Archive for September, 2010
One game from immortality
What similar area of soil in any other industry could be so productive in the few hours to be given to the production?
– From a 1926 New York Times editorial about Soldier Field in Philadelphia which hosted the heavyweight title fights between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney
The rematches
A loss here, a heartache there
– Former North Melbourne coach Denis Pagan
In the long hours following last weekend’s qualifying finals, four coaches and their bevy of assistants began planning and plotting victory with a weary sense of familiarity. For first time, since the inception of the final eight in 1994, the preliminary finalists are the same across consecutive seasons. As in the 2009, Geelong will play Collingwood and St Kilda plays the Western Bulldogs. Read more
