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Volume: 1 Edition: 2 November/December Aussie Test Cricketer Ricky Ponting pulls up stumps on his illustrious Test Career Full Story inside. http://www.facebook.com/ozsports.onlinesports @ozsportsonline Inside this issue: Editors Blog 1 2 Meet The Team 3 & 4 Howzat Kerry Packer’s War—The story of World Series Cricket Rescue 2012 Special Section Cover 5 & 6 Eckstein’s Fourth World Title as Northcliffe claims Point Score Trophy 7 & 8 Rescue 2012 Results 9 & 10 Draw Your Own Lifesaver 11 2012 World Championships (Lawn Bowls) 12 & 13 UniSA Supports Ride for a Reason 14 Walk Yourself Happy 15 Cycling 16 & 17 VOXSPORTS 18 Test Cricket Great Ricky Ponting 19 & 20 & 21 Surfing 22 V8 Motorsports 23 & 24 & 25 Colour Your Own V8 Driver 26 Ozsports Sports Events Box Office (SEBO) 27 Ozsports FM 28 Sports Quiz 29 Inside this issue: Ozsports TV 30 Football (Soccer) 31 Tennis 32 & 33 & 34 Tomasz’s Opinion 35 & 36 Ozsports Pays Tribute to Michael Clarke 37 & 38 Sports Corner With Allan Sports 39 Ozsports Volunteer Opportunities 40 Sponsor Opportunities 41 Hockey 42 Summer of Cricket 43 & 44 Australian Open 45 & 46 Athlete Profile 47 & 48 Alessandro Ballandro Injured in Accident in Spain 49 Coming Sports Events 50 2012 Ozsports Year of Grassroots Sports 51 Contact Details 52 Sports Facts 53 Ozsports Club House 54 Welcome to the 2nd edition of Fourth Quarter. Also welcome to our brand new looking Ozsports website. The team at Ozsports HQ has been a buzz with the team spread across Adelaide’s premier beach at Glenelg and Christies Beach and the Swimming and Aquatic Leisure Centre in Marion. Covering Rescue 2012 Life Saving World Champion- ships . It has been a blast seeing some of Australia’s and the World’s best life savers in action across 21 disciplines on the beach and in the pool. The action does not stop there late November we head to Lock- ley’s and Holdfast Lawn Bowling Clubs for the Bowls World Champi- onships that hit Adelaide from November 24th—December 9th. Ozsports will have all the action here on the website and on Ozsports TV and Ozsports FM. Ozsports has sealed a deal with VOXSPORTS to supply footage from sports events. VOXSPORTS is a media outlet from Singapore produc- ing highlight packages of sporting events. So keep an eye out for the Ozsports camera crews roaming the sports fields of Adelaide. The Ozsports team will be working over the summer bringing you all the latest sports news, results and interviews straight to your com- puter. On behalf of the team at Ozsports Online Network I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a very, safe Happy New Year. We look for- ward to bringing you the best in sports in 2013. Cheers Darren Andrews 1 PUBLISHER Ozsports Online Sports Network [email protected] EDITOR Darren Andrews [email protected] EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Myles Wallace CHIEF SUB EDITOR *Position to be filled ART DIRECTOR *Position to be filled REPORTERS Myles Wallace –Reporter & Assit Editor Tomasz Ng—Football (Soccer) 2 Howzat the most- anticipated drama of the year, HOWZAT KERRY PACKER’S WAR is how legendary media mogul Kerry Packer, played by Lachy Hulme fought war by secretly signing up 50 of the world’s greatest players from across the world of cricket to form a breakaway competition. Packer took on the Australian Cricket Establishment and MCCC in a war over TV rights and turned the cricket world upside down by creating ‘World Series Cricket’. It was John Cornell (Abe Forsythe), better known as Paul Hogan’s sidekick Strop, who brought the idea of reinventing cricket broadcasts to Packer. The media mag- nate jumped at the idea but it set him on a collision course with cricketing boards in Australia and the UK. It started on a breezy afternoon in 1977. In an Australian suburban living room. John ’Stroop’ Cornell is watching replays from the Ashes Series with his clients— comedian Paul Hogan and Australian test legend Dennis Lillee. In the course of casual conversation, Lillee lets slip that he and the rest of the test side is making as much money from cricket as the “guy pushing the sight screen”. John Cornell can’t believe his ears. “What are they doing?” he says in utter frustration “They got this great game in their hands, and these world champions. And they’ve got NO idea what they’ve got! They should be selling stars like you.” Lillee sips his can of beer, stares straight ahead at the screen, and resignedly deepens “tell me about it.” But the conversation sets alight an idea in Cornell’s head: as self-promoted, self-produced cricket show case held outside the game’s existing structure. But how to make it work? “We need someone with deep pockets….and big balls,” he says. Along came Media Barron Kerry Packer head of Channel 9 Flushed with cash, Packer signed the best of the best, taking advantage of household names who were deemed to be underpaid: Dennis Lillee, Ian Chappell, Greg Chappell, Jeff Thom- son, Rod Marsh, David Hookes as well as Tony Greig and broadcaster Richie Benaud. Shut out by the cricketing fraternity, he secured VFL park in suburban Melbourne and set his sights on night games. Packer knew the players, who had been underpaid for years, were on the verge of rebellion against the cricket powers. His rebel games clashed head-on with the official’s test matches, and the war was on. Polishing an idea by John Cornell (Abe Forsythe), Packer fought a bitter two-year legacy of pride, in the traditional nature of the poorly paid game. The result changed the game of cricket forever. Howzat also stars Damon Gameau as Greg Chappell, Brendan Cowell as Rodney Marsh, Clayton Watson as Ian Chappell, Mathew Le Nevez as Dennis Lillee, Richard Davies as David Hookes and Alex England as Tony Greig. Australia in the late 1970’s Bitter after being refused exclusive broad- casting rights to the gentlemen’s game in Australia, media mogul Kerry Packer launches his own breakaway, renegade competition and sparks a war with the world’s cricket governing bodies. We all know how it ends – World Series Cricket is a success and goes on to revolutionise the game – but Howzat! Is a glimpse into the Packer camp during those turbulent times. 2 To win your very own copy of Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War. All you have to do is tell Ozsports who played Kerry Packer and John ‘Stroop’ Cornell. Email your entry to Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War Competition @ news- [email protected] by Thursday January 31st close of business (Adelaide, South Australian Time ACDT) 3 4 5 ECKSTEIN’S FOURTH WORLD TITLE AS NORTHCLIFFE CLAIMS POINTSCORE TROPHY Northcliffe’s Shannon Eckstein has produced one of the finest moments of his Stella career to win a fourth World Oceanman Title at Rescue 2012 on the final day of Rescue 2012 in Adelaide today to emulate the great Trevor Hendy. Hendy is regarded as the greatest of Australia’s surf lifesaving Ironmen, having won four Oceanman (the International Life Sav- ing Federation’s version of Ironman) world titles and five Australian Ironman championships. Eckstein, 29, has now won four Worlds and four Australian Championships and will chase a fifth to equal Hendy again at the 2013 Aussies at North Kirra next April, before setting his sights on the Coolangatta Gold – the race either he or Hendy has won. He added title number four in fine style to his previous wins in Italy in 2004, Germany in 2010 and Egypt in 2012 and is now well on the way to challenging Hendy as Australia’s greatest. The inspirational Northcliffe captain also spearheaded his team to the coveted World Championship pointscore with the Aus- tralian champion club overcoming a massive 400 point deficit to beat Italian club Rane Rosse Aqvasport, who dominated the Pool Rescue section earlier in the week. But today was Eckstein and Northcliffe’s day and the maroon and white caps, minus swimmers Miranda Bell and New Zealand Olympian Andrew McMillan (both out injured) were front and centre in most major events. In the end it was Northcliffe who carried off the Kevin Weldon Trophy on 775pts from Rane Rosse Aqvasport (ITA) 682 and DLRG Halle-Saalekreis (GER) 526, while Sydney Branch club Wanda 802 were comfortable winners in the Youth pointscore over fellow NSW club Terrigal 582 with Northcliffe (304) third. “I grew up idolising Trevor and watching him on television and I have always held him in high esteem,” said Eckstein, who was quick to hold up the four fingers as he crossed the line. “To win a fourth world title has been a goal of mine and 10 years in the making. I have worked hard for this and will now set myself for this year’s Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Series, then the Australian Championships and the Coolangatta Gold. “They only have the world titles every two years so you have to wait two years to get it back (off me). Even Eckstein admitted the conditions, including long wades across the sandbanks, the choppy surf and chilly 20knot winds, presen“It was tough going out there, I knew what I had to do and picked my moment on the board and worked the runners on the way back to get the most out of the board before going as hard as I could on the swim,” said Eckstein. “I wasn’t going to let up until I crossed the line.” Eckstein trailed Mooloolaba’s Kendrick Louis after the opening ski leg in the choppy, wind-swept Christies Beach conditions, but paddled into the lead around the board buoys and was never headed.