de France ranges from 3,000 to 4,000 kilometres long (1,800 to 2,500 miles) which must be covered really fast in three weeks over hill and dale with just two rest days. Evidence is pretty strong that chemical assistance has been used since the tour began.
Longman points out that the two sports that have had the most drug scandals are the ones that have pursued the issue most ...
Posted by Justine at 12:22, July 30th, 2007 under Sport, State of the World, Tour de France |
My favourite basketballer in the entire universe is
Lauren Jackson, which every so often puts me in the weird position of barracking for the team she's playing against. See, I'm a
New York Liberty fan and she plays for the
Seattle Storm, which very confusingly has the same colours as Australia (green and gold).
Last Sunday her team narrowly beat my team, and on the one hand, I was deeply bummed---it was so close! We almost had them!---on the other hand, damn she's a
fine fine player. And, oh, how much I love watching her play. I just prefer, you know, when she's playing for the
Opals and they're
winning the world championships.
How ...
Posted by Justine at 0:09, July 24th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport |
Marrije asked over on insideadog if I'll be following the Tour de France this year. Sadly, I will not.
This year has gotten out of control. I cannot afford to spend hours every day watching the Tour and following it online. I am incapable of following the Tour non-obsessively. So for the first time in years I'm not following it at all. (No spousal pressure was brought to bear in the making of this decision. Well, okay, just a little bit. I am not husband-beaten! I am not!)
Waaaahh!!!!!
The New York Liberty (10-8) will have to sustain my sport-following needs this northern summer.
And now I go back to the myriad tasks that confront me. At this point it's so bad I'm resorting ...
Posted by Justine at 12:02, July 9th, 2007 under Basketball, Sport, Tour de France, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones |
New York has a sports team that's opened its season with a five game winning streak, despite not even making the playoffs last year and no longer having its
best and most popular player. How many column inches has the New York Times given this remarkable performance?
Pretty much none. Unless you count the teeny tiny AP reports.
This is because the team is the
New York Liberty and it's a women's team. The New York Times is incapable of covering women's basketball unless it's a profile of a male coach. Especially if that
male coach is ex-NBA and coaches a non-New York team.
The New York Daily has no problem covering the Liberty nor does the ...
Posted by Justine at 11:06, June 6th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Ranting, Sport |
Today at the New York Liberty versus Phoenix Mercury game (we won!) the
Rutger's women's team stood in the middle of the court during one of the breaks. We gave them a standing ovation, stamping, and clapping and yelling for them. At every timeout thereafer they were beseiged by well-wishers and autograph seekers. They may not have won last years' finals but they definitely won the battle against racist radio announcers. Yay!
Kay Yow one of the greatest coaches of women's basketball ever and
Vivian Stringer the fabulous coach of Rutgers were also there. So was Teresa Weatherspoon the best pointguard the Liberty has ever had. All were applauded and mobbed for autographs. It made me so happy. ...
Posted by Justine at 20:41, June 3rd, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport, Viewing |
I seem to have rolled out of the ranty side of the bed every morning this week. First I was peeing on the eighties and now I am cranky on account of a particularly stupid thing that was said to me about basketball.
Viz, "I can't stand basketball. It's just a bunch overpaid genetic freaks running around with a ball. Who cares?"
As I had just been talking about the joys of my season tickets to the New York Liberty, I clearly care, and you, Mr Shorty Bald man, were being very rude. I poke my tongue out at you!
But that's not what's raised my ire, nope, it's the phrase "genetic freaks".
So, what are you supposed to do if you're naturally good ...
Posted by Justine at 0:03, April 25th, 2007 under Basketball, Ranting, Sport |
Posted by Justine at 18:24, April 8th, 2007 under Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, Cricket, New York City/USA, Scott's books, Sport, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 12:52, March 31st, 2007 under Bloggery, Cons & Other Gatherings, Cricket, Listening, Praising, Ranting, Reading, Research, Sport, Viewing, Words & Language |
I was going to rant all over my blog today about the bloody
ICC's idiotic decision to demand that
youtube take down all footage from the World Cup. But then I found
this excellent rant that says everything I want to say. Here's a taste of Andrew Miller's wrath:
Only three days ago it was suggested on this website that the events of the past week might serve as a wake-up call for cricket's fiscally obsessed powerbrokers. Fat chance. A game run increasingly by lawyers for lawyers, has deemed it necessary to go to war on the very online enthusiasts who can spread the word of a game whose reputation has been dragged through the mincer.
It is an ...
Posted by Justine at 9:15, March 28th, 2007 under Cricket, Ranting, Sport |
Shashi Tharoor has written a
wry op ed piece for the New York Times on the World Cup and how Americans are oblivious to what is preoccupying a billion plus folks at the moment. It ends thus:
In any event, nothing about cricket seems suited to the American national character: its rich complexity, the infinite possibilities that could occur with each delivery of the ball, the dozen different ways of getting out, are all patterned for a society of endless forms and varieties, not of a homogenized McWorld. They are rather like Indian classical music, in which the basic laws are laid down but the performer then improvises gloriously, unshackled by anything so mundane as a written score.
Cricket ...
Posted by Justine at 9:20, March 23rd, 2007 under Cricket, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Sport, State of the World, Sydney/Australia |
For the next month, there's an ad for Magic's Child up on
Locus online. Tis my very first one and I'm dead excited. Ordinarily, I can't stand ads but somehow it's different when it's an ad for one of my books. That makes me want to pat it and sing it songs. Lovely, lovely ad. Designed by the fabulous Courtney Wood who also made those beautiful screensavers which you can now download from the links in the sidebar.
There is now a cover for the Science Fiction Book Club's 3-in-1 version of my trilogy. It's called The Magic or of Reason.
In other vainglorious news, the
Hathor Legacy likes Daughters of Earth, describing it as ...
Posted by Justine at 11:35, March 22nd, 2007 under Bloggery, Cricket, Daughters of Earth, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport, Vainglory |
Every
world cup it seems
there's a debate about whether allowing in the so-called minnows of the game is a
good idea or
not. Because every world cup there are 200-plus run victories as Bermuda or Scotland or whoever are bowled out for less than a hundred by Australia or India or whoever.
It's happened again this year. Herschelle Gibbs even smashed a
world record 36 off an over against the Netherlands. For those whose maths is as poor as mine that's a six off every single ball. No one had ever it done it internationally before, not in ODIs and not in test cricket.
The argument
against the inclusion of minnows is that they help ...
Posted by Justine at 18:05, March 17th, 2007 under Cricket, Sport, State of the World |
Posted by Justine at 10:07, February 13th, 2007 under Bloggery, Cricket, Excuses, Praising, Sport |
For ages people have been telling me that I have to see
Lagaan. Well, now I have. And everyone's right. It is the best movie of all time. No contest.
It has everything that should be in a movie: cricket, the British are the baddies, more cricket, dancing, singing, a love triangle, and more cricket. Lagaan is perfect. (Well, it could have been longer with a wee bit more cricket and a few more songs, but other than that---perfect.)
At least seventy minutes of the movie is a cricket match. How did that make any sense to American viewers? Cause most of the folks who've recommended it have been yanquis who know nothing about the noble game. How did you keep ...
Posted by Justine at 1:34, February 6th, 2007 under Cricket, Sport, Viewing |
This one breaks my brain.
From the Sydney Morning Herald the
Australian cricket team responds to accusations of being arrogant, rude, sledging bastards:
"The way I look at cricket, you do everything possible to win. Some people like the verbal side of the game, some don't, but you just get one with what your job. I take what Vincent is saying as a backhanded compliment."
Hayden, Clark's Australian teammate, was equally indignant.
"If he considers that to be the case, I'm not unhappy about it, to be honest," Hayden said. "It's a great clash between New Zealand and Australia and long may it continue. It doesn't matter what sport---we could be playing kick a cockroach from here to the wall and we'd want ...
Posted by Justine at 12:39, January 31st, 2007 under Cricket, Ranting, Sport, State of the World, Words & Language |
The last day of this year's Ashes series didn't even amount to two hours of play, but it sure did sum up the series. Australia bowled well; England crumbled. Didn't run except when Andrew Symonds was holding the ball ready to run them out. Then Langer and Hayden got the handful of runs necessary for the 5-0 sweep. It took five overs longer than I thought it would on account of Harmison finally decided to bowl some scorchers. But then it was done.
And for years I will have fun telling folks that I was there to see Langer, McGrath and Warne say goodbye to cricket. The way I've already been able to skite about being there to watch Steve Waugh ...
Posted by Justine at 18:22, January 6th, 2007 under Cricket, Sport, Sydney/Australia |
Today I will share with you one of the many reasons I love cricket. This is more for me than for you, because I am currently very cranky with cricket---specifically with the Australian and English cricket teams---and I need to remind myself of the love.
Australia because they got out way too early: Warne? Gilchrist? I'm looking at you! Where were your centuries?
And England because they crumbled and lost five wickets. Yet a-bloody-gain.
I would like to remind you both that I have tickets for tomorrow's play and right now I'm not seeing it go past lunch. A pox on both your houses.
I am also pretty dirty on the weather. What? You can rain all night? But barely disturb the cricket? Curse ...
Posted by Justine at 18:47, January 4th, 2007 under Cricket, Sport, Sydney/Australia |
It's been another good year for me professionally and I will now skite about it: My second and third books, Magic Lessons and Daughters of Earth, were both published to some very nice
reviews and
reader responses. The whole Magic or Madness trilogy sold to
Editora Record in Brazil, Magic or Madness and Magic Lessons sold to
Mondadori in Italy, while Magic Lessons and Magic's Chld sold to
Amarin in Thailand. And then there was the recent sale of the trilogy to the
Science Fiction Book Club for a 3-in-1. Not to mention Magic Lessons being on the shortlist for the Aurealis.
It was a great year for
Scott who hit the ...
Posted by Justine at 9:50, December 31st, 2006 under Bloggery, Cricket, Daughters of Earth, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Last Day of the Year, Magic or Madness trilogy, Praising, Scott's books, Sport, State of the World, Sydney/Australia, Vainglory, Writing goals & milestones |
What is wrong with England?
shite fielding: Look at Australia in the field and then look at England. The Poms with a few exceptions (Collingwood, Panesar, Pietersen) have no intensity. They don't run down every single ball, turning fours into threes, twos into ones, and saving singles. They look lethargic and bored.
shite captaincy: Flintoff looks lost. He's not leading by example given his poor batting displays and erratic bowling and he's not leading on the paddock. His field placings have been all over the place. He elects to bat when the wicket is iffy. He doesn't seem to know whether he's playing test cricket or Sunday arvo mah jong. And way to not show any confidence in your new bowlers ...
Posted by Justine at 9:11, December 29th, 2006 under Cricket, Sport, Sydney/Australia |
Posted by Justine at 9:47, December 26th, 2006 under Cricket, Excuses, Sport |
I just came across a
lovely piece by Mark Lawrence about the outsiderness of living through Australian summers while knowing very little about cricket:
What [being a migrant] means is that I have very little understanding of the finer points of cricket, and don't play it at all well. I can't tell the difference between 'long leg' and 'short leg', and I have absolutely no idea where 'mid-on' is. After over a decade living in Australia, I do have an idea of how the game is played, but only a middling understanding of how it is scored or how a test proceeds. Strategy? Not a scratch. So much so that during the recent Ashes test in Adelaide, I ...
Posted by Justine at 0:01, December 23rd, 2006 under Cricket, Praising, Reading, Sport, State of the World, Sydney/Australia |
Shane Warne is retiring. I cannot believe it. He was good for another three or four years easy. What the hell?!
Thank God I get to see him bowl in Sydney. He is the best bowler I've ever seen tweaking the leather. And I've seen some greats. I don't know what I'm going to do with no Warne to watch? Aaaarggh!!
And what is he going to do now? The mind boggles.
How can I go to bed on this calamitous news?!
Update: I have deleted comments on this thread which I deem to be disrespectful. When I am in deep mourning my sense of humour is impaired. I do not mock your sporting idols (okay, except for Johnny Damon. But that's different.)
Posted by Justine at 0:19, December 21st, 2006 under Cricket, Sport |
The Ashes are back where they belong and all is right with the world.
Now if only they'd give us the actual urn!
Posted by Justine at 16:32, December 18th, 2006 under Cricket, Sport |
I haven't been blogging the third test because I've been sitting in front of it entranced, transfixed, and incapable of typing (plus there's the whole absence of wireless thing). Those first two inning were something else, weren't they?
I can't tell you how thrilled I am to see Andrew Symonds back and making magic for the Australian test side. He's one of the best fielders of all time. His bowling was fabulously effective---if only he could stay in a tad longer he'd be a lock on the number six spot. Frankly, I think his performance in this test should bag him number six no matter what. His fielding alone makes an insanely big difference. Plus he's one of the most entertaining ...
Posted by Justine at 12:38, December 16th, 2006 under Cricket, Sport, Viewing |
See, that's the problem (("Problem" here is a synonym for "glory".)) with test matches. They don't always go the way you think they're going. First innings points can mean nothing. There are five days, fifteen sessions. Oodle of time for oodles to happen. Any one of those sessions can go badly, one or two or three or four or five or more players can have an awful match, and yet that team can still win.
Like Australia did today. On the back of fabulous second innings efforts from Lee & Warne. Especially Warne. He may well be a dickhead off the paddock, but on he's a genius. And both of them were being written off after their first innings. Drop Warne? ...
Posted by Justine at 19:14, December 5th, 2006 under Cricket, Sport |
168 runs off 36 overs. Can we do it? Oh, yes, we can!
Posted by Justine at 16:17, December 5th, 2006 under Cricket, Sport |
And
so it begins in sunny Brisbane three hours ahead of sunny Bangkok. I'll make no predictions of the 5-0 variety (though wouldn't that be nice?) but I will say that you're barking mad if you think England has a chance in hell of keeping the Ashes.
Yes, I know I said that last time too. And frankly if it hadn't been for some shocking lapses by the captain we woulda won that and all.
Here's to the next few weeks of battle. May it be as awesome as four two years fifteen months ago, except with the proper ending this time.
Oh, and check out the
English Ashes cricket blog (via
Alison). Fabulous!
Posted by Justine at 8:56, November 23rd, 2006 under Cricket, Sport, Sydney/Australia |
Posted by Justine at 9:21, September 29th, 2006 under Basketball, Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, Praising, Reading, Sport, Whingeing, Words & Language |
This is not a question I get asked very much. Not directly, anyway, but every single time I post about sport someone writes and asks me when I'm going to post about interesting topics again. That's right, the biggest complaint I get from you, dear readers, is that I talk about sport too much. (( It's particularly weird as I've hardly blogged sport at all this year. Very little mention of cricket, the World Cup, or the Tour de France; pretty much nothing about the Liberty's unhappy WNBA season, and hardly any mention of all the various Australian triumphs this year. I've been busy, okay?))
Now I ain't never gonna stop writing about sport, no matter how many of you are ...
Posted by Justine at 0:03, September 26th, 2006 under Basketball, Cricket, Fans & readers, Sport, Tour de France |
We won! For the first time ever we won the world championships of women's basketball!!
Penny Taylor was awesome! As was Kristy Harrower and Lauren Jackson!
(Picture purloined from abc.net.au)
I am so very very very very very happy!
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
Posted by Justine at 14:44, September 23rd, 2006 under Basketball, Sport |
You are correct that I have not been blogging much or responding to comments like I usually do or even responding to email a whole lot.
The reason is that I'm on a deadline (yes, the same one, yes, it was moved again, yes I really have to meet this one) and am working my arse off. (Oh, how I miss my arse!)
In the meantime I think you lot should entertain me. Here are some questions:
Does anyone have any recs for best brunch place in NYC?
Who's going to be the first Australian to win the Tour de France (no, it doesn't have to be this year)?
What's the best book you've read lately?
I just read
Out by Natuso Kirino. Loved it. ...
Posted by Justine at 11:18, July 16th, 2006 under Basketball, Bloggery, Excuses, Fashion, Food, Frippery, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Praising, Reading, Sport, Tour de France |
Okay, so Italy beats the Ukraine 3 nil, then Germany 2 nil to make it to the finals. Makes us Aussies look pretty good, eh? We kept them to 1 nil. Plus that one goal was from a penalty kick awarded for a flop.
I'm just saying . . .
Posted by Justine at 17:42, July 4th, 2006 under Sport |
Okay, I got nothing against France. They
publish my books after all, and it's where some of my ancestors are from, but I love the Brazilian football team, have done for ages, and I really, really, really wanted to see them in the final.
I'm bummed.
Yeah, yeah, France played better. Yeah, yeah, I have the consolation of England being knocked out. But it's depressing knowing it's going to be an all-European final with not one team from the rest of the world.
Poo!
Oh, well, maybe we'll be able to take the Tour de France. Are there any Brazilians in the Tour? Ghanaians? Japanese? With all those drug expulsions surely my Aussie boys Cadel Evans and Michael Rogers are a shot?
Right ...
Posted by Justine at 17:05, July 1st, 2006 under Sport, State of the World, Tour de France |
Football is a brutal tying-my-stomach-in-knots game. Aaarggh!!! Especially right now as Australia plays Italy. They're better than us on paper and having watched the first half I can see they're better than us on the field too. But they haven't scored yet . . . on account of two incredible saves from our fab keeper, Mark Schwarzer.
Just forty-five more minutes to endure . . .
P.S. Sorry, Marrije, that was a tough, horrible game with awful ref'ing.
P.P.S. Yes, I should be off at the conference, but you guys didn't think I'd miss this match did you?
P.P.P.S. Sorry about being behind with responding to comments and emails. This conference is crazy frantic.
Posted by Justine at 11:55, June 26th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Sport |
We're through!! We made it to the second round!!
AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE! OI! OI! OI!
That is all.
Posted by Justine at 16:55, June 22nd, 2006 under Sport |
Okay, I shouldn't be writing this I have way too much work, but I've been getting quite a few emails this morning asking if I'm happy about Australia's 3-1 defeat of Japan in their first match of the World Cup. Dunno if "happy" is the word. Let's just say there has been much dancing and chanting of Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! all over the flat.
One more time: AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE! OI! OI! OI!
And now I go work.
Posted by Justine at 12:29, June 12th, 2006 under Praising, Sport, Sydney/Australia |
Posted by Justine at 7:48, April 21st, 2006 under Bloggery, Cricket, Daughters of Earth, Publishing business, Sport |
In the few moments that I'm not banging MorM 3 into shape, I've been taking a squiz at the first test in Bangledesh and, wow. Turns out
my sister was right and I---like many other commentators (most notably, our noble captain, Ricky Ponting who said they weren't worthy of test status)---was talking out my arse. And ain't that fabulous?
Matthew Hayden batting (briefly); Shahadat Hossain appealing (unsuccesfully)
Getty Images
Bangladesh are the worst ranked team in the world; Australia are the best (by a considerable margin) and right now Bangladesh are pounding us. Excellent stuff. Not just because it's been an incredibly entertaining test match, but because of what it means for the future, for the raising of the level ...
Posted by Justine at 7:56, April 12th, 2006 under Cricket, Sport |
A HUNDRED demons were slain at the Wanderers as the Australian tail-enders took their side to the verge of victory and then completed the task. ---
The wisdom of Peter Roebuck
Getty Images
We beat South Africa 3-zip in the greatest form of cricket. I got home just in time to catch the last days of the third test. Wow! It was fabulous, evenly poised throughout. Is there anything better than a test match when either side can win right down to the very last ball? No, there is not.
Some men don't deserve to finish on the losing side. But that is the nature of sport. Indeed, it was the message of this match. Although sport has its heroes and ...
Posted by Justine at 18:32, April 5th, 2006 under Cricket, Sport |
I know I'm a
teeny bit obsessed with
search terms that lead to my website (especially when deadlines loom), but today's list was a truly bumper crop. Here are my faves:
Q:
does euphoria mean something bad?
Dr Justine says: It can. It really really can. Over-the-top happiness can lead to all sorts of injuries. I broke my toe that way once.
Q:
where does andrew symonds lives 2006?
A: Ya know, I have a feeling it's prolly better that you don't find out. Leave the poor bastard alone. He's injured and in South Africa. Stalk someone else!
Q:
what genre do first time novelists publish easiest?
A: What now?! There is no answer to this question. There is ...
Posted by Justine at 0:38, March 3rd, 2006 under Cricket, Search Terms, Sport, Words & Language |
Looks like 2006 is going to be the year of jetlag travelling for me and
Mr Westerfeld. I just updated our
appearances pages and it was quite a shock.
Brisbane!
Bologna!
New Orleans! Barely two weeks goes by without us chooffing off somewhere and that's with only the rock-solid confirmed events listed.
Not that I'm complaining, it's fantabuloso being asked to do so many different events. And I've never been to
New Orleans before. How fascinating is that going to be? Very.
In other news: I continue to be very very glad that I am in Sydney, not New York City.
Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
And Australia thrashes Sri Lanka in the ...
Posted by Justine at 9:26, February 13th, 2006 under Cons & Other Gatherings, Cricket, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport, Sydney/Australia, Travelling, Whingeing |
How about
that Dilshan, eh? I love me some runout action.
Getty Images
And how fabbie is it that the ODI finals are turning into an actual contest? I'm so very relieved that the explosive Sri Lankans made it rather than the dour South Africans. Plus Bandara is the dead spit of
Theo Black. It's eerie. (Though the resemblance isn't as clear from photos. If onlly I could get the Blacks to come to Sydney and see Bandara on the tellie. I swear he even moves like Theo.)
Swiped from
here
Also, what
Peter Roebuck said about Murali.
Oh, and
how about that Tuffers? He funny. Ponting? Not so much. You should really worry, Mr Ponting, ...
Posted by Justine at 7:28, February 11th, 2006 under Cricket, Sport, Sydney/Australia |
I will never understand all the Melbournites who despise Sydney, some of them folks who've never even been here. Seriously, I've met Melbournites who sneer with disdain at the mere thought of stepping foot in Sydney. The horror they say!
Me, I'm from Sydney. I love it, but I also have a whole lot of time for Melbourne. Melbourne has better licensing laws and thus
better bars than Sydney, a better art and live music scene, and (mostly) better clothes shopping. Melbourne has
trams. And what is not to love about trams? But Melbourne has little of Sydney's
breath-taking physical beauty, doesn't have her
beaches, or
national parks, or
fairies, er, I mean
ferries, ...
Posted by Justine at 10:27, February 5th, 2006 under Cricket, Fashion, Food, Liquids, New York City/USA, Ranting, Sport, State of the World, Sydney/Australia, Whingeing |
I just pressed the send button, and now Magic! Magic! Magic! Oi! Oi! Oi! is winging its way across the Pacific, and then across mainland USA, all the way to Hudson Street in New York City. Except that, you know, technology, being what it is, my baby is already there. Freaky, eh?
I can now watch the Sri Lanka v South Africa One Day International in good conscience. Who am I barracking for? Sri Lanka, natch. But it would prolly be more interesting for the competition if South Africa won. But, frankly, without Makhaya Ntini South Africa just ain't that interesting. Even if Sean Pollock does look uncannily like my husband.
Sean Pollock aka
Scott Westerfeld (
original source)
Can ...
Posted by Justine at 21:45, January 24th, 2006 under Cricket, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Sport, Writing goals & milestones |
