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Excellent move to drop basketball, what a joke that was, no competitive games until Australia met NZ in the final. Good idea to drop the triathlon, it requires a large body of clean water in which to hold the swimming leg, a Delhi triathlon involves a swim leg and then an ambulance leg as all...

Taken from: http://consequently.org/news/2006/03/26/dame_edna_at_the_commonwealth_games_closing_ceremony/index.php But I think my favourite comment, "just five days ago Melbourne finished paying for the 1956 Olympics."

Tamsyn did walk out in second place and then stopped in lane 3 or 4 to stretch her muscles. I think this was a deliberate tactic to see if the English girl would walk past. Australia only had 2nd place in the line because they were leading at the 200m mark, the English took over by 300m and...

Australia won 82 gold and 207 medals at Manchester. However there were more medals awarded at Manchester, a lot more. 895 medals at Manchester compared to 743 at Melbourne, 282 gold compared to 245. So with the gold medal count dropping 13% an adjusted comparison sees Australia getting 71...

They go ad crazy in the last hour or two of evening coverage. Last night it was ad break, three lifts in the weightlifting, ad break, two gym routines, ad break. Once they move from attempts at live finals across to taped stuff they just pack the ads in there.

Dean Lukin is doing a good job as well, he can match him for excitement when he wants to. Eastlake is a classic.

Interesting to compare to Manchester where both games had 42 events. Australian men Gold 17 down to 3 Silver 5 increased to 6 Bronze 2 increased to 8 Women Gold 10 increased to 16 Silver 8 increased to 12 Bronze 6 increased to 9 Obviously the gold drop off from (an incredible) 17...

Yah, they are not at the games, no wonder they are in my bottom 3 :). In my top 3 I am dumping India and promoting Papua New Guinea. Mens swimming gold medals (excluding EAD): Australia - 0 Papua New Guinea - 1

Canada are bombing out badly in these games and it is no surprise that the public is losing interest. It is also a bad time zone for them. Huge coverage in England, big web site on the BBC with lots of updates and blogs and England, Scotland and Wales are all doing very well in these games to...

Since the Australian media are so obsessed with how Australia is doing at these games I invite you to nominate your top 3 and bottom 3 countries in these games as the tournament progresses. Top 3 Scotland. They go 6 gold in Manchester in what was virtually a home games, they already have 6...

Commonwealth games ODI cricket was a joke as it wasn't in the same class as a world cup. Twenty20 is more promising as the format fits well for a short tournament and it doesn't have an international tournament yet.

She is not actually saying anything to the media any longer, all the feeding frenzy is being generated by the media itself or by Tamsyn Lewis, who is using it to try and gain listeners to her radio show. We are all over Jana but the media keeps chewing on that bone. I think she is better off...

They are not revealing which footage is live and which is taped. They are heavily packaging the coverage to try and fit in all the finals. If you want true live events then you need to be either a Bigpond subscriber for the 8 online channels or a Foxtel subscriber for the pay channels. You...

Funding, funding, funding. Australians love playing sports and have the climate for it and when you combine that with generous sports funding, including the instititute of sports in various states, that gets your results. In the US they are funded by the college and university system on top of...

I must admit I am not a fan. I have found it almost impossible to find results due to the excessive amount of clicking required. Unless I am missing something I can see no link anywhere on the site that shows you all results for a particular sport. Instead it shows a long list of meaningless...

A couple weeks ago a Zimbabwe A squad filled with international players got spanked by Kenya in three matches. This week a Zimbabwe President's XI is in India playing the Duleep Trophy. This contains mainly international players, I count 9 Zimbabwe internationals. They are currently getting...

Here we go, was a story on BBC, if Joyce plays for England A next March he cannot represent Ireland. "If I go on the England A tour, that counts so I can't play for Ireland," he told BBC Sport. "I've made my decision now. It was great to go back and play for Ireland but that was a one-off."

Ed Joyce was probably just a couple of spots away from an Ashes berth. Was one of the first batsmen to 1000 runs in the County season and has made no secret of his desire to quality to play for England and to play in the next World Cup for England. His brother is also a handy batsman. Not...

The cricket.com.au scorecard is wrongly listing R. Powell, it should be D (Darren) Powell. Ricardo Powell isn't on this tour. Interesting choice to bowl Samuals. They didn't pick a specialist spinner for the tour, but with Australia looking to play two leg spinners they may be in a bit of a...

Here is a stat. Boof played in 27 tests and Australia only lost two of them, both of them dead tests. He never played in a losing series or a drawn series. He was ommitted from the last six series that Australia lost or drew. * Australia lost 0-1 in Sri Lanka in 99 without him and won 3-0...

At least they have given Hodge a chance to play Pura Cup. Another three tests as 12th man may have tipped him over the edge.

The Age newspaper is claiming Hohns doesn't want MacGill for the Gabba, which also rules out Watson giving spots to Bracken and Hodge.

It's pretty obvious Lee isn't in the top 10 bowlers given his Ashes performance and the fact he couldn't make the team ahead of Gillespie and Kaspra before the Ashes. I think you have to wait for Jones to do something outside of England before you can rank him higher. My top 10 (with ICC...

Indian spinners wrecking Sri Lanka, Harbhajan had three wickets and a dropped catch after three overs and Kartik has picked up the last two. It's spinning a far way now and that was one toss India benefitted from.

Why Australia does not play more allrounders: Bowling O M R W Vaas 6 0 33 1 (3nb, 1w) Maharoof 3.1 0 37 0 (1w) Fernando 7 0 31 0 (1w) Muralitharan...

Cricinfo commentator getting a bit carried away. 25.2 Chandana to Tendulkar, SIX, this is now officially a murder field - tossed up outside the off stump, Tendulkar dances down the track, get to the pitch of the delivery and heaves it away miles over the long-on fence

It's a great batting strip so Pathan has been given a go up the order. He is currently having a field day tonking part time hacks like Maharoof, Chandana and Dilshan. Tendulkar has seen off Vaas and is handling Murali and should be up for a big century.

There are weighted statistics for players available as the ICC Player Rankings. These rankings take into account, for batsmen: runs scored, rating of opposition bowling attack, level of run-scoring in the match, team's innings total, not out bonus and match result (you get more for scoring runs...

Magoffin have a forgettable match, 0 and 4 with the bat, 0/57 and 0/33 with the ball and just went for 10 in an over.

Looks like cricket.com.au is waking up, now showing 5/95, must be quickly entering in the play they missed as it is catching up slowly. Lost some 40 minutes.