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Drinks With Ric Charlesworth
“Hockey is one of the great passions of my life. I have never found it anti-intellectual.”
14 Mar 2010
Drinks With Billy Birmingham
When it’s summer, in Australia, if you don’t like Billy Birmingham that’s a real bummer because, more often than not, he’s the number-one man in town.
15 Feb 2010
Drinks With Shane Heal
Gentlemen prefer blondes, not blonds, especially not forms of the latter who are opposing point guards with lethal long-range shooting games and a bit of ’tude – like Shane Heal.
15 Jan 2010
Drinks With Steve Hooker
Four times he faced third-and-final attempts at heights during the Olympic pole vault competition. Four times he cleared them.
15 Dec 2009
Drinks With Mike O'Connor
If there’s one thing international rugby union and rugby league have in common these days, it’s that they bear absolutely no resemblance to the forms they took back in Michael O’Connor’s playing days
17 Nov 2009
Drinks With Paul Reiffel
Cast your mind back over the past two decades of Australian cricket and it’s easy to pass by Paul Reiffel.
18 Oct 2009
Drinks With Wendell Sailor
What can you say about Wendell Sailor that hasn’t been said a thousand times?
18 Sep 2009
Drinks With Gary Freeman
His departure from the international scene after the 1995 World Cup in Britain came as a major culture shock to the Kiwis,
18 Aug 2009
Drinks With Nicole Livingstone
With the parity of international swimming again threatened by scientists (this time bearing polyurethane swimsuits rather than vials of ’roids), who better to talk to than Nicole Livingstone?
19 Jul 2009
Drinks With Dick Johnson
James Smith recently caught up with Johnson at a Jim Beam Racing promo day at Eastern Creek and tried his best not to appear too starstruck.
19 Jun 2009
Drinks With Leigh Mathews
There was great excitement among the Baker men when I announced I’d been granted an audience with the AFL Player of the Century, his Lethalness, Leigh Matthews.
19 May 2009
Drinks With Jack Newton
But people forget what a fabulous golfer Newton was – a fearless charger, wonderful putter, handsome and charismatic.
21 Apr 2009
Drinks With Fanie De Villiers
The New Year’s Test, 1994. Australia had to win. Couldn’t lose. Until Fanie de Villiers begun hooping the ball about with that awkward, low-slung action.
22 Mar 2009
Drinks With Geoff Lawson
It's difficult to find many chairs in the cricketing hierarchy that haven't been occupied by Geoff Lawson.
22 Jan 2009
Drinks With Dennis Commetti
Even by the exacting standards of the common AFL fan, Dennis Cometti is considered the very best AFL commentator in the land.
1 Jul 2007
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