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Just not cricket

September 12, 2008 – 10:10 am

It seems former Australian Test cricketer Craig McDermott is in a spot of bother because of his involvement with failed property investment company Bridgecorp Finance. McDermott was loaned $19.6M by Bridgecorp to aid his Gold Coast property development business. He stated that one of his assets was his $7.5M Gold Coast mansion, along with various shares, [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Cricket, Equity, Law | Comments (3)

Caution: real person wins Olympic medal

August 21, 2008 – 4:27 am

Bryony Shaw wins unexpected medal, drops F-Bomb on national telly, BBC apologises. It doesn’t get any funnier.
British Olympic medalist Bryony Shaw has prompted an apology from the BBC after expressing her euphoria in inappropriate terms during a post-race interview. Expressing her delight at clinching a bronze in the dramatic windsurfing competition in Qingdao, Shaw told [...]

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Cruisin’ for a Wedgie…

August 15, 2008 – 12:45 am

One of the commenters over at Tim Blair’s called this bloke a ‘ponce’, which in British parlance has a pretty specific meaning: living off the immoral earnings of a woman. Thing is, it’s kinda true, because Robert Nelson is the serial nong who stuck a naked pic of his six year old daughter on the [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Art | Comments (26)

Spot the smiling copper? No, we couldn’t find one either

August 6, 2008 – 6:05 am

Every now and again, the British news media indulge the national talent for ironic pisstake, and I’m pleased to report that China’s touchiness in the face of global criticism in the lead-up to the Olympics is now becoming a favoured target. What makes this report (from Channel 4 News) so good is the way it [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in England, Events, Media | Comments (8)

So, will Cricket self-destruct?

January 8, 2008 – 9:13 am

I decided to take the scenic route from Edinburgh to Oxford, which meant two days offline. During my absence, it emerged that cricket is in danger of imploding after the fall-out from Australia’s victory over India in the second test. Rather than rehash what’s already been said, I’ll point Catallaxians to this excellent but very [...]

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Open Ashes Thread - Fifth Test, SCG

January 1, 2007 – 10:15 pm

Well, Justin Langer is going to walk away after Sydney as well, in many ways a less surprising decision than Damien Martyn’s pin-pull after Adelaide. Langer has been hit on the head repeatedly throughout his career: a footballer put through the same ringer would have hobbled out of the game by now, likely with permanently [...]

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Open Ashes Thread - Boxing Day Test, MCG

December 25, 2006 – 6:55 pm

Australia has the Ashes safely in its keeping. Nominally, the rest of this series is a ‘dead rubber’, the sort that, historically, Australia did poorly in. But Warne and McGrath are bowing out after Sydney; Warne is on 699 test wickets; McGrath has a point to prove before his last series, the one-day World [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Cricket, General | Comments (59)

Open Ashes Thread - Third Test, WACA

December 13, 2006 – 8:04 pm

This is make or break for the Poms, Andrew Symonds is getting a run, and if Australia wins here, we regain the Ashes.
I’m actually pleased Symonds is playing, and I hope he does well. He’s an inspiration to many people from ‘different’ backgrounds in Queensland, and although he’s West Indian by extraction, growing up in [...]

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Open Ashes thread - Second Test

December 1, 2006 – 12:11 am

Well, the Second Test gets underway on Friday, and I suspect that if the Poms win the toss on a road like Adelaide, Australia could be in for a bit of leather hunting. The First Test - until Day 4 - was a pretty lopsided affair, although it did throw up a few interesting conundrums.
This [...]

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Open Ashes thread

November 23, 2006 – 8:44 am

The first test gets underway in Brisbane today. At this stage, we still don’t know who’ll get the final fast bowler’s spot - young left arm quick Mitchell Johnson or the more experienced Stuart Clark. Johnson is a Queenslander and has the advantage of playing at home. Clark is from NSW and not as quick, [...]

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