m0nty - who has written 13 posts on Fair To Say.
Paul Montgomery is a Geelong-based journalist-turned-entrepreneur.
No one is quite saying it out in public, but the euphemism of lack of “preparation” that the Adelaide Crows are using to explain the club suspension of their star defender Graham “Stiffy” Johncock may have a hidden explanation: the players have gotten sick of his chain smoking. Have the players laid down the law [...]
Continue reading...I love this time of year in the National Football League because it’s draft camp, and that means stories of dumbarse footballers getting up to all sorts of stupid shenanigans. Some of it is fueled by alcohol and/or drugs, to be sure, but in other cases you have to question the sanity of these millionaire [...]
Continue reading...Nathan Brown - just to be clear, the one who is coach of the St George-Illawarra Dragons - has stoked an ever-smouldering fire by yet again whinging about the Melbourne Storm and their tackling techniques. Ever since the Storm have started dominating the NRL in the past few years, around semi finals time there is [...]
Continue reading...All of the pre-competition hype about this year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest was around Takeru Kobayashi, the six-time champion who was knocked off last year by Californian nobody Joey Chestnut. Kobayashi suffered jaw problems - so-called “jaw-thritis” - in the lead up to the 2007 contest and was only defeated narrowly, leading many commentators [...]
Continue reading...In the wake of Queensland’s hat-trick of rugby league State of Origin wins, the media consensus seems to be that Origin is in good health. While you’d expect the Daily Telegraph to run the corporate line as part of its role as News’s propaganda arm, and Fairfax usually plays the parochial tune for the Sydney [...]
Continue reading...This is one of my favourite times of year in the sporting calendar: the build up to the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest on the fourth of July. As blogged previously, Takeru Kobayashi is trying to wrest back his title, and the world record, from Joey Chestnut in the Independence Day dog-off. To assist him [...]
Continue reading...As a Victorian writing a general sports blog, I feel like I’m going to be seen as picking unmercifully on football codes more popular in the northern states… but if they didn’t have so many deep-seated problems then I wouldn’t be able to write these articles, now would I? John O’Neill, former and once again [...]
Continue reading...As an AFL fan, how can we reconcile the fact that North Melbourne put away Hawthorn a week ago as only one of two teams to do so this season, have been the only team to defeat the Western Bulldogs, beat the Pies, ran Geelong to a kick, drew with Sydney in a game they [...]
Continue reading...Takeru Kobayashi is under pressure. Beaten into second place in last year’s Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest by a Californian upstart named Joey Chestnut, breaking the Tsunami’s run of six consecutive titles, the International Federation of Competitive Eating has Kobayashi ranked third going into late-stage preparations for the 2008 edition of the annual July 4 [...]
Continue reading...The Fairfax media carried an AAP report yesterday entitled Origin to remain a midweek affair - I only mention the source because it’s necessary when discussing rugby league political stories, as the bias by both Murdoch and Fairfax outlets makes their stories rather stretched at times. The headline is the first thing that is wrong [...]
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Thursday, July 24, 2008