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Anything the Germans can do, the Northern Territorians can do better. Paul the octopus was used to predict World Cup results. In the NT, they have a croc (what else).

He’s predicted THE PIES for the AFL Grand Final to-morrow.

 

Go the MIGHTY PIES!!

This article is more of an excuse to publish yet another picture of Aussie swimmer and decoration, Stephanie Rice.

She became yet another person to the ‘twitslapped’ through an indiscretion on Twitter. She tweeted after the Boks-Wallabies game:

“Suck on that faggots. Probs the best game I’ve ever seen!! Well done boys”

This has come back to bite her on her athletic ar-e. Rice has now forfeited her enviable role as the human mascot for Jaguar and Channel 7 have pulled the plug on her. Oh dear!

Source: Sports Intelligence.com

The best-attended domestic sports league in the world is — no surprise here — the National Football League, which averaged a massive 67,509 fans per game in 2009. Next up was the German Bundesliga, with a very healthy 42,499.

The Australian Football League, with teams in just six or seven cities (is Geelong a city?), was not that far behind, with 37,790 fans per game.

That’s better than the English Premier League, which despite its worldwide marketing prowess, massive television audience, and globally famous clubs, finished in fourth place with an average of 34,158.

Major League Baseball was fifth, at 30,338, and was actually the leader in total attendance, pulling more than 73 million fans through the gates. Of course, each MLB team plays 162 games per season, most of any league in the world.

In sixth place, and probably a surprise to many reading this, is the Canadian Football League at 28,572 fans per game. Canadian football, for those unaware, is similar to American football, with slightly different rules, such as 12 players instead of 11 and three downs instead of four.

The top 10 is rounded out with Spain’s La Liga (28,474) , the Japanese pro baseball league (25,926), the Italian Serie A (25,282) and cricket’s Indian Premier League.

The IPL’s inclusion on this list is somewhat controversial, since methods for determining attendance at Indian grounds can be dubious. Cricket on the sub-continent dubious? Surely not.

[The Knysna mutiny]

In further fallout from the World Cup, France’s ‘star’ Nikolas Anelka has been banned for at least 18 internationals by the authorities. Anelka who is on a minimum of GBP250,000 per week, says that he “doesn’t care”.

Perhaps Anelka needs a crude reminder that the game is bigger than the individual?

There’s a great piece of café-society gossip in France that seems to have escaped much of the English-speaking media this summer.

It involves a bitter controversy that’s brewing on the French Riviera along a tiny sliver of prime Mediterranean coastline known as Pampelonne Beach, just south of St. Tropez. Municipal officials there recently adopted a policy that calls for the demolition of nearly all the area’s most fashionable oceanfront clubs and restaurants, a move that has outraged local restaurateurs, as well as many of their celebrity and billionaire customers.

Pampelonne Beach first became famous in the mid-1950s, when Brigitte Bardot, the commanding sexual icon of the day, effectively set St. Tropez and the neighboring shores ablaze by shooting the film And God Created Woman there. The movie, coupled with Bardot’s decision to take up residence in town, caught the attention of jetsetters all around world, many of whom fell in love with place and helped to establish the wildly decadent party scene that abides today.

[Brigitte and Sacha Distal - for whom he sang 'You are the sunshine of my love"]

The hotspots in St. Tropez are known for inspiring ostentatious displays of raffish pleasure. Stories are legendary about gorgeous women undressing in public and the ritualized spraying of Cristal champagne. Such activities are integral to the resort’s appeal, and the opportunity to celebrate so extravagantly is what keeps people with big money returning faithfully year after year.

But now, there is a fear spreading among jetsetters that the period of Saturnalian bliss might finally be coming to an end. Citing environmental hazards, local government authorities determined last month that a majority of the restaurants and clubs on Pampelonne Beach must be leveled, with permission to rebuild being granted only to owners who create temporary seasonal structures on a considerably reduced footprint. At least five of these waterfront establishments will be forced to shut down permanently. The mandate, though supported by certain factions of the year-round community, strikes a decisive blow against those who embrace the spirit of libertine summertime amusements.

However, one of the locals is unfazed – “The scum might just stay east, in Monte Carlo and Cannes, hence leaving St. Trop to the likes of me and my sailing boat, rather than shit like Puff Daddy and his rental-refrigerator-on-steroids super yacht.”

The French tourist authorities will be watching this spot!

[Original news source - Vanity Fair]

You’ve just gotta feel sorry for the Poms. Retail in the High Street is awash with bargains of selling off England World Cup merchandise.

Even the crocs -

[Yes, that's right - Caps and Crocs 70% off]

[This is not some dodgy store - it's Britain's largest sports retailer and online outlet - quietly pasting A4 sheets from the store printer over the previous, heralded 'Tailored by England' TV campaign. The question - 15 pounds may be too much!!]

Viva Espana! Viva South Africa!

What an occasion!

Isn’t it amazing that where the world gathers, Paris Hilton has to be her tacky best?

The Times in South Africa reports to-day that socialite Paris Hilton has claimed to have spotted a tiger while on safari during her World Cup sojourn in South Africa.

“So many amazing animals here – Elephants, Tigers, Zebras, Cheetahs, Rhinos, Hippos, etc. So awesome!” she said on Twitter on Thursday afternoon.

In an endeavor to make sure that she was seen and to take up a few column centimtres and seconds in the world media, Hilton was briefly arrested on suspicion of smoking dagga during a World Cup match in Port Elizabeth last week, also wrote in separate tweets: “Giraffes are Hot”, “Ella the Elaphant (sic)”, “A Huge Cute Elaphant”, and “So amazing, sitting outside eating lunch and there are a family of 5 Elaphants only feet away from us. So incredible!”

While elephant (the correct spelling), zebra, cheetah, rhino and hippo are indigenous to South Africa, the tiger isn’t – its home is in Asia.

Amazingly for someone who was probably being paid for going to a game lodge andreporting on it, Hilton did not say where she had spotted these animals, although clearly wasn’t a local zoo.

Hilton later corrected herself: “I meant leapards (sic)”. And again: “I meant leopards not tigers. : p oops”

Does the world really need Paris Hilton?

LARISSA Riquelme, the stunning Paraguayan lingerie model who became a worldwide sensation during the World Cup, will run naked through the streets after all.
Millions of mostly male fans were left shattered by Paraguay’s quarter-final defeat, as Riquelme had promised to run naked through the streets of Asuncion if the boys in red and white made the semis.

[Larissa defying the laws of gravity]

Her global fame was based on nothing more than a series of extraordinary photos of her supporting her team without much, ahem, support of her own.

Interestingly, the original pledge was to do a nudie run if Paraguay won the World Cup. This later became reaching the final … then the semi-final … and now it seems a quarter-final defeat was enough to warrant the celebration. A cynic might suggest Miss R is more interested in the bounce to her profile than the football.

“It will be a present to all of the players, and for all the people in Paraguay to enjoy, because they tried as hard as possible and gave it their all on the field,” she said.

An exact date for Riquelme’s streak has not been announced.

[News source - AAP]

                         As the world continues its fascination with the Vuvusela, 2Oceansvibe reports some interesting stuff about the vuvu:

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