Category: Sport
Even in footy season, one Canberra cricket club is still hitting for six
Normally this would be the time of year that cricket players take off their pads, drop the bat and ball and start kicking the footy around – not North Canberra Gungahlin Cricket Club! During their off-season this year, North Canberra Gungahlin Cricket Club has become the first community sporting club in Canberra to [...]
Bendigo set to unleash full WNBL roster
Runaway WNBL leaders Bendigo finally hope to unleash their full strength side after a bye, as they prepare for two tussles with Lauren Jackson and her Canberra team. The Spirit (6-0) made it four wins out of four on Saturday, overturning a third-quarter 12-point deficit to score an 82-80 home win over reigning champions Dandenong [...]
Good Sports celebrate safely
End of season celebrations can easily go awry when they involve excessive consumption of alcohol. Good Sports accredited clubs in Canberra and the surrounding region are aware of this and have put in place strategies to ensure players, members and supporters drink responsibly and get home safely. The Good Sports program is a national initiative [...]
Canberra Tour cancelled after new regulations cause cost blowout
Kimberly Wells wins last year’s Tour De Femme women’s participation race, which the Canberra Cycling Club fears it may no longer be able to be run. Photo: Marina Neil The Canberra Cycling Club (CCC) fears other events may be in jeopardy after Canberra’s premier road race, the Canberra Tour, was cancelled because of ramped up [...]
Raiders play it cool, this time
The run to the NRL finals for the remaining contenders. Photo: Keisuke Osawa They’d just humiliated a title contender on their home turf, but the mood in the Canberra Raiders dressing sheds remained noticeably downbeat after Sunday’s 36-4 win over Cronulla. There was no backslapping or boasting, because the players have learned the hard way [...]
Canberra Raiders Cup Round 13 Wrap Up
Monday 23 July 2012 3:50 PM For an updated ladder for the Canberra Raiders Cup Click Here For the wrap up of the round results please Click Here Canberra Raiders Cup Round 13 Wrap Up Queanbeyan Kangaroos (1) 40 defeated Queanbeyan Blues (5) 12 at Freebody Oval Queanbeyan Kangaroos Captain-Coach Aaron Gorrell has laughed off [...]
IMP and Maddocks join to tackle Indigenous health
The Indigenous Marathon Project, together with Maddocks, will tomorrow formally sign a two year alliance, with the firm to provide pro-bono legal, marketing and library services to IMP, following the rapid expansion of the Project over the past 12 months. The Indigenous Marathon Project, founded in 2010 by former Australian of the Year and World [...]
Tuggeranong Hawks Football Club will be Good Sports on Saturday
The Tuggeranong Hawks Football Club are good sports, quite literally. The club will receive its level 1 accreditation of the Australian Drug Foundation’s Good Sports Program before taking on the GWS Giants on Saturday. Deputy Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory, and Minister for Sport, Andrew Barr will present the accreditation to the club [...]
Waddell’s big chance as Buttriss looks to sweeten recovery
Canberra’s Glenn Buttriss has been slow to recover from a sternum injury. Photo: Stuart Walmsley Canberra Raiders hooker Glen Buttriss has had a triple dose of sugar injected into his chest to speed up his recovery from a sternum injury. Buttriss’s month-long absence has allowed Travis Waddell to launch a last-ditch effort to save [...]
Indigenous men touch-down in Canberra
A squad of six Indigenous men will today arrive in Canberra for their first training camp as part of the 2012 Indigenous Marathon Project New York Marathon squad. Following the success of the women’s camp last week, Korey Summer from Alice Springs, Justin Gaykamangu from Ramingining, Kieren De Santis from Tiwi Islands, Marius Clarke from [...]
Ancient Egyptian Ruins Unearthed in Tuggeranong
30 foot Egyptian pyramid amongst exotic sites at opening of new Tuggeranong Paintball Theme Park Tuggeranong, ACT, 11th May, 2012: Ancient Egyptian Ruins including a 30ft Stone Pyramid were unveiled in Tuggeranong this week amongst 5 movie-themed game zones at a new paintball theme park. The company, Delta Force Paintball, have finalized development of their [...]
Indigenous Marathon Project athletes conquer Boston
Two Indigenous Australians have risen to the occasion and conquered the 2012 Boston Marathon. Tegan Pigram from Derby WA and Jamie Wunungmurra from Yirrkala NT overcame a many hurdles to make their way through the tough 42.195 km course. Despite testing conditions, with a temperature of 31 degrees at the start line, Tegan completed the [...]
Indigenous Marathon Project runners tackle Boston Marathon
In less than a week, three Indigenous runners from some of the country’s most remote communities will exchange the vast Australia landscape for the streets of Boston as they tackle the 2012 Boston Marathon. Kelsey Youngblutt from Palm Island (QLD), Tegan Pigram from Derby (WA) and Jamie Wanungmurra from Yirrkala (NT) began their journey to [...]
Tennis anyone? But nobody to play with …
The first of its kind in Australia; tennisbook.com.au lets you search for Tennis players in your area and you to get in touch with them to set up games. The site launches on the 16th of February.
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