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Eye on Cricket (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Gideon Haigh has been slipping for a while. I've always respected him as a writer and consider him a historian par excellence when it comes to cricket. But his crankiness is getting the better of him, and nothing shows it better than the following paragraph where he manages to swallow the party line hook and sinker, get in the obligatory slam against India and the ICC, and also be snide...
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Line and Length (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
To complement my essay on Charlie Macartney, this week's Ashes Hero, Gideon Haigh has kindly sent in his Ashes Top Ten. Gideon is one of Australia's foremost cricket journalists (even though he was born in England) and his fairness, wit...
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Eye on Cricket (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Well, here I go again, responding to a comment on a post with a post. I won't make a habit of it. Felix responded to my post about Gideon Haigh below by suggesting that Gideon was to be praised instead for speaking truth to power . First off, Felix, welcome here. I hope you stick around, and thanks for the article link. Secondly, I'd urge you to take a look at the paragraph that...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Sport: Gideon Haigh: In Australia sledging the Poms still remains a source of such seditious merriment
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The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... of links, including this fine conclusion from Australia's greatest contemporary cricket writer, Gideon Haigh: With the freedom to review Bradman's life backwards, we regularly overlook that he lived his life forwards, that deeds seemingly inevitable were achievements of flesh, blood and spirit. As a result, his legend has begun to fade, a Pindarian ode recited a shade too often, and...
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normblog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... today with a roundup of links. I begin with this passage from an excellent essay by my friend Gideon Haigh: On one level, Bradman's story concerns not so much sport as success. He performed a particular task more effectively than anyone before or since; more effectively, perhaps, than any other Australian has performed theirs. The task was, to be sure, narrow and highly specialised;...
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
... In adopting Model B, the Victorian Government aims to make legal a commonplace procedure. Writer Gideon Haigh, whose elegant history of that law, The Racket will next week be published by Melbourne University Press, says "women who want an abortion have always been able to get one". He recounts the years between Victorian settlement and World War II, when abortion was mainly self-administered,...
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Line and Length (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... a wonderful collection of paisley shirts and kipper ties. But he was more than just a commentator. Gideon Haigh, the Australian journalist, calls him the most influential cricketing personality since the Second World War for the mentoring he has done of tearaway cricketers such as Shane Warne and Ian Chappell, as well as his role as peacemaker during Kerry Packer's World Series. And...
