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Friday Wrap - It's been a good day
THE NBL draw is out, the Opals suffer a blow, my brother gets his own line, and Ben Madgen shows again he is a special athlete and person – all in all, it was a pretty good day.
Thank you for reading Year One
IT is international beer day today, truthfully.
Sin City set to shine
HOLD your horses if you’re booking flights to Port Hedland for the NBL PreSeaSon Tournament.
Big Mac? Big support
McDONALDS today formally backing the Townsville Crocodiles as the NBL club’s naming rights sponsor is a bigger story than most sponsorship yarns as the climate of trepidation around the league shifts to anticipation instead.
Monday round-up
STEPH Talbot has joined Dante Exum as another potential Australian international superstar, named today in the All Star Five at the FIBA World U19 Women’s Championship in Lithuania.
Sunday round-up
MY (e)mail is the Australia-New Zealand Oceania series next month will be on free-to-air television with both games out of Canberra on August 18 to be televised live.
A never-ending cycle
WE need to grow up in this country and by “grow up” I don’t mean become more jaded or cynical.
Aussie ball bouncing back
IT will be interesting to see FIBA’s next set of international rankings in the wake of Australia’s stellar performance at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia.
A metta marquee moment
JUST when you start wondering whether the NBL salary cap should include the provision for one marquee player outside of it and conclude “no”, Metta World Peace comes on the market.
Quick shots: Dean a bona fide hero
MOST of us would like to believe if we were confronted with a life-or-death situation, we'd react in a way we could later be proud of, but Breakers coach Dean Vickerman knows it for a fact.
