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		<title>No luck for the Irish as French cheats prosper</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/19/no-luck-for-the-irish-as-french-cheats-prosper/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/19/no-luck-for-the-irish-as-french-cheats-prosper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ireland’s football team was cruelly denied a place at next year’s World Cup in South Africa due to a blatant piece of cheating from the French this morning, declares <b>Neil Walker</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>A compromise on Crawford: change the KPIs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/a-compromise-on-crawford-change-the-kpis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/a-compromise-on-crawford-change-the-kpis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Crawford report has succeeded, at the very least, in opening up for debate whether the government gets "value" out of the money spent on sports programs, writes <b>John Orchard</b>. 

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		<title>Coates: Australia should not strive for mediocrity</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/less-sports-cash-a-national-tragedy/story-e6frg6zo-1225799480158</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/less-sports-cash-a-national-tragedy/story-e6frg6zo-1225799480158#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AOC President <b>John Coates</b> argues against the findings of the <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/topic/crawford-review-of-australian-sport/">Crawford Review</a> in today's <em>Oz</em>: Australians won't settle for second (or tenth) best: we need and want our elite athletes.]]></description>
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		<title>Any sport in a storm: Coates and Co cop a reality check</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/any-sport-in-a-storm-coates-and-co-cop-a-reality-check/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/any-sport-in-a-storm-coates-and-co-cop-a-reality-check/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Happell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a moment when we’ve just emerged from recession, when childhood obesity in Australia is at an all-time high and when some state schools have little or no sporting equipment -- let alone PE teachers -- David Crawford’s report into Olympic funding couldn't have come at a better time.]]></description>
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		<title>Olympic establishment mobilises to shout down Crawford Report</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/olympic-establishment-mobilises-to-shout-down-crawford-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/olympic-establishment-mobilises-to-shout-down-crawford-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It didn’t take long for the Olympic establishment to respond to the clear and present threat posed by yesterday’s Crawford Report. Behold the fury of a parasitic industry facing the threat that taxpayers might stop handing them money.]]></description>
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		<title>The Crawford Review: Have your say</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/18/the-crawford-review-time-to-stop-chasing-the-olympic-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/18/the-crawford-review-time-to-stop-chasing-the-olympic-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is the <a href="http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/18/the-crawford-review-time-to-stop-chasing-the-olympic-dream/">Crawford Review</a> a refreshing change in thinking from the relentless and costly pursuit of Olympic gold, or is international sporting success a vital part of our national identity? Have your say on our <em>Crikey Sports</em> blog.]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t shatter our Olympic dreams</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/dont-deny-usthe-chance-tobe-world-beaters/story-e6frg7t6-1225799056200</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/dont-deny-usthe-chance-tobe-world-beaters/story-e6frg7t6-1225799056200#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia's Olympic prowess is an important part of our national identity, says <b>Wally Mason</b>, and every Australian deserves a chance to strive for gold. The Crawford Review's recommendations would rob them of that chance.]]></description>
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		<title>Sport funding torn between going for gold and going for guts</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/sport-funding-torn-between-going-for-gold-and-going-for-guts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/sport-funding-torn-between-going-for-gold-and-going-for-guts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long-awaited Crawford Review of Australian sport has called the bluff of successive Australian governments and proposed a re-weighting of sports funding away from elite Olympic sports toward grassroots participation.]]></description>
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		<title>How Manny Pacquiao is single-handedly saving boxing</title>
		<link>http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/izenbergcol/index.ssf/2009/11/izenberg_in_taking_down_a_bigg.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/izenbergcol/index.ssf/2009/11/izenberg_in_taking_down_a_bigg.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Boxer Manny Pacquiao just made history by winning his seventh title in seven different weight classes. But is biggest achievement has been putting boxing back in the headlines.]]></description>
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		<title>A 2020 vision of Australian sport</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/12/a-2020-view-of-australian-sport/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/12/a-2020-view-of-australian-sport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Brown</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the century's first decade comes to an end, a look at how various Australian sporting codes are faring, and where they might be in another ten year's time.]]></description>
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		<title>Brown gets revenge on Murdoch: Sky loses Ashes</title>
		<link>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23768444-gordon-brown-takes-his-revenge-as-murdochs-sky-loses-ashes.do</link>
		<comments>http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23768444-gordon-brown-takes-his-revenge-as-murdochs-sky-loses-ashes.do#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=98731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch's Sky Sports will lose its exclusive rights to live coverage of The Ashes, in a move insiders say is "revenge" over the <em>Sun</em>'s criticism of PM Gordon Brown.]]></description>
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		<title>PHOTO GALLERY: Sporting triumphs and tragedies &#8212; as seen by the players</title>
		<link>http://www.boston.com/sports/blogs/bigshots/2009/11/big_shots_for_november_10_2009.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.boston.com/sports/blogs/bigshots/2009/11/big_shots_for_november_10_2009.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See eye-to-eye, toe-to-toe, fist-to-fist, and wheel-to-wheel with the world's sportspeople as they experience the highs and lows of sporting glory.]]></description>
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		<title>Sheedy to GWS: we picked this (sort of)</title>
		<link>http://thetoydepartment.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/sheedy-to-gws-we-picked-this-sort-of/</link>
		<comments>http://thetoydepartment.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/sheedy-to-gws-we-picked-this-sort-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a great, if not totally surprising move for the AFL, Sheedy is to be named coach of the Great Western Sydney side -- and there will be no better front man for the AFL’s biggest ever challenge, writes <b>Ashley Browne</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Why wear the fox hat at the Oaks, I asked?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/why-wear-the-fox-hat-at-the-oaks-i-asked/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/06/why-wear-the-fox-hat-at-the-oaks-i-asked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Bart’s filly swooped down that long Flemington straight to claim the Group One fillies’ prize, no wonder the Oaks Day crowd stood and cheered, writes <b>TP Maher</b>: They’d taken the poisonous short odds quoted by those legalised vampires in the betting ring and they were happy.]]></description>
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		<title>Classic Crikey presser: Tasmanians unite to free Jason Krejza</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/06/tasmanians-unite-to-free-jason-krejza/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/06/tasmanians-unite-to-free-jason-krejza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Josey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is this <em>Crikey's</em> funniest ever press release? Join Concerned Tasmanians for Jason Krejza (CT4JK), a lobby group aimed at getting Tassie spin bowler Jason Krejza selected for the Aussie side.]]></description>
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		<title>Big cup done and dusted by Irish trifecta</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/big-cup-done-and-dusted-by-irish-trifecta/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/big-cup-done-and-dusted-by-irish-trifecta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday's gigantic sting by Shocking caught thousands upon thousands of pundits, coat-tuggers, gombeens and gobshites who all said that Bart could do no wrong, writes <b>TP Maher</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>PHOTO GALLERY: The drunks, the bogans and the freaks of the Melbourne Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/racing/gallery-fn4cyin0-1225793807095?page=1</link>
		<comments>http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/racing/gallery-fn4cyin0-1225793807095?page=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's the inevitable photo gallery after every Melbourne Cup, rubbish everywhere, passed out sunburnt men and drunken girls being carried by friends. Australians are a classy lot.]]></description>
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		<title>The Melbourne Cup: just a drunken school formal for grown ups</title>
		<link>http://www.groupthink.com.au/2009/11/03/the-race-to-stupidity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.groupthink.com.au/2009/11/03/the-race-to-stupidity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Bob Dumpling</b> lets loose on the Melbourne Cup and the mess that happens on the other side of the track. No horses involved, just drunk D grade celebrities and fake charities funding the TAB. Time to grow up Australia.]]></description>
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		<title>The 1896 Melbourne Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/the-1896-melbourne-cup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/the-1896-melbourne-cup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Footage from the 1896 Melbourne Cup: slightly fewer drunken women throwing up champagne all over their frocks, but pretty much the same as it is over 100 years later.]]></description>
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		<title>The powerful myth of the Melbourne Cup</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/the-cup-a-sublime-ritual-on-offer-for-the-price-of-a-wager-20091102-htce.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/the-cup-a-sublime-ritual-on-offer-for-the-price-of-a-wager-20091102-htce.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, get all the clichés out, today is the race that stops a nation, the sport of kings. But the Melbourne Cup is also a strong example of the distinct Australian social classes, from the supermodels in the birdcage to the country horse lovers.]]></description>
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		<title>Nine’s cricket team: all out except Slats</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/nine%e2%80%99s-cricket-team-all-out-except-slats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/nine%e2%80%99s-cricket-team-all-out-except-slats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the cricket season eases into its being, it's time to reflect on the Channel Nine commentary (read pensioners) team, most of whom are well beyond their use-by dates, mulls <b>Michael Vaughan</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>My tips for tomorrow: don’t drink and don’t bet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/my-tips-for-tomorrow-don%e2%80%99t-drink-and-don%e2%80%99t-bet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/my-tips-for-tomorrow-don%e2%80%99t-drink-and-don%e2%80%99t-bet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting ready for tomorrow's Melbourne Cup? Then don't follow <b>TP Maher's</b> example, as he reflects on the drinking, gambling and also the horses from Saturday's Derby Day. ]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Agassi: no more heroes anymore?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/01/no-more-heroes-any-more/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/11/01/no-more-heroes-any-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five-times Grand Slam champ Andre Agassi's new autobiography is getting lots of attention for all the wrong reasons, with revelations he used crystal meth, took speed before matches, and his '90s mullet was a fake. <b>Neil Walker</b> laments another sporting hero's fall from grace.]]></description>
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		<title>PHOTO GALLERY: The secret view of surfers: inside the wave</title>
		<link>http://internetpopculture.com/2009/09/15/inside-the-tube-incredible-wave-photography/</link>
		<comments>http://internetpopculture.com/2009/09/15/inside-the-tube-incredible-wave-photography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you were underestimating the power of the ocean, here's an incredible collection of photos taken by surfers, some taken from inside breaking waves, others underwater after surfers have wiped out. Surfs up!]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander McCall Smith on his love and addiction to bridge</title>
		<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574483341946253958.html</link>
		<comments>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574483341946253958.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bridge, that card game played by grandmothers everywhere, is a "quintessentially bourgeois game", writes author and player <b>Alexander McCall Smith</b>. It's intellectual, addictive and its players are fiercely devoted.]]></description>
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