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Glenn Dyer’s TV ratings: what new Ten CEO should do — and it’s not cricket
Seven has amazing figures for a Wednesday night, thrashing its rivals with My Kitchen Rules.
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Bombshell sports probe: drugs and corruption to ‘disgust’ fans
Sports fans are bracing for the worst as sports and justice chiefs dropped a bombshell today: allegations of the widespread and systematic use of performance-enhancing drugs in Australian sport.
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It’s just not cricket that Sri Lanka keeps playing
The call for a boycott of Sri Lanka’s cricket team following the actions of the Sri Lankan military against the country’s Tamil population is growing. But it’s not just a cricket issue …
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India and Pakistan batting for political progress
It’s a small step, but a step nevertheless: India and Pakistan are about to have their first cricketing contact within India for four years, reports Richard Farmer.
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Evidence of how politicians lie
From the BBC comes a report exposing just how politicians have lied to their constituents…
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AFR black-out … Gill’s $1m claim … Gittens turns …
Just what is going on at The Australian Financial Review under very, we’re told, hands-on editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury? Plus other media news of the day.
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A plain talking politician
I rather admire Tony Abbott for not being one of those ultra cautious politicians.
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Oz inflation safely in the range
The Reserve Bank has been reading things right when it comes to inflation.
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Ten’s tweet-up … The Oz swings the axe … News Ltd and the senator …
In today’s Media Briefs: no hard feelings for Ten readers? … Axe-wielding coverage at The Oz …Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections and more …
READ MORESri Lanka vs. Australia: 1st Test open thread
If you love cricket half as much as Crikey sports guru Leigh Josey, the cricket season can never come soon enough.
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A touch of cricket in the Maasai Mara
Imagine playing a cricket match with wildcats prowling the edges of the field and 600kg antelopes trying to nuzzle up to you. Rafiq Copeland indulges in some colonial cricket in the Masaai Mara Reserve, Kenya.
READ MOREA lack of policy scrutiny and debate
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READ MOREJacques Kallis is the Sobers of his generation
Jacques Kallis’ exploits over the last three weeks - or indeed over the last 15 years - must draw comparison with the best that have ever played the game., writes ’s Harsha Bhogle.
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Forget those cricket sackings — it was the weather that beat us
Stop blaming the selectors. Give Ricky Ponting and Michael Clark a break. Leave the coach alone. It was the La Nina that beat us, and it has taken a Pommy meteorologist to tell us the truth, writes Richard Farmer.
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Should Ponting get the boot?
This year’s Ashes are proving an absolute embarrassment for Australia, particularly for captain Ricky Ponting. Jonathan Howcroft picks who should stay and which players should leave forever.
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The Ashes: ladies and gentlemen, we have a contest
The sporting world turned on its axis on the weekend after Australia convincingly beat England and drew level for the Ashes series. The English have a fight on their hands…and they know it, writes Leigh Josey.
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The Ashes Open Thread: Perth Day 1
Today, the Third Test begins in Perth — at the hallowed WACA Ground — and make no mistake; this is it. If Australia puts in a pathetic performance it’s over and England retain the Ashes, writes Leigh Josey.
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Wordle of the Week: captains who won an Ashes Test
Crikey Sports latest wordle is constructed from captains who won an Ashes Test (the more Ashes Tests they won as captain, the larger their name appears). One thing they discover is that there are a lot of English captains called Mike…
READ MOREThe Ashes: you have to give it to England
England has won the Second Test in Adelaide and while it’s easy, and fun, to slag off Australia in this match, writes Cricket With Balls’ Jarrod Kimber, instead let’s praise England.
READ MOREThe Ashes Open thread: Adelaide day 5
Channel Nine doesn’t deserve the Ashes when this happens. Bring on “use it or lose it” anti-siphoning laws, says Leigh Josey.
READ MOREThe Ashes Open Thread: Adelaide Day 3
Crikey Sports scribes Tom Cowie and Leigh Josey can’t believe what’s happening. England are on top and it doesn’t look like getting better any time soon.
READ MOREThe Ashes Open Thread: Adelaide Day 2
Join Tom Cowie and Leigh Josey as they cover Day 2 of the Adelaide Ashes Test, trying to make sense of the enigma that is the Australian cricket team.
READ MOREThe Ashes Open Thread: Adelaide Day 1
So here we are. After the test from hell last week, where we somehow drew after a first innings lead of 221, where a part-time off spinner was the sole Australian wicket taker in England’s mammoth second innings, we fly down to beautiful Adelaide for the second Test, writes Tom Cowie.
READ MOREAustralian cricket needs a hero (or a Warne) …. and fast
The English are all over Australia in the Ashes and Australia’s only hope is that somewhere, maybe in some little town out in the bush, the new Warne is working on a few spells, writes The Independent’s James Lawton.
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