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Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012 by Gus Gawn

“Football”Surprise! NFL coaches can no longer reward players for intentionally injuring other players. The New Orleans Saints have been busted for a running a bounty system where players were rewarded for injuring key members of the other team. Bounty prizes varied according to how important the Read more...

NZ Cricket Sucks

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Callum Fredric

If you hear anyone talking about the Black Caps’s test team being in a “rebuilding phase”, this constitutes binding verbal consent to bowl beamers at them next time you hit the nets. When are the Black Caps not in a rebuilding phase? How many times have you heard the tired excuse, “well we may have Read more...

A Tale of Two Semi-Finals

Posted 12:51am Monday 7th May 2012 by Callum Fredric

Good news, sports fans. Gus and I have swapped roles for the week. While this has dire ramifications for the quality of Issue 10’s political analysis, the sports pages will temporarily boast a vocabulary consisting of more than the words “bro” and “fuck”. So enjoy this preview of the 2011-12 UEFA Read more...

I Love Beer Pong Bro

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Gus Gawn

For the next five minutes (or however long it takes to read 800 words) beer pong counts as a sport. If you have a problem with this, direct emails to critic@critic.co.nz, which is thankfully not my email address. Beer pong is a sport in which teams of two compete against each other in a test Read more...

Women’s eight take on eight other women in Windermere

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by Gus Gawn

The Otago University Rowing Club is sending a women’s eight crew to the prestigious Windermere Cup in Seattle, Washington. International crews are invited to take on the University of Washington “Huskies” crew at the regatta, which is one of the highlights of the intercollegiate rowing calendar. Read more...

Social Basketball

Posted 4:56pm Sunday 29th April 2012 by John Burton

This week we introduce a section in which guest writers give you a rundown of what’s happening in the social sports scene. Here’s John Burton with his take on social basketball. The Unipol Social Basketball League is a breeding ground for up-and-coming basketball players from the University Read more...

Unigames Happened, Otago Won Fair-Play Award. Yay!!

Posted 5:04pm Sunday 22nd April 2012 by Gus Gawn

Over the Easter break a team of Otago athletes picked competition over chocolate and sport over spicy hot cross buns when they represented Otago University at the New Zealand Unigames in Wellington. Otago has won the Unigames shield an impressive 35 times. This year the marketing gurus dubbed the Read more...

Scarfie Wins South Island Surfing Champs

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Gus Gawn

If you ask a surfer where the best waves in Dunedin are, don’t expect a friendly response. For a group of people that are laid back to the point of being horizontal they become notoriously cagey if they think their doggedly kept ‘secret spot’ may be revealed. Surfers generally can be divided into Read more...

Unbreakable

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Gus Gawn

The Breakers have been the best team in the ANBL all season. They went up against their closest rivals the Perth Wildcats in the grand-final series on the Thursday and Friday just gone and depending on results a possible game three on Tuesday (April 24). To help you bandwagon jumpers out even Read more...

Rising from the ashes

Posted 3:53pm Sunday 15th April 2012 by Gus Gawn

To help you bandwagon jumpers out there Critic has done some homework and come up with three comments you can make that will make it sound like you know something about the Phoenix, other than that they wear Black and Yellow. “The Yellow Fever are the Phoenix’s loyal supporters group. When Read more...