Just wholesome things to get you through
Sport Review #171
Everyone’s battling. The Auckland lockdown is more stressful than a particularly testing Trying To Find Things session around the house.
Luckily for you dear reader, Sport Review is a Subject Matter Expert in distraction, and presents a series of wholesome, happy content to take your mind off the four walls and stop seeking out Facebook posts to be angry about:
White Ferns Amy Satterthwaite and Lea Tahuhu and their baby Grace - bless.
The Crusaders celebrate Grant Elliott’s six in the 2015 cricket world cup semi against South Africa while on tour in the Republic. Look how happy they are. Look at them.
A dog comforts Colin Meads - in difficult times, who wouldn’t want a tender paw on the shoulder from a loyal farm dog, who is probably called Stan or shagger?
Murray Deaker shows off his batting skills to Danny Morrison, 12 - with the back in top form thanks to another spectacular Bio Mag sleep, Deaks swings for the hills, skilfully avoiding the understandably concerned future commentary legend in the dome.
Trent and Louie and Kane and Sandy - close your eyes and you could be strolling down to a top Mount Maunganui cafe with a couple of World Test Champions and some very good doggos.
Dave Dobbyn looking like the coolest man on earth - OK, so not sport related but imagine going back in time and smashing a few Joseph Khutzes with this legend?
Young Chris Lewis - the future Wimbledon finalist warming up in a set of gear that would go for a pretty penny on TradeMe.
John Mitchell with future BLACKCAP son Daryl - likely fresh from lifting the Shield for Waikato.
Thanks for reading - Richard
This week's best NZ sport content
Te Papa is an incredible asset to this country, but it can’t keep being all things – it does both Te Papa and our sporting heritage a disservice to assume it can hold McCullum next to McCahon.
In spite of the artistic merits of both.
Former NZ Cricket Museum curator Jamie Bell on our complicated sport museum landscape [Sportsfreak]
Part two of Dylan Cleaver’s interview with Jarrod Kimber goes long on writing about the BLACKCAPS from afar, how to be in the cricket writing sweetspot and NZ cricket media [The Bounce]
“Young women aren’t saying they don’t want to participate. They’re saying they want to do it how they want to, when they want to, and in the clothes they want to do it in.”
New research into keeping young women in sport [Locker Room]
Simon Wilson on the rule bending and lawyering up in Auckland First XV rugby, and how the vastly out of whack allocation of resources could be evened up [NZ Herald]
Logan Savory on ‘Son’ White, the man who came back from Gallipoli literally shell shocked and became an All Black [Stuff]
Ash Stanley leaves Locker Room. A fantastic contribution, expertly summed up, and an opportunity for a new sports writer [Locker Room]
Video nasty
“Let’s keep things related to the ghost tour.”
Long read
The story of OZY Media, a Zoom call, an impersonation and a breakdown [New York Times]
Recommendation
Rick Rubin talking with Ringo Starr - a fantastic conversation with the great man, on the day Charlie Watts died [Broken Record podcast]
Bring back the gif
Logging on for the takes.
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