Too many choices!

Last night I had such a dilemma as there were too many choices of sport on television!  I was interested in: the rugby, All Blacks versus Argentina Tour de France- Stage 13 Test 2 The Ashes – Fortunately the rugby was on earlier than either the cycling or the cricket so I was able to…

Sport aplenty in the month of July

July promises to be a wonderful month for watching sport. The sport has already started with the beginning of Wimbledon.  Although I generally don’t watch the tennis there are a few Australians I will be following, in particular Samantha Stosur.  It was sad to see Lleyton Hewitt exit Wimbledon so quickly in this his final…

A monster sporting weekend coming up.

This weekend sees the opening games of the Cricket World Cup and the Super 15 Rugby Union Competition.  Seventh heaven for me! The Super 15 Rugby starts tonight with The Melbourne Rebels playing the Canterbury Crusaders in New Zealand and the Brumbies play the Queensland Reds in Australia.  Later the NSW Waratahs play the Western…

I just want to say . . . .

What a cracker of a game of rugby this morning. Man of the match: Tevita Kuridrani. Photo: Getty Images

A French referee. . .for Paris in July!

My link to France today is the French referee, Romain Poite, who officiated at the final test match between the Australian Wallabies and the British and Irish Lions. Unfortunately for the Wallabies they were soundly beaten by the Lions. There were some excellent individual displays from the Wallabies but they could not put it all…

Ride of The Lions

Because I follow rugby associated tweets on Twitter I came across this.A group of ex British and Irish Lions plus a group of ex Wallabies are cycling from Melbourne to Sydney, carrying the Official match ball for the final test in Sydney. They are doing this to raise money for Walking With the Wounded and…