Category Archives: sport

Just Did It

By 6000 | 6000 | April 7, 2012

I couldn’t have wished for a better race this morning. Aside from the weather, which hit hard as I headed up the infamous Southern Cross Drive, making everyone look like they had literally been dumped in a swimming pool, everything went according to my plan, such as it was. I finished my first (and last) [...]

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Blades wins poll “fairly overwhelmingly”

By 6000 | 6000 | April 4, 2012

Yes, I clicked through on this Sport24 story thinking it had something to do with Sheffield United. It didn’t. Instead, I learned that Hugh “Blades” Bladon had been voted SA’s favourite rugby commentator in a poll on the Sport24 website. Apparently Hugh’s was a “landslide victory”, polling, as he did, 34% of the vote. His [...]

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Things you should read

By 6000 | 6000 | March 28, 2012

AGAIN… not much time tonight (cue groans of happiness from the 6000 miles… reader collective). But, rather than a quota photo, some reading material for you, since there’s not ever so much here: Firstly, this, from the Independent, via my Dad: Meet the Geordie who led Benfica to three league titles When the great Eusebio [...]

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Sabotaging Heikki

By 6000 | 6000 | March 15, 2012

With March comes the fantastic news that some men in expensive cars will be repeatedly driving around a track behind some other men in expensive cars for the next few months. This – as those of you who spotted the sarcasm in the line above – doesn’t fill me with awe, but what is quite [...]

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Leaving Newlands

By 6000 | 6000 | February 26, 2012

As in… “I wish WPRU were…” But that’s not what this is about – later in the week for that one. This was taken yesterday evening as we were heading down the back of the Danie Craven stand at Newlands after the Stormers v Hurricanes game. If we’d left earlier (or later), the moon and [...]

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