Good week for...
Mils goes by the book
We've got two copies of Mils Muliaina's autobiography Living the Dream to give away. Email your details to supersport@nzherald.co.nz by 5pm Monday to be in the draw. And answer this Mils question: Wherrrre in New Zealand was Mils rrrraised?
Rugby researcher
Eyebrow-raising research from the ivory towers in Dunedin crosses our desk. It seems the University of Otago's famed scholar Clayton Weatherston was making his name in academia with studies on the national game. The research papers have snazzy names, try this for size: Professionalization of New Zealand rugby union: historical background, structural changes and competitive balance.
Weather bulletin
In the rollicking page-turner Uncertainty of outcome and Super 12 rugby union attendance: application of a general-to-specific modelling strategy, uber-genius Weatherston deduces that if it's pissing with rain and freezing cold and your team is stuck somewhere near the bottom of the competition ladder, fans are less likely to attend matches. Well, coming from Otago, he would say that.
Grand career
The court has been told that Weatherston, who once donned the suit of Otago mascot Shaq the Cat, fancied a career as a sports journalist. With his "extreme narcissism" and "excessive fantasies of grandeur" he'd fit right in among most newspaper sports departments.
Veitch way to vote
Great news for fans of domestic abusers on the airwaves. A market survey company is phoning Auckland households asking how they would feel about Tony Veitch returning to the airwaves.
Bad week for...
Three-second All Blacks
The last time the All Blacks lost to Australia at Eden Park was way back in 1986. On that day, Marty Berry played his only Test. With only seconds to play, he replaced Frano Botica for long enough to stand under the sticks for a last-minute conversion then chase the kick off as the final whistle sounded. Even Anthony Boric - who has built an entire international career out of replacing Brad Thorn in the 78th minute of already-decided test matches - would blush at Berry's run.
If you know of an All Black who actually took the field for less than Berry, drop us a line. And no, Aled de Manmountain doesn't count.
If the suit fits ...
Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole laid out the cash for a new bespoke suit. Sadly for Joe, a fan of West Ham (the club he ditched for Chelsea) was involved in making the suit and stitched into the lining the word "Judas" and a full West Ham insignia.
Watch this space-cadet
Popbitch has taken the opportunity to remind us that Cole's wife Carly Zucker was once allowed a break from the jungle set of I'm A Celebrity so she could watch TV coverage of an England-Germany game and see hubby in action. Sadly, Joe had been pulled from the line-up. Even sadder: she didn't realise. As she told a fellow contestant back on the set of the show: "Slowly through the game I realised he wasn't involved."
Dry humping here to stay
At the start of the league season, the NRL launched a well-intentioned effort to end the nonsense of tackled players being pinned to the ground and dry humped by defenders. Sadly, it seems to have gone the way of the dodo.
Cambo allowed to dream
Happy trails for Michael Campbell. At 5.56pm yesterday the former US Open champ turned back the clock, going atop the British Open leaderboard for the first time since 1995. The fact he was one of only three golfers to have completed the first hole hardly mattered, right?
<i>Supersport's Good Week / Bad Week</i>: Mils goes by the book
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