Another week under the belt, another week of glorious exercise achievement experienced. That’s what this is starting to feel like as the sessions undertaken to condition me to beat Pierre Spies’ time in his Virgin Active Challenge are getting tougher each week. But before we get into some proof of that, let’s have a little look at the vitals to see what the previous four weeks of exercise at the Sandton Virgin Active have done for me.
I invited you to mail me solutions to how we can fix this troublesome situation once and for all, and after wading through literally endless suggests (7 in total), I think I have found a winner.
I know it sounds clichéd, but it’s the truth. Another CRACKER of a weekend lies ahead of us with some more big match action to get excited about it. Rugby, football and cricket are on the bill and it is nicely spread from Friday to Sunday. Let’s get into it.
It’s not often I get excited about something on a daily basis, but in Ballz Visual Radio I indeed have such a thing. Each day at 2pm I have Ballz in my ears and rather enjoy it. They play great music and have ongoing interviews with well known sporting individuals with great banter from an entertaining team headed up by Darren Scott. Today however they somehow raised an already very high bar by interview none other than Gary Player on air!
I’m not even going to open this to discussion. This was the greatest sporting moment on radio ever and I salute them for it.
Focus groups across India have recently revealed that the IPL is losing popularity amongst the highly influential 4-16 year old age group. Tomorrow’s stars, or at least tomorrow high end consumers, feel that the tournament (now in it’s 5th year of play) is starting to plateau in appeal prompting the powers that be into proposing new and innovative ways to curb this downturn. The answer – IPL Twister!
Yes indeed, by bringing the universally popular family board game into the competition, IPL supremos think they have really hit a DLF maximum here. Further more, to also engage the 17-104 year old age group, they have married the new sensation with the always topical spot fix feature which rounds the new inclusion off perfectly.
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As you can see by the diagram, it’s all very self explanatory. Prior to each delivery, the bowler spins the IPL Twister spinner (which doubles up as a bowler’s run up marker) revealing where the front foot is placed during the following delivery and the outcome of it. Options include; boundary, single, dot ball and $18 5000 which is the going rate nowadays for a predetermined no ball.
I know right, who would have seen that coming! It was revealed yesterday that cricket’s whorehouse, the IPL, was dogged by a harmful match fixing sting involving 5 pretty average Indian cricketers that nobody really knows or cares about. Naturally like all things involving the IPL, this incident is completely over hyped and holds very little substance as the guilty parties (members of IPL squads) did the dodgy in lower level domestic cricket. The funny thing though is the stupidity of the ‘spot-fixers’ with the one guy (name not important) boasting after deliberately bowling strategic no-balls in some amateur match, that he could pull off the same feat in the IPL. Gee, talk about new world ambition.
The popping crease. A bit like a Twister mat in the sub-continent, who knows where that left foot will go next.
There’s a lot of bollocks in SupeRugby nowadays, and no I’m not just talking about Steve Walsh’s stupid tattoos. A while ago I wrote a piece about the ‘White Card’ being introduced into SupeRugby matches, naturally the piece was mostly in jest as I thought it was a kak idea, and the more it gets used the more right I think I was about making such a call. Take Saturday’s scuffle for instance between the Stormers and Cheetahs.
Really nothing in this, but note the severity and purposeful nature in the referee’s tone when suggesting this was a case for the dreaded ‘White Card’. It’s a big joke, and this incident aside it has actually become a big cop out for the refs as they don’t really need to make any big calls with regards to discipline anymore. All they need to do is pass the buck, brandish the White Card, and all is just peachy. But bugger all happens after that, is there such a thing as a ‘White Card Review meeting’? They get dished out each week but you hear fork all the next week!
