It has finally happened, the Martians have been bested. The Moonee Valley Leader, that august record of philosophical excellence, reports that Kevin Sheedy is Australia’s Thinker of the year, as awarded tonight by the New York School of Thinking. Is that a tautology? Sheeds belongs up there with the great minds of Australian science, such as… that Nossal bloke… and the bloke off Beyond 2000… I’m drawing a blank here. Does Yahoo Serious count?
Watching the third test in the all-too-short West Indies vs Australia series, it is all too obvious that Australian test cricket is on the decline. It may not be a sheer precipice that the baggy greens have suddenly jumped over with the retirements of Langer, Gilchrist, Warne and McGrath and McGill - more of a gentle slope towards mediocrity - but the decadence and eventual fall of the Taylor/Waugh/Ponting empire seems to be an increasingly likely prospect.
Hello and welcome to Fair To Say, the first sports blog in the Inquisitr stable. I’m Paul Montgomery, known usually as m0nty. I’m an ex-journalist, I guess you’d say, with a background in technology but a current and abiding interest in sports.
Tue, Jun 24, 2008