Gavel / A few of my favourite (sporting) things
"In a year of many highlights in Canberra sport, it's hard to go past the community spirit generated by the Viking Clap at Canberra Stadium," writes sport columnist TIM GAVEL
"In a year of many highlights in Canberra sport, it's hard to go past the community spirit generated by the Viking Clap at Canberra Stadium," writes sport columnist TIM GAVEL
Although Tim Gavel and wife Jenny Andrew were biologically able to have children, they ran…
Have we taken the pursuit of sporting success too far? There is plenty of evidence…
One moment the national squash championship was planned for Canberra, the next it had gone.…
I HAVE been hammered by all and sundry over my suggestion that Canberra shouldn’t give…
Sports commentator TIM GAVEL gives a warts and all salute to the Brumbies departed coach
AT times, sport can have as much intrigue as the major backroom dealings at the…
Is there more difficult work these days than that of a sports coach, asks TIM…
It has been said that people in Canberra are fickle and drawn to games when…
IF Blake Ferguson was an American footballer they probably would have made a movie about…
THE three major Centenary sports events staged so far in the Centenary year – the…
As we celebrate Canberra’s Centenary, TIM GAVEL salutes the role sport has played in the…
SINCE I first came to Canberra in the late 1980s and for much of the…
Sporting Confidential with TIM GAVEL
“ONLY in Canberra” is a derogatory expression often used by people who don’t live here,…
IN Canberra, we like to think of ourselves as being unaffected by fame and the…
How hard should a journalist go when a friend is in trouble? As hard as…
WHEN things weren’t going well midway through this NRL season and the Raiders were close…
THE London Olympics, if nothing else, was a reality check for Australian sport. Bold estimations…