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Came across this article in Rolling Stone and it has some stunners .. Blockbuster knocked back offer to buy Netflix for $50m. The iconic roles Burt Reynolds knocked back …wow! The horrific death of Vic Morrow and two local kids in Twilight Zone movie. Morrow was the father of Jennifer Jason...

The sequel to Vikings kicks off on 25th Feb on Netflix. Set 100 years after Vikings features historical figures such as William the Conqueror and King Canute Hopefully it’s decent

Anyone had a go at this? Pick a hitter or two each day and if you can go and beat DiMaggio’s 56 game streak you win USD 5.6m. Never been won in the the 20 years it’s been run. Best streak for the year wins $10k https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/sports/baseball/beat-the-streak.html

Can’t believe there’s a Scottish and French thread and no German one yet!! Good start to the season Sat morning with the Gladbach Bayern draw. GB started well, Bayern took over until last 20 mins. Lots of alarms for that Bayern defence though, lost the ball numerous times and were too easily...

And so it begins.. Nats without 5 players for season opener due to covid. Good luck fitting a full season in

Starts tonight on SBS. Story of founder (mythical) of Rome. Interesting bit...it’s all shot in Ancient Latin! Hopefully that’s not the only interesting part

106 yo Tony La Russia hired as new manager for the White Sox...10 years after his last job! Are they serious?

It’s back baby!!...albeit in reduced format ...and some (me) would say inferior due to DH being used for NL. But hey better than nothing...going to be wild ride

Story has received quite a bit of coverage in the States... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/sports/afl-football-concussions.html

New sci fi from James Gray starring Brad Pitt. Got good feedback at Venice Film Festival. Opens in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to this one.

From HBO on Foxtel. Drop everything, you have to watch this. Excellent comedy with some great characters. When you get to Season 2 ep 5 which just showed tonight, you’ll thank me. Will become a classic.

A basketball forum with no March Madness thread?? What’s going on?? Anyway crazy finish to Virginia - Auburn with the three point foul plus the missed double dribble call earlier. Oh well great comeback by Auburn even though fell short. And I’m glad Izzo’s Spartans have lost as well. Izzo has...

AFL should pour shed load of money and go back to AFL Reserves and increase AFL list numbers to 45-48. Get a TV deal for Reserves and play them prior to AFL Vic game where they can. Also introduce a new third tier new comp with just 8 clubs. Played over summer, 7 games each. Players...

Kicks off tomorrow...well without kickoffs. League started by Bill Polian and son of TV exec Dick Ebersol. 8 teams, no real big names just some very ordinary ex NFL players such as Trent Richardson, Christian Hackenburg, Scooby Wright, Rahim Moore ..you get the picture Some well known names...

The best and most important form of cricket is currently at a real low in regards to standard. Followed the game since the 70s and can’t remember a worst period of quality test batting. After Kohli, Williamson and Smith, there’s a dearth of quality batsmen. Where’s the great openers with the...

Peter Jackson doco out today in U.S They’ve restored over 100 hrs WWI footage, digitalised, colorised it and adjusted the frame rate. Looks amazing like these people just come to life. Have a look at a few examples in below article...

On my iPhone when I quote posts and try and highlight parts when I try and extend to text to highlight (and bold for example) it keeps highlighlighting all text underneath. I can’t extent it just to cover line or two. Any ideas?

It’s that time again

Are they serious? They won 11 games last season missing out on finals by one game. Granted their list is a disaster but no way assistance. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/struggling-afl-clubs-may-get-access-to-players-from-state-leagues-20180822-p4zz47.html

Calling cricket...nice

Looking to extend pokies lease lease in Melton beyond 2022. Melton one of the poorest suburbs in the country. Pretty disappointing, community club my arse. Weak from the club. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/essendon-extend-pokies-presence-in-melton-20180709-p4zqcq.html

Anyone else see this? Pretty gutsy open up like that, broke down a couple of times when talking about day ban was handed down. Gave a good idea of pressure everyone was under, his close friendship with Hird, disdain for Dank and utter frustration of knowing you're innocent but being ruled...

Here here Kochie...Kennett the dinosaur and one of the worst Premiers this state or any other state has ever had, whacks Saints and Power re finances and yet his club makes a shedload of money in the western suburbs from pokies. Those Hawks have always had close relations with the western suburbs

Article from NY Times...quite interesting how close Kushner’s ties are and the financial benefits..wonder if this influenced the Jerusalem decision? https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/07/business/jared-kushner-israel.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/immigration-minister-peter-dutton-concedes-legal-error-in-deporting-shane-martin-20171204-gzys67.html Apparently legal error by Dutton “The father of AFL and Richmond superstar Dustin Martin is expected to be allowed back into Australia after Immigration...

I have NFL Gamepass and MLB TV and both offer condensed edited version of all games. The NFL shows every play with all the breaks cut out. Takes about 40 mins to watch a condensed game. MLB takes 20 mins to watch main highlights. BEIN shows condensed games of soccer that are 30 minutes in...

Just a week away!! You ripper! Here's my predictions...... AL East Champs: Boston Red Sox AL Central : Cleveland Indians AL West : Houston Astros Wildcard : Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays ALCS : Indians d Red Sox AL MVP : Mookie Betts (Bos) AL Cy Young: Dallas Keuchel (Astros) - Looking...

Alright, baseball never sleeps...Free agency started, here's the off season schedule :

Thought I'd start season thread because I wasn't too sure where to post. But some bad news with the MLB pulling out of funding for the League. They were contributing 75% of funding and still making bad losses...

I didn't want to start a new thread so excuse the off topic question, but this question hit me like an epithany during the night and I could be barely get back to sleep........so here it goes......why can the NFL continue to use dark balls at night yet the AFL continue to use those garish yellow...