THE DAILY MOJO by Adam Daniel

After an abysmal 1-3 last week, I was tempted to just pick the opposite of who I think will win the Conference Finals – but I get the feeling that kind of reverse jinx will just be re-reversed by the weirdness that has overtaken this entire season. So, my picks are: EAGLES over Cardinals STEELERS [...]

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Hey there. Happy New Year! I’ll be posting a New Year Resolutions post later today, but wanted to quickly post my picks for the NFL Playoffs before I sit down to tune in. I’ve followed this season more closely than any since we lived in USA/Canada for a year, and it’s definitely been a roller [...]

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I’m typically late on this, but with the excitement of a new NBA season I was inspired by my idol Bill Simmons running an NBA over-under prediction podcast and decided to challenge my buddy Nuf to our own NBA prediction challenge. Below are our projections against the over/under for the season to come, compared with [...]

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Here’s a look back at yesterday’s total demolition of the Storm by the Manly Sea Eagles with my running diary of the NRL Grand Final. 4:45 P.M. What in God’s name was that pre-show entertainment package??? No disrepect to Noiseworks and The Living End, but everything else was just ridiculously brutal. Like my friend Nuf [...]

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The complete failure of the Sharkies and the Warriors to even make a competition of last weekend has left us with the result I most dreaded going into the start of this years NRL season: a dreaded rematch of last years snoozefest Grand Final between the Manly Sea Eagles and the Melbourne Storm. That said, [...]

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My Reverse Jinx had been working so well, and then I had to go and ruin it by going to Saturday’s Dragons vs Eels match at ANZ Stadium. What a debacle. Were the Eels aware that they could not afford a loss to keep any dream of the finals alive? The team that showed up [...]

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Okay, so here’s my quandary: The last two weeks I have tipped against my NRL team the Parramatta Eels in the hope of employing an (albeit minor) reverse jinx (inspired by this excellent Bill Simmons column that may or may not have propelled the Boston Celtics to NBA title glory). Parramatta of course have reeled [...]

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Hey, check out the illustrious company I am quoted with in this article by the Sydney Morning Herald’s Andrew Stevenson. You know I love anytime someone throws in a Shawshank analogy, and I thought this one about the Eels was very apt: “They’ve crawled on elbows and knees through a city’s sewerage, like Andy Dufresne [...]

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Time for my weekly moan about the Eels, followed by a recap of my Friday Night trip to Penrith to see Panthers vs Knights. PITIFUL PARRAMATTA Just a woeful performance against South Sydney. Again no flow in attack, no dedication in defence. The first ten minutes had a bit of spark, but then they lost [...]

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Rucker Park is my Mecca. As a die-hard basketball fan, I love this trailer for Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s documentary of up-and-coming high school and college ballers, many of whom were drafted in this years NBA draft. The photography looks great and I’m sure the hip-hop soundtrack will be impeccable. I did get an opportunity [...]

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