Category Archives: sport

Jo Flo

By 6000 | 6000 | January 11, 2011

Incoming from my Dad: Did you know? Former Blade Jostein Flo is one of very few players to have a move or specific tactic named after him. In Norwegian, it is called “Flopasning” – translated into English as “The Flo Pass”. It gained prominence during a period of the early 1990s when the Scandinavians were [...]

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Flying news

By 6000 | 6000 | January 6, 2011

Another two parter – this time with airlines doing nice some altruistic (sort of) things for people. I like KLM’s surprise for social media users (spotted via @tara_lawson). And though it was just a bit of an experiment, it worked for them, with over a million mentions on twitter alone. Someone, somewhere will be able to [...]

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Altruism

By 6000 | 6000 | January 5, 2011

Altruism: Altruism is selfless concern for the welfare of others. Altruism focuses on a motivation to help others or a want to do good without reward. And today, I have a couple of examples of this selfless concern for you. Firstly: me. I gave my worms the once over this evening. Concerned (selflessly so) for their welfare [...]

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Bafana Bafana v USA – Photos

By 6000 | 6000 | November 18, 2010

As promised here, some few photos of the Nelson Mandela Challenge at the Cape Town Stadium last night, to brighten up your day. And while Cape Town put on a great show, Bafana were less impressive and went down to a (probably undeserved) 1-0 defeat after a 85th minute debut goal from 17 year old [...]

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5 months on

By 6000 | 6000 | November 17, 2010

5 months on from the most boring and disappointing games of football ever in the history of my watching football (all my life)… …I am returning to a much warmer Cape Town Stadium to watch Bafana Bafana take on the USA in the Nelson Mandela Challenge. A full house of 52,000 is expected and even [...]

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