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The Young Matildas, Australia's women's soccer youth team, lost to their Chinese counterparts 2-1 in an Asian Under-19 Championship tie in Wuhan on Monday night. And if that wasn't enough, there was an all-in brawl after full-time with spectators pelting the Aussies with bottles.
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Captain-in-waiting Michael Clarke and Mister-Cricket-in-waiting Marcus North saved Australia's bacon in the Third Test at Edgbaston yesterday. With, it should be noted, the assistance of Mr Cricket himself, county-cricketer-in-waiting Mike Hussey, and chronic injury-in-waiting Shane Watson.
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Think of Saturday's day of inaction at Edgbaston not so much as a washout as a pause for half-time at the two-and-a-half Test point of the 2009 Ashes. It hasn't been a series of great science, but it's not dull. And we still don't really know how it's going to finish up.
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@PH408: Disappointed not to be on the field with the lads today, will be supporting the guys, it's a BIG test match 4 us. Thanks 4 all the support!
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As if Sarah Palin's gubernatorial farewell wasn't enough, she has now made the transition to civilian twitterato. But the scariest thing about this video, from Wednesday night's NBC Tonight Show, is not Ms Palin's tweeting, but the fact that under all that cosmetic architecture, William Shatner is 78 years old:
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If Civilisation As We Know It were to come to an end this week, William Shatner's recital of Sarah Palin's departure from politics would be the perfect full stop...
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I have been baffled, for years, at the repeated selection for Australian Test teams of Shane Watson.
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As Associated Press's right hand prepares to implement something that looks suspiciously like spyware to protect their intellectual property, here's a freely-embeddable video made available by AP's left hand via their Youtube channel:
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When I showed this to my daughter, she wanted to watch it over and over and over and over again. Still doesn't want to eat cucumbers though.
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Stuart Clark, Brad Hodge, Bryce McGain and Burt Cockley are among the players left out of Australia's preliminary Gang of 30 for the next International Cricket Cash Cow Tournament (ICCCT).
