As the whole world now knows, Gwyneth Paltrow consciously uncoupled from hubby Chris Martin yesterday. Unlike other people who do this kind of thing in their sleep. For many of us it confirmed the suspicion that, consciously or otherwise, Gwynnie is not entirely coupled with reality. There’s the naming of the first-born after a computer…
Month: March 2014
In defence of the Mexican wave
History was made at the Sydney Cricket Ground on the weekend. People who were there will talk about it for generations. Those who weren’t will say they were. Years from now, our kids and grandkids will question us about 22 March 2014. What were you doing, they’ll ask, the day the Members stand did the Mexican…
Take me out at the ball game
As boxing fixtures go, the upcoming Major League Baseball games at the SCG could be real humdingers. Nine months ago, a game between the LA Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks degenerated into tit-for-tat brandings at the hands of the respective pitchers and then into an all-in brawl resulting in eight player suspensions. The SCG Trustees…
Formula One tries its hand at farce
As dusk settled over Albert Park yesterday, Australians were celebrating. For the first time in 10 straight races, Sebastian Vettel hadn’t won. More importantly, after almost 30 years of watching the Formula One Grand Prix go round and round and round Down Under, Daniel Ricciardo had become the first Aussie to make the podium….
Winter Paralympians. Inspiring? More like superhuman
Legend has it that an Aussie medallist at the Sydney 2000 Paralympics, asked by a journalist if he’d always wanted to be a Paralympian, responded: “Not when I could @#$%ing walk.” Urban myth or otherwise, it’s a story that highlights not just the dim-wittedness of some journos but the particular challenges Paralympic athletes face before…
Be very quiet, we’re hunting Tiger
I’ve never written about golf before. It is, after all, a ridiculous sport, played by people with a masochistic streak and a toddler’s sense of fashion, who spend more time walking after the ball than actually playing it. Watching golf warps time. You switch on the telly on Friday and before you know it the…
Aussie cricketers prove they’re no one-series wonder
The Third Test between Australia and South Africa was always going to be a grudge match to put the Reinhart family tiff in the shade. These two sides aren’t exactly at the top of each other’s Christmas card lists at the best of times. But in the course of this series, their volatile relationship has…
The Oscars: If only costume design was a Winter Olympics sport
It was a night where Australia stood proud, scooping Oscars in three categories and all but finishing South Africa in the Third Test at Newlands. We’ll save the cricket for another day, maybe tomorrow at the rate we bowled over the Proteas, and focus on Hollywood’s big night. And so to Aussie film glory. Catherine…
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