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Sports allrounder Perry seeks 2nd world title (AP)
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Ellyse Perry’s indecision has worked in Australia’s favor, with the 20-year-old university student selected for her second World Cup in different sports in just over 12 months. Perry was selected Wednesday in Australia’s squad for the women’s football World Cup, and when in Germany she will be chasing her second world title in less than a year, after helping Australia win the women’s cricket Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean. The average age of the Australian squad for the World Cup is just under 22— the youngest Matildas squad on average ever selected—so it needs to draw on all the experience at its disposal.
Sports allrounder Perry seeks 2nd world title (AP)
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Ellyse Perry’s indecision has worked in Australia’s favor, with the 20-year-old university student selected for her second World Cup in different sports in just over 12 months. Perry was selected Wednesday in Australia’s squad for the women’s football World Cup, and when in Germany she will be chasing her second world title in less than a year, after helping Australia win the women’s cricket Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean. The average age of the Australian squad for the World Cup is just under 22— the youngest Matildas squad on average ever selected—so it needs to draw on all the experience at its disposal.
All rounder Perry in quest for 2nd world title (Reuters)
SYDNEY, June 8 (Reuters) – Cricketing all-rounder Ellyse Perry will get a chance to win her second world title in just over a year after being included in Australia’s squad for the women’s soccer World Cup on Wednesday. Perry, who made her debut for her country in both sports four years ago as a 16-year-old, helped Australia win the women’s cricket Twenty20 World Cup in May last year and now has a chance to double the glory in Germany from June 26-July 17. “To be given this opportunity is just fantastic for me, purely from the perspective that I absolutely love playing football as much as I love playing cricket,” Perry told reporters on Wednesday
All rounder Perry in quest for 2nd world title (Reuters)
SYDNEY, June 8 (Reuters) – Cricketing all-rounder Ellyse Perry will get a chance to win her second world title in just over a year after being included in Australia’s squad for the women’s soccer World Cup on Wednesday. Perry, who made her debut for her country in both sports four years ago as a 16-year-old, helped Australia win the women’s cricket Twenty20 World Cup in May last year and now has a chance to double the glory in Germany from June 26-July 17. “To be given this opportunity is just fantastic for me, purely from the perspective that I absolutely love playing football as much as I love playing cricket,” Perry told reporters on Wednesday
Rugby: Melbourne Storm chases Otago teen
Click photo to enlarge Otago Boys’ High School first XV captain Michael Collins in action against Dunstan High School at Carisbrook in Dunedin on Saturday. Photo by Jane Dawber. Otago Boys’ High School first XV captain Michael Collins is being wooed by the one of the most successful league clubs in the business – and it seems talented young South Island, rugby players are becoming a target of aggressive Australian league clubs
Baseball and Cricket ‘Right Off the Bat’
Available July 2011 For some books one author isn’t enough. Evander Lomke (baseball, the Bronx) and Martin Rowe (cricket, ex-U.K.) have collaborated to explain the world’s two most popular bat-based games to nonfans, just as they’ve been explaining the sports to each other over the past couple of decades. The sum of their hard-earned pedagogical knowledge can be found in Right Off the Bat: Cricket, Baseball, Literature, and Life (Paul Dry Books, $16.95)
Rugby, a game for players, not spectators
One lesson I learned a long time ago was that rugby union is a game for players, not spectators.
N.Z. activists threaten to disrupt rugby W.Cup
WELLINGTON (AFP) – Activists in New Zealand have threatened to disrupt this year’s Rugby World Cup with protests over government cutbacks, including possibly flour-bombing Auckland’s Eden Park stadium from the air.
N.Z. activists threaten to disrupt rugby W.Cup
WELLINGTON (AFP) – Activists in New Zealand have threatened to disrupt this year’s Rugby World Cup with protests over government cutbacks, including possibly flour-bombing Auckland’s Eden Park stadium from the air. Angered by cuts to pensions, welfare and public service jobs announced in the conservative government’s budget this month, a group called the Coalition for Social Justice said it would target the September 9-October 23 tournament
N.Z. activists threaten to disrupt rugby W.Cup
WELLINGTON (AFP) – Activists in New Zealand have threatened to disrupt this year’s Rugby World Cup with protests over government cutbacks, including possibly flour-bombing Auckland’s Eden Park stadium from the air. Angered by cuts to pensions, welfare and public service jobs announced in the conservative government’s budget this month, a group called the Coalition for Social Justice said it would target the September 9-October 23 tournament.