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ANZAC Day Spirit

An Australian soldier on the day he was evacuated from Anzac.

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Today is ANZAC Day. It is a day or remembrance.

My thoughts about today is that it is about remembering what our soldiers have done and are currently doing for us. It is not about the glorification of war. We must respect our soldiers. They put their lives on the line for us, so we can maintain the freedoms and lifestyles we have. Let us remember their deeds and hope that the current serving soldiers can come home alive and safe.

Sport is very Australian. We use it to show the respect and courage of our society. Today there are games of football in different codes showing their form of appreciation to our soldiers, both fallen and serving. Good luck to all involved and thanks.

"They shall not grow old, as we are that are left grow old, Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them."

"Lest we forget."

“How was your golf game, dear?” asked Jack’s wife Tracy.

“Well, I was hitting pretty well, but my eyesight’s gotten so bad I couldn’t see where the ball went.”

“But you’re seventy-five years old, Jack!” admonished his wife, “Why don’t you take my brother Scott along?”

“But he’s eighty-five and doesn’t even play golf anymore,” protested Jack.

“But he’s got perfect eyesight. He could watch your ball,” Tracy pointed out.

The next day Jack teed off with Scott looking on. Jack swung, and the ball disappeared down the middle of the fairway. “Do you see it?” asked Jack.

“Yup,” Scott answered.

“Well, where is it?” yelled Jack, peering off into the distance.

“I forgot.”

NRL - Melbourne Storm's Shame !

The news from the NRL today was extremely surprising to most rugby league fans and sports reporters. The Melbourne team, the Melbourne Storm, have rorted the system for at least 5 years and paid their players amounts above the salary cap. It is no wonder that they were able to keep the majority of their team together and even attract new players. What they did was cheat.

The NRL have stripped the club of three minor premierships, two premierships and all the points gained this year as well as not being allow to accrue any points for the rest of 2010. They were also fined a large sum of money and told to return the prize money gained from the two premierships they were stripped of.

This might kill the team in Melbourne especially with a new rugby union team starting there soon.

Australian Tennis

Left: The last triumphant Davis Cup Team of Australia 2003.

What has happened to Australian tennis. In the past Australia produced some of the best players in the world. We were able to compete with countries which had much larger populations and win. We used to dominate Davis Cup and the four majors, now look at us. We struggle to have any male or female in the top 100, let alone the top 10.

It might seem like I am stuck in the past, but what I am actually trying to say is, what has caused the demise. Is it the lack of structure in the system? Is it the lack of early identification of talent? Is it that there are too many other sports and recreations to choose from? Has everyone else in the world just caught up and as their populations are bigger, are able to find more talent? Or is it a combination of some or all of these and possibly other things not mentioned?

Tennis needs help. We need to find money to keep our past players in Australia to coach our next generations. We need to find money to spot talent and pay new talent so they won't go to other sports. And we need to prasie people and not try and knock them down when they do well.

This is over simplifying the problem, but it is a start.

PS: We also need to go back to grass courts and get rid of the synthetic rubber. It was our advantage in the past and we should bring it back, just llike the Europeans play most of their tennis on clay.

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