Curtain Up On A New Stage For Waldrom
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on November 17, 2008
Written by John Breen, it tells the story of Munster’s historic 12-0 win against the All Blacks at Thomond Park.
They are excited about tomorrow’s rematch and, though few are expecting a repeat upset especially as Munster will be missing their international players the All Blacks are wary.
Scott Waldrom, who will make his All Blacks debut [...]
Cricketer Hick admits ‘lack of cutting edge’ as curtain falls
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on September 17, 2008
‘Unfulfilled promise’ has often been a phrase used to describe Graeme Hick’s career so it may be cruelly apt if his final season before retirement is cut short by injury.
That means the former England international is set to miss the four-day County Championship match against Middlesex starting on Wednesday.
Born in what was then Salisbury, Rhodesia, [...]
The Other Side of the Velvet Curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on September 11, 2008
It’s only in retrospect that I have come to realize that schmoozing with the president of NBC and making small talk with Chris Tucker and Quincy Jones is not the typical Olympic experience.
And I can also tell you that it is not very typical to debate whether to go to the boxing semi-finals or get [...]
Curtain down on ‘truly exceptional’ Beijing Games
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on August 24, 2008
The Beijing Olympics, played out against a background of political intrigue and featuring 16 days of compelling and controversial action, drew to a spectacular close on Sunday.
International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge described the Games as “truly exceptional” in a lavish closing ceremony at the Bird’s Nest stadium which culminated in the handing over of [...]
Curtain falling on Cantab stalwart
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on August 20, 2008
The days in a Canterbury jersey for former All Blacks prop Campbell Johnstone are numbered but the veteran is determined to see the red-and-blacks stay on the winning trail before he leaves to play for Biarritz.
Johnstone, Canterbury’s most capped player in the 2008 squad with 66 appearances, has been given an early release by the [...]
Russia And An Economic Iron Curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on August 18, 2008
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.” Churchill, 1946 For some time the conventional wisdom has been that the largest economic and military threat the to US is [...]
UA putting up McKale curtain
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on July 23, 2008
The curtain is being raised on something new at McKale Center, which means a curtain is coming down.
Installation is under way on a sectional curtain that will deploy from the rafters, cutting off the seating above the middle concourse, creating a cozier and louder environment for volleyball matches, gymnastics meets and, possibly, women’s basketball.
“The concept [...]
Appetite for Twenty20 is final curtain for Pro40
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 20, 2008
The changes to the structure of English domestic cricket from the start of the 2010 season, put forward for approval this week by the England and Wales Cricket Board, spelled the end for the 40-over competition because of the appetite for yet more Twenty20.
But the future of the competition does not make a difference to [...]
Pele To Raise Curtain On Banks Statue
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on July 15, 2008
Banks, who famously produced what has been dubbed the greatest save ever against Pele during the 1970 World Cup, was clearly delighted even just by the thought behind the bronze tribute, which will be beside a memorial to another Stoke City and England great, Sir Stanley Matthews, which has stood outside the stadium ground since [...]
BIAW campaign exploits old state divisions
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 14, 2008
WITH HIS PROPENSITY for shooting from the lip, Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona once opined that the United States would be better off were the Eastern Seaboard cut off and floated out to sea.
In 1964, with Goldwater the Republican presidential nominee, Democrats gleefully aired a TV shot showing a saw sticking up through a map [...]