When Muhammad Ali surprised George Foreman with a powerful right in the opening seconds of their famous Rumble in the Jungle, Norman Mailer described the sound as “the unmistakable thwomp of a high-powered punch. The sound of a bat thunking into a watermelon.”
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Despite the wonderful achievements of western medicine, not all of its practitioners have been fine people.
There have been real-life monsters who performed macabre experiments, for titillation or some horrific long term goal, on unwilling patients.
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In the dying seconds of the 1977 Grand Final, Collingwood’s Ross ‘Twiggy’ Dunne prepared to kick, requiring a goal to level the scores. Despite being only twenty metres out, he chose the kick usually reserved for the long distance roost: the technically difficult and notoriously inaccurate torpedo punt. Continue reading “Goalkicking: The Art and Desire Lost In the Modern Game”
What are the chances of that? The Thoughts of Andrew Sutherland 