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• Blazing a trail like a natural down Ballyhoura way

  September 3, 2010 in Columns, Cycling, Sport

  Remember the bit in the old baseball movie ‘The Natural’ when the eponymous Robert Redford is lamenting his sorry past (he was shot by Barbara Hershey), beating himself up to Glenn Close? Redford: “But I didn’t see it coming.” Close: “How could you know she’d hurt you? How could anyone?” Redford: “I didn’t see it [...]

• Cee Lo Green – ‘Fuck You’

  September 2, 2010 in American Football, Sport

  New video for Cee Lo’s latest tune. Dunno how they’re gonna make it look like ‘Forget You’ for TV, which is the plan apparently. Dude looks like he could play for Baltimore Ravens. H/T John Riordan

• Kobe v Jordan

  August 30, 2010 in Basketball, Sport

  Via: Medical Insurance Waiting for flight home, but saw this cool infographic at the Hoop Doctors.

• Shels star Sibanda puts footy troubles into perspective

  August 27, 2010 in Football, Sport

  When the thin red line of Shelbourne players file out of the Dalymount Park tunnel before they face neighbours Bohemians in an FAI Cup tie this evening, it will evoke a time when cash slushed around domestic football. Bohs’ future was tied up, like a lot of things here during the boom, in property. The [...]

• Guess who’s on holidays?

  August 23, 2010 in American Football, Sport

  While I’m away, check out the first few episodes of HBO’s Hard Knocks – the documentary series which this year joins the New York Jets’ training camp. There’s such gems as Rex Ryan’s ready-a-classic motivational talk and Antonio Cromartie tries to remember how many kids he has. Amazing stuff.

• Funny ol’ game

  August 23, 2010 in Football, Sport, comedy

• What Katie did next

  August 20, 2010 in Boxing, Columns, Sport

  The long, sticky days hang on two tent-pole training sessions at the moment. One in the morning. One in the evening. Between gulps of warm tea, those sitting recently outside ther Esplanade Hotel or on the strand in Bray, feet stretched in front of them towards the sunshine in the past few weeks, may have [...]

• Let’s get ready…

  August 18, 2010 in Boxing, Columns, Sport

  Picture, with thanks: Nick Bradshaw / fotonic I spent some time in the high-performance gym at the National Stadium, on Dublin’s South Circular Road earlier today with our brightest Olympic hope and multiple title holder, Katie Taylor. Check out Friday’s column in the Irish Examiner to see which one of us picked up two penalty [...]

• Gather ’round iPhone nerds!

  August 18, 2010 in Football, GAA, Sport

  In Abba’s under-rated song The Day Before You Came*, Agnetha references the print media twice in one three-minute, melancholic song. She reads the editorial in the morning newspaper (possibly the Irish Examiner), while on her train commute to work. Later, on the way home from the office she picks up the evening paper. * I [...]

• Close shave

  August 16, 2010 in Sport, Tennis

  Some more cool viral advertising – this time from Roger Federer and Gillette. I’m waiting for the Paul Galvin fish-hook version. Via Stephen O’Leary again.