Social media beefs of the 80s and 90s

Sport Review #326

While somehow being both underwhelming and overhyped, the Blues and Moana Pacifika social media flareup made me wonder - what kind of online shithousery did we miss out on in the 80s and 90s, before we were able to throw stones at each other online? Let’s fire up the Sport Review time machine and find out.

Thanks for reading - Richard

This week's best NZ sport content

A great New Zealand sport change maker, writer and people was honoured with a NZOM this week. Suzanne McFadden was the lone women reporter in the Herald’s sport department for many years, then created Locker Room, where she drove women’s sport coverage forward, mentored new women writers and told some cracking stories about some fantastic sportswomen you’d otherwise probably not hear of. Thoroughly deserved, congrats [Locker Room]

Fantastic story of a Wellington man who has run an absurd amount of marathons while dealing with a big cancer scare [The Bounce]

The Development Squad talks to Dion Nash - these are all tremendous, subscribe [Development Squad]

Handy guide to New Zealand’s great sporting families, including the full range of code, gender [Sportsfreak]

Watching everyone trying to articulate their response to Run It Straight is generally unedifying, NZR aside [RNZ, Stuff]

Dylan Cleaver on trying to hand out 20 central cricket contracts, and how to regard Gary Stead, the quiet and decent man who oversaw the greatest ever era in NZ cricket [The Bounce]

Suzanne McFadden (NOZM!) talks to Sophie Devine on taking a two month break from cricket to get herself right after one of the craziest periods of her career [Locker Room]

Neat story on Ricky Robinson, who is evidently our leading golf photographer [Herald]

Video nasty

Authentic.

Long read

How to lose thousands and thousands of dollars being sucked into a selling make up scheme [The Cut]

Recommendation 

If you enjoy living vicariously through tales of long New York and Paris lunches, dramatic efforts to get stories published, the Vanity Fair Oscars party, literary feuds and anything people like Anna Wintour and Christopher Hitchens do, then Graydon Carter’s When The Going Was Good has you well covered.