Category Archives: Dead Ball Icons
Five Things I've Thought This Week
1. Brendan McCullum should not be putting out a book 2. This Tour de France has a reasonable chance of being one of the best ever. 3. I don’t think I’ve anticipated a non-All Blacks game of international rugby as … Continue reading →
Filed under Basketball, Cricket, Cycling, Dead Ball Icons, Fandom, NBA, Rugby, Rugby league, Tri-Nations
Tagged as Alberto Contador, Andy Schleck, Brendan Telfer, Brendon McCullum, Chris Washburn, Dale Budge, Glenn Larmer, Jesse Ryder, Mark Greatbatch, Morne Steyn, Radio Sport, Sachin Tendulkar
John Daly: A Deadball Icon
“I never liked to read, and I didn’t see the point. Shakespeare sucked.” John Patrick Daly is not one of world’s great intellectual forces, but he sure can hit a golf ball a long way. Over the past couple of … Continue reading →
Filed under Dead Ball Icons, Golf
Tagged as '91 PGA Championship, Bettye Daly, Bubba Watson, DeadBall Icons, Jamie Daly, John Daly Topless, Miguel Angel Jiminez, Sherrie Daly, The Open, Tiger Woods, Tom Watson
Chris Harris: A DeadBall Icon
As the World Twenty20 runs on without The Black Caps, the time feels right for a reappraisal of the career of a man who might once have saved our blushes: Chris Harris, New Zealand’s pre-eminent cricketer of the post-Hadlee era. … Continue reading →
Filed under Cricket, Dead Ball Icons, Fandom, Guest Post
Tagged as 1992 World Cup, Chris Harris, Daniel Vettori, DeadBall Icons, Dibbly Dobbly, Gavin Larsen, Lawrence Arabia, Male Pattern Baldness, Twenty20
Michael The Bears Fan: A Deadball Icon
Rather than dwell on the utterly depressing incident in cricket this week, the Black Caps loss, ah, I mean the horrible incident in Pakistan, it’s time to reflect on the joy sport can bring – however minor and insignificant it … Continue reading →
Filed under Cricket, Dead Ball Icons, NFL, Reminiscing
Tagged as Great Catches, Monday Night Football, Sporting fans, The Bears
Brendan Telfer: A DeadBall Icon
This is a profile I wrote of my favourite New Zealand sports journalist as student a few years back. As a result it’s probably a little over-weaning and dated, but I think it still gets to the heart of why … Continue reading →
Filed under Athletics, Community, Cricket, Dead Ball Icons, Golf
Tagged as Brendan Telfer, Glen Larmer, Radio Sport, The Doyenne, Tony Veitch
Mario Cipollini: A DeadBall Icon
Cycling in the ’90s might have been dominated by the steady, remorseless cadence of Miguel Indurain, whose impassive visage delighted in the slow dismantlement of his opponents, but for star power there was only one. Mario Cipollini was a sprinter, … Continue reading →
Filed under Cycling, Dead Ball Icons, Kirk Penney's Hair, Reminiscing
Tagged as Giro d'Italia, Jean Marie LeBlanc, Mario Cipollini, Saeco, Sprinters, Tour de France
Fidel Edwards: An Extremely Gangsta DeadBall Icon
New Zealand’s current series against the West Indies, two of the more ordinary sides in international cricket, has been, a few sessions aside, pretty uneventful. The expected fireworks from Gayle, some extremely composed innings from Chanderpaul, New Zealand struggling along … Continue reading →
Filed under Cricket, Dead Ball Icons
Tagged as Brett Lee, Brian Lara, Fidel Edwards, Gays, Jacob Oram, Marlo Stanfield, West Indies
DeadBall Awards: The Best Sports Photo of 2008
Winner: Welshman Attempts To Decode Nonu’s Beauty, November 22 Tightened for fear of misplaced verbalisation, his lips do not move, as if words would crack the fragile beauty of the occasion. Instead, he breathes slowly through his nose. His hair is reflected in the splendor of Nonu’s glorious and noble mop. His … Continue reading →
Filed under Awards, Cricket, Dead Ball Icons, Rugby
Tagged as All Blacks, Nonu, Rod Latham, Wales
Yogi Berra: A Dead Ball Icon
Yogi Berra is one of the rarest combinations of things – a Major League Baseball All-Time Great and a Zen Poet/Wordsmith. Not only did Berra win 10 World Series’ with the New York Yankees, he also ‘dropped’ some of the … Continue reading →
Filed under Baseball, Dead Ball Icons, MLB
Tagged as Baseball, Dead Ball Icons, MLB, Yogi Berra
Rod Latham: A Dead Ball Icon
You know a player looms larger in your mind than the nation’s collective consciousness when you’re not able to find a single image of them online. When googling him In fact, you swiftly come into contact with the author of … Continue reading →
Filed under Cricket, Dead Ball Icons
Tagged as Australia, Cricket, David Boon, Dead Ball Icons, Eden Park, Fuller-figured Sportsmen, Rod Latham
