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Yes, yes it is. My very first Basketball  game  I attended was in 1983, I hopped on my little Raleigh 20 and biked to the game, and fell in love with the sport. Little did I know that New Zealand also would end up loving the sport. The following few years, our little arenas would be packed out for every game, those with season tickets (like myself) were lucky, the Canterbury Rams would end up virtually selling out every game over a three year period. The imports were the stars, Clyde the Glide Huntly shooting from the outside, the big men like Ben Antony, Willie Burton, players like  Ronnie Joyner Kenny Perkins, Kerry Bogani, Kenny McFadden, wowed the crowds, as fans couldn't contain their excitement. Our own Kiwi players soon became stars, John and Stan Hill,  Dutchie  Radermakers, Bert Knops and the great Gilbert Gordon. Then the TV coverage started to happen, highlight packages on a  Sunday sports show, Live coverage of the final, kiwis started to notice...

I'm speechless, I'm without speech.  This is massive news, I hope the New Zealand media knows how huge this is. The greatest High School Player on the planet is coming to play for the New Zealand Breakers in the Australian NBL. He was activity recruited by Kentucky, Duke and Kansas and was expected to go to Kansas, when he annoucned he didn't want to go to college it was widely expected that he would go straight to the NBA. Instead he announced he wants to play Pro ball outside the USA, and the team that has landed this superstar is our very own the New Zealand Breakers!! Every game should be a sell out to see this young man who will achieve superstardom.  What this also does is change history, players leaving High School, who aren't interested in college, now have a option to play professional ball overseas. As a Basketball fan this has floored me, I was literally stunned and speechless. So many great things are happening with New Zealand Basketball at the moment, and ...

"What we need is a really great day, to make the most of every moment" That was the theme song to the ad's McDonald's use to run in the 1990's in New Zealand. The truth was, there weren't many great days at all at a particular store in New Zealand. Names have been changed for legal reason's, but every incident that is listed happened, it's kinda an injustice, to the people that worked there, to call what happened there incidents, it was more of a daily routine that sent the workers into a robotic type state. The city I worked in  had two Franchise owners at the time, I unfortunately worked in the store so bad t that the other owner would flat out refuse to have anything to do with the store I was in. McDonald's isn't a living entity, it doesn't have arms and legs it was allowed to do what it did, because of the social hierarchy of it's set up.   At the top You had a  Horrific senior manager that would keep the crew in line, the next lev...

Over the past few years, I have occasionally gone over to the website, "The Spinoff" and nearly every time the website has left me in a state of confusion, when normally I am in a state of denial. The website seems to read like it's coming from the old "Social Credit" party manifesto, but that isn't what confuses me, I guess the easiest way to explain is to give examples. Take the Horrific Christchurch shooting, my old home town  acted with grace and dignity and an outpouring of love and support for the victims and their community, as they should. Writers from the spinoff, wrote the same, beautiful pieces of how we should come together and support each other. But the same writers, had totally different opinions of other Terror attacks around the world, they had previously written on their own blogs and social media, that no sympathy should be given because of  a country's  foreign policy and that it was somehow racist to give thoughts to that country and...

The picture above doesn't show a Secret Society, it doesn't show people who are part of an exclusive club that has been around for 100's of years. There is not going to be a Line of Duty type investigation into these boys, there won't be a movie made into their life's, none of the people pictured are special. There is no wild antics that  they do, that will be talked about for centuries. They wont become Prime Minister. They're nothing like the Masons, the police aren't debating should they arrest them or not because who their daddies are. Yet the New Zealand Media once again get it wrong, by dramatizing their behavior and giving it a cute nickname, leading people to believe, "Wow is this like Billionaire Boys club", or that English movie which shows the Elite acting badly" Please tell us More!!!! Well quite Frankly Hamish  McNeilly of Stuff's website should be ashamed for not doing any real reporting. This group of kids, reminds me of the...

Words fail me, but I'm going to write something anyway. I kinda blame society for thinking that kids taking Selfie's is a great idea, and it breeds confidence, I actually think it breeds obnoxious. I was in a pub/restaurant not so long ago, and this group of people were there, mainly adults, ages ranged from about 65 to around 12. They were all nicely dressed, there were two kids, one a girl in her teens and a boy aged about 12, he seemed to be better dressed than the adults, he had one of those bowler hats on. Anyway, I was there with my group, there were two other groups there at the time. This kid had decided to play a rather loud game on his cell phone, loud enough that everyone else turned around to see where the noise was coming from, he for some reason, was nodding his head up and down saying "Yeah yeah" like he just achieved something really important. I looked around every so often, as other people did, and he was talking to other people at this table, but he...

Why oh Why didn't the spurs foul???  The Nuggets got the rebound with 27.8 seconds left, they got the ball over halfcourt with  17.9 seconds, and the Spurs just didn't foul. This is basic Basketball, I mean it should be automatic, it should come naturally, it should be stuck deep somewhere in the subconscious, in this suitation you foul and you foul as quick as possible, this is not Basketball from the 50's, you can pull back a lead quite easily. The Spurs had an outside chance here,  but couldnt get up a shot even when the Nuggets missed, they let the Nuggets run out the clock. I'm speechless, I'm without speech. Not since the Nelson Giants  who were once down by four and had possession and didn't even get up a shot, have I been this much in shock. Staggering!! Maybe its time to do a #ClassicNBA  tag along with the #ClassicNBL tag? Gotta Love the Playoffs.

This month marks the 25th Anniversary of Garth Brooks first and only world tour. In 1994 Garth Brooks left North America for the first time and took his show to  Ireland, Scotland, England, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Apart from Ireland in 1997 he would never return. Two charity concerts in Brazil in 1998 and 2015 is Garth's total experience of taking his concerts outside North America. I was lucky enough to be at his New Zealand show in 1994,  myself and my sister had tickets for Block G at the Auckland Supertop as they opened the gates we all rushed in, I  went straight to the first row in Block G to see my sister screaming at me, she had gone straight up to the front, so I followed and my first Garth Brooks concert, was in the first row. The show was the best concert of my lifetime, a short show, 75 Minutes , 16 song set totally blew away any event I had seen before or after. I ended up seeing Garth again in Phoenix ...

Modern Family is currently in it's 10th season.  Season 11 will be it's last, for Modern Family to have the legacy it's craving, it will have to end it's final season on a high note. The show has dropped dramatically the past few years, but a saving grace for Modern Family could be the route they decided to go for it's finale season. They have so many Options,  for the way they can take the show, they need to be true to the Characters and not have some sort of twist ending or melodramatic ending. As Tim from the UK Office once said,  "If you turn the camera's off I'm still here" This is the way Modern Family should go, in the real world these people will still exist. So here is how I would like the story lines to go..... Cam and Mitch and Lily Cam and Mitch  lifes should revovle around Lily, Lily has taken an interest in music, so the family arc  should be  Mitch and Cam do everything they can to try and help Lily's sudden interest in Music, Mi...

Modern Family writer's may want to take a look at Ricky Gervais's  After Life on how to write for younger actors. Pictured is the wonderful  Tommy Finnegan who played George, the nephew of  Gervais's Tony Johnson. Tommy played George, like a normal seven year kid, quite shy, the kid was a cheerful kid who had to deal with a bully. There was a natural acting ability from Tommy in his portrayal of George and that came from the writing and directing. The same can't be said from the last few seasons of Modern Family. Modern family's first few seasons were up there with the very best of  Television,  MASH Seinfeld and The Office. The last three season though are more on the level of Mrs  Brown's Boys and the worse of Everybody Loves Raymond. One of the reason why Modern Family is struggling  now is the writing for and the directing of child actor,  Jeremy Maguire who plays Joe. The actor  thru no fault off his own comes off as a Child actor and no...

This is how you  react to a Terrorist attack, you show love and kindness. You love one and another. You show compassion, even though the attack may be on a group your not familiar  with or have nothing to do with, you show people that we're all  one race the human race. It just fills my heart what my old home town is doing, and once again it's standing up to a horrific terrible event. Since 9/11 the reaction hasn't always been like this, From New York to Bali, to London to Paris,  to Norway to Switzerland,   Al qaeda to ISIS, from Right wing  racist skinhead scum to  Religious extremists,  when there's been a horrible attack, people's reaction to those attacks haven't always been the best. From Islamophobic comments to the "What about Iraq"  comments. From "Why are you giving sympathy to these people with all the wars they have caused" comments,   to "Hey you showed sympathy to them why not this attack" comments" From people wh...

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I have a huge problem with Social Media videos, like the one that Erina Wehi posted, you just don't get the full story.  You get a horrific allegation against another party without the full story or even proof of those allegations. You then get people on  twitter and facebook, destorying a person's life.  They get  abuse, they get death threats, they get  their whole life judge by a 90  second video, that may of been heavily edited. I watched today's video, and while I firmly believe this type of racism  and ugliness is firmly entrenced in New Zealand's socity, I beleieve we aren't getting the whole picture of the video posted today I haven't link to the video, because I dont want it to get more hits, a quick google search of Erina Wehi and you will come to it. In the video she sits calmly in her car,  and retells an incident when she alleges this man cut her off and screamed out all sort of repugnant racial abuse. She then tells the viewer, that ...

Lets make one thing clear,  Mark Taylor denounce his New Zealand citizenship, when he went to Syria and fought for Terrorist group, ISIS. He is a supporter of slaverly, a supporter of Rape, a supporter of child abuse, a supporter of murder and a supporter of terrorist incidents around the world. The crimes he wouldve commited with his time with ISIS will be plenty, he deserves no sympathy at all. How anyone can be not only supporting a campaign  to bring him home, but wanting the Government to pay for it, is beyond belief. If PM Ardern  signs off on this, then she will be a one term Prime Minister. In the past few days, I have read Bloggers and Journalists and members of the public, try to down play his sickening crimes. They've been trying to paint him as just a  good time Kiwi joker who got confused. Well make one thing clear. He didnt just have one two many beers at a pub and on a dare went to Syria to fight for Isis. He didnt just read a brochure  that said ...

Garth Brooks is about to embark on a three year Stadium tour, there have been rumors about what sort of show Garth is going to put on, I think it's fair to guess what type of show the G man is going to be doing.. First off it's in Stadiums not Arenas, so there's going to be some sort of visual component to it. What  the visuals might be is anyone's guess, he used screens for the first time in his 2014-2017  Arena tour, the stage set up doesnt seem to have any tricks up it's sleeves for this tour, so I think the tricks might be Garth himself. He's calling it a retro tour,  he's bringing back Ty England and other's from the 90's, although he has stated he wont be flying across the stage or smashing guitars, I kinda think he will bring back some of the stage pranks  to wow the crowd. A Garth Brooks  concert is all about having fun, hell he is naming his new album "Fun",  so if you put two and two together well it's going to be a water toss...

Around 96/97,  two years before Garth Brooks announced the Chris Gaines project, I remembered reading an interview with Kenny Rogers. I read the interview online, which seemed really cool to me, because I read it  on the web and not just on usenet, which was the internet for me way back then. The Interview with Kenny seemed to be a normal interview, until he diverted to Garth Brooks. Kenny Rogers said Garth has taken the country world by storm, but he's about to do the same with the Rock world.  Kenny said Garth Brooks has created a fictional Rock personae called Chris Gaines, and there is going to be a movie. When asked what the movie was about, Kenny Rogers said something along the lines of.. Chris Gaines is an Australian Rock God, who gets killed backstage at the Grammy's, the Police detectives get it wrong, but one reporter uncovers the truth that shocks the music world. Again the internet was in it's early days, and the story wasn't picked up, in 1999 When Garth Br...

There have been many great Stadium shows in the History of music, The Beatles at Shea,  Bruce Springsteen at MetLife, and up until tonight the greatest Stadium show is universally regarded as Queen's performance at Wembley Stadium way back in 1986. But after Garth Brook's concert tonight at the University of Notre Dame, we may have a new winner. The show itself was delayed because of wind gusts heavy rain, sleet and snow., but that didn't stop a sell out crowd of 85 thousand, who spent hours on a freezing night from staying on and waiting for Garth Brooks to take the stage. And take the stage he did. I wasn't at the concert and am relying on the incredible footage that appeared on twitter and youtube. Garth is truly the entertainer of a generation, like Freddie Mercury in 1986 in London, Garth had the crowd at the tip of his fingertips. To see Garth perform his songs live is like watching him perform his songs for the first time. There is a rawness about it that sends t...

A poster over at the Planet Garth forums, got it right, Rhd13 said, Garth fans have so much to look forward in the coming years, and yes we have. This is what Garth Brooks is up to for the next few years. Notre Dame concert, which will be a TV special on CBS. A Stadium tour which will last three years. The Live Anthology coming out in a month. A new Live album coming out. A new Studio album coming out. The top secret Diamond Series coming out. Garth's 30th annivesary as an artist in April 2019, you know he's got something planned for that. Getting the old gang back together, we're talking about Ty England old. A one man show at the Ryman. His Studio G show every monday. New digital partners maybe??? And whatever else Garth has planned. So there is so so much to look forward to if your a Garth fan living in the USA or New Zealand or Australia or Europe or the rest of the world, so get ready for one hell of a ride!!

Today is the day, that Garth Brooks made the most biggest announcement of his career, and it was something the media didn't pick up on, or he didn't come out and say personally. But first, it was a day of big announcements,  Garth announced.... His Notre Dame concert will be filmed by CBS and air in December. It was Amazon's idea to include Triple Live in the Live Anthology. The Stand alone Triple Live album will be delayed. Garth announced a three year tour 2019-2021 of Stadiums in the USA. There will be 10-12 shows per year.  St Louis will start it off, The New England Patriots stadium will be included in the tour. Other dates will be announced December. He may do the odd weekend at the Ryman. So a news worthy day for Garth fans. But the media missed, not only the biggest announcement of the day, but a Historical announcement, an announcement up there with the biggest of Garth's career, and Garth himself didn't even mention it. With announcing a 2019-2021 tour of ...