A great revival worthy of more exposure

Rugby league must capitalise on its on-field renaissance.

Battlers can still mix it with the big boys

WHO said a sow's ear doesn't make a silk purse? Look at Schipper at Rosehill Gardens yesterday.

The Greatest Australia Day Performer

WITH dumb racing administration and the Tabcorp move on the Northern Territory very much major topics, it's pleasing to reflect on one of the outstanding Australia Day horses, Manikato, and who made him great. Under the guidance of Bob Hoysted, a meticulous horseman, Manikato won five William Reid Stakes, the weight-for-age race once held at Moonee Valley on Australia Day. Manikato was a heavyweight which flew like a gazelle and left his opposition stung like a wasp. Loaded with raw ability ...

Don't Fence Him In: Inglis Needs Room To Move So He Can Showcase Full Potential

THE Melbourne Storm's Greg Inglis may eventually be a wonderful five-eighth for his club, but his size, athleticism, ball skills and gazelle-like pace stamp him with the potential to be one of the greatest fullbacks Australia has produced.

Little Acts Gagged By Big Comedy Costs

The back seat of comedian Andrew McClelland's 1984 Nissan Gazelle makes for a tight fit - especially when it is shared with a cannon.

Galloping Gazelle Jokes About Try

BRISBANE'S match-winning winger Scott Minto shied away from the ``hero" tag yesterday as team-mates joked about his flamboyant extra-time try against Melbourne.

Northern Star Aims For Polar Showdown

GRAFTON gazelle Star Of Sequalo could be headed for a showdown with Golden Slipper winner Polar Success in next month's Silver Shadow Stakes at Randwick if successful at Eagle Farm tomorrow.

Samantha's Gazelle Heads For The High Jump

Samantha: It's white - when it's clean. I've had it for 10 years. Why did I buy it? My Dad told me to (much laughter). I was just looking for a car that looked a little bit sporty with what I could afford at the time and he thought it was all right. I was actually going out with a guy who had

$5 Million Horse Has Last Laugh

When $5 million of horseflesh comes to an unscheduled halt in front of a fence over which it is meant to leap with gazelle-like grace, there is a problem. When it does the same thing twice more and throws away an Olympic gold medal in the process, it is nothing short of disastrous. Especial

The Curious Rise And Fall Of `la Gazelle'

Marie-Jose Perec left Atlanta four years ago in a selfsatisfied manner befitting Olympic royalty. She quit Sydney late on Wednesday night in a manner more in keeping with Lord Lucan. What happened in the intervening four years to cause such a fall from grace? Rewind to Atlanta and you find a 28y

A High-tech Gazelle One Jump Ahead

INDUSTRIAL Automation Services Pty Ltd (IAS) is a high-technology company specialising in the computer control of industrial processes with particular interests in the metals industry. It operates in a highly competitive environment tendering against the large electrical companies of the world, m

Fine Sprinters Will Do Battle At Bulli Tonight

Some of the finest sprinters in the country do battle at Bulli tonight in the Sports Factory Super Series final. Rooty Hill RSL Gold Plate winner Tommie Streaker will face the likes of November Gazelle, November Safari, Rotkara Sam and Hot Tickets. The $10,000 to-the-winner series is not the o

Compo Cheat On Bail

A MAN who falsely claimed he was hurt on his way to work - and received nearly $70,000 in benefits - has been sentenced to 18 months' jail. Nedelsko Susljik, 44, of Waterloo, made the "journey claim" on Gazelle Foods Pty Ltd of Hillsdale soon after starting work there. He said injuri

Puff The Magic Dragon

He moved with the grace of a gazelle and they called him the Prince of Centres and Puff the Magic Dragon. The great Gaz, Reg Gasnier, the most majestic and stylish centre three-quarter of them all in the most aristocratic of positions on a rugby league field. When Gasnier took the ball and eff

Andrews Set On Giving Olympics A Tri

He's nuggety, powerful and an immensely talented athlete. He swims like a fish, runs like a gazelle and rides like the wind. A natural for triathlon, really. He's been on the fringes of the sport for a while, competing in two races this season to see how he would go. He finished fourth and a minu

Mother Of All Insects Crawling Your Way

A FAMILY SITS in the living room, watching a nature documentary which warns them of the peril many wild creatures face: as they contemplate the zebra, gazelle, wildebeeste and rhino trotting across the screen, a voice informs them that ``whenever we lose a piece of nature we lose a part of ourselv

New-look Waugh Looks To Hold Waratah Spot

A taut and trim Warwick Waugh ensured that he will retain his NSW second-row position when his imposing gait was replaced by gazelle-like features in the Waratahs' 45-14 win over the ACT at Rugby Park in Canberra yesterday. There was uncertainty whether Waugh, just back after playing in I

Farewell Brett, The Winner Was Rugby League

That other legend, Frank Hyde, once said Brett Kenny was the only player to have reminded him of Reg Gasnier. When Gasnier ran, he reminded Hyde of a bird in flight. The now officially-designated legend Kenny did the same. But he was a gazelle. Superficially, Hyde's description makes

Wet Weather Credentials Clear As Mud

MELBOURNE: Mudrunner, or mudlark: a horse who handles heavy ground and races well on rain-affected surfaces. But just what makes some horses go through it while others can't? Take, for instance, the champion staying mare, Let's Elope. While the five-year-old has gazelle-like qualiti

Best Of Enemies

IN the eyes of the world they are so different, yet it usually takes a photo to separate them at the finish line. One gangly, a gazelle, with the God-given gifts of grace and greatness. The other compact, as frightening and explosive as a bullet, a man given nothing but an ability t