America's Cup vibe check
Sport Review #299
Ben Ainslie
Cursing pesky deep set anger / other issues
Wants to fight the snack machine
Considering taking up vaping
Peter Burling
Chill, focused
Spent lay day repairing Havianas with bread tag
Smashing jamon
Team New Zealand supporters
Chronically over-posting to neighbourhood group chat
Bemoaning car park pricing at supporter base
Plotting Kohimarama Yacht Club Board coup
Steven McIvor
‘Don’t worry, I’ve been called a lot worse lol’
Grant Dalton
Ola!
Passive aggressive text chain with Wayne Brown taking up time
Kept away from media / caged animal generally
Good folk of Barcelona
Unconvinced
Cyclors
Curious how the racing is going
Plotting revenge
Thanks for reading - Richard
This week's best NZ sport content
They let me back on the radio, chatting All Whites, Auckland FC, America’s Cup, Rafa, White and Black Ferns and shamelessly stealing reckons from the BYC Podcast with the GOAT Emile Donovan [RNZ]
Big weekend with Auckland FC running out at Mt Smart for the first time - here’s Michael Burgess with ten reasons why they’ll go well, and the latest supporter group Tamaki AFC, who might do a protest - it’s all happening, see you there [NZ Herald]
It’s all up for grabs at the women’s T20 world cup, with Australia and England out and the White Ferns hitting form, not least Sophie Devine and Susie Bates [Stuff, RNZ]
This looks really cool - a new documentary on the Bay of Plenty’s historic shield win at Eden Park in 2004 (I was there!) [NZ Herald]
Marcus Daniell has hung up the racquet, and now throwing himself wholly into his philanthropy work on the tennis world tour [RNZ]
Very impressed by this Peep Show / Super Hans Windsor run (inspiration)
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Video nasty
Amazing progress
Long read
All about nutcases that chase tornadoes for kicks [National Geographic]
RecommendationÂ
If you can bear it, here’s a podcast series on how Donald Trump won the 2016 election [The Rest is Politics]