Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Sport
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Loading Docs is a site I’ve blogged about before which showcases short documentary films from Aotearoa New Zealand. The 2017 films are now up on the site (along with all the previous years). The 2017 collection is themed around Diversity – Many voices, many stories, many screens and you can find the films here: Home…
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Interesting day’s cricket in the second test vs. Sri Lanka. Lots of wickets, a green pitch and a nice way to spend the afternoon with it on the background while playing board games and drinking cups of tea. NZ vs SL Second Test | Live Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo. Excellent to see Kumar Sangakkara get…
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The Rugby World Cup is generating all sorts of interesting discussion on the interaction religion and sport as popular culture. Here are a couple of recent examples: World Cup 2011: Why rugby and religion can mix to great effect | Robert Kitson | Sport | guardian.co.uk Cathedral scores All Black icon – Anglican Taonga Updates:…
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Sermon today was on ‘keeping the Sabbath’ which made this article in the Guardian (Six Nations: ‘Rugby is not what fuels my happiness,’ says Euan Murray) more relevant than it might have been another day. Hat tip to The GA Junkie – an interesting blog in the vagaries of Presbyterianism around the world. An interesting…
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I’m glad someone finally said this in a public forum. My observations from watching my own kids play sport and the different teams they play is that the comments here aren’t far from the mark for some teams. Sad but true, but the fun of playing is taken out of it. (And don’t get me…
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The two best teams in the Air NZ Cup play in the final tonight – Wellington and Canterbury. History tends to favour Canterbury, though I think we’ve got a good chance tonight. As with all these things it will come done to mental preparation and doing the little things right. (Oh, and finding some kryptonite…
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The Wellington Lions win the Ranfurly Shield! And they beat Auckland to do it – even better. And Auckland score no points – even better. Well done to the whole team. Go the Lions! Of course, I’m in Christchurch and miss all coverage of the game, but first-born and second-born went to the game and…
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The kids football (soccer) season ended yesterday with all four playing their final games for the winter season. It’s been a really long haul – practices for second-born started back in early February for a pre-season tournament, with the others close behind in March. And then with the rain delays we’ve only just finished. Good…
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A recent issue of ESPN The Magazine has an article on athletes with prosthetics and some commentary asking what really is the difference between various sorts of technological enhancement in sport. See ESPN – ESPN The Magazine – Let ‘Em Play and the photo gallery at ESPN – ESPN The Magazine – Photo Gallery. Hat…
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We went down to Hamilton today to watch day four of the NZ-England cricket test. Great day all round – though the excitement of the NZ second innings collapse could have been done without. Armed with deck chairs, rugs and our chilly bin the 6 of us, plus another 5 staked out an area on…