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Sports news, commentary and scores with wit and added value. We compare and contrast the best and worst sports reporting in the mainstream press, blogs, TV and online. We love the English Premier League (Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, Manchester United and Manchester City) and all things football but we cover cricket, rugby, the Olympics, tennis, golf, F1 and highlights of the sporting year.
FAIL! Wal-Mart Super Bowl display
MEMO to all giant American soul-sucking corporations:
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Tiger Woods is back, sans mojo?
TIGER Woods is back, golf is saved! After eight months in the physio room with a crocked knee, the world’s best golfer returned to action in the Accenture Match Play Championship. He won his first match, against Aussie Brendan Jones, but couldn’t get the measure of South Africa’s Tim Clark, losing 4 and 2 in yesterday’s second-round match-up.
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Rafa Benitez 1, Rick Parry 0
LIVERPOOL’S Fat Spanish Waiter (aka Rafa Benitez) has got his way at last. The club’s pesky chief executive, Rick Parry, is standing down at the end of the season, leaving Rafa totally free to manage every aspect of what happens on the pitch – that is his job, after all. Cue evil laugh by Rafa. Muah ha ha ha etc.
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Enjoy the new sport of foot-ice-hockey
IN which Dominic Moore, an ice-hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs, loses his stick and shows off some (entirely legal) fancy footwork that almost led to an amazing goal. Watch it below…
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Arsenal Goalie Spotted With Ridiculous Dog
HERE’S Manuel Almunia, Arsenal’s Spanish keeper (silly jacket), out and about in north London with his WAG Ana (silly boots) and his new pet, a macho Yorkshire Terrier puppy. Grrrr.
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Posted: 26th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (6)
Snooker player served with writ during match
SNOOKER star Mark Selby was handed legal papers in the middle of his Welsh open match against Anthony Hamilton.
Selby’s former manager, George Bamby, served the writ live on BBC, demanding almost £14,000. Bamby claims that letters he mailed Selby were ignored and he was advised by a lawyer to serve the papers at his place of work.
Bamby said: “So that’s what I did – it just happened his place of work was a snooker tournament being watched by millions of people on television. He has 18 days to pay up.”
Watch the incident after the break (ho ho)…
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Posted: 26th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Jens Lehmann, still madder than Mad Jack McMad
THE most unpredictable footballer on the planet, Jens Lehmann, is making headlines again.
This time he’s in trouble for throwing away an opponent’s boot during a German league match.
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FAIL: Helicopter stops play
A helicopter stopped play during a cricket game in India after the pilot mistook the pitch for a landing pad. Well it makes a change from bad light.
Players ran for cover when the pilot set his chopper down on the letter ‘H’ painted in the corner of the cricket ground.
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Posted: 24th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Football fans asked to shhhhhh
MIDDLESBROUGH FC has asked its own fans to be QUIETER during games. Boro supporters were handed letters telling them only to make a noise when their team scores. Er, that might be difficult – Boro haven’t scored a league goal since 10 January.
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Posted: 24th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (3)
The naked swimsuit solution
THE sport of swimming is facing a high-tech crisis. In 2008, a staggering 108 world records were broken in the pool, 79 of them by swimmers wearing a cutting-edge Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit.
FINA, swimming’s governing body, met 16 manufacturers, including Speedo, at the weekend and will make some changes to swimsuits’ advantageous design next month.
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Posted: 24th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (10)
Lance Armstrong says no to drugs
DURING a stage in the Tour of California, which finished this weekend, Lance Armstrong was confronted by a non-fan wielding a giant syringe. Armstrong whupped cancer and he has never failed a drugs test, but he can’t escape the whispers that he achieved his trillion Tour wins by foul means. Still, he won this encounter:
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Sports Illustrated Airbrushed Out Danica Patrick’s Tattoo
AND not just any model. The esteemed sports magazine, whose annual swimsuit issue just came out Stateside, has been rumbled for airbrushing out a skanky back tattoo belonging to foxy racing driver Danica Patrick (see before-and-after photo, right).
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Posted: 21st, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (8)
NBA mascot scores with a little help from his friend
PRIOR to the NBA celebrity All-Star game last week, Rufus, the mascot for the Charlotte Bobcats, tossed a basketball over his head. It flew into the basket, but only thanks to an assist by the groin of Bango, the Milwaukee Bucks’ mascot. Bango also flew – well, fell – into the basket, injuring his knee in the process. Bango will require knee surgery. Hey, we didn’t say there was a happy ending.
Watch the highly amusing incident after the click…
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Man Utd starlet dropped for cocky goal celebration
SIR Alex Ferguson dropped Danny Welbeck into the reserves after the young forward celebrated a goal by striking an arrogant pose.
Fergie was reportedly infuriated by the teenager’s Eric Cantona-esque goal celebration in Sunday’s FA Cup win at Derby County. The Man Utd boss dropped Welbeck from United’s first-team squad, instead making him play for the reserves at Wigan.
A United source said: “Alex was very angry about the way Welbeck celebrated his goal at Derby. He felt there was a touch of arrogance about it. Danny is just a kid and Alex does not like the thought of him getting too big for his boots.”
Watch Welbeck’s goal + celebration below:
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Posted: 20th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
VIDEO: Huge brawl kicks off at high-school basketball game
AH, screw the basketball, let’s fight. A dozen kids were arrested for their roles in this near-riot that broke out during a high-school basketball game in Alabama. Watch the action after the jump…
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F1 to get first female driver since 1992?
DANICA Patrick is the most attractive professional racing driver in the world – as her latest shoot for Sports Illustrated shows – and as such she is a hugely marketable sportswoman.
So it’s no surprise that F1’s next team, the American USF1 outfit which plans to race from 2010, has offered Patrick a test drive.
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Posted: 19th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Russian footballer slams British food
SPURS striker Roman Pavlyuchenko has moaned about the standard of British cuisine. Coming from a Russian, that’s a bit rich.
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Posted: 19th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Manchester City’s Robinho Imports Used Condoms
ROBINHO, Manchester City’s tame Brazilian, is taking delivery of a job lot of sand.
The Sun says the sand is to feature in the grounds of Robinho’s Cheshire mansion.
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Posted: 19th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Allen Standford In Hiding At Cricket County Championship Match
ALLEN Standford is missing.
The man who made a four into a ten and a six into a Home Run Smack Down! is missing.
The Texan billionaire who bankrolled the cricket fiasco in the Caribbean – the cricket fan who hates test cricket – is wanted in connection with an alleged £5.6billion fraud.
Allen Standford is not where the authorities thought he was. So he is “missing”.
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Posted: 19th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
The Best Jumbotron Film Ever, At The Boston Celtics
YOU’RE at the sports ground. The camera whirls. Give us a wave! And there you are on the jumbotron, a finger stuffed up your nose, ruining the shot of the young blonde woman.
At the Boston Celtics:
Richie Benaud throws last shrimp on barbie
SAD news for all fans of cricket. Richie Benaud, the undisputed voice of the game, has announced he’s retiring from TV commentating after almost 50 years at the mic. Boo.
Anorak was brought up on Benaud’s shrewd, wry observations. He was the perfect antidote to the very English chuminess of Blowers, Johnners and co.
As a tribute to the great man, we’ve unearthed a few Benaud-related YouTube vids for you to enjoy…
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Posted: 18th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
Football world amazed by six-year-old genius
FOOTBALL people who know about such things are wetting their pants over Madin Mohammed (not literally), a six-year old prodigy who plays like a mini version of Zinedine Zidane.
Madin, who hails from Algeria but now lives in France (like Zidane, in fact) is being closely watched (stalked?) by some of Europe’s biggest clubs, including Chelski and Real Madrid.
Check out an unbelievable video of Madin in action below…
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Posted: 18th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment (1)
VIDEO: Basketball fan overcelebrates
CAN you celebrate too much? Yes, you can, as this enthusiastic young b-ball fan proves…
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Sport-a-likes: Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee v David Beckham and Posh
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Posted: 17th, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comments (2)
Top 10 sport-related thefts
IN the light of the news that some wag nicked Lance Armstrong’s bike this week, Anorak presents the Top 10 sport-related thefts (in no particular order):
10. Lance Armstrong’s bike, 2009
Armstrong himself reported via Twitter that his unique black-and-gold bike had been stolen from a team truck that was parked in an alley behind a Sacramento hotel. Armstrong posted a photo of the bike on his Twitter feed and wrote: “There is only one like it in the world therefore hard to pawn it off.”
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