In lieu of playing or watching sport this year, you could always read about it, and the sports book market has thrived @GregBaum https://t.co/EaKFgvLTqW
Matthew Ricketson has interviewed Lesley Blume, author of Fallout: The Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world.
https://t.co/ZVTu9pcB1W
No luck for the Lang family in its appeal five year suspension handed out to triple premiership player Alex ‘Bongo’ Lang for taking a bribe. The full story in On The Take, Available at https://t.co/Y0AaQ7KhnQ, @booktopia &participating bookshops. @HardieGrant
Carlton footballer Alec Lang "might have been considered the Dustin Martin of his day". In 1910, he was banned for accepting a £10 bribe from a stranger. His descendants have been trying to overturn that ban. @GregBaum https://t.co/SK43J0m3RK
Roy Hay‘s book, Albert “Pompey” Austin: A man between two worlds, has been reviewed by Gary Osmond for Sport in Society and by Gideon Haigh for The Australian.
https://t.co/u1uU4kxpxv
https://t.co/1TNXczSNbE
@KonradMarshall@andrew_mueller@jglo00 ...Her replacement was a decent bloke who loved the Tiges. I mean, yeah, he took naps on the couch and encouraged the kids to play with matches, but I figured why nitpick.
@KonradMarshall@andrew_mueller@jglo00 Recently, we found a wonderful Disability Support worker for my son (he has a severe intellectual disability), whom all of my kids loved.
But she casually mentioned one day that "Anyone who lives in Geelong and doesn't barrack for the Cats is a traitor!"
So we had to let her go.