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• Pistol Pete and Agassi shoot from the lip again

  March 19, 2010 in Columns, Sport, Tennis

  Pete Sampras. Andre Agassi. Andre Agassi. Pete Sampras. The two boys. They just don’t really like each other, do they?
  What was supposed to be a little bit of fun in the picturesque, laidback Palm Springs this week – a charity doubles game with Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer – quickly turned sour as the mask [...]

• A mug’s game: Cheltenham, day 2

  March 18, 2010 in Columns, Horses, Sport

  In Papillon, the epic 1973 film about a pair of criminals sent to French Guiana for a life of hard labour, one of the many mistakes Steve McQueen’s captors make is to give him a butterfly net. When Dustin Hoffman’s near-sighted Dega catches a rare and beautiful blue butterfly, McQueen bargains with a visiting insect [...]

• Uke can’t be serious: Christy serenades the rugby team

  March 12, 2010 in Columns, Music, Rugby, Sport

  Okay, let me make a confession.
  I nurse a clandestine habit that has driven me to the coldest and darkest corners of society.
  When the house is finally still at night-time, I surreptitiously boot up the computer and, after checking over both shoulders, click into online forums to communicate with like-minded enthusiasts.
  I visit specialist shops in the [...]

• Nice surprise

  March 11, 2010 in Football, Sport

  Heineken İtaly Activation from Kreatif360 on Vimeo.
  I don’t usually post advertising, but this is an unbelievable effort from Heineken in Italy.
  (Thanks to Stephen O’Leary of O’Leary Analytics)

• Weeshie meets Beyonce

  March 8, 2010 in GAA, Music, Sport

  Weeshie Fogarty is a Radio Kerry DJ and Kingdom legend. Recently, despite the obvious links between Rockafella, Jay-Z and Austin Stacks, Weeshie had some difficulty pronouncing Mrs Jigga’s name after he discovered his sound engineer had gone to Dublin for a gig.
  DJ Mek, a man who once stood idly by as I was man-handled [...]