Community sport

Kyle Reeves

Community sport
Gaelic football enters our consciousness twice a year. Once, when it gets thrown into the Irish Stew on St Patrick’s day along with hurling (both versions!) and James Joyce, when…

Bushwhacked

ARTICLES, Community sport
“Get your hands off him ya dirty piece a ‘Rat shit”, spits a stout Stawell man. The Aararat player looks up sharply and gives him a savage finger, provoking another…

Going with the flow

ARTICLES, Community sport
It begins at the historic Yarrawonga Weir with a blast from a Crimean War blunderbuss, a great puff of screeching sulphur-crested cockatoos, a churn of white water, and intense barracking…

Professional pugs

ARTICLES, Community sport
Last Friday, sixteen men from Joe Cursio’s Fightfit gym in South Melbourne, almost all of them white-collar workers, became professional boxers for a day so they could square off against…

Wakool water

ARTICLES, Community sport
The Wakool River is at last in full flow, but signs of the recent drought are defiant. Tired towns. Creeks like collapsed arteries. Weeds that only thrive in thirsty river…

High-Tension

ARTICLES, Community sport
Tug-of-war has contributed more colloquialisms than almost any other sport, among them “digging in one’s heels”, “pulling one’s weight”, “straining against the rope” and of course, the figurative “anchor”. Before…

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