2 days ago by thetoydepartment

By ASHLEY BROWNE We at TDD really like Luke Ball. As a footballer and as a bloke. He is, what my dear, departed grandmother would call, a mensch (that’s Yiddish for fine upstanding man, not to be confused with the former Geelong footballer). But the young man’s image is being tarnished ever so sligh ...

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12 days ago by thetoydepartment

By ASHLEY BROWNE So it’s goodbye to Luke Ball at Moorabbin after seven seasons. The Saints confirmed today that Ball had quit the club, again peddling the line that they were interested “in retaining Luke and also outlined the improvements necessary for both Luke and the entire St Kilda playing list ...

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16 days ago by thetoydepartment

By ASHLEY BROWNE Injury-riddled former North Melbourne defender Jesse Smith has started training at Hawthorn, as part of the exodus from Arden Street to Waverley Park that this summer alone has seen Josh Gibson and Adam Simpson change their blue-and-white stripes to those of the brown and gold. Of c ...

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66 days ago by UA Sports Information

Tickets to the 2009 Arkansas Hall of Honor induction banquet, set for Friday at the Holiday Inn in Springdale, are sold out, the Razorback Foundation has announced. More than 900 tickets have been sold for the event. Eight former University of Arkansas standout student-athletes are being inducted th ...

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108 days ago by thetoydepartment

By ASHLEY BROWNE Lord knows how many column centimetres, talkback calls and webpages have been devoted to the issue of tanking in AFL football. Heaps of solutions to the biggest eyesore in the game have also been offered and among them is a lottery system that would mean the team that finishes on th ...

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126 days ago by andyh19

• This is the latest in a series of features on the 2009 University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor inductees from the UA Sports Information office. Billy Joe Moody was a three-year football letterman for the Razorbacks (1960, ’61, ’62) at fullback and defensive back. During his playing career at A ...

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129 days ago by Tom Mattessi

I’m a Melbourne supporter. I’m similar to a Richmond supporter. Victory is a cruel novelty, sandwiched between weekly heartbreak and humiliation. I don't expect to win and I feel a strange guilt when we do. I and my fellow demon fans watch the football expecting pain. And that’s what we usually get. ...

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