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	<title>Crikey &#187; Sport</title>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[bart cummings]]></category>
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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>
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		<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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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Lawry]]></category>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96577</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=96112</guid>
		<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=95554</guid>
		<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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		<title>Football codes bury hatchet to defend alcohol sponsorship</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/football-codes-bury-hatchet-to-defend-alcohol-sponsorship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/27/football-codes-bury-hatchet-to-defend-alcohol-sponsorship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Football codes are uniting against a Health Task Force recommendation that would see advertising during live sport broadcasts phased out during high adolescent/child viewing times and the end of alcohol sponsorship of sport, writes <b>Simon Chapman</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Ah, sweet mystery of life found at Cox Plate</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/ah-sweet-mystery-of-life-found-at-cox-plate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/ah-sweet-mystery-of-life-found-at-cox-plate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The W S Cox Plate has been running at Moonee Valley since 1922 and is billed as “the greatest two minutes in sport”. But this year’s version took your breath away more than all the knee-tremblers you could possibly fit into 124 seconds in a month of Sundays, recounts <b>TP Maher</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Carey and Cousins may be buffoons but don&#8217;t be too quick to judge</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/carey-and-cousins-may-be-buffoons-but-dont-be-too-quick-to-judge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/23/carey-and-cousins-may-be-buffoons-but-dont-be-too-quick-to-judge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie Happell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The behaviour of sporting bad boys has pulled apart by all manner of social commentators in the last few years, some thought-provoking, others laughably simplistic. Just examine Ben Cousins and Wayne Carey.]]></description>
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		<title>Albo gives Howard&#8217;s NRL dreams the boot</title>
		<link>http://www.leaguehq.com.au/articles/2009/10/22/1256147843369.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.leaguehq.com.au/articles/2009/10/22/1256147843369.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The <em>SMH</em> reveals how Labor MP Anthony Albanese played a key role in scrapping plans to give former PM John Howard a senior position administering the NRL.]]></description>
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		<title>NSW Blues bat their way to a million-dollar pay-day</title>
		<link>http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/nsw-blues-set-for-multimillion-dollar-pay-day/2009/10/22/1256147826092.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/nsw-blues-set-for-multimillion-dollar-pay-day/2009/10/22/1256147826092.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW Blues are set to leave India's Champions League Twenty20 competition with at $US1.3 million -- and a potential $US2.5 million if they can take out the series. Howzat?!]]></description>
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		<title>UFC Australia vs. The Moral Minority</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/10/20/ufc-australia-vs-the-moral-minority-lets-get-it-on-cmon/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/10/20/ufc-australia-vs-the-moral-minority-lets-get-it-on-cmon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next year, the UFC -- the world's largest Mixed Martial Arts promotion -- is coming to Australia. Prepare yourselves for an onslaught of fist waving and moral indignation from the mainstream media, says <b>Ruth Brown</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Family ties: the curse of sports fans</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/10/19/family-ties-the-curse-of-sports-fans/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/sports/2009/10/19/family-ties-the-curse-of-sports-fans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Walker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, <b>Neil Walker</b> did something far worse to his four-year-old son than <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/15/2715210.htm?section=justin">hitting him with a wooden spoon</a>: he took him to his first football match.]]></description>
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		<title>Bart just like the black knight checkmating the field</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/bart-just-like-the-black-knight-checkmating-the-field/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/bart-just-like-the-black-knight-checkmating-the-field/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cualfield Cup winner was bought for $50,000 out of a paddock by Bart Cummings. No one knows how, or why, he does it -- but we know he must do it, because he has been doing it for years., writes <b>TP Maher</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>CC tips: I like the Pricer and the wog horse. Turf accountant fancies Vigor</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/cc-tips-i-like-the-pricer-and-the-wog-horse-turf-accountant-fancies-vigor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/cc-tips-i-like-the-pricer-and-the-wog-horse-turf-accountant-fancies-vigor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the new breed of online celebrity bookies had read Runyon, they might not have turned Irish Lights out to 5/2 on Wednesday for Australia’s premiere mile race for fillies, <b>TP Maher</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>How playing poker made Obama powerful</title>
		<link>http://chronicle.com/article/What-Poker-Can-Teach-Us/48641</link>
		<comments>http://chronicle.com/article/What-Poker-Can-Teach-Us/48641#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poker has long been a game for every race, sex and political persuasion, with many US presidents being poker fans. How is poker so intrinsically linked with power in US society?]]></description>
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		<title>Dwarf jockey fights Midget Cup criticisms: &#8220;Not tacky!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/i-can-speak-for-myself-mr-hulls/story-e6frfhqf-1225786398563</link>
		<comments>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/i-can-speak-for-myself-mr-hulls/story-e6frfhqf-1225786398563#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the actors in the middle of the 'Midget Cup' scandal at Cranbourne Cup has come out against criticism of his work. " I was hired as an actor to professionally act", writes <b>Jeremy Hallam</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Sheer, unadulterated Starspangled pleasure at Caulfield</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/sheer-unadulterated-starspangled-pleasure-at-caulfield/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/sheer-unadulterated-starspangled-pleasure-at-caulfield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flexi boxed winnings were reclaimed by the turf accountant on an otherwise splendid day of horse racing at Caulfield racetrack, writes <b>TP Maher</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hard tracks, soft options and the Maxsted great scheme of things</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/hard-tracks-soft-options-and-the-maxsted-great-scheme-of-things/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/08/hard-tracks-soft-options-and-the-maxsted-great-scheme-of-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irish trainer Dermot Weld says he’s not bringing Profound Beauty to Australia. <b>TP Maher</b> will keep his money in his pocket.]]></description>
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