The majority — if not all — of the Big Bash League teams have been unable to secure sponsors for Cricket Australia’s hyped Twenty20 competition beginning next month, writes Crikey intern Alexander Cornwell.
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Just Chew It: how sport is super-sizing our kids
Crikey launches a special investigation into how fast food marketers use sport and sporting stars to sell their wares. Today, the Big Daddy of them all — McDonalds.
Media briefs: Guthrie’s falafel apology … Warnie’s porn mistress …
News insiders say it’s panic stations at the Herald Sun following the release of Friday’s December audit figures which showed circulation plummeting. Plus, Bruce Guthrie can’t spell Eddie McGuire and other media news.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Natural disaster keeps Gillard on top
Julia Gillard heads the list on the back of Cyclone Yasi and, significantly, the heartfelt tears she shed for flood victims when parliament resumed yesterday, writes Media Monitors’ John Chalmers.
Warnie boned
It comes as little surprise that Shane Warne’s show Warnie has been terminated. With one episode to go, it has been reported that the final episode of the series has been shelved. Why not just play the last episode? asks Dan Barrett.
A Warnie social media fail
It’s only natural that Channel 9, premiering a new talk show fronted by Shane Warne, would want to promote it through Facebook. However, the Facebook crowd seem far from enthused, writes Dan Barrett.
Would the world be better if cricketers ran it?
Welcome to fantasy land for cricket nuts, where Shane Warne is finance minister of Australia — until he gambles the entire GDP away — and Sanath Jayasuriya is president of Sri Lanka.
Tiger birdies: he’s just a victim of the times
Tiger Woods’ trysts reveal nothing more than the nature of today’s young male when he finds a willing lover. This is what we happen when we strip marriage of all form of commitment, writes Keysar Trad.
Shane Warne drinks a fan’s beer. Shocked?
Shane Warne, no stranger to controversies, went against the ‘spirit’ of the game when he decided to take a quick swig from a glass of beer offered by a fan.
Matthew Hayden: doing Christ’s f-cking work in flannels
It is increasingly difficult to square that image of the saintly Hayden with the batsman who represents Australia in the Test and one-day arena, writes Charles Happell.
Ten jumps on the IPL Twenty20 bandwagon
One-day international cricket will soon go the way of the dinosaur and cricket’s brave new world will be dominated by Test matches and the burgeoning fledgling form of the game, Twenty20, as cricket undergoes its greatest revolution since Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket, writes Charles Happell.
Retired legends give Test cricket a chance to regain its magic
In the absence of Warne, McGrath and Gilchrist, Test cricket now has some chance of recapturing its evenness and competitiveness, perhaps even its magic, writes Charles Happell.
Walk Hard: The world hails Adam Gilchrist
Adam Gilchrist, arguably the greatest wicketkeeper/batsman of all time has played his last game. Cricket’s commentariat have justifiably heaped praise on a gentleman of the game who was respected by all and changed the game for the better.
Testing times for new-look Aussie Test team
Mornings after the night before often start with a dull ache and a slow realisation, and bleary eyes opening to this new dawn of Australian cricket will do so knowing that life without Warne and McGrath begins now, writes Pat Devery.
Just a hair’s breadth between them…
Hats and (toupes) off to the marketing geniuses at Advanced Hair (yeah yeah). No longer looking to Greg Matthews for inspiration, Advanced Hair have turned to the federal election to spruik their weaves: “The Battle of the Marginal Seat — John Howard and Kevin Rudd will go to any lengths to win votes”.
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Ten sets the record straight on Warnie text … government ads … FOI … dictators … overexposure for Rudd and Howard … Hicks and Gitmo … Operation Wickenby … Rugby World Cup …
