If you love Chris Waddle, and couldn’t get enough of Diamond Lights, wait until you see him turn into a Pet Shop Boy.
Turns out all you need to impress the ladies is a sweet custom bike.
Star Wars nerds – hands where I can see ’em.
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Links on Friday
As a Spurs fan, I didn’t think I could enjoy Chelsea’s toys-out Euro exit any more. I was wrong.
Turns out Aussie Cricketer Damien Fleming is very, very dry. And an excellent spokesman for Electron Beam Scientific Research Facilities. via CWB
Sportsmen doing interviews are notoriously touchy, team.
Links on Friday
Ronaldo, the proper one, is back playing in Brazil. Not a bad first touch, that. Accept no imitations.
Padraig Harrington is always game for a laugh – when not playing an EXTREME par three, he’s helping some nerds test the Happy Gilmore swing.
PJ O’Rourke is in NZ to talk to some rich guys. Hamilton Public Library’s PJ trove was a formative influence on a young sportreview.net.nz – if you don’t know him, start with the classics.
I think he’s just circling the airport – are you alright there, Dougal?
Links on Friday
Steve Hanson must get awfully bored watching the game from those little glass boxes – just look at what happens when coaches sit in the crowd. Jim Telfer is sportreview.net.nz’s new hero.
Forget carb-based diets and personal trainers, to be The World’s Fastest Bowler in 1979 all you needed was a packet of Winfield Red and ill-advised moustache. Presented by Richie Benaud, 12.
I’m sure TV Sports Journalism 101 must have something on live bits to camera vs taped bits to camera.
Links on Friday
“He’s thirteen, well done” – I’m downgrading my opinion of Michael Owen from boring to utter twat
Vijay Singh makes the most incredible ‘I’m going to go ahead and skip this one across the lake’ hole in one EVER, then wanders off
Everyone loves playing Jenga at the beach, but these nerds have added some impressive firepower
Ace Hockey goal – never thought I’d write those words, team
Links on Friday
*Easily* the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever heard. Coming soon to a Super 14 ground near you.
The old ‘pro driver makes passenger sick’ never gets boring. This week: Damon Hill.
Why not enjoy the Cricket this weekend with a refreshing beer, weeping, and a sick tomato?
Fan-made video for the brilliant ‘Re-Your Brains’.
Links on Friday
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house when Graeme Smith came out bat in Sydney with his broken arm, but Neil McKenzie isn’t impresesed by such heroics. In fairness, it seems Smith has some form in this area.
sportreview.net.nz tribute to nerds who upload their xbox moves to the Internet: here’s an amazing goal, a ball / face coming together, a player DYING (complete with loving replays), and a double slide tackle. I need to get my PlayStation out again.
This video is called ‘The worst football tackle ever?’ Yes. Yes, it is.
Think you know comedy? You haven’t been to comedy school.
* It’s been a cracking first week of the Stalkipedia, team, with stalks on Chris and Lance Cairns, Damien Martin, Frank Bunce, Jimmy Floyd Hasslebaink, Richie Richardson and Trevor Chappell added. Check out Farley’s encounter with Frank Bunce, it’s awesome – get in there.
Links on Friday
Goalkeeper fuckup of the week – ball-boy’s the twist here
My bowling knowledge extends to the Big Lebowski but not much further – this guy DOES get deeply impressive sideways movement, though
VCR hack! I found a MySky HD box in the office toaster this morning
What happens now? I didn’t know it was loaded! You’re fired
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Best. Commentator. Ever. ‘Pour some sugar on me!’. We need this guy for Black Caps v India NOW (but none of this).
This is like one of those ACC ads. For God’s Sake, Don’t Go To The Football And Fall Asleep. YOU WILL BREAK YOUR FACE!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Gannets, seals, dolphins and frickin’ sharks all gang up on a bunch of sardines. *Spoiler* – the sardines lose.
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Just when you thought Britannia was cool – possibly NSFW (sex, violence, bad taste).
Yet another reason why I’ll never understand American Football – I could imagine Steve Walsh doing this.
You don’t want to play too much football there.