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Harry Nilsson, of the great songs, magnificent voice and the going on the piss with John Lennon a lot in the 70s is a big fav here at sportreview.
Later in his career, he attempted to write a stadium chant (along the lines of creepy Gary Glitter’s Rock and Roll (Part Two)) for the LA Dodgers, who, like Harry, were originally from Brooklyn.
01 Yo Dodger Blue (L.A. Loves You) – Harry Nilsson (MP3, 6MB)
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Tags: golf, tiger woods, twitter
Fans of Bill Simmons, the man mostly likely to say ‘You know, that play is sorta like John Belushi spraying banana out his mouth’, should enjoy his podcasts on ESPN.com. Guests include Metal’s Chuck Klosterman, and other writer-types if you find the sports discussed a bit baffling.
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Good move. Great British Weather-induced fixture congestion should ease, but it’ll be a shame to lose those race-against-the-light epics like Federer-Nadal 2008.
Tags: tennis
I’ve entered two competitions this week. There’s the Guardian’s Gallery ‘Photoshop Juande Ramos’ comp. I’m number 22 on the site – I feel so dirty.
They actually had my ‘effort’ on the site’s front page for a while. Sometimes it pays to stick with the bleeding obvious, team.
And here’s my entry in the Dropkicks’ photography comp:
Here’s my entry in the Dropkicks’ Olympic drinking game contest.
Equipment:
- Piss
- Vessel
- Couch
- TV
- A whole lot of sick days
One consume:
A crazy slo-mo camera angle has you wondering where the camera is
Two consumes:
A crazy slo-mo camera angle makes you suspect LSD flashback
Three consumes:
You have to Wikipedia the rules
Four consumes:
You wind up getting sucked into Wikipedia’s Family Ties, Shoelace Tying and Who Shot First pages and totally miss the race / match
Five consumes:
You retrieve your running shoes from behind the fridge after watching lithe bodies running / cycling / etc and giving your own telly belly a forlorn poke
Six Consumes:
You STILL don’t make it off the couch for the entire two weeks and / or winter
Seven Consumes:
It slowly dawns on you the wall to wall handball / beach volleyball coverage between 8PM and 10PM is about boosting ratings and leveraging gratuitous T ‘n’ A into primetime, not *actual sport*
Eight consumes:
You don’t really care
Twenty four consumes:
Yet another vacuous comment from the TVNZ gang make you absent-mindedly miss Tony Veitch
Today, I’ll be posting photos on Flickr from Eden park, where England are playing New Zealand.
Watch the action unfold – and pray it doesn’t rain.
Check out the Sportsfreak feed also.
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