The Ordinary Hero
By The Spotter Game Six of the World Series is do-or-die for the Cubs. If only they could unearth an unfashionable hero to step up… Ordinary heroes and one-game wonders.[…]
Tagged: The Spotter
-
Terminal Malfunction on NPC Launch Pad as All Blacks Blast Off
By The Spotter When Wallaby centre Stirling Mortlock intercepted a Carlos Spencer cut-out pass and raced away to score in the 2003 Rugby World Cup semi-final in Sydney, it was the first turn down a road[…]
-
Hansen the Hero and All That Jazz
By The Spotter If all goes according to script and ‘The Incredibles’ get their world record over the team with the bombastic head coach, the lion’s share of the kudos should be given to the[…]
Realism (Fatalism?)
By The Spotter “Take two aspirin and call me in the morning”. If only the potential cure for the Black Caps’ woes in India were quite that straightforward. Without wanting[…]
-
AB ‘Incredibles’: Nature or Nurture?
By The Spotter With the cunning plan of using Susie the toilet lady to nobble the star halfback having no effect whatsoever, this stupendous All Blacks team, ‘The Incredibles’ dined on grilled Springbok[…]
It’s just not Dunny
By The Spotter They say in life that timing is everything and if it wasn’t bad enough having Steve Tew’s recent PR gaffes bring to life the metaphor of ‘going down the[…]
-
Arnie P and Mark McC Broke the Mould
By The Spotter He was a golfing legend and a true man of the people with his legion of followers known as ‘Arnie’s Army’, but Arnold Palmer’s significance in the pantheon[…]
DJ The Great
By The Spotter Some journalists and writers are brilliant analysts, some are high priests of prose. D J Cameron was both. In the NZ Herald, it was mentioned that some regarded Cameron’s[…]
-
Not a Fine Whine As All Blacks’ Cup Runneth Over
By The Spotter Clutching at straws. Wallabies coach Michael Cheika is clutching at the longest ones in town in whining about referee Romain Poite not listening properly when his charges[…]
