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Premiers Again!

I ADMIT IT… I was wrong. Yes I tipped Manly as Grand Final certainties… but I only gave you 10 reasons why they’d win. There were 40! I said (and I quote) “We’ll win, but it won’t be a blow out”. How wrong can a footy fan be? I’ll take my 40 lashes… it’s worth it.

Manly To Win!

Here we go again! The two best sides all year are set to meet in Sunday’s decider in a replay of the 2007 Grand Final… well, a replay in all but the end result!

Clontarf's Glenn Bourke

Third in a series of feature stories The Drum is running on local Olympians… and as a follow-up to last month’s story, this installment features the ‘junior partner’ of a father/son Olympic duo, Glenn Bourke. Glenn’s dad, Bruce represented Australia as a swimmer in London in 1948. A three-time world sailing champion, Glenn competed in Barcelona in 1992.

Clontarf’s Bruce Bourke

The second in a series of stories The Drum is featuring on local Olympians… and it’s about a real local character, Bruce Bourke, who represented Australia in London in 1948.

Gold Standard

With the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony fast approaching, Dave Keogh interviews some of the 87 Olympians and Paralympians who have hailed from the Northern Beaches and represented Australia between 1900 and 2004. He begins with class act, swimmer Elka Graham.

Marathon Madness

From Monday September 8th 2008, for 15 consecutive days, five dedicated local athletes will attempt to run 640 kilometres across the Simpson Desert from the geographical centre of Australia in the Northern Territory to Birdsville in Queensland. In effect, they will attempt to run more than the equivalent of 15 full marathons (that’s 15 x 42.195 kilometres) in 15 days.