Tasmanian Times
Sport
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1.1KElla and Gould at Murrayfield
Background. Mark Ella was the best Rugby player I ever saw. He was retiring after this match because, like most people, he...
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Tas Crayfish Robert Wows The World
A Tasmanian crayfish named Robert has become the toast of the animal tipster world after correctly predicting the first eight results at...
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James Hird’s wife Tania reveals details of ‘tip-off’ phone call. Keeping it all in the AFL ‘Family’
The wife of suspended Essendon coach James Hird says former Bombers chairman David Evans pressured her husband not to tell anti-doping investigators...
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ASADA, the AFL and WADA – The Main Game
Last week the media was awash with reports and details of the show cause letter received by the sports scientist Stephen Dank....
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AFL and James Hird: A sad history of ignorance … The Love-In
AFL must be the greatest game in the world because it continues to thrive despite being run by a number of people...
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7 Days, 8 Friends, 140km. 1 Rainforest
A fashion editor, a paratrooper, a model, an electrician, a permaculturalist, a translator, a youth worker and a soil conservationist. All brought...
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Farewell to former Mercury journalist David Stockdale, who has died at age 66
IT says something about his status as a local legend that former Mercury journalist David Stockdale was simply known as “Stockers”, even...
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Tourism v Racing: You be the Judge
The release this week of a report into the economic contribution of the Tasmanian racing industry ( Read for yourself, here )...
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‘Lonners’ leaves a legacy
He wasn’t so much a victim of racing as a champion of its cause. His eyes always lit up when he talked...
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The Race That Stops The Nation – A Poem for All Australians
Archer* wins the first Melbourne Cup, 1861. Copies are held in the State Library of NSW and the National Library of Australia....
