Cocktail of headlines
Tom Cruise's jolly on board Team NZ opened up a world of opportunities for pun-ditry.
Cruise took the helm with Eyes Wide Shut; Team NZ are Far and Away the best team in San Fran; these AC72s are a Risky Business; the America's Cup is all about The Color of Money.
Stop me, I'm Losin' It.
Sheens cash-strapped
Feeling tired, over-worked and under-paid... this story is guaranteed to cheer you up.
Sydney's Daily Telegraph reports that on the 15th of every month, "supercoach" Tim Sheens banks $37,500... to do nothing.
Ten months after his sacking from the Wests Tigers, the club is still paying $8650 for his 'services". His contract runs until the end of next year and is worth $450,000 a season.
He also gets $100,000 as coach of the Kangaroos.
Things aren't expected to end well. The Tigers' board stopped his July payment, according to the report. Lawyers involved.
The more things change...
If you feel the hair stand up on the back of your hands tomorrow night, there's a good reason. It will be a year to the day that Eric Murray and Hamish Bond made a mockery of the notion of competition, putting on what amounted to a solo exhibition of pairs rowing on the way to Olympic gold at Eton Dorney. Nothing much has changed since then: Bond-Murray are still to be defeated; they still carry themselves like normal human beings, not Gods; Murray still sports an impressive set of whiskers; and Bond still looks incapable of growing any facial hair.
Keeping with the Olympic theme, Tuesday marks the 77th anniversary of Jack Lovelock's 1500m win in Berlin.
Laker description in a spin
Sharp-eyed readers have noted that an AAP report outlining the five greatest Ashes matches to be played at Old Trafford described Jim Laker as an England fast bowler. Let us be the first to acknowledge Laker was not very fast at all; in fact he was slower than most. Laker was a fine practitioner of the art of off spin.
