Struth! Great moments in sports history #1

Opening Day Blaze

In the wake of a another Ashes demise I was pumped to start smashing the keys off my first blog. Unfortunately the cricket was too miserable to cope with, the NBA season doesn’t heat up until the playoffs, and watching the NBL was unkind to anyone else in the room (please read my match report of Blaze vs. Hawks, I do actually enjoy the NBL most of the time). 

The Summer of Tennis takes me a few weeks to warm to,  it’s more like a summer of Serena Williams and a long weekend of tennis as I usually tune in for the men’s semis. If Serena had her own channel I would watch every game, but I’ll have to explain this to my better half and editor at some point so we’ll leave it at that.

As tennis is all I’ve got today as I ended up watching the movie Wimbledon to get my fix and I’m giving it 6/10. This may seem high but I generally rate any movie involving sports at least a 5. It get’s an extra mark because Kirsten Dunst looked better than me in men’s underwear.

Soccer, I’m refusing to watch until they get a video ref on account of my terminal Socceroos blues.

Gold Coast Blaze vs. Wollongong Hawks; Steve Carfino is a patient man. Not only does he have to commentate all the Sydney games on TV, but Mr Magic keeps delivering assists during the hard times. Eventually he will have a meltdown and run onto the court and start showing the Kings guards how to run the point.

Midway through the first quarter I switched it on to see a short demonstration of ten ways to make a bad pass, produced by guys playing out of position. It suddenly became more appealing to change a nappy and try to find a name that wasn't taken for my blog (not easy!).

I later switched it back on to see then end of overtime, another tight NBL contest about to be callously destroyed by some chump play. 11 seconds to go (at least time for 3 more ads in basketball),Hawks down by 1, so chump from the Hawks decides he should dribble the air out of the ball to the bottom corner of the backboard and do a jumpstop in front of a much taller man, . Of course this could have been OK if;

a)   He had a left handed skyhook.

b)   He realised he stuffed up but there was still time to pass the ball.

c)   The teams gun import was not wide open.
d) He didn't spend the remaining time trying to pull fake out the big guy before throwing up a rubbish shot.

Needless to say the Hawks lost and the irate import will not be getting chump’s name tattooed anytime soon.

Key Dates:  Feb 12^th Bulldogs vs. Roosters – sure it’s a preseason game, but the Dogs will bark in 2011. Itching for NRL to start up.