http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/dan-ginnane/ Executive Producer Sydney Sport - Triple M and Rugby League caller. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hey-Xenophon-dont-shoot-the-gambling-messengers/ There are 20 minutes remaining. Score’s locked at 16-all. The young family is in the lounge room, a rare event in itself, nervously watching their Wests Tigers. As a scrum is formed, Ray Warren proclaims with a hint of surprise the Tigers are $2.15 to win on TAB Sportsbet. Dad, slumped in his armchair, jolts, bolt upright. He commands his eight-year-old boy to bring him the phone. The little boy marvels as he watches Dad punch in the numbers with vigour. Dad replaces his customary “hello” for a mysterious set of numbers, before announcing down the line - no, demanding - he will have a hundred dollars on the Wests Tigers, and doing it with a sense of pride. The conversation ends, the phone dispensed with. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Dan Ginnane) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hey-Xenophon-dont-shoot-the-gambling-messengers/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/hey-Xenophon-dont-shoot-the-gambling-messengers/#item7383 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:00:20 +0000 Dan Ginnane | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-isnt-there-more-of-a-roar-about-this-super-streak/ Xenophobia. Pauline Hanson asked for a “please explain” over a decade ago. Here is its latest example: Australia’s indifference to the Brisbane Roar’s absurd mark of 36 consecutive matches in the A-League without defeat. Oh yes, the excuses have come thick and fast. The record includes 13 draws, the A-League is weak, penalties were needed to win the Grand Final. It’s as if the Roar - a team which is as majestic as it is consistent - should be embarrassed they now own such a precious jewel in our sporting history. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Dan Ginnane) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-isnt-there-more-of-a-roar-about-this-super-streak/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/why-isnt-there-more-of-a-roar-about-this-super-streak/#item7261 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:40:17 +0000 Dan Ginnane | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-swans-are-getting-slaughtered-on-television/ What a victory for AFL in Sydney, hey? Over 33,000 flood the SCG to see the Swans play Hawthorn, while next door at the Sydney Football Stadium, a crowd of, ahem, 10,000 witnessed the NRL snooze fest between the Roosters and the Knights. A colourful SCG against a stadium in funereal military blue. That story is all over the papers. That story is easy. Lazy too. It’s also burying the lead. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Dan Ginnane) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-swans-are-getting-slaughtered-on-television/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-swans-are-getting-slaughtered-on-television/#item5909 Mon, 23 May 2011 19:45:20 +0000 Dan Ginnane | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gruesome-footy-footage-is-hardly-family-friendly/ Injuries won’t be stopped in football. Can’t. What can be stopped is the endless supply of car-crash type atrocities rammed down our throats for days on end. It can be stopped right now. Can you remember a weekend so horrific? The gory scene of Geelong’s Joel Selwood, body limp, arm stiff and blood trickling out of the side of his mouth, was a Pink Floyd song away from being a Scorsese movie. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Dan Ginnane) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gruesome-footy-footage-is-hardly-family-friendly/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/gruesome-footy-footage-is-hardly-family-friendly/#item5501 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:20:42 +0000 Dan Ginnane | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dirty-games-in-commercial-TVs-hall-of-mirrors/ Did you happen the see the viral video of Channel Nine’s ‘apology’ for using a watermark in its story on Brian McFadden’s aeroplane antics? They said sorry for forcing Channel Seven to blur a significant portion of the images it unflinchingly lifted from Nine. Funny, wasn’t it? In that sort of immature Funniest Home Videos guy-getting-hit-in-the-groin kind of way. How pathetic. How childish. How fitting. This is the era we live in. Missed last night’s Masterchef? Don’t worry, you can see it broken down play-by-play on ACA or Today Tonight. Ten may have paid something in the vicinity of $70 million for the rights, but the other networks are showing it for free. Well, except for however much it costs to blur out that annoying bug in the corner. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Dan Ginnane) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dirty-games-in-commercial-TVs-hall-of-mirrors/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/dirty-games-in-commercial-TVs-hall-of-mirrors/#item5195 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:35:20 +0000 Dan Ginnane | Author bios | The Punch http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wake-me-when-the-world-cup-gets-interesting/ There are many ways to describe the gluttony that comes with lopsided result after lopsided result at the ICC World Cup. Pages upon pages around the world are being cranked out as we speak, by those cynical types who don’t quite see the romance in Sri Lanka annihilating Canada, or New Zealand treating the Kenyans like Whangarei park cricketers. Tonight, just to make things really interesting, England takes on The Netherlands. So here’s the shortest summation of the tournament you’re likely to read. It needs just six words. Ready? Here goes. I’m thinking of watching Ben Elton. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Dan Ginnane) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wake-me-when-the-world-cup-gets-interesting/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/wake-me-when-the-world-cup-gets-interesting/#item5201 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:22:01 +0000 Dan Ginnane | Author bios | The Punch