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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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Brolly issue

By 6000 | 6000 | June 8, 2011

Amazing. Here I am wondering what to blog about today and then it drops into my lap onto my screen, courtesy of News24 commenter Krolie, who took full advantage of an article on the wintery weather (which missed Cape Town almost completely) to vent his or her spleen over a long-standing issue which has clearly [...]

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Conflicting reports

By 6000 | 6000 | January 4, 2010

While the cricket is on at Newlands, News24 have been trying to keep up with the (apparent) final throes* of South African (previously) fast bowler and all-round sporting ambassador, Makhaya Ntini’s test career. With limited success. One of the great things about internet news sites is that they are updated with every single new piece of information that [...]

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