The Sharks should heed Chopper Read’s advice: Never plead guilty
Mark "Chopper" Read may have some sound advice for the Cronulla Sharks players accused of using banned substances. Don't put your hand up too soon.
Pointing the finger – Who are the dopers, who are the organised criminals?
The problem for the Australia Government now is that it appears that the public version of the Crime Commission report is just the tip of the iceberg. The Government and ASADA are in damage control and the countries top football leagues (Australian football’s AFL and Rugby League’s NRL) are in crisis.
Bird of the Week: Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus). “They eat anything, but especially they like the shit.”
Vultures have been called masters of two disciplines: soaring and sanitation (Dunne et al. 1988:136). In towns, villages, and rural communities where there is no modern plumbing or garbage disposal, they provide the only sanitation services. “They eat anything, but especially they like the shit,” observed a worker in a slaughterhouse in Guatemala.
Ten (Australian) questions for Cancer Jesus
If Cancer Jesus ever returns to Adelaide he can expect to be dragged from his private jet at the airport, hitched to the back of a truck with a rope, hauled into the city down Anzac Parade and his lifeless body hung for display from a light standard in Victoria Square while the crowds that once sang his praises to the sky bay for his blood. He doesn't deserve any better.
Roadkill of the Week: Robert Adamson’s reflections on the death of two Tawny Frogmouths
I was wondering where she came from, when she held out a bag and said "I went home to get this bag, I will take them away and see they have a proper burial." She said "You know what, you are the only one who stopped; after so many cars that sped by, some even hitting the other dead bird." She went on the explain that when the female had been knocked down, the male flew onto the road and tried to help her somehow. Then as she watched, the male Tawny was knocked down by another car coming the other way.
Stephen Hodge, Cycling Australia and “when things changed and it all went bad”
Hodge remembers the ONCE team being a very tight unit, several years before “things changed and it all went bad”.
Post-Armstrong Cycling Australia eats itself alive
Others in the Cycling Australia network also need to come clean about their participation - in many different ways - in the long-term corruption of Australian cycling. They need to reveal their roles in maintaining the Armstrong conspiracy and their role in inducting others into that system.
Bad driver of the week # 2,012. Stuart Highway, Pine Creek, NT. 8 June 2012.
The truck she saw turned out to be the fuzzy profile - well hazy through the thick dust screen - of another tractor-slasher combination perpendicular to the north-south road just fifty or so metres up the road. At first I couldn't tell if it was broken-down or moving. Then I saw that it was executing a three-point (though for this massive machine it was like a ten-point) turn across the roadway.
A bad day in the office for this banderillero at the Nimes bullfights
In the second of the three parts of a the traditional Spanish bullfight - known as the tercio de banderillas ("the third of banderillas"), three banderilleros each attempt to stab two banderillas - sharply barbed sticks - into the bull's shoulders. This is one of the most dangerous - and spectacular - parts of the bullfight, and one where the bull definitely has opportunities to exact some measure of revenge upon the banderilleros.
Roadkill of the week – Coucal Pheasant. Dunmarra, Stuart Highway, NT
The call of the Coucal Pheasant is an iconic sound of summer across the Top End - a bubbling, ventriloqual, quickening and falling "boop, boop, boop" that booms through the thick scrub where these birds are typically found.