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Voting has closed at the IBA

By Alastair McDermott | February 19th, 2007

Voting has closed at the Irish Blog Awards and sportcrazy did not make the shortlist. I’d like to wish all the guys who made the shortlist in the Best Sport & Recreation category the best of luck!

VoteCrazy at the Irish Blog awards

By Alastair McDermott | February 12th, 2007

Woohoo – SportCrazy.net is in the running for “Best Sports & Recreation Blog” at the Irish Blog Awards. Before you do anything else, please vote for me! You don’t have to be Irish to vote. It takes less than 30 seconds. Here’s how you do it: Go to www.awards.ie/vote Enter your details Scroll down for [...]

Southsiders! Experienced Northsoide guoide available

By Alastair McDermott | February 10th, 2007

Southsider? Going to THE MATCH? Never crossed the Liffey? Fearful of odd numbered postcodes? You need an Authorised NORTHSOIDE GUOIDE! Experienced in the ways and customs of the Northsoide, your guoide will smooth away the stress of your journey, from the river-crossing to the bombsite at the 5 Lamps on the so-called “North Strand” and [...]

The Superbowl in perspective

By Alastair McDermott | February 7th, 2007

This is one for the Americans out there… after Wales vs Ireland in the Six Nations in Cardiff on Sunday, here’s the front and back pages of the local paper‘s sport supplement:

Sports + Geek = Results Microformat?

By Alastair McDermott | January 17th, 2007

Blondie had an idea about posting [tag]rugby[/tag] [tag]results[/tag] that got me thinking about applying [tag]Microformats[/tag] to [tag]sports results[/tag]. She was talking about posting the results in a format like this: Home Team (score) Visiting Team (score) Date Location Was this a league match or special event/tournament If so, what league/territory/division Notables If there are photos, [...]

My New Years Resolution

By Alastair McDermott | January 3rd, 2007

Left: me in 2005. Right: me in 2006. I won’t tell you what my resolution is, but I reckon you can guess ;)